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Arabic Sign Language (ArSL) is an essential communication method for individuals in the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing community. However, existing recognition systems face significant challenges due to their reliance on single sensor approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ghadeer Alanazi , Abir Benabid

This work is an attempt to introduce a comprehensive benchmark for Arabic speech recognition, specifically tailored to address the challenges of telephone conversations in Arabic language. Arabic, characterized by its rich dialectal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Qusai Abo Obaidah , Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Adnan Jaljuli , Ali Mahboub , Asma Hakouz , Bashar Al-Rfooh , Yazan Estaitia

Parsing the Arabic language is a difficult task given the specificities of this language and given the scarcity of digital resources (grammars and annotated corpora). In this paper, we suggest a method for Arabic parsing based on supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Nabil Khoufi , Chafik Aloulou , Lamia Hadrich Belguith

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

With the rise of generative text-to-speech models, distinguishing between real and synthetic speech has become challenging, especially for Arabic that have received limited research attention. Most spoof detection efforts have focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mohamed Maged , Alhassan Ehab , Ali Mekky , Besher Hassan , Shady Shehata

Cross-Lingual SynthDocs is a large-scale synthetic corpus designed to address the scarcity of Arabic resources for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Document Understanding (DU). The dataset comprises over 2.5 million of samples,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Haneen Al-Homoud , Asma Ibrahim , Murtadha Al-Jubran , Fahad Al-Otaibi , Yazeed Al-Harbi , Daulet Toibazar , Kesen Wang , Pedro J. Moreno

While resources for English language are fairly sufficient to understand content on social media, similar resources in Arabic are still immature. The main reason that the resources in Arabic are insufficient is that Arabic has many dialects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Fatimah Alzamzami , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of extracting digitized text from images of scanned documents. While OCR systems have already matured in many languages, they still have shortcomings in cursive languages with overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Hussein Osman , Karim Zaghw , Mostafa Hazem , Seifeldin Elsehely

Named Entity Recognition is an information extraction task that serves as a preprocessing step for other natural language processing tasks, such as machine translation, information retrieval, and question answering. Named entity recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Ebrahim Chekol Jibril , A. Cüneyd Tantğ

Social media data in Arabic language is becoming more and more abundant. It is a consensus that valuable information lies in social media data. Mining this data and making the process easier are gaining momentum in the industries. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Hao Wang , Vijay R. Bommireddipalli , Ayman Hanafy , Mohamed Bahgat , Sara Noeman , Ossama S. Emam

Vowels in Arabic are optional orthographic symbols written as diacritics above or below letters. In Arabic texts, typically more than 97 percent of written words do not explicitly show any of the vowels they contain; that is to say,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Alexis Amid Neme , Sébastien Paumier

Back-of-the-book indexes are crucial for book readability. Their manual creation is laborious and error prone. In this paper, we consider automating back-of-the-book index extraction for Arabic books to help simplify both the creation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Nawal Haidar , Fadi A. Zaraket

Sentiment analysis, the automated process of determining emotions or opinions expressed in text, has seen extensive exploration in the field of natural language processing. However, one aspect that has remained underrepresented is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Mouad Jbel , Mourad Jabrane , Imad Hafidi , Abdulmutallib Metrane

Lipreading involves using visual data to recognize spoken words by analyzing the movements of the lips and surrounding area. It is a hot research topic with many potential applications, such as human-machine interaction and enhancing audio…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Samar Daou , Achraf Ben-Hamadou , Ahmed Rekik , Abdelaziz Kallel

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is today a very active field of research and innovation. Many applications need however big sets of data for supervised learning, suitably labelled for the training purpose. This includes applications for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 ElMehdi Boujou , Hamza Chataoui , Abdellah El Mekki , Saad Benjelloun , Ikram Chairi , Ismail Berrada

The computational handling of Modern Standard Arabic is a challenge in the field of natural language processing due to its highly rich morphology. However, several authors have pointed out that the Arabic morphological system is in fact…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Alicia Gonzalez Martinez , Susana Lopez Hervas , Doaa Samy , Carlos G. Arques , Antonio Moreno Sandoval

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

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…

This paper presents an Arabic Alphabet Sign Language recognition approach, using deep learning methods in conjunction with transfer learning and transformer-based models. We study the performance of the different variants on two publicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Mazen Balat , Rewaa Awaad , Hend Adel , Ahmed B. Zaky , Salah A. Aly

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