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Word embeddings have been a key building block for NLP in which models relied heavily on word embeddings in many different tasks. In this paper, a model is proposed based on using Bidirectional LSTM/CRF with word embeddings to perform named…

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We train a bilingual Arabic-Hebrew language model using a transliterated version of Arabic texts in Hebrew, to ensure both languages are represented in the same script. Given the morphological, structural similarities, and the extensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Aviad Rom , Kfir Bar

Approximate string-matching methods to account for complex variation in highly discriminatory text fields, such as personal names, can enhance probabilistic record linkage. However, discriminating between matching and non-matching strings…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Philip A. Collender , Zhiyue Tom Hu , Charles Li , Qu Cheng , Xintong Li , Yue You , Song Liang , Changhong Yang , Justin V. Remais

Recent efforts have aimed to improve AI machines in legal case matching by integrating legal domain knowledge. However, successful legal case matching requires the tacit knowledge of legal practitioners, which is difficult to verbalize and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Chen Huang , Xinwei Yang , Yang Deng , Wenqiang Lei , JianCheng Lv , Tat-Seng Chua

Code-switching (CS) is a widespread phenomenon among bilingual and multilingual societies. The lack of CS resources hinders the performance of many NLP tasks. In this work, we explore the potential use of bilingual word embeddings for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Injy Hamed , Moritz Zhu , Mohamed Elmahdy , Slim Abdennadher , Ngoc Thang Vu

Research into statistical parsing for English has enjoyed over a decade of successful results. However, adapting these models to other languages has met with difficulties. Previous comparative work has shown that Modern Arabic is one of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Kais Dukes

Code-switching poses a number of challenges and opportunities for multilingual automatic speech recognition. In this paper, we focus on the question of robust and fair evaluation metrics. To that end, we develop a reference benchmark data…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Injy Hamed , Amir Hussein , Oumnia Chellah , Shammur Chowdhury , Hamdy Mubarak , Sunayana Sitaram , Nizar Habash , Ahmed Ali

Communication tools make the world like a small village and as a consequence people can contact with others who are from different societies or who speak different languages. This communication cannot happen effectively without Machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Neama Abdulaziz Dahan , Fadl Mutaher Ba-Alwi , Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Baltah , Ghaleb H. Al-gapheri

This survey offers a comprehensive overview of Large Language Models (LLMs) designed for Arabic language and its dialects. It covers key architectures, including encoder-only, decoder-only, and encoder-decoder models, along with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Malak Mashaabi , Shahad Al-Khalifa , Hend Al-Khalifa

Arabic handwriting is a consonantal and cursive writing. The analysis of Arabic script is further complicated due to obligatory dots/strokes that are placed above or below most letters and usually written delayed in order. Due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Ibrahim Abdelaziz , Sherif Abdou , Hassanin Al-Barhamtoshy

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Rawan Bondok , Mayar Nassar , Salam Khalifa , Kurt Micallef , Nizar Habash

In this memory we made the design of an indexing model for Arabic language and adapting standards for describing learning resources used (the LOM and their application profiles) with learning conditions such as levels education of students,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Asma Boudhief , Mohsen Maraoui , Mounir Zrigui

We consider the case of a domain expert who wishes to explore the extent to which a particular idea is expressed in a text collection. We propose the task of semantically matching the idea, expressed as a natural language proposition,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Lucy H. Lin , Scott Miles , Noah A. Smith

Named Entities (NEs) are often written with no orthographic changes across different languages that share a common alphabet. We show that this can be leveraged so as to improve named entity recognition (NER) by using unsupervised word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Manaal Faruqui

In this paper we describe the complexity of building a lemmatizer for Arabic which has a rich and complex derivational morphology, and we discuss the need for a fast and accurate lammatization to enhance Arabic Information Retrieval (IR)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Hamdy Mubarak

The term natural language refers to any system of symbolic communication (spoken, signed or written) without intentional human planning and design. This distinguishes natural languages such as Arabic and Japanese from artificially…

There are many known Arabic lexicons organized on different ways, each of them has a different number of Arabic words according to its organization way. This paper has used mathematical relations to count a number of Arabic words, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Nidhal El-Abbadi , Ahmed Nidhal Khdhair , Adel Al-Nasrawi

Identifying the relations that exist between words (or entities) is important for various natural language processing tasks such as, relational search, noun-modifier classification and analogy detection. A popular approach to represent the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Huda Hakami , Danushka Bollegala

Arabic is a semitic language characterized by a complex and rich morphology. The exceptional degree of ambiguity in the writing system, the rich morphology, and the highly complex word formation process of roots and patterns all contribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Ibrahim Abdelaziz , Sherif Abdou

Arabic language is one of the most widely spoken languages. This language has a complex morphological structure and is considered as one of the most prolific languages in terms of article linguistic. Therefore, Arabic Information Retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-12-11 Emad Elabd , Eissa Alshari , Hatem Abdulkader