Browsing by Subject "Arabic"
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ARAP: Arabic author profiling project for cyber-security
( Sociedad Espanola para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural , 2018 , Article)In this paper we describe the current state of the ARAP project on Arabic Author Profiling for Cyber-Security funded by the Qatar National Research Fund via the Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. The project focuses on ... -
Assessing the factor structure and measurement invariance of the eating attitude test (EAT-26) across language and BMI in young Arab women
( BioMed Central , 2018 , Article)Background: The objective of the study was to determine the factorial structure and test the measurement invariance of the EAT-26 in a large probability sample of young female university students in Qatar (n = 2692), a ... -
Automatic diacritics restoration for modern standard Arabic text
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)In this paper, the problem of missing diacritic marks in most of Arabic written resources is investigated. Our aim is to implement a scalable and extensible platform to automatically restore missing diacritic marks for ... -
BADR: A Talking Face To Teach Arabic Vocabulary Under COVID-19
( IEEE , 2022 , Conference Paper)We propose an Arabic talking face called Badr to teach the language vocabulary for young students under COVID-19 pandemic. Badr is built on the previous talking face Baldi (e.g., an American English talking face) with many ... -
Barriers to Diabetes Adherence (BDA): Translation and Cultural Adaptation of the Instrument into Arabic Context
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Objectives: Barriers to Diabetes Adherence (BDA) instrument is a measure developed in English to assess barriers to adherence in adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1DM). The main objectives of the present study were to ... -
Can the word superiority effect be modulated by serial position and prosodic structure?
( Frontiers Media , 2022 , Article)In this study, we examined the word superiority effect in Arabic and English, two languages with significantly different morphological and writing systems. Thirty-two Arabic-English bilingual speakers performed a post-cued ... -
DART: A large dataset of dialectal Arabic tweets
( European Language Resources Association (ELRA) , 2019 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we present a new large manually-annotated multi-dialect dataset of Arabic tweets that is publicly available. The Dialectal ARabic Tweets (DART) dataset has about 25K tweets that are annotated via crowdsourcing ... -
Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire – An Arabic adaptation for Qatar
( Elsevier , 2013 , Article)The Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire is recommended by the World Health Organization and the International Diabetes Federation for assessing diabetes care. We conducted a systematic linguistic adaptation of ... -
Effect of emphasis spread on coronal stop articulation in Qatari Arabic
( Linguistic Society of America , 2020 , Conference Proceedings)Emphasis (contrastive uvularisation) in Arabic spreads from an emphatic consonant to neighboring segments (Davis1995). The effect of emphasis spread on a consonant is manifested as lowering of its spectral mean (Jongman ... -
Imageability, familiarity, and age of acquisition ratings for Arabic abstract nouns, abstract verbs and adjectives
( John Benjamins Publishing Company , 2018 , Article)To date, normative psycholinguistics research has mainly focused on establishing norms for producing databases for concrete words using standardized pictures, while abstract words have been subject to much less attention. ... -
Improving Arabic Microblog Retrieval with Distributed Representations
( Springer , 2020 , Conference Paper)Query expansion (QE) using pseudo relevance feedback (PRF) is one of the approaches that has been shown to be effective for improving microblog retrieval. In this paper, we investigate the performance of three different ... -
Language and Nature in Southern and Eastern Arabia
(2020 , Article)This paper examines the relationship between language and nature in southern and eastern Arabia. The work is the result of a two-year interdisciplinary network between the University of Leeds and Qatar University, with ... -
Lexical retrieval after Arabic aphasia: Syntactic access and predictors of spoken naming
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)Research into anomia has been carried out in English and many Indo-European languages extensively, but not in Arabic. Previous studies have investigated predictors of successful lexical retrieval after anomia, and access ... -
Mediation effect of L2 English in acquisition of front rounded vowels in L3 Turkish by L1 Arabic learners
(2018 , Conference Proceedings)В статье рассматривается модель усвоения фонетических категорий в третьем языке. Результаты эксперимента показывают, что второй язык может оказывать большее влияние на процесс усвоения фонетических категорий, чем родной язык -
Parenting Young Arab Children: Psychometric Properties of an Adapted Arabic Brief Version of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire
( Springer , 2016 , Article)Research has shown a connection between negative parenting practices and child conduct problems. One of the most commonly used measures to assess parenting practices is the Alabama parenting questionnaire (APQ). The current ... -
Prevalence and correlates of autism spectrum disorder in Qatar: a national study
( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2019 , Article)Background Few epidemiological data on autism spectrum disorders (ASD) exist for Arabic countries. We conducted the first survey of ASD in Qatar, a population with high consanguinity level. Methods This cross‐sectional ... -
Processing passive constructions in arabic and english a crosslanguage priming study
( Georgetown University Press , 2019 , Article)The English and Arabic languages each have passive constructions, but their realizations in the two languages are quite different. We carried out a syntactic priming experiment on Arabic-English bilinguals to investigate ... -
Qatar Univeristy - Arabic for Non-Native Speakers Program
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QU project to support young kids launched
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Representing number in the real-time processing of agreement: self-paced reading evidence from Arabic
( Frontiers Media , 2015 , Article)In the processing of subject-verb agreement, non-subject plural nouns following a singular subject sometimes “attract” the agreement with the verb, despite not being grammatically licensed to do so. This phenomenon generates ...