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Arabic is a widely-spoken language with a long and rich history, but existing corpora and language technology focus mostly on modern Arabic and its varieties. Therefore, studying the history of the language has so far been mostly limited to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Yonatan Belinkov , Alexander Magidow , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño , Avi Shmidman , Maxim Romanov

Converting images of Arabic text into plain text is a widely researched topic in academia and industry. However, recognition of Arabic handwritten and printed text presents difficult challenges due to the complex nature of variations of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Alhossien Waly , Bassant Tarek , Ali Feteha , Rewan Yehia , Gasser Amr , Walid Gomaa , Ahmed Fares

We present our effort to create a large Multi-Layered representational repository of Linguistic Code-Switched Arabic data. The process involves developing clear annotation standards and Guidelines, streamlining the annotation process, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Mona Diab , Mahmoud Ghoneim , Abdelati Hawwari , Fahad AlGhamdi , Nada AlMarwani , Mohamed Al-Badrashiny

While recent Arabic NLP benchmarks focus on scale, they often rely on synthetic or translated data which may benefit from deeper linguistic verification. We introduce ALPS (Arabic Linguistic & Pragmatic Suite), a native, expert-curated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Hussein S. Al-Olimat , Ahmad Alshareef

This study addresses the critical gap in Arabic natural language processing by developing an effective Arabic Reverse Dictionary (RD) system that enables users to find words based on their descriptions or meanings. We present a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Serry Sibaee , Samar Ahmed , Abdullah Al Harbi , Omer Nacar , Adel Ammar , Yasser Habashi , Wadii Boulila

Understanding what linguistic components (e.g., phonological, semantic, and orthographic systems) modulate Chinese handwriting at the character, radical, and stroke levels remains an important yet understudied topic. Additionally, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zebo Xu , Shaoyun Yu , Mark Torrance , Guido Nottbusch , Nan Zhao , Zhenguang Cai

High-quality WordNets are crucial for achieving high-quality results in NLP applications that rely on such resources. However, the wordnets of most languages suffer from serious issues of correctness and completeness with respect to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Abed Alhakim Freihat , Hadi Khalilia , Gábor Bella , Fausto Giunchiglia

Arabic language is one of the most popular languages in the world. Hundreds of millions of people in many countries around the world speak Arabic as their native speaking. However, due to complexity of Arabic language, recognition of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Ashraf A. Shahin

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

Over the past three years, the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has had a profound impact on multiple areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly in Natural Language Processing (NLP) across diverse languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Haneh Rhel , Dmitri Roussinov

A handwritten word recognition system comes with issues such as lack of large and diverse datasets. It is necessary to resolve such issues since millions of official documents can be digitized by training deep learning models using a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Nova Ahmed , Carson Leung

The Arabic Sign Language has endorsed outstanding research achievements for identifying gestures and hand signs using the deep learning methodology. The term "forms of communication" refers to the actions used by hearing-impaired people to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Rady El Rwelli , Osama R. Shahin , Ahmed I. Taloba

In this paper, we present Arap-Tweet, which is a large-scale and multi-dialectal corpus of Tweets from 11 regions and 16 countries in the Arab world representing the major Arabic dialectal varieties. To build this corpus, we collected data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Wajdi Zaghouani , Anis Charfi

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

This paper introduces the Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus (BAREC), a large-scale, fine-grained dataset for Arabic readability assessment. BAREC consists of 69,441 sentences spanning 1+ million words, carefully curated to cover…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Khalid N. Elmadani , Nizar Habash , Hanada Taha-Thomure

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

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 detection of toxic language in the Arabic language has emerged as an active area of research in recent years, and reviewing the existing datasets employed for training the developed solutions has become a pressing need. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Imene Bensalem , Paolo Rosso , Hanane Zitouni

Arabic calligraphy represents one of the richest visual traditions of the Arabic language, blending linguistic meaning with artistic form. Although multimodal models have advanced across languages, their ability to process Arabic script,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Shubham Patle , Sara Ghaboura , Hania Tariq , Mohammad Usman Khan , Omkar Thawakar , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Salman Khan

Writing has long been considered a hallmark of human intelligence and remains a pinnacle task for artificial intelligence (AI) due to the intricate cognitive processes involved. Recently, rapid advancements in generative AI, particularly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Samar M. Magdy , Fakhraddin Alwajih , Sang Yun Kwon , Reem Abdel-Salam , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed