Publications
by MEDAR partners

• M.b Al-Hunaity, B. Maegaard, D. Hansen:
  Using English as a Pivot Language to Enhance Danish-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation. In: Proceedings of the workshop in LR and HLT for Semitic Languages, Valetta, Malta, 2010, 6 p.
  
  
• R. Al-Shalabi, G. Kanaan, M. Yaseen, B. Al-Sarayreh, N. A. Al-Naji:
  Arabic Query Expansion Using Interactive Word Sense Disambiguation. In: Proceedings of the 2th International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, Cairo, 2009.
  
  
• M.Attia, B. Maegaard, K. Choukri & O. Hamon:
  Creating a framework for Arabic language technology, a Featured Article in MultiLingual, July/August 2010
  
  
• Attia, M., Rashwan, M., El-Mahallawy, M.:
  Autonomously Normalized Horizontal Differentials as Features for HMM-Based Omni Font-Written OCR Systems for Cursively Scripted Languages
  In: Proceedings from IEEE International Conference on Signal & Image Processing Applications (ICSIPA09)
  Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia, Nov. 2009
  
  
• M. Attia, M. Rashwan, A. Ragheb, M. Al-Badrashiny, H.Al-Basoumy:
  A Compact Arabic Lexical Semantics Language Resource Based on the Theory of Semantic Fields . In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marrakech, Morocco, 2008.
  
  
• R. Besançon, D. Mostefa, I. Timimi, S. Chaudiron, M. Laïb,K. Choukri:
  Arabic, English and French: Three Languages in a Filtering Systems Evaluation Project. In: Proceedings of the 2th International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, Cairo, 2009.
  
  
• R. Bayeh, C. Mokbel, G. Chollet:
  Broadcast News Transcription Baseline System using the NEMLAR database . In: Proceedings of the workshop in HLT & NLP within the Arabic world, Marrakech, Morocco, 2008.
  
  
• K. Choukri, O. Rambow, B. Maegaard, I. Alkharashi (ed.):
  Proceedings of the workshop in LR and HLT for Semitic Languages, Valetta, Malta, 2010, 124 p.
  
  
• K. Choukri:
  MEDAR: Mediterranean Arabic Language and Speech Technology Inventory of the HLT Products, Players, Projects, and Language Resources. In: Proceedings of the 2th International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, Cairo, 2009.
  
  
• Choukri, Diab, Maegaard, Rosso, Soudi, Farghaly (ed.):
  HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: Arabic Language and local languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects , LREC Workshop Proceedings, Marrakech, Morocco, 121 pages.
  
  
• F. Debili, Z. Ben Tahar:
  Automatic versus interactive analysis for the massive vowelization, tagging and lemmatization of Arabic . In: Proceedings of the workshop in HLT & NLP within the Arabic world, Marrakech, Morocco, 2008.
  
  
• J.Dichy, R.Abbès:
  Can the building of corpus-based Arabic concordances with AraConc and DIINAR.1 tackle the issue of Arabic polyglossia? In: Proceedings of the workshop in HLT & NLP within the Arabic world, Marrakech, Morocco, 2008.
  
  
• J. Dichy:
  Assessing word-form based search for information in Arabic: towards a new type of lexical resource. In: Proceedings of the 2th International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, Cairo, 2009.
  
  
• J. Dichy, M. Alrahabi:
  Levée d’ambigüité par la méthode d’exploration contextuelle: la séquence ’alif-nûn’ en arabe, In: Ghenima, Malek, Ouksel, Aris et Sidhom, Sahbi (eds.), Systèmes d’Information et Intelligence Economique, 2ème Conférence Internationale ( SIIE 2009), Tunis, Hammamet, 12-14 février 2009, IHE éditions, p. 573-585.
  
  
• J. Dichy, Y. Zmantar:
  L’analyse automatique des mots-outils en arabe, In Ghenima, Malek, Ouksel, Aris et Sidhom, Sahbi (eds.), Systèmes d’Information et Intelligence Economique, 2ème Conférence Internationale ( SIIE 2009), Tunis, Hammamet, 12-14 février 2009, IHE éditions, p. 586-597.
  
  
• J.Dichy, R.Abbès:
  Extraction automatique de fréquences lexicales en arabe et analyse d’un corpus journalistique avec le logiciel AraConc et la base de connaissances DIINAR.1 In : Proceedings of JADT 2008, 9th International Conference on Textual Data statistical Analysis), Lyon 12-14.03.2008, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2 vol., p. 31-44
  
  
• J.Dichy, R.Abbès:
  AraConc, an Arabic Concordance Software Based on the DIINAR.1 Language Resource In: INFOS 2008: The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems– Special Track On Natural Language Processing 27-28 March 2008, Cairo, Egypt.
  
  
• H. Hammady, S. Abdou, M. Shahin, M. Rashwan, O. Badawy:
  An HMM System for Recognizing Articulation Features for Arabic Phones. In: Proceedings of the 2th International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, Cairo, 2009.
  
  
• M. Hattab, B. Haddad, M. Yaseen, A. Duraidi, A. Abu Shmais:
  Addaall Arabic Search Engine: Improving Search based on Combination of Morphological Analysis and Generation Considering Semantic Patterns. In: Proceedings of the 2th International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, Cairo, 2009.
  
  
• Bente Maegaard, M. Attia, K. Choukri, O. Hamon, S. Krauwer, M. Yaseen:
  Cooperation for Arabic Language Resources and Tools – The MEDAR Project, In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Valetta, Malta, 2010, 5 p.
  
  
• B. Maegaard, M. Attia, K. Choukri, S. Krauwer, C. Mokbel, M.Yaseen:
  MEDAR: Arabic Language Technology, State-of-the-art and a Cooperation Roadmap. In: Proceedings of the 2th International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, Cairo, 2009.
  
  
• B.Maegaard, M. Attia, K. Choukri, S. Krauwer, C. Mokbel, M. Yaseen:
  MEDAR – collaboration between European and Mediterranean Arabic partners to support the development of language technology for Arabic . In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marrakech, Morocco2008.
  
  
• C. Mokbel:
  Arabic Language Resources and Tools for Speech and Natural Language: KACST and Balamand. In: Proceedings of the 2th International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, Cairo, 2009.
  
  
• D. Mostefa, M. Laïb, S. Chaudiron, K. Choukri and G. de Chalendar:
  A Multilingual Named Entities Corpus for Arabic, English and French. In: Proceedings of the 2th International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, Cairo, 2009.
  
  
• H. S. Mubarak, M. Al Sharqawy, E. Al Masry:
  Diacritization and Transliteration of Proper Nouns from Arabic to English. In: Proceedings of the 2th International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, Cairo, 2009.
  
  
• N. Paulsson, K. Choukri, D. Mostefa, D. DiPersio, M. Glenn, S. Strassel:
  A Large Arabic Broadcast News Speech Data Collection. In: Proceedings of the 2th International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, Cairo, 2009.
  
  
• K. S. Refaat, A. Madkour:
  An Optimized Method For Arabic Cross Document Named Entity Normalization. In: Proceedings of the 2th International Conference on Arabic Language Resources & Tools, Cairo, 2009.
  
  
• N. Semmar:
  Using a Hybrid Word Alignment Approach for Automatic Construction and Updating of Arabic to French Lexicons, In: Proceedings of the workshop in LR and HLT for Semitic Languages, Valetta, Malta, 2010
  
  
• M. Yaseen, B. Maegard, K. Choukri, S. Krauwer.
  Towards Networking Efforts to Build an Arabic Cooperation Roadmap. In: Proceedings from The first International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies(NDT 2009), Ostra, The Czech Republic, 2009, p. 441-447.

See also: publications from the NEMLAR project.