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BASRAH: an automatic system to identify the meter of Arabic poetry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2012

MAYTHAM ALABBAS ,
ZAINAB A. KHALAF  and
KHASHAN M. KHASHAN
MAYTHAM ALABBAS
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, College of Science, Basrah University, Basrah, Iraq e-mail: maytham.alabbas@gmail.com
ZAINAB A. KHALAF
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, College of Science, Basrah University, Basrah, Iraq e-mail: maytham.alabbas@gmail.com School of Computer Science, University Science Malaysia (USM), 11800 Penang, Malaysia e-mail: zainab_ali2004@yahoo.com
KHASHAN M. KHASHAN
Affiliation:
P.O. BOX 42821, Riyadh 11551, Saudi Arabia e-mail: khashan_kh@yahoo.com
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Abstract

Arabic prosody is the science that studies the music of Arabic poetry, which is mainly meter and rhyme. The identification of meters for Arabic verses or poems is a complicated task. This task requires a certain level of expertise to identify the meter to which a verse belongs. In this paper, we present BASRAH1, a system that automatically identifies the meter of Arabic poetry by using the numerical prosody method. The numerical prosody method depends on verse coding, which is derived from the general concept of Al-Khalil's feet by using two primary units (cord = 2) and (peg = 3). On testing both old and modern Arabic verses and poems, BASRAH has proved to be an efficient tool to help inexperienced users to determine the meter of Arabic verses and poems.

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Natural Language Engineering , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 131 - 149
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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