Introduction to the Special Issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing

摘要

This special issue is dedicated to the reporting of the recent Arabic natural language processing advances. A special issue of a journal allows, of course, only a partial representation of the current development in a field. However, we believe that the articles in this special issue are representative of at least some Arabic natural language processing fields. The following is a brief summary of each of the main articles in this issue.rn"Arabic Natural Language Processing: Challenges and Solutions," by Ali Farghaly and Khaled Shaalan, introduces an account of challenges and solutions to significant issues in Arabic natural language processing. It covers many aspects of Arabic that are important to know by different researchers of Arabic language processing, such as Arabic diglossia, the levels (morpheme, word, syntax) of studying the Arabic language, non-concatenative morphology, and the agglutinative nature of the word structure, etc.