Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleAnalysis of Evapotranspiration Variability and Trends in the Arabian PeninsulaMohammad ElNesr, Abdulrahman Alazba, Majed Abu-ZreigProblem statement: Climate variability is receiving much attention recently because it has significant effects on water resources and therefore on the livelihood of society especially in water scarce countries such the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Approach: The aim of this study was to explore changes in the reference evapotranspiration (ETo) using data from 27 weather stations through years 1980-2008 … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 6 · 31 Dec 2010 · 8,011 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleStatistical Bayesian Learning for Automatic Arabic Text CategorizationBassam Al-Salemi, Mohd. Juzaiddin Ab AzizProblem statement: The rapid increasing of online Arabic documents necessitated applying Text Categorization techniques that are commonly used for English language to categorize them automatically. The complex morphology of Arabic language and its large vocabulary size make applying these techniques directly difficult and costly in time and effort. Approach: We have investigated Bayesian learning models in order to enhance Arabic … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 7, Issue 1 · 27 Dec 2010 · 8,406 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleA Tool to Develop Arabic Handwriting Recognition System Using Genetic ApproachHanan Aljuaid, Zulkifli Muhammad, Muhammad SarfrazProblem statement: Significant movement has been made in handwriting recognition technology over the last few years. Up until now, Arabic handwriting recognition systems have been limited to small and medium vocabulary applications, since most of them often rely on a database during the recognition process. The facility of dealing with large database, however, opens up many more applications. Approach: This … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 6 · 30 Jun 2010 · 7,530 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleThe Effect of High Altitude on Blood Hormones in Male Westar Rats in South Western Saudi ArabiaFahaid H. Al-HashemProblem statement: Living in high altitude areas results in chronic hypoxia, which induces complex metabolic and endocrine adaptations. The current study investigated the endocrine responses of male Westar rats chronically exposed to high altitude-induced hypoxia in Abha City, in Southwestern Saudi Arabia. Approach: The rats were separated in to 2 groups of 10 rats. The first group was kept at … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 3 · 30 Jun 2010 · 7,208 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleArabic Speaker Recognition: Babylon Levantine Subset Case StudyMansour Alsulaiman, Youssef Alotaibi, Muhammad Ghulam et al.Problem statement: Researchers on Arabic speaker recognition have used local data bases unavailable to the public. In this study we would like to investigate Arabic speaker recognition using a publically available database, namely Babylon Levantine available from the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). Approach: Among the different methods for speaker recognition we focus on Hidden Markov Models (HMM). We studied the … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 4 · 30 Apr 2010 · 7,246 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleTemperature Trends and Distribution in the Arabian PeninsulaMohammad N. ElNesr, Majed M. Abu-Zreig, Abdurrahman A. AlazbaProblem statement: Temperature trend’s investigation is important for proper water resources management and urban planning. This study aims to investigate trends and distribution of temperature in the past thirty years for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), which represents about 86% of the Arabian Peninsula’s area. Approach: The trend in the temperature time series, including the recorded maximum, average and … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 2 · 30 Apr 2010 · 9,377 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleMachine Translation of Noun Phrases from Arabic to English Using Transfer-Based ApproachOmar Shirko, Nazlia Omar, Haslina Arshad, Mohammed AlbaredProblem statement: Any Arabic to English Machine Translation (MT) system should be capable of dealing with word order which Arabic exhibits. This poses a significant challenge to MT due to the vast number of ways to express the same sentence in Arabic. The ordering features are very important and should be carefully applied to ensure the generation of sentence in … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 3 · 31 Mar 2010 · 8,420 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleArabic Short Text CompressionIman Omer, Khalaf KhatatnehProblem statement: Text compression permits representing a document by using less space. This is useful not only to save disk space, but more importantly, to save disk transfer and network transmission time. With the continues increase in the number of Arabic short text messages sent by mobile phones, the use of a suitable compression scheme would allow users to use … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 31 Jan 2010 · 7,548 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleStatistical 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 · 7,028 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleSkew Detection and Correction Technique for Arabic Document Images Based on Centre of GravityAtallah Mahmoud Al-Shatnawi, Khairuddin OmarProblem statement: Skew detection and correction is the first step process in the document analysis and understanding processing steps. Correction the skewed scanned document image is very important, because it has a direct effect on the reliability and efficiency of the segmentation and feature extraction stages. The noises and the deviation in the document resolution or types are still the … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 5, Issue 5 · 30 May 2009 · 7,424 accessesView PDFCite