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Researchers Develop Large-scale Readability Leveled Thesaurus in Arabic

The one-of-a-kind interface provides the possible roots, English glosses, related Arabic words and phrases, and readability on a five-level readability scale.

New Software Detects up to 25 Arabic Dialects

Researchers from several institutions developed a public online interface, which visually identifies dialects of 25 different Arab cities, from Rabat to Muscat, along with Modern Standard Arabic.

Lost in Machine Translation

Computers are not good at translating Arabic. Here's why and how NYU Abu Dhabi is working on solutions.

App Aims to Employ Refugees to Digitize Arabic Documents

Loga is an app built by NYU Abu Dhabi students that could enable refugees to earn a meaningful wage by digitizing Arabic language documents using their smartphones.

In the News

NYU Abu Dhabi science researchers and faculty are frequently featured in local and international media.

UAE researchers develop unique Arabic thesaurus
The interface provides a novel way to search Arabic words, their related forms and English equivalents.
Khaleej Times | January 23, 2021

How do you say 'Hey Siri' in spoken Arabic? NYUAD lab is working on Gulf dialects to find the answer
A NYUAD database of Arabic words has paved the way for predictive text, speech recognition and speech synthesis in Gulf Arabic.
The National | June 01, 2020

Programmers at NYUAD to release Gulf Arabic text prediction software
Get ready for Siri to speak Arabic? A team of programmers at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) will release text prediction software for Gulf Arabic this year.
Enterprise | June 02, 2020