This study aims to review the latest contributions in Arabic Optical Character Recognition
(OCR) during the last decade, which helps interested researchers know the existing …

Is the neuroanatomy of the language structural connectome modulated by the life-long
experience of speaking a specific language? The current study compared the brain white …

SALMA, the first Arabic sense-annotated corpus, consists of~ 34K tokens, which are all
sense-annotated. The corpus is annotated using two different sense inventories …

The diglossic context of Arabic refers to the use of two language varieties within the same
speech community in everyday life. Spoken Arabic (SA) is acquired first and used for …

We present a formal Arabic wordnet built on the basis of a carefully designed ontology
hereby referred to as the Arabic Ontology. The ontology provides a formal representation of …

In this article, we present a new lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic: Aralex. Based
on a contemporary text corpus of 40 million words, Aralex provides information about (1) the …

Does the organization of the mental lexicon reflect the combination of abstract underlying
morphemic units or the concatenation of word-level phonological units? We address these …

Word formation in Arabic involves the interleaving of two abstract morphemes—a root
consisting exclusively of consonants and conveying semantic meaning, and a word pattern …

There are two contending views of Arabic morphology. The first is a morpheme-based
approach which holds that Arabic surface forms consist of a root and a word pattern. The …

In the processing of subject-verb agreement, non-subject plural nouns following a singular
subject sometimes “attract” the agreement with the verb, despite not being grammatically …