Towards the Automatic Generation of Arabic Lexical Recognition Tests Using Orthographic and Phonological Similarity Maps

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dc.contributor.authorSalah, Saeed
dc.contributor.authorNassar, Mohammad
dc.contributor.authorZaghal, Raid
dc.contributor.authorHamed, Osama
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-21T20:03:24Z
dc.date.available2021-09-21T20:03:24Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractLexical Recognition Test (LRT) themes are one of the main methods that are widely used to measure lan guage proficiency of some common languages such as English, German and Spanish. However, similar research for Arabic is still at development stages, and existing proposals mainly use human-crafted meth ods. In this paper, a new methodology, based on a newly developed algorithm, was proposed with the aim of automatically constructing high quality nonwords associated with a real quick measurement of Arabic proficiency levels (Arabic LRT). The suggested algorithm will automatically generate nonwords based on Arabic special characteristics they are orthography (spelling), phonology (pronunciation), n grams and the word frequency map, which is an important factor to create a multi-level test. With the help of a large dataset of Arabic vocabulary, the proposed algorithm was experimented. For this purpose, a Web-based application, following the suggested methodology, was designed and implemented to facil itate the process of collecting and analyzing learners’ responses. The experimental results have shown that the LRT questions that were automatically generated by the proposed system had confused the learners, this is clear from the output of the confusion matrix which showed that (1/3) of the generated nonwords were able to distract the learners (with accuracy 65%). Consequentially, the results of recall and precision have smaller values, 0.52 and 0.48, respectivelyen_US
dc.identifier.citationS. Salah, M. Nassar, R. Zaghal, and O. Hamed “Towards the Automatic Generation of Arabic Lexical Recognition Tests Using Orthographic and Phonological Similarity Maps”, Journal of King Saud University – Computer and Information Sciences, Elsevier, Article in Press, 2021.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.alquds.edu/handle/20.500.12213/6463
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherJournal of King Saud University – Computer and Information Sciences, Elsevier, 2021en_US
dc.subjectNLPen_US
dc.subjectLRTen_US
dc.subjectn-gramen_US
dc.subjectDialectsen_US
dc.subjectMSAen_US
dc.subjectOrthographicen_US
dc.subjectPhonologicalen_US
dc.titleTowards the Automatic Generation of Arabic Lexical Recognition Tests Using Orthographic and Phonological Similarity Mapsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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