نحو رقمنة اللغة العربية: الواقع والتحديات (Towards the digitization of the Arabic language reality and challenges: A proposed approach

• Main Author: Elsayed Mohamed Salem, Salem Elawadi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/6405/1/FH02-FBK-19-29304.pdf; http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/6405/
• Institution: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin

This paper aims at locating the factors behind the growing interest in the computerization of Arabic Language. It sheds light on the efforts exerted in founding this newly established branch of knowledge, identifies difficulties facing its progress and puts forth the possible solutions for them. This paper shows forth the gradual stages of the development of the science of Computational Language in contemporary Arab Studies and the advancement of Arab linguistic research in the field of computational linguistics. It aims at proposing a constitutive project for the establishment of an Arab Computational Linguistics that follow a firm practical and theoretical methodology in applying computer sciences in solving the linguistic issues. It introduces a proposal for the syllabus of computerization of the Arabic language as a newly introduced part of the Arabic language programs Sultan Zain alAbidin University.The paper stressed the necessity for uniting the efforts in the field of Arabic Computational Linguistics between Arabic linguists on the one hand and computer scientists on the other. It also confirmed the necessity of deploying computer awareness among scholars of Arabic and encouraging universities to customize new courses based on the computerization of the Arabic language. Besides, the paper within hand calls for the introduction of a new specialization subordinate to the Department of Arabic Language under the rubric of "Bachelor of Arabic language computerization.