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Arabic Language Challenges

Arabic Language Challenges. Walid Magdy. This sentence is written in Arabic. Outlines. Arabic language Why we analyze? Arabic language challenges: Orthographical challenges Morphological challenges Phonetic challenges Conclusion. Arabic Language.

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Arabic Language Challenges

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  1. Arabic Language Challenges Walid Magdy

  2. This sentence is written in Arabic

  3. Outlines • Arabic language • Why we analyze? • Arabic language challenges: • Orthographical challenges • Morphological challenges • Phonetic challenges • Conclusion

  4. Arabic Language • Arabic is the largest living member of the Semitic language family • It is classified as a macro-language with 27 sub-languages • It is spoken by over 220 million people in 28 countries (middle-east) • The language of Quran (over 1.6 billion Muslims)

  5. Why we analyze? • Many enabling technologies nowadays are language dependent such as: • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) • Language Modeling (LM) • Name Entity Recognition (NER) • Speech Recognition (ASR) • Performance of these technology with Arabic is much lower than other languages

  6. Orthographic Challenges of Arabic • - 15 of the 28 letters contain dots • - Characters are connected • - Character shape depends on position • - Optionaldiacriticsmay be present • - Printed text may includeligaturesandkashida

  7. Morphological Challenges of Arabic • - Language is built of 10k roots • - Words contain prefix, infix, and suffix • - 60 billion possible surface forms • - Word spelling changes according to its position in the sentence • He loves his children • His children loves him • The children behaved well • Her children are cute وسـيــكـتبونـهـا wasaya+ktub+unahaa and will+write+they it = and they will write it

  8. Phonetic Challenges of Arabic • Some phonemes are in Arabic doesn’t exist in other language (‘ein, ghain, ha’, kha’, Dad, Sad, Hamza) • Examples: • Motaz (‘ein) • Mahmoud (ha’) • Ghada (ghain) • Diaa (Dad) • Khaled (7’a’)

  9. Conclusion • Arabic language is important • Performance of language dependent technologies is low with Arabic • Fact: Arabic language is more challenging than others • Much investigation is needed especially from people of this language

  10. أهنالك أي أسئلة؟

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