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Why Arabic NLP?
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The History Of ANLP
Early 1980's
Arabic NLP started
Arabic NLP started with the introduction of Microsoft MS-DOS as it supported the Arabic language.
1985
1st Morphological Analyzer
At that time, Sakhr softwar introduced the first Arabic morphological analyzer.
1992
1st Syntactic & Semantic Analyzer
Sakhr Software progressed in the field of Arabic NLP and introduced the first Syntactic and Semantic Analyzer.
1995
1st Arabic Optical Charachter Recognition
With its experience in the field of ANLP, Sakhr continued leading the field and introduced the first Arabic Optical Character Recognition system.
2000-2010
ANLP Gained Interest In The West
After the attacks of September 11, security entities funded research institutes to develop ANLP systems to identify Arabic names and entities at the Airports.