Simplification of Arabic Masterpieces for Extensive Reading: A Project Overview

Muhamed Al Khalil; Nizar Habash; Hind Saddiki

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2017.10.109

Simplification of Arabic Masterpieces for Extensive Reading: A Project Overview

Muhamed Al Khalil, Nizar Habash, Hind Saddiki

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Abstract

We describe the motivation and outline of a project for the simplification of Arabic masterpieces for extensive reading, a collaboration between researchers in Arabic literature, pedagogy and natural language processing, with the purpose of formulating simplification guidelines for Arabic fiction targeting school-Aged learners; then using them to guide human simplification efforts with support from state-of-The-Art computational natural language processing technology.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	192-198
Number of pages	7
Journal	Procedia Computer Science
Volume	117
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.10.109
State	Published - 2017
Event	3rd International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics, ACLing 2017 - Dubai, United Arab Emirates Duration: Nov 5 2017 → Nov 6 2017

Keywords

K-12
Modern Standard Arabic
education
fiction
reading
simplification

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General Computer Science

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