Though much research has been conducted on Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA)
during the last decade, little work has focused on Arabic. In this work, we focus on SSA for …

Arabizi is Arabic text that is written using Latin characters. Arabizi is used to present both
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Arabic dialects. It is commonly used in informal settings …

In the past several years, Arabic Information Retrieval (IR) has garnered significant attention.
The main research interests have focused on retrieval of formal language, mostly in the …

Some languages lack large knowledge bases and good discriminative features for Name
Entity Recognition (NER) that can generalize to previously unseen named entities. One such …

In this paper, we present a new and fast state-of-the-art Arabic diacritizer that guesses the
diacritics of words and then their case endings. We employ a Viterbi decoder at word-level …

Predicting the stance of social media users on a topic can be challenging, particularly for
users who never express explicit stances. Earlier work has shown that using users' historical …

We present a dialectal Egyptian Arabic to English statistical machine translation system that
leverages dialectal to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) adaptation. In contrast to previous …

The evolution of information and communication technology has markedly influenced
communication between correspondents. This evolution has facilitated the transmission of …

We propose a novel model to automatically extract transliteration pairs from parallel corpora.
Our model is efficient, language pair independent and mines transliteration pairs in a …

Users of the WWW across the globe are increasing rapidly. According to Internet live stats
there are more than 3 billion Internet users worldwide today and the number of non-English …