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Challenges in natural Arabic language processing

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  • Yazeed Al Moaiad
  • Mohammad Alobed
  • Mahmoud Alsakhnini
  • Alaa M. Momani

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Speech recognition and text summarization, plagiarism detection, machine translation, chatbots, sentiment analysis (SA), question answering (QA), and dialogue systems are all products of natural language processing (NLP), a branch of AI concerned with modeling natural languages for the purpose of developing relevant applications. NLP draws on several disciplines, not only computer science and linguistics, for its research and development. These include cognitive science, psychology, mathematics, and more. More than 1.5 billion Muslims throughout the world depend on the Arabic language for their daily five-times-prayer practice, and Arabic is one of six official languages used by more than 422 million people in the Arab world, according to UNESCO. Dialectal Arabic is the slang language spoken informally in everyday life and varies from country to country; Classical Arabic is a reflection of the language spoken by the Arabs more than fourteen centuries ago. Modern Standard Arabic is an evolving variety of Arabic that borrows and innovates regularly to meet the changing needs of its speakers. Complexity is added to the Arabic language by the fact that it encompasses not one but three different varieties of spoken language: classical, contemporary, and colloquial. However, Arabic language processing on computers remains difficult for a variety of reasons. Because of the extensive inflection and derivational processes that occur in Arabic, a single lemma may be utilized to produce several words with distinct meanings.

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  • Yazeed Al Moaiad & Mohammad Alobed & Mahmoud Alsakhnini & Alaa M. Momani, 2024. "Challenges in natural Arabic language processing," Edelweiss Applied Science and Technology, Learning Gate, vol. 8(6), pages 4700-4705.
  • Handle: RePEc:ajp:edwast:v:8:y:2024:i:6:p:4700-4705:id:3018
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