Arabic Language Processing: From Theory to Practice: 6th International Conference, ICALP 2017, Fez, Morocco, October 11–12, 2017, Proceedings

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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Arabic Language Processing, ICALP 2017, held in Fez, Morocco, in October 2017. The 18 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: machine translation systems; speech recognition and synthesis; text categorization, clustering and summarization; information retrieval systems; and Arabic NLP tools and applications. Front Matter ....Pages I-XVI Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 An Automatic Approach for WordNet Enrichment Applied to Arabic WordNet (Mohamed Seghir Hadj Ameur, Ahlem Chérifa Khadir, Ahmed Guessoum)....Pages 3-18 Word Embedding-Based Approaches for Measuring Semantic Similarity of Arabic-English Sentences (El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Jérémy Ferrero, Didier Schwab, Hadda Cherroun)....Pages 19-33 A POS-Based Preordering Approach for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation (Mohamed Seghir Hadj Ameur, Ahmed Guessoum, Farid Meziane)....Pages 34-49 Front Matter ....Pages 51-51 Towards a High-Quality Lemma-Based Text to Speech System for the Arabic Language (Oumaima Zine, Abdelouafi Meziane, Mohamed Boudchiche)....Pages 53-66 Towards a Speech Recognizer for Multiple Languages Using Arabic Acoustic Model Application to Amazigh Language (Ali Sadiqui, Ahmed Zinedine)....Pages 67-78 A Game with a Purpose for Automatic Detection of Children’s Speech Disabilities Using Limited Speech Resources (Reem Elhady, Mohamed Elmahdy, Injy Hamed, Slim Abdennadher)....Pages 79-89 Building a Rich Arabic Speech and Language Corpus Based on the Holy Quran (Ali Meftah, Yasser Seddiq, Yousef Alotaibi, Sid-Ahmed Selouani)....Pages 90-101 Front Matter ....Pages 103-103 Combining Words and Concepts for Automatic Arabic Text Classification (Alaa Alahmadi, Arash Joorabchi, Abdulhussain E. Mahdi)....Pages 105-119 Modern Standard Arabic Readability Prediction (Naoual Nassiri, Abdelhak Lakhouaja, Violetta Cavalli-Sforza)....Pages 120-133 Document Similarity for Arabic and Cross-Lingual Web Content (Ali Salhi, Adnan H. Yahya)....Pages 134-146 Empirical Evaluation of Word Representations on Arabic Sentiment Analysis (Mourad Gridach, Hatem Haddad, Hala Mulki)....Pages 147-158 A Survey of Extractive Arabic Text Summarization Approaches (Samira Lagrini, Mohammed Redjimi, Nabiha Azizi)....Pages 159-171 Front Matter ....Pages 173-173 Toward a Context-Aware Multilingual Personalized Search (Mohamed Seghir Hadj Ameur, Youcef Moulahoum, Lamia Berkani, Ahmed Guessoum)....Pages 175-190 Fusion Based Authorship Attribution-Application of Comparison Between the Quran and Hadith (Halim Sayoud, Hassina Hadjadj)....Pages 191-200 Automatic Identification of Moroccan Colloquial Arabic (Ridouane Tachicart, Karim Bouzoubaa, Si Lhoussaine Aouragh, Hamid Jaafa)....Pages 201-214 Front Matter ....Pages 215-215 Encoding Prototype of Al-Hadith Al-Shareef in TEI (Hajer Maraoui, Kais Haddar, Laurent Romary)....Pages 217-229 A New Tool for Benchmarking and Assessing Arabic Syntactic Parsers (Younes Jaafar, Karim Bouzoubaa)....Pages 230-243 Syntactic Parsing of Simple Arabic Nominal Sentence Using the NooJ Linguistic Platform (Said Bourahma, Samir Mbarki, Mohammed Mourchid, Abdelaziz Mouloudi)....Pages 244-257 Back Matter ....Pages 259-259