Categories
English Statistics

Do humans have a mating season?

(للقراءة بالعربية) Humans clearly have some concept of a mating season as a set of months in which people prefer to start a pregnancy, and that season depends on many factors such as the temperature and the change in temperature. Seasons themselves are representations of light and temperature, therefore when we investigate further about temperature, […]

Categories
English Linguistics

Arabic origins in other languages’ thank words

After a discussion with a friend about the Arabic loanwords in Persian and Turkish thank words, we noticed that the Arabic loanwords are a noticeable phenomenon in thank words of many languages. So, I did a review of thanking words in many Muslim peoples’ languages to see whether the existence of Arabic loanwords in thank […]

Categories
English Linguistics

Qaf-Ghayn fronting in Mesopotamian Arabic

Qaf-Ghayn fronting in Mesopotamian Arabic is one a phonological case of changing Qaf sound to Ghayn sound and vice versa. For example, the word (Qabagh), would be pronounced as (Qabaq) in some of the areas of Mesopotamian Arabic. Mesopotamian Arabic is spoken in south Turkey down to Arab inhabited areas in Syria, most of the […]

Categories
English Troubleshooting

Steps to run Angular on a running project in windows 7

Install a newer version of NPM, if there is already an old version then it is better to remove it and then to install a new version. Insure that the NPM path is correct, try: “npm get prefix” from visual studio code to see the existing path. If the path was not correct then set […]

Categories
English Text Analytics

Can we use verb tenses to predict the time of the text?

Verbs tenses was the first idea that came into my mind to specify the time of a news article, however, working on multiple sentences level makes huge amount of ambiguity, specially that the articles could be mentioning a history of some named entity (person, country, organization) but then they could end the article with a […]

Categories
English Information Retrieval

Enterprise Search vs Web Search

Enterprise Search • Search within documents of an organization, agency or company• The search is done in the documents that exist in the intranet or on the internet. • Takes document versions into account. • Good performance in low hyperlink structure. • Covers specific document formats per site or organization. • Not based only on […]

Categories
English Text Analytics

Smoothing in natural language processing

Laplace smoothing or additive smoothing is a statistical technique to increase the probability of less likely elements by increasing the counts of all the elements in the dataset by one. The application of smoothing is very important in natural language processing, as some words may have zero or close to zero probabilities such as the […]

Categories
English Text Analytics

Types of language ambiguity in natural language processing

In this article, we present a simplified list of language ambiguity in natural language processing as well as the effects of ambiguity in the processing: Word sense ambiguity: The same noun could have two different meaning, such as the word bank in the sentences “Bank of America” and “river bank”. Part of speech ambiguity: Some […]

Categories
English Machine Learning

Artificial Neural Networks, Why? How?

Many people think of artificial neural networks as blenders,or a magic tool that you do not know what it is happening. ANN just gives you the solution, and it needs some training before that. You just feed photos of dogs and cats and in a magic way, they will learn who the dog is and […]

Categories
English Uncategorized

How to fix the error “Attempt to load Oracle client libraries threw BadImageFormatException” in IIS Express

First I did the following: Add Oracle DSN in: ODBC sources (you can find it in start >> search >> odbc data sources) then go to user DSN and add oracle, you can test the connection there. However this didn’t fix the problem, maybe it contributed in the solution. Try different oracle provider (like Oracle.DataAccess). […]