Title :
BASRAH: Arabic Verses Meters Identification System
Author :
Khalaf, Zainab A. ; Alabbas, Maytham ; Tien Ping Tan
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Sci. Malaysia (USM), Malaysia
Abstract :
In this paper, we present BASRAH, a system that automatically identifies the meter of Arabic verse, which is an operation that requires a certain level of human expertise. BASRAH uses the numerical prosody method, which depends on verse coding that is derived from the general concept of al-Khalil´s feet through using the two primary units (cord=2 and peg=3). BASRAH has proved to be an efficient tool to help inexperienced users to determine the meters of Arabic verses when we tested it on thousands of old and modern Arabic verses.
Keywords :
natural language processing; Arabic verse meter identification system; BASRAH; numerical prosody method; verse coding; Accuracy; Educational institutions; Encoding; Foot; Pragmatics; Rhythm; Sun; Arabic prosody; Arabic prosody elements; Numerical prosody method; prosodic form;
Conference_Titel :
Asian Language Processing (IALP), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Penang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1733-8
DOI :
10.1109/IALP.2011.19
