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1)<br>Date: 14 May 2013<br>From:<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Alexis Neme <<a href="mailto:alexis.neme@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexis.neme@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Subject:Study on Why MS-Spell Checker for Arabic is Ineffective<br>

<br><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear Member,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Study: Why Arabic MS-Office spell checker is ineffective?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> (Study in 4 pages written in Arabic -</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxNlvHT_YuNWdjFObWJlVmJJOXc/edit?usp=sharing" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxNlvHT_YuNWdjFObWJlVmJJOXc/edit?usp=sharing</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This study shows why MS-spell checker fails to attract Arabic users. After</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">proofreading a document (10 pages - 3300 words in Arabic), the Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> spell checker pinpoints 78 false positive errors  Thus, this reveals flaws</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">in  the lexical resource:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">1) an unsystematic lexical coverage of the feminine and the broken plural</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">inflexion of nouns;</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2) an arbitrary coverage of nouns and verbs with  prefixed or  suffixed</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">particles.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Alexis Neme</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Computational Linguist</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">FR-AR-PT-EN</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:alexis.neme@gmail.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">alexis.neme@gmail.com</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

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