Friday 9 September 2022 – 17:09
DUBAI, 9 September, WAM / The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Know-how Foundation structured a digital spherical table entitled “The Arabic language and virtual area” as component of the “Bil Arabi” initiative, a person of the Foundation’s initiatives aimed at motivate Arabs to use their mom tongue as a result of the Online and social media channels and add to the growth of the cognitive job of the Arabic language in the worldwide local community in standard and in Arabic in specific.
Dr. Ibrahim Fathi Moawad, Dean of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at New Mansoura College, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the School of Personal computer and Information and facts at Ain Shams College, and Dr. Ahmed Hassan Youssef, Dean of the Faculty of Technologies of Information and facts and Laptop Science at the College of the Nile, president of the Egyptian branch of the Worldwide Group “IEEE”, moderated the session and the Emirati media Walid Marzouki.
The session reviewed quite a few axes and subject areas linked to the existence of Arabic content in the digital area, its output, the signifies of growth, enhancement and dissemination, its most significant characteristics and worries, as effectively as the potential of the Arabic language and the use of artificial intelligence and fashionable technological innovation in the distribute of the Arabic language in the electronic room.
Dr. Ahmed Hassan Youssef spoke about the sorts of information inside of the electronic room, which may differ concerning text, information or audio material, or in the form of photos, films or documents … noting that the unique Arabic language differs from the rest of the world’s languages in conditions of eloquence and range of its properties, which include things like, but are not minimal to, the science of eloquence, which features metonymy, simile, metaphor, badi science and semantics, which poses a good obstacle to text analyzers and their capacity to comprehend and change these texts or translate and transfer them into distinctive languages of the entire world.
He stated that mechanisms to help Arabic material in the digital place involve new systems these kinds of as device translation, recognition of audible voices and their conversion into readable textual content, as nicely as the conversion of vernacular texts into the standard formal language.
For his element, Dr Ibrahim Fathi Moawad claimed that the Arabic language has grow to be the fourth biggest around the globe in terms of prevalence following English, Chinese and Spanish and that the proportion of Arabic material disseminated in the electronic place has recently amplified by 1%. to 5.7 percent, when the English language can make up about 60 percent of the material in the digital house.
He pressured that the most important troubles for the spread of the Arabic language are the nature and properties of the language in conditions of the design and style and form of the letters, diacritics and elaborate regulations of the Arabic language, and that operate wants to be completed to increase the unfold of the language. Arab by supporting scientific research and investing much more in computer software and artificial intelligence approaches, as very well as personal computer science to improve the computer’s ability to establish the varieties and high-quality of Arab material.
Apparently, the “Bil Arabi” initiative focuses on supplying various activities through electronic media channels and on social media and on spreading consciousness of the aesthetics of the Arabic language and its treasures, which are connected to heritage and to reliable Arab background.
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