- K. Meftouh, S. Khoja, Nizar Habash, Mona T. Diab, Nasreedine Semmar, Kareem Darwish. 2009. Statistical Modeling of Arabic Language. Abstract: Human Language Technologies enable humans to communicate with computers and to use computers and the internet in a more natural way and in their own language, i.e. to participate in the information society in a totally natural way. Native speakers of languages that are not well served by language technology suffer from less access to information, and from less efficient tools, and higher productions costs for documents and translation [1]. Since 2001, Arabic language becomes a priority for several researchers through the world. this interest is probably due to a massive need of computer tools necessary to deal with the huge amount of Arabic data electronically available and, which is dramatically increasing daily. Some tools already exist for Arabic, but there is a long way to go before the Arabic tools reach the level which exists for the so called ”resource rich languages” as English, French or Chinese. this lack of perfection, in my opinion, is certainly due to lack of cooperation in the research community working on the Arabic language. So what we need is to consolidate efforts by sharing ideas, knowledge and resources to produce better tools. precisely MEDAR encourages and facilitates the exchange and sharing of resources and knowledge:As much as possible, MEDAR partners work from present open-source technology and build on it. This helps the Arabic HLT community in terms of sharing knowledge and resources, helping to minimize costs. MEDAR also updates partners on state-of-the-art Arabic HLT so that duplication of work is minimized. this update is also provided by the organization of meetings between researchers. this contact is certainly very
