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Automatic Arabic diacritization is useful in many applications, ranging from reading support for language learners to accurate pronunciation predictor for downstream tasks like speech synthesis. While most of the previous works focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Parnia Bahar , Mattia Di Gangi , Nick Rossenbach , Mohammad Zeineldeen

Despite Arabic being one of the most widely spoken languages, the development of Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems faces significant challenges due to the language's complexity, and only a limited number of public Arabic ASR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Lilit Grigoryan , Nikolay Karpov , Enas Albasiri , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Boris Ginsburg

The Arabic language has undergone notable transformations over time, including the emergence of new vocabulary, the obsolescence of others, and shifts in word usage. This evolution is evident in the distinction between the classical and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zainab Alhathloul , Irfan Ahmad

Judeo-Arabic refers to Arabic variants historically spoken by Jewish communities across the Arab world, primarily during the Middle Ages. Unlike standard Arabic, it is written in Hebrew script by Jewish writers and for Jewish audiences.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Juan Moreno Gonzalez , Bashar Alhafni , Nizar Habash

Handwritten text recognition is challenging because of the virtually infinite ways a human can write the same message. Our fully convolutional handwriting model takes in a handwriting sample of unknown length and outputs an arbitrary stream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Felipe Petroski Such , Dheeraj Peri , Frank Brockler , Paul Hutkowski , Raymond Ptucha

Arabic document OCR remains a challenging task due to the language's cursive script, diverse fonts, diacritics, and right-to-left orientation. While modern Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have advanced document understanding for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Khalil Hennara , Muhammad Hreden , Mohamed Motasim Hamed , Ahmad Bastati , Zeina Aldallal , Sara Chrouf , Safwan AlModhayan

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Zeina Aldallal , Sara Chrouf , Khalil Hennara , Mohamed Motaism Hamed , Muhammad Hreden , Safwan AlModhayan

Hybrid approaches for automatic vowelization of Arabic texts are presented in this article. The process is made up of two modules. In the first one, a morphological analysis of the text words is performed using the open source morphological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Mohamed Bebah , Chennoufi Amine , Mazroui Azzeddine , Lakhouaja Abdelhak

A sufficient amount of annotated data is usually required to fine-tune pre-trained language models for downstream tasks. Unfortunately, attaining labeled data can be costly, especially for multiple language varieties and dialects. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Muhammad Khalifa , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Khaled Shaalan

The study of natural language, especially Arabic, and mechanisms for the implementation of automatic processing is a fascinating field of study, with various potential applications. The importance of tools for natural language processing is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Riadh Bouslimi , Houda Amraoui

Discriminating between closely-related language varieties is considered a challenging and important task. This paper describes our submission to the DSL 2016 shared-task, which included two sub-tasks: one on discriminating similar languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Yonatan Belinkov , James Glass

Arabic handwritten text recognition (HTR) is challenging, especially for historical texts, due to diverse writing styles and the intrinsic features of Arabic script. Additionally, Arabic handwriting datasets are smaller compared to English…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Adrian Chan , Anupam Mijar , Mehreen Saeed , Chau-Wai Wong , Akram Khater

Transliteration is a key component of machine translation systems and software internationalization. This paper demonstrates that neural sequence-to-sequence models obtain state of the art or close to state of the art results on existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Mihaela Rosca , Thomas Breuel

Automatic readability assessment is relevant to building NLP applications for education, content analysis, and accessibility. However, Arabic readability assessment is a challenging task due to Arabic's morphological richness and limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Juan Piñeros Liberato , Bashar Alhafni , Muhamed Al Khalil , Nizar Habash

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

Digit, letter and word recognition for a particular script has various applications in todays commercial contexts. Nevertheless, only a limited number of relevant studies have dealt with Persian scripts. In this paper, deep neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Mehdi Bonyani , Simindokht Jahangard , Morteza Daneshmand

Modern Arabic ASR systems such as wav2vec 2.0 excel at word- and sentence-level transcription, yet struggle to classify isolated letters. In this study, we show that this phoneme-level task, crucial for language learning, speech therapy,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Hadi Zaatiti , Hatem Hajri , Osama Abdullah , Nader Masmoudi

We present the Manuscripts of Handwritten Arabic~(Muharaf) dataset, which is a machine learning dataset consisting of more than 1,600 historic handwritten page images transcribed by experts in archival Arabic. Each document image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Mehreen Saeed , Adrian Chan , Anupam Mijar , Joseph Moukarzel , Georges Habchi , Carlos Younes , Amin Elias , Chau-Wai Wong , Akram Khater

This work consists of creating a system of the Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) based on a system of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for the Arabic language using the tool CMU Sphinx3 [1], based on the approach of HMM. To this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Naim Terbeh , Mounir Zrigui

Traditional approaches for handwritten Chinese character recognition suffer in classifying similar characters. In this paper, we propose to discriminate similar handwritten Chinese characters by using weakly supervised learning. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Zhibo Yang , Huanle Xu , Keda Fu , Yong Xia
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