An Interactive Arabic Dictionary

Author

Rebdawi, Ghaida ; Ghneim, Nada ; Desouki, Mohammad Said ; Sonbol, Riad

Author_Institution

Higher Inst. for Appl. Sci. & Technol., Damascus, Syria

fYear

2011

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

86

Abstract

This paper presents the Interactive Arabic Dictionary (IAD) developed at the Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology (HIAST). IAD is an interactive web application based on the “Al-Wasseet” dictionary. It provides the different meanings of words with examples and multimedia illustrations. IAD presents also other related information like associated words, semantic domains, expressions, linguistic tips, common mistakes, and linguistic information. Users interact online with this dictionary to search information about Arabic words. Moreover, expert users can also enrich the dictionary with new words, different meanings, or other related information.

Keywords

Internet; computational linguistics; dictionaries; interactive systems; natural languages; Al-Wasseet dictionary; Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology; associated word; interactive Arabic dictionary; interactive Web application; linguistic information; multimedia illustration; semantic domain; Business; Databases; Dictionaries; Java; Multimedia communication; Pragmatics; Semantics; Arabic Dictionary; Arabic Language Processing; Interactive Web Dictionary; Language Resources; Monolingual Dictionary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovations in Information Technology (IIT), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Abu Dhabi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0311-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2011.5893874

Filename

5893874