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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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The sources of dialectal literature in post-Islamic period of Iran [PDF]
تاریخ ادبیات, 2016 Rich Iranian literature has thousands of years of history which various sections of that require investigating separately. One of the most important of these sections is dialectal literature in post-Islamic period of Iran. In this paper we will show that
حامد نوروزی +1 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Marketplaces, crucial sites for low‐income populations as sources of affordable goods and social interaction, are at a critical juncture. They are experiencing decline due to the rise of shopping centres and neglect by public authorities, while at the same time being rediscovered as tourist attractions, sources of profit and tools for urban ...
Francesca Ru
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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Dialectal substitution as an adversarial approach for evaluating Arabic NLP robustness
Scientific ReportsRecent advances in deep neural networks (DNNs) have led to significant enhancements in Arabic natural language processing (NLP). However, their robustness remains insufficiently explored, particularly in adversarial settings.
Basemah Alshemali
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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مجلة العلوم التربوية والدراسات الإنسانية سلسلة الآداب والعلوم التربوية والإنسانية والتطبيقيةThis study examines vowel epenthesis (VE) in monosyllabic words in Quranic Arabic (QA), Yemeni Dialects (YD), and Hijazi Dialects (HD) using Optimality Theory (OT).
Nadhim Aldubai
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Multi-Dialect Arabic BERT for Country-Level Dialect Identification
CoRR, 2020 Accepted at the Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP2020) co-located with the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'2020), Barcelona, Spain, 12 Dec ...
Bashar Talafha +7 more
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Verifiably Effective Arabic Dialect Identification [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2014 Several recent papers on Arabic dialect identification have hinted that using a word unigram model is sufficient and effective for the task. However, most previous work was done on a standard fairly homogeneous dataset of dialectal user comments. In this paper, we show that training on the standard dataset does not generalize, because a unigram model ...
Kareem Darwish +2 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the language life of young Malaysian Chinese immigrants in Australia and their construction of multi‐membership as reflected in their daily language behaviors. It develops the concept of everyday linguistic citizenship and uses this concept as a theoretical lens to understand how the young adults build, maintain, and ...
Xiaoyi Zhang +2 more
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