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Arabic language is the most spoken languages in the Semitic languages group, and one of the most common languages in the world spoken by more than 422 million. It is also of paramount importance to Muslims, it is a sacred language of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Hossam Ishkewy , Hany Harb , Hassan Farahat

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

International library standards require cataloguers to tediously input Romanization of their catalogue records for the benefit of library users without specific language expertise. In this paper, we present the first reported results on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Eryani Fadhl , Habash Nizar

This paper presents the design and development of multi-dialect automatic speech recognition for Arabic. Deep neural networks are becoming an effective tool to solve sequential data problems, particularly, adopting an end-to-end training of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Abbas Raza Ali

Arabic dialect identification is a specific task of natural language processing, aiming to automatically predict the Arabic dialect of a given text. Arabic dialect identification is the first step in various natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Maha J. Althobaiti

Classical Arabic represents a significant era that encompasses the golden age of Arab culture, philosophy, and scientific literature. With a broad consensus on the importance of translating these literatures to enrich knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mohammed Khalil , Mohammed Sabry

With the expanding growth of Arabic electronic data on the web, extracting information, which is actually one of the major challenges of the question-answering, is essentially used for building corpus of documents. In fact, building a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Patrice Bellot , Wided Bakari , Mahmoud Neji

Arabic is recognised as the 4th most used language of the Internet. Arabic has three main varieties: (1) classical Arabic (CA), (2) Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), (3) Arabic Dialect (AD). MSA and AD could be written either in Arabic or in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Imane Guellil , Houda Saâdane , Faical Azouaou , Billel Gueni , Damien Nouvel

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

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

This paper presents the Arabic Women and Society Corpus, a ten year collection of 252,487 public Arabic Facebook posts related to women's empowerment and social wellbeing. The corpus was collected from 51,660 pages across 77 countries…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Wajdi Zaghouani , Mabrouka Bessghaier , MD. Rafiul Biswas , Shimaa Amer Ibrahim

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

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…

The processing of the Arabic language is a complex field of research. This is due to many factors, including the complex and rich morphology of Arabic, its high degree of ambiguity, and the presence of several regional varieties that need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Karim El Haff , Mustafa Jarrar , Tymaa Hammouda , Fadi Zaraket

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

We introduce ArVoice, a multi-speaker Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) speech corpus with diacritized transcriptions, intended for multi-speaker speech synthesis, and can be useful for other tasks such as speech-based diacritic restoration,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Hawau Olamide Toyin , Rufael Marew , Humaid Alblooshi , Samar M. Magdy , Hanan Aldarmaki

We present ArabDiscrim, a decade-long lexical resource and corpus of 293K public Arabic Facebook posts (2014--2024) discussing racism and discrimination. Unlike existing Twitter-centric datasets, ArabDiscrim integrates platform-native…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Wajdi Zaghouani , Shimaa Amer Ibrahim , Mabrouka Bessghaier , Houda Bouamor

There are numerous complex and rich morphological features in the Arabic language, which are highly useful when analyzing traditional Arabic textbooks, especially in the literary and religious contexts, and help in understanding the meaning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Huda AlShuhayeb , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli , Mohammad E. Shenassa , Sayyed-Ali Hossayni

We present ArabicDialectHub, a cross-dialectal Arabic learning resource comprising 552 phrases across six varieties (Moroccan Darija, Lebanese, Syrian, Emirati, Saudi, and MSA) and an interactive web platform. Phrases were generated using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Salem Lahlou

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…

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