Abstract: The presently disclosed method and system automatically diacritize written Arabic text for use with applications that require verbalizing Arabic text. A method may comprise converting a written sentence into a word sequence and identifying a target source word. The method then may comprise repeatedly overlaying and translating a context window at a plurality of positions in the word sequence to select a plurality of subsets of the word sequence contained within the context window. A diacritized form of the target source word may be generated in each of the word sequence subsets. A final diacritized form of the target source word may be selected from the plurality of diacritized forms based on a voting scheme. The voting scheme may include selecting the diacritized form that is generated the most or may be based on a system of weighting factors.

Abstract: A system comprising: a term retrieval module configured to receive a search query including a search term and to output an expanded search query including the search terms and an additional search terms; a search engine sub-system configured to receive the expanded search query and to output one or more search results based on the expanded search query, the one or more search results indicating one or more information resources of relevance to the expanded search query, wherein the system further comprises: a classification module configured to determine a language or language variant of the search term of the search query, identify the additional search term based on the language or language variant of the search term, and output the additional search term to the term retrieval module