Abductive Knowledge Base Updates for Contextual Reasoning
AbstractWe show in this paper how procedures that update knowledge bases can naturally be adapted to a number of problems related to contextual reasoning. The fact that the update procedures are...
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AbstractThe lexicon is a major part of any Machine Translation (MT) system. If the lexicon of an MT system is not adequate, this will affect the quality of the whole system. Building a comprehensive...
View ArticleA Methodology for Evaluating Arabic Machine Translation Systems
Abstract.This paper presents a methodology for evaluating Arabic Machine Translation (MT) systems. We are specifically interested in evaluating lexical coverage, grammatical coverage, semantic...
View ArticleArabic Morphological Generation and its Impact on the Quality of Machine...
AbstractThe aim of this chapter is to highlight the complexity and importance of Arabic morphological information in an Arabic Machine Translation (AMT) system, i.e. a system that translates to or from...
View ArticleSocial Validation of Learning Objects in Online Communities of Practice Using...
AbstractThe present paper introduces an original approach for the validation of learning objects (LOs) within an online Community of Practice (CoP). A social validation has been proposed based on two...
View ArticleA Supervised Approach to Arabic Text Summarization Using AdaBoost
AbstractIn recent years, research in text summarization has become very active for many languages. Unfortunately, looking at the effort devoted to Arabic text summarization, we find much fewer...
View ArticleDrug Repurposing by Optimizing Mining of Genes Target Association
AbstractA major alternative strategy for the pharmacology industry is to find new uses for approved drugs. A number of studies have shown that target binding of a drug often affects not only the...
View ArticleRestoration of Arabic Diacritics Using a Multilevel Statistical Model
AbstractArabic texts are generally written without diacritics. This is the case for instance in newspapers, contemporary books, etc., which makes automatic processing of Arabic texts more difficult....
View ArticleSocial Validation of Solutions in the Context of Online Communities
AbstractOnline Communities are considered as a new organizational structure that allows individuals and groups of persons to collaborate and share their knowledge and experiences. These members need...
View ArticleBuilding TALAA-AFAQ, a Corpus of Arabic FActoid Question-Answers for a...
AbstractIn this paper, we describe the development of TALAA-AFAQ, a Corpus of Arabic Factoid Question Answers that is developed to be used in the training modules of an Arabic Question Answering System...
View ArticleTALAA-ATSF: A Global Operation-Based Arabic Text Summarization Framework
AbstractText summarization is one of the most challenging and difficult tasks in natural language processing, and artificial intelligence more generally. Various approaches have been proposed in the...
View ArticleAn Automatic Approach for WordNet Enrichment Applied to Arabic WordNet
AbstractThis paper introduces an automatic method to extend existing WordNets via machine translation. Our proposal relies on the hierarchical skeleton of the English Princeton WordNet (PWN) as a...
View ArticleToward a Context-Aware Multilingual Personalized Search
AbstractIn recent years, personalized search has widely been used in Information Retrieval Systems (IRS) to provide the end user with more sophisticated and accurate search results. A basic element...
View ArticleA POS-Based Preordering Approach for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine...
AbstractIn this work, we present a POS-based preordering approach that tackles both long- and short-distance reordering phenomena. Syntactic unlexicalized reordering rules are automatically extracted...
View ArticleIntroducing Quality Assurance in Algerian Higher Education: The Case of the...
AbstractDuring the recent years, the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education (MESRS) has come to the conclusion that there is an acute need for the introduction of Quality Assurance in the entire...
View ArticleImproving Arabic neural machine translation via n-best list re-ranking
AbstractEven though the rise of the neural machine translation (NMT) paradigm has brought a great deal of improvement to the field of machine translation (MT), the current translation results are still...
View ArticlePrediction of the Engagement Rate on Algerian Dialect Facebook Pages
AbstractFor the purposes of online marketing, some social networks provide an advertising platform that allows the sponsoring of advertising content to reach target users. This content promotion is...
View ArticleOntological Relation Classification Using WordNet, Word Embeddings and Deep...
AbstractLearning ontological relations is an important step on the way to automatically developing ontologies. This paper introduces a novel way to exploit WordNet [16], the combination of pre-trained...
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