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Arabic is a Semitic language which is widely spoken with many dialects. Given the success of pre-trained language models, many transformer models trained on Arabic and its dialects have surfaced. While these models have been compared with…

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Calligraphy is an essential part of the Arabic heritage and culture. It has been used in the past for the decoration of houses and mosques. Usually, such calligraphy is designed manually by experts with aesthetic insights. In the past few…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Zaid Alyafeai , Maged S. Al-shaibani , Mustafa Ghaleb , Yousif Ahmed Al-Wajih

Online handwriting recognition has been studied for a long time with only few practicable results when writing on normal paper. Previous approaches using sensor-based devices encountered problems that limited the usage of the developed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Mohamad Wehbi , Tim Hamann , Jens Barth , Bjoern Eskofier

This paper presents a recognition system for handwritten Pashto letters. However, handwritten character recognition is a challenging task. These letters not only differ in shape and style but also vary among individuals. The recognition…

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This demo paper presents a Google Docs add-on for automatic Arabic word-level readability visualization. The add-on includes a lemmatization component that is connected to a five-level readability lexicon and Arabic WordNet-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Reem Hazim , Hind Saddiki , Bashar Alhafni , Muhamed Al Khalil , Nizar Habash

This paper presents system description for Arabic medical text classification across 82 distinct categories. Our primary architecture utilizes a fine-tuned AraBERTv2 encoder enhanced with a hybrid pooling strategies, combining attention and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ahmed Khaled Khamis

The using of the internet with its technologies and applications have been increased rapidly. So, protecting the text from illegal use is too needed . Text watermarking is used for this purpose. Arabic text has many characteristics such…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Reem Ahmed Alotaibi , Lamiaa A. Elrefaei

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

Recent work has shown that distributional word vector spaces often encode human biases like sexism or racism. In this work, we conduct an extensive analysis of biases in Arabic word embeddings by applying a range of recently introduced bias…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Anne Lauscher , Rafik Takieddin , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Goran Glavaš

This paper presents a dataset for closest opposite questions in Arabic language. The dataset is the first of its kind for the Arabic language. It is beneficial for the assessment of systems on the aspect of antonymy detection. The structure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Sandra Rizkallah , Amir F. Atiya , Samir Shaheen

The rapid growth of the internet has increased the number of online texts. This led to the rapid growth of the number of online texts in the Arabic language. The enormous amount of text must be organized into classes to make the analysis…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Sumaia Mohammed AL-Ghuribi , Shahrul Azman Mohd Noah

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

Script identification plays a vital role in applications that involve handwriting and document analysis within a multi-script and multi-lingual environment. Moreover, it exhibits a profound connection with human cognition. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Miguel A. Ferrer , Abhijit Das , Moises Diaz , Aythami Morales , Cristina Carmona-Duarte , Umapada Pal

Character recognition is the fundamental part of an optical character recognition (OCR) system. Word recognition, sentence transcription, document digitization, and language processing are some of the higher-order activities that can be…

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Deep neural networks have shown good data modelling capabilities when dealing with challenging and large datasets from a wide range of application areas. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) offer advantages in selecting good features and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Abdulaziz M. Alayba , Vasile Palade , Matthew England , Rahat Iqbal

Arabic Rhetoric is the field of Arabic linguistics which governs the art and science of conveying a message with greater beauty, impact and persuasiveness. The field is as ancient as the Arabic language itself and is found extensively in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Mandar Marathe

Digitized archives contain and preserve the knowledge of generations of scholars in millions of documents. The size of these archives calls for automatic analysis since a manual analysis by specialists is often too expensive. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Christian Bartz , Hendrik Rätz , Christoph Meinel

In spite of the recent progress in speech processing, the majority of world languages and dialects remain uncovered. This situation only furthers an already wide technological divide, thereby hindering technological and socioeconomic…

In this paper, a novel K-Nearest Neighbour and Support Vector Machine hybrid classification technique has been proposed that is simple and robust. It is based on the concept of discriminative nearest neighbourhood classification. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 A. M. Hafiz

Question semantic similarity is a challenging and active research problem that is very useful in many NLP applications, such as detecting duplicate questions in community question answering platforms such as Quora. Arabic is considered to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Hesham Al-Bataineh , Wael Farhan , Ahmad Mustafa , Haitham Seelawi , Hussein T. Al-Natsheh