Essays about: "Modern Standard Arabic"

Found 5 essays containing the words Modern Standard Arabic.

1. 1. Homograph Disambiguation and Diacritization for Arabic Text-to-Speech Using Neural Networks

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Harm Lameris; [2021]
   Keywords : Computational Linguistics; Language Technology; Diacritization; Neural Networks; Deep Learning; Arabic; Natural Language Processing; NLP; Text-to-Speech; TTS; Homograph Disambiguation;

   Abstract : Pre-processing Arabic text for Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems poses major challenges, as Arabic omits short vowels in writing. This omission leads to a large number of homographs, and means that Arabic text needs to be diacritized to disambiguate these homographs, in order to be matched up with the intended pronunciation. READ MORE

3. 2. Automatic Speech Recognition for low-resource languages using Wav2Vec2 : Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as an example of a low-resource language

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för information och teknik

   Author : Taha Zouhair; [2021]
   Keywords : Automatic Speech Recognition; Facebook Wav2Vec; Mozilla Common Voice; Low-Resource Language;

   Abstract : The need for fully automatic translation at DigitalTolk, a Stockholm-based company providing translation services, leads to exploring Automatic Speech Recognition as a first step for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Facebook AI recently released a second version of its Wav2Vec models, dubbed Wav2Vec 2. READ MORE

4. 3. Crosslinguistic influence in the Arabic of Iraqi Arabic-Swedish bilingual children (5-7) in Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Mohaned Ridha; [2015]
   Keywords : Iraqi Arabic-Swedish bilingual children; Arabic first language acquisition; crosslinguistic influence; bilingualism; code-switching; loan translation; transfer; Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives MAIN .;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to investigate crosslinguistic influence in the Arabic language of Iraqi Arabic-Swedish bilingual children (5-7) who live in Sweden. The scope is to study lexical, morphological and syntactic uses in the children’s speech that do not belong to the Iraqi Arabic variety (IAV). READ MORE

5. 4. The morphological integration of loanwords into Modern Standard Arabic

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

   Author : Niklas Gadelii; [2015]
   Keywords : broken plurals; morphology; Modern Standard Arabic; loanwords; roots and patterns; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the morphological integration of Standard Average European (SAE) words into Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The topic constitutes a challenge insofar as SAE and MSA are typologically very different, and integration of words from SAE into MSA should therefore be generally difficult. READ MORE

6. 5. A Struggle for Independence: A Young Woman’s Coming of Age as National Allegory in Laṭīfa al-Zayyāt’s al-Bāb al-maftūḥ

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Arabiska

   Author : Sandra Buijsse; [2010]
   Keywords : national allegory; modern Arabic literature; Egypt; feminism; Laṭīfah; Zayyat; The Open Door; arabisk litteratur; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Without question, Laṭīfa al-Zayyāt (1923-96), ranks among the most important Egyptian and Arab writers, critics, and activists of the 20th century. Published in 1960, her breakthrough novel al-Bāb al-maftūḥ [The Open Door] chronicles the emotional, psychological, and political growth of Layla, daughter of a conservative, Egyptian middle-class family. READ MORE