APPLYING EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
FOR ARABIC LANGUAGE PRACTICING, TEACHING, AND LEARNING

Libyan Open University, Tripoli, Libya

29-30 October 2022

The project aims to answer many questions regarding ANLP, including

How

Arabic language can integrate in the era of digital revolution.

HOW

Arabic language teaching and learning can profit from the new advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

How

ANLP can aide Arabic Speakers with disabilities in their education and work.

What

role ICT can play to help non-Arabic speaking Muslims reciting and understand the holy Qur’an.

Challenges

There are several characteristics that make Arabic distinctive and present many challenges for its digital processing, such as :

  • Arabic is a cursive language while reading and writing are performed from right to left.
  • The language consists of 28 characters which can vary depending on the position of the letter (beginning, middle, and end).
  • The use of diacritics, which are placed above or below letters, give the letter different pronunciation and the word and sentences different meanings.
  • The use of dots on the letters so that letters are the same but distinguished by the position and number of dots on the letter

Themes

  • Arabic speech recognition
  • Arabic characters recognition
  • Arabic sign language recognition
  • Arabic text Summarization
  • Information retrieval and extraction
  • Tools for Arabic learning.
  • Ongoing projects on developing effective interactive systems for Arabic speakers.

Main Objectives

Improve

the integration of Arabic in the new technology using innovations such as Arabic speech and character recognition, Arabic text summarization, information retrieval and extraction, etc.

Help

hearing impaired Arabic speakers integrate in the society using new technologies, i.e. sign language recognition.

Enhance

Arabic learning using the latest innovations in the field of E-learning.

Explore

ongoing projects and success stories in this domain.

Beneficiaries

Arabic and Qur’anic learning centers, universities’ linguistic study centers, and Interested ICESCO country members.

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About

Arabic is spoken in 25 countries and it is estimated that there are about 313 million Arabic speakers in the whole world, making it the fifth most-spoken language globally and the fourth most used language on the Internet. It is the language of the holy Qur’an, which is the holy book of more than 1.8 billion Muslims living all over the world.

In this regard, ICESCO, through two of its Science and Technology Sector, proposes a project related to the application of emerging technologies in NLP for Arabic language processing and learning, in particular the utilization of new innovations in Artificial Intelligent technologies for Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP).

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