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The Role of Diacritics in Designing Lexical Recognition Tests for Arabic

Author(s) -

Osama Hamed,

Torsten Zesch

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

procedia computer science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334

H-Index - 76

ISSN - 1877-0509

DOI - 10.1016/j.procs.2017.10.100

Subject(s) - computer science , vocabulary , arabic , natural language processing , test (biology) , artificial intelligence , selection (genetic algorithm) , word (group theory) , word recognition , speech recognition , linguistics , reading (process) , philosophy , paleontology , biology

Lexical recognition tests are widely used to assess vocabulary knowledge. We investigate the role that diacritics play in designing an Arabic lexical recognition test. We compare a non-diacritized and a diacritized test in a user study and find that they are largely comparable in their ability to assess vocabulary proficiency. However, we argue that diacritized tests are better suited to control the test difficulty by allowing better nonwords and a more targeted selection of word forms.

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