Feras Al Tarouti

 

Oral PhD Qualifying Exam

Committee Members

Dr. Jugal Kalita

Dr. Edward Chow

Dr. Sudhanshu Semwal

 

Topic

Information Processing in Arabic:

 Current Status and Challenges

 

 

Table of Contents

1.     INTRODUCTION

 

2.     fUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN aRABIC

2.1  Script Issues

2.2   Morphological Issues

2.2.1 Morphological Generators

2.2.2 Morphological Processing and Dialects

2.2.3 Word Agglutination in Arabic

2.3   Syntactical Issues

 

3.     Arabic treebanks

3.1   The Penn Arabic Treebank

3.2   The Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank

3.3   The Columbia Arabic Treebank

 

4.     Conclusion

 

 

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Date & Time

13, December 2013. 11:30am