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Arabic text diacritization remains a persistent challenge in natural language processing due to the language's morphological richness. In this paper, we introduce Sadeed, a novel approach based on a fine-tuned decoder-only language model…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the field of natural language processing, enhancing capabilities in both language understanding and generation across diverse domains. However, developing LLMs for Arabic presents…

In this paper, we address the problems of Arabic Text Classification and stemming using Transducers and Rational Kernels. We introduce a new stemming technique based on the use of Arabic patterns (Pattern Based Stemmer). Patterns are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Attia Nehar , Djelloul Ziadi , Hadda Cherroun

Recognition of Arabic characters is essential for natural language processing and computer vision fields. The need to recognize and classify the handwritten Arabic letters and characters are essentially required. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Mahmoud Shams , Amira. A. Elsonbaty , Wael. Z. ElSawy

Based on an annotated multimedia corpus, television series Mar{\=a}y{\=a} 2013, we dig into the question of ''automatic standardization'' of Arabic dialects for machine translation. Here we distinguish between rule-based machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Abidrabbo Alnassan

Handwritten character recognition has been the center of research and a benchmark problem in the sector of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, and it continues to be a challenging research topic. Due to its enormous application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Akm Ashiquzzaman , Abdul Kawsar Tushar , Md Ashiqur Rahman

This paper presents the design and development of multi-dialect automatic speech recognition for Arabic. Deep neural networks are becoming an effective tool to solve sequential data problems, particularly, adopting an end-to-end training of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Abbas Raza Ali

We propose a novel architecture for labelling character sequences that achieves state-of-the-art results on the Tashkeela Arabic diacritization benchmark. The core is a two-level recurrence hierarchy that operates on the word and character…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Badr AlKhamissi , Muhammad N. ElNokrashy , Mohamed Gabr

Text categorization is the process of grouping documents into categories based on their contents. This process is important to make information retrieval easier, and it became more important due to the huge textual information available…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Ashraf Odeh , Aymen Abu-Errub , Qusai Shambour , Nidal Turab

Since its original appearance in 1991, the Perso-Arabic script representation in Unicode has grown from 169 to over 440 atomic isolated characters spread over several code pages representing standard letters, various diacritics and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Raiomond Doctor , Alexander Gutkin , Cibu Johny , Brian Roark , Richard Sproat

The OpenITI team has achieved Optical Character Recognition (OCR) accuracy rates for classical Arabic-script texts in the high nineties. These numbers are based on our tests of seven different Arabic-script texts of varying quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Maxim Romanov , Matthew Thomas Miller , Sarah Bowen Savant , Benjamin Kiessling

Typography is a ubiquitous art form that affects our understanding, perception, and trust in what we read. Thousands of different font-faces have been created with enormous variations in the characters. In this paper, we learn the style of…

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Diacritic characters can be considered as a unique set of characters providing us with adequate and significant clue in identifying a given language with considerably high accuracy. Diacritics, though associated with phonetics often serve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Shubham Vatsal , Nikhil Arora , Gopi Ramena , Sukumar Moharana , Dhruval Jain , Naresh Purre , Rachit S Munjal

Proper nouns in Arabic Wikipedia are frequently undiacritized, creating ambiguity in pronunciation and interpretation, especially for transliterated named entities of foreign origin. While transliteration and diacritization have been…

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Ancient scripts, e.g., Egyptian hieroglyphs, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and Ancient Greek inscriptions, serve as vital carriers of human civilization, embedding invaluable historical and cultural information. Automating ancient script image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Xiaolei Diao , Rite Bo , Yanling Xiao , Lida Shi , Zhihan Zhou , Hao Xu , Chuntao Li , Xiongfeng Tang , Massimo Poesio , Cédric M. John , Daqian Shi

This paper investigates the problem that some Arabic names can be written in multiple ways. When someone searches for only one form of a name, neither exact nor approximate matching is appropriate for returning the multiple variants of the…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-02-20 Ahmad B. A. Hassanat , Ghada Awad Altarawneh

The paper presents a new script classification method for the discrimination of the South Slavic medieval labels. It consists in the textural analysis of the script types. In the first step, each letter is coded by the equivalent script…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Darko Brodic , Alessia Amelio , Zoran N. Milivojevic

Classical and some deep learning techniques for Arabic text classification often depend on complex morphological analysis, word segmentation, and hand-crafted feature engineering. These could be eliminated by using character-level features.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Mahmoud Daif , Shunsuke Kitada , Hitoshi Iyatomi

HTR models development has become a conventional step for digital humanities projects. The performance of these models, often quite high, relies on manual transcription and numerous handwritten documents. Although the method has proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Lucas Noëmie , Clément Salah , Chahan Vidal-Gorène

The application of handwritten text recognition to historical works is highly dependant on accurate text line retrieval. A number of systems utilizing a robust baseline detection paradigm have emerged recently but the advancement of layout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Benjamin Kiessling , Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra , Matthew Thomas Miller