ALRT: Cutting Edge Tool for Automatic Generation of Arabic Lexical

A Lexical Recognition Tests (LRT) is a common tool being widely used to measure the level of language-learner’s proficiency utilizing vocabulary size (or simply the number of words acquired by a learner) for several international languages like English, Arabic, German, Chinese, and Spanish. Compared to other languages, LRT themes for Arabic are not mature enough and still they have some rooms for improvement, with very few existing proposals that mainly use human-crafted or semiautomated methods using Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. This paper introduces ALRT, the Arabic Lexical Recognition Tests Tool for the automatic generation of Arabic LRTs. The tool was tested using a huge dataset of Arabic vocabulary, and a subjectmatter expert intervention was involved as an extra validation step to verify the quality of generated nonwords.

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