The King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language launched its third international conference on Sunday in Riyadh, reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
Themed “Arabic Language Computing and Enriching Linguistic Data,” the conference highlighted the participation of several university professors and 40 researchers from 22 countries around the world.
The event represents a valuable platform bringing together various local, regional and international institutions specialized in computational linguistics, computer science, and the Arabic language.
The conference aims to bridge the gap between computer scientists and linguists, support Arabic blogs to improve and develop artificial intelligence models, and promote the automatic processing of the Arabic language.
During the event, Abdullah Al-Washmi, the academy’s secretary-general, underscored the need to improve academic practices in the Arab world and provide a platform for discussing challenges and opportunities in linguistic data quality and accessibility.
The participants tackled various topics on the automated processing of the Arabic language, as follows:
- Machine learning
- Converting spoken speech to texts
- Automatic recognition of image texts,
- Computational linguistics in learning and teaching the Arabic language, such as: linguistic corpora
- The digital dictionary industry
- Modern technologies in computing dictionaries
- The latest methods in building linguistic corpora and data sources
- The latest experiences in managing research centers specialized in language computing
Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Mahyobi, an associate professor of computational linguistics at Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University, stated that research would lead to more objective and precise language analysis results.
The conference stands as a testament to the Academy’s commitment to capturing possible opportunities to serve the Arabic language, preserve its integrity, and enhance its global position.
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