Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractOptimizing Clusters Alignment for Bilingual Malay-English CorporaRayner Alfred, Chan Chen Jie, Ng Zhen Wei et al.Bilingual corpora, containing the same documents in two different languages, are becoming an essential resource for natural language processing. Clustering bilingual corpora provides us with an insight into the differences between languages when term frequency-based Information Retrieval (IR) tools are used. It also allows one to use the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and IR tools in one language to implement … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 12 · 26 Nov 2012 · 7,144 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRestricted Domain Malay Speech Synthesizer Using Syntax-Prosody RepresentationSabrina Tiun, Rosni Abdullah, Tang Enya KongThe speech synthesis approach required in restricted domain speech application is a synthesizer that has high quality like the speech output of ‘slot-filler’ approach but have at least the least flexibility of the ‘genuine’ speech synthesizer. Thus, in this research study, we propose an alternative approach of creating a speech synthesizer to be used in a restricted domain speech application. … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 8, Issue 12 · 14 Nov 2012 · 7,360 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA Control of Fundamental Frequency Contour for Hidden Markov Model-Based Thai Speech SynthesisSuphattharachai ChomphanProblem statement: In the conventional HMM-based speech synthesis system for Thai, there is no control of fundamental frequency control in the synthesis stage. The tone correctness of the synthesized speech is unacceptable due to the imbalance of training data of all tones. Approach: This study proposes a mathematical model to control the F0 contour of the synthesized speech. This control … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 9, Issue 2 · 26 Dec 2011 · 7,053 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractAn Automatic Collocation Extraction from Arabic CorpusAbdulgabbar Mohammad Saif, Mohd J.A. AzizProblem statement: The identification of collocations is very important part in natural language processing applications that require some degree of semantic interpretation such as, machine translation, information retrieval and text summarization. Because of the complexities of Arabic, the collocations undergo some variations such as, morphological, graphical, syntactic variation that constitutes the difficulties of identifying the collocation. Approach: We used the … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 16 Dec 2010 · 8,281 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractTone Question of Tree Based Context Clustering for Hidden Markov Model Based Thai Speech SynthesisSuphattharachai ChomphanProblem statement: In HMM-based Thai speech synthesis, tone is an important issue that brings about the intelligibility of the synthesized speech. Tone distortion resulted from imbalance of the training data should be appropriately treated. Approach: This study described an HMM-based speech synthesis system for Thai language. In the system, spectrum, pitch and state duration are modeled simultaneously in a unified … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 12 · 9 Nov 2010 · 6,820 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSpeech Enhancement Using Minimum Mean-Square Error Amplitude Estimators Under Normal and Generalized Gamma DistributionChabane Boubakir, Daoud BerkaniProblem statement: In this study, DFT-based speech enhancement via Minimum Mean-Square Error (MMSE) amplitude estimators was considered. Approach: Several variants of the basic approach (MMSE-STSA) have been proposed over the years to address certain shortcomings, chiefly the quality of the remnant noise and its trade-off with speech distortion. In this study, we presented a comparative study between the MMLSA and … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 7 · 31 Jul 2010 · 7,106 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractToponym Disambiguation by Arborescent RelationshipsImene Bensalem, Mohamed-Khireddine KholladiProblem statement: The way of referring to a place in the geographical space can be formal, based on the spatial coordinates, or informal, which we use in natural language by using toponyms (place names). A toponym can represent several geographical places. This ambiguity made problematic its conversion towards a unique formal representation. Toponym disambiguation in text is the task of … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 6 · 30 Jun 2010 · 7,667 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractStatistical Part-of-Speech Tagger for Traditional Arabic TextsYahya O. Mohamed ElhadjProblem statement: This study presented the development of an Arabic part-of-speech tagger that can be used for analyzing and annotating traditional Arabic texts, especially the Quran text. Approach: It is a part of a project related to the computerization of the Holy Quran. One of the main objectives in this project was to build a textual corpus of the Holy … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 5, Issue 11 · 30 Nov 2009 · 7,026 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractParsing Arabic Texts Using Rhetorical Structure TheoryH. I. Mathkour, A. A. Touir, W. A. Al-SaneaProblem Statement: Processing texts based on rhetorical structure theory has shown interesting results. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) improves the ability of extracting the semantic behind the processed text. Different applications such as information retrieval, text summarization, and text generation have proved to give better result using RST. The applicability of RST to process and understand texts has been studied in … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 4, Issue 9 · 30 Sep 2008 · 7,389 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractA COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COMBINED FEATURE SELECTION METHODS FOR ARABIC TEXT CLASSIFICATIONAisha Adel, Nazlia Omar, Adel Al-ShabiText classification is a very important task due to the huge amount of electronic documents. One of the problems of text classification is the high dimensionality of feature space. Researchers proposed many algorithms to select related features from text. These algorithms have been studied extensively for English text, while studies for Arabic are still limited. This study introduces an investigation … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 10, Issue 11 · 20 Dec 2014 · 8,433 accessesView PDFCite