SA Prof. Salah Alnajem Professor of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
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Research and publications

Sixteen peer-reviewed papers on Arabic computational morphology, syntax, orthography and text analysis — published in Computer Speech and Language, JASIST, IEEE and Springer.

Research interests

  • Computational linguistics and natural language processing
  • Arabic computational morphology and syntax
  • Text mining and computational text analysis
  • Data analytics and visualisation
  • Generative AI and large language models
  • Information retrieval
  • Sentiment analysis for Modern Standard Arabic and Gulf dialect
  • E-government and e-learning

The unifying question across this work is how far the descriptive apparatus of the Arabic grammatical tradition can be given a formal, computable treatment — and what has to be added when it cannot.

Publications

Selected peer-reviewed work

In reverse chronological order. Papers published in Arabic are listed with their venue in English.

2022 نظام للتدقيق الإملائي للغة العربية للشبكة العنكبوتية باستخدام معجم حاسوبي وقوانين إملائية وصوتية Journal of the Faculty of Arts, Alexandria University, 72(110), 1–24
2022 تصميم نظام لتحليل المزاج العام للغة العربية الفصحى باستخدام معجم حاسوبي Journal of Dar Al-Ulum, Cairo University, 39(138), 327–353
2022 اكتشاف الموضوعات المهيمنة باستخدام تقنية التنقيب في النصوص في تغريدات الناخبين والمرشحين خلال انتخابات مجلس الأمة الكويتي نموذجًا Journal of Scientific Research in Arts, Ain Shams University, 23(1), 94–123
2021 A Prolog-based approach to Arabic syntax and semantics Journal of Engineering Research, 9(3A). With co-authors.
2021 منهج التحليل المقطعي لظاهرة الإعلال بالحذف Journal of Dar Al-Ulum, Cairo University, 38(134), 727–754
2021 منهج حاسوبي للتعامل مع ظاهرة الإعلال بالحذف Journal of Scientific Research in Arts, Ain Shams University, 22(5), 26–57
2020 Developing a Stress Prediction Tool for Arabic Speech Recognition Tasks Scientific Journal of King Faisal University (Humanities and Management Sciences), 22(2), 119–125. With Iman Alsharhan.
2012 منهج التحليل المقطعي لظاهرة الإعلال بالتعويض Arab Journal for the Humanities, Kuwait University, 118, 57–85. With Iman Alsharhan
2010 A Finite State Approach to Arabic Triliteral Nominal Morphology Kuwait Journal of Science and Engineering, 37(2B), 123–142. With A. M. Mutawa and A. A. Al-Houti.
2008 An HPSG Approach to Arabic Nominal Sentences Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(3), 422–434. John Wiley & Sons. With Abdullah Al-Mutawwa and Fadi Al-Zohuri.
2008 Computational Approach to Arabic Broken Derived Nouns Morphology Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering, 704–708. IEEE Computer Society. With Nasser Alajmi and Safa'ai bin Deris.
2007 Inheritance-based approach to Arabic verbal root-and-pattern morphology Chapter in Arabic Computational Morphology, 67–88. Springer, Dordrecht.
2005 A Computational Approach to the Variations in Arabic Verbal Orthography Computer Speech and Language, 19(3), 275–299. Elsevier.
2005 A Computational Approach to Arabic Orthographic Relaxation Arab Journal for the Humanities, 89(23), 189–206. Academic Publication Council, Kuwait University.
2004 A Finite-State Approach to Arabic Verbal Derivation Bulletin of the College of Arts (Literature & Linguistics), 64(1), 59–96. Cairo University.
2004 منهج حاسوبي للتعامل مع إسناد الأفعال إلى الضمائر Journal of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies, Kuwait University, 114, 9–40

Teaching

Twelve courses at Kuwait University, from undergraduate to doctoral level: computational linguistics, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, lexicography, phonetics and phonology, and the computational processing of Arabic at graduate level. Also C programming in the College of Engineering and Petroleum.

Supervision and examination

Supervision of masters and doctoral theses at Kuwait University and elsewhere in the region, and service on examination committees for theses in computational linguistics and Arabic language.

Where the research goes

Much of this work has been carried into production through Information Age Consulting — the morphological analysis underpins the Arabic spell-checking and text-mining systems, and the sentiment work underpins Social Watcher, which the ITU named a WSIS Prizes Champion in 2022.

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