Majdi Sawalha @ Leeds

 

Majdi Sawalha

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Majdi, Syria 26/4/2009

Majdi Sawalha

Post Graduate Research Student

NLP (Natural Languages Processing) Group

School of Computing

University of Leeds

E-mail: sawalha@comp.leeds.ac.uk

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Address: School of Computing,

University of Leeds,Leeds, LS2 9JT, U.K.

Morphological Features Part-of-Speech Tag Set of Arabic
Details of POS Tag Set
morphochallenge2009 Qur'an Gold Standard
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Supervisor : Dr. Eric Atwell
Arabic Computational Linguistics @ Leeds
Researchers in Arabic Computational Linguistics
The Corpus of Contemporary Arabic
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Automatic Part-of-Speech Tagging of Arabic Text

Arabic is the language spoken and written by more than 300 million people as first language, and more than 1 billion Muslim worldwide interested in learning Arabic. Arabic is also one of the official languages in the United Nations. In the UK particularly, there are more than 1.6 million Muslim working and living representing (2.8%) of the UK population; who are interested in Arabic language. Moreover, Universities and learning institutions have special departments for Islamic and Middle Eastern studies; where Arabic is the main teaching language. The UK has many leading international organizations that develop language resources, such as; dictionaries, lexicons, thesauruses, WordNets, machine translators and learning materials for English and a verity of foreign languages including Arabic. more>>

[1] Sawalha, Majdi; Atwell, Eric (2009). Linguistically Informed and Corpus Informed Morphological Analysis of Arabic. on the 5th International Corpus Linguuistics Conference CL2009 Liverpool, UK.

[2] Sawalha, Majdi; Atwell, Eric. (2009) توظيف قواعد النحو والصرف في بناء محلل صرفي للغة العربية  (Adapting Language Grammar Rules for Building Morphological Analyzer for Arabic Language). Proceedings of the workshop of morphological analyzer’s experts for Arabic language, organized by Arab League for Education, culture and science organization (ALECSO), King Abdul-Aziz City of Technology ( KACT) and Arabic language Academy. Damascus, Syria.26-28 April 2009. more>>

Coling 2008 poster, Manchester 18-22 Aug 2008

1st year research a way day, Leeds, 3rd Nov 2008

1st year research a way day, Leeds,3rd Nov 2008 (Poster)

ALECSO meating presentation, Damascus, 27-29 Apr 2009
CL2009 presentation, Liverpool, 20-23 Jul 2009
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