LAMAD: A Linguistic Attentional Model for Arabic Text Diacritization

Abstract. The Simon effect lies on the automatic generation of a stimulus spatial code, which, however, is not relevant for performing the task. Results typically show faster performance when stimulus and response locations correspond, rather than when they do not. Considering reaction time distributions, two types of Simon effect have been individuated, which are thought to depend on different mechanisms: visuomotor activation versus cognitive translation of spatial codes. The present study aimed to investigate whether the presence of a distractor, which affects the allocation of attentional resources and, thus, the time needed to generate the spatial code, changes the nature of the Simon effect. In four experiments, we manipulated the presence and the characteristics of the distractor. Findings extend previous evidence regarding the distinction between visuomotor activation and cognitive translation of spatial stimulus codes in a Simon task. They are discussed with reference to the attentional model of the Simon effect.

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Taʾwīl and the Meaning of the Text in the Arabic Language: An Introduction to Understanding the Qur'an

Journal of Qur anic Studies ◽

10.3366/jqs.2010.0119 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 12 (1-2) ◽

pp. 337-314

Author(s):

ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad al-Shāmī

Keyword(s):

Figurative Language ◽

Arabic Language ◽

Literary Text ◽

Arabic Text ◽

Comprehensive Understanding ◽

Original Meaning ◽

High Literature

The question of clarifying the meaning of a given Arabic text is a subtle one, especially as high literature texts can often be read in more than one way. Arabic is rich in figurative language and this can lead to variety in meaning, sometimes in ways that either adhere closely or diverge far from the ‘original’ meaning. In order to understand a fine literary text in Arabic, one must have a comprehensive understanding of the issue of taʾwīl, and the concept that multiplicity of meaning does not necessarily lead to contradiction. This article surveys the opinions of various literary critics and scholars of balāgha on this issue with a brief discussion of the concepts of tafsīr and sharḥ, which sometimes overlap with taʾwīl.

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The Qur'an, Faith and the Impact of the Feminist Interpretative Movement on the Arabic Text and its Legacy

Journal of Qur anic Studies ◽

10.3366/jqs.2004.6.2.170 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 170-183

Author(s):

Hassan al-Shafīe

Keyword(s):

Arabic Text ◽

Historical Events ◽

Religious Texts ◽

Islamic World ◽

The Impact ◽

Intellectual Movement ◽

Qur'anic Interpretation

The present study discusses the cultural and intellectual movement, now on the point of prevalence in the contemporary Islamic world, which adopts the Western ‘hermeneutical method’ and applies it to the Qur'an in particular, and Islamic religious texts in general. The author shows this movement's complete disregard for the established principles of tafsīr, the traditional Arab-Islamic rules of Qur'anic interpretation and the related Prophetic aḥādīth as preserved in the authenticated Sunna. The author argues that the ‘hermeneutical method’ starts from the preconceived notion that the Islamic heritage is male-centred and biased against women, both theoretically and practically, and, on this basis, proposes that the time has come for an intellectual break with this premise and the re-interpretation of the Qur'an and faith in the light of Western Christian hermeneutics. This paper proposes that this method fails to take historical events and the civilisational Islamic experience into account.

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Arabic Text Cryptanalysis Using Genetic Algorithm

Iraqi Journal for Electrical And Electronic Engineering ◽

10.33762/eeej.2016.118374 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 161-166

Author(s):

Rokaia Shalal Habeeb

Keyword(s):

Genetic Algorithm ◽

Arabic Text

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A Deep Learning based Arabic Script Recognition System: Benchmark on KHAT

The International Arab Journal of Information Technology ◽

10.34028/iajit/17/3/3 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 299-305 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Riaz Ahmad ◽

Saeeda Naz ◽

Muhammad Afzal ◽

Sheikh Rashid ◽

Marcus Liwicki ◽

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Keyword(s):

Deep Learning ◽

Character Recognition ◽

Data Augmentation ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

Recognition System ◽

Learning Approach ◽

Arabic Text ◽

Data Set ◽

Processing Step ◽

Handwritten Arabic

This paper presents a deep learning benchmark on a complex dataset known as KFUPM Handwritten Arabic TexT (KHATT). The KHATT data-set consists of complex patterns of handwritten Arabic text-lines. This paper contributes mainly in three aspects i.e., (1) pre-processing, (2) deep learning based approach, and (3) data-augmentation. The pre-processing step includes pruning of white extra spaces plus de-skewing the skewed text-lines. We deploy a deep learning approach based on Multi-Dimensional Long Short-Term Memory (MDLSTM) networks and Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC). The MDLSTM has the advantage of scanning the Arabic text-lines in all directions (horizontal and vertical) to cover dots, diacritics, strokes and fine inflammation. The data-augmentation with a deep learning approach proves to achieve better and promising improvement in results by gaining 80.02% Character Recognition (CR) over 75.08% as baseline.

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Hidden Markov Model Tagger for Applications Based Arabic Text: A Review

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3451440 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jabar Yousif

Keyword(s):

Markov Model ◽

Hidden Markov Model ◽

Hidden Markov ◽

Arabic Text

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Yaḥyā Ibn ʿAdī on a Kalām Argument for Creation

10.1093/oso/9780198806035.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Adamson ◽

Robert Wisnovsky

Keyword(s):

Tenth Century ◽

Arabic Text ◽

Existence Of God ◽

Islamic Theology ◽

The Universe

This article offers an analysis, translation, and edition of a brief, recently uncovered Arabic text by the tenth-century CE Christian Aristotelian thinker Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī. Ibn ʿAdī here takes issue with an argument for the existence of God, widely used in kalām (Islamic theology). According to this argument, bodies cannot exist without being either in motion or at rest; motion and rest must begin; therefore all bodies and hence the universe as a whole must have begun. Ibn ʿAdī diagnoses various flaws in this reasoning, including a supposed part–whole fallacy. The analysis of the text shows how it fits into Ibn ʿAdī’s intellectual profile and the project of the Baghdad Aristotelian school.

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