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Closed-set spoken language identification is the task of recognizing the language being spoken in a recorded audio clip from a set of known languages. In this study, a language identification system was built and trained to distinguish…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Benjamin Kepecs , Homayoon Beigi

Unlike other languages, the Arabic language has a morphological complexity which makes the Arabic sentiment analysis is a challenging task. Moreover, the presence of the dialects in the Arabic texts have made the sentiment analysis task is…

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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

Arabic text diacritization remains a persistent challenge in natural language processing due to the language's morphological richness. In this paper, we introduce Sadeed, a novel approach based on a fine-tuned decoder-only language model…

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Social media platforms have become central to global communication, yet they also facilitate the spread of hate speech. For underrepresented dialects like Levantine Arabic, detecting hate speech presents unique cultural, ethical, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ahmed Haj Ahmed , Rui-Jie Yew , Xerxes Minocher , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Acoustic identification of individual animals (AIID) is closely related to audio-based species classification but requires a finer level of detail to distinguish between individual animals within the same species. In this work, we frame…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Ines Nolasco , Ilyass Moummad , Dan Stowell , Emmanouil Benetos

This paper proposes a sequence-to-sequence learning approach for Arabic pronoun resolution, which explores the effectiveness of using advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques, specifically Bi-LSTM and the BERT pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Hanan S. Murayshid , Hafida Benhidour , Said Kerrache

We present ADI-20, an extension of the previously published ADI-17 Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI) dataset. ADI-20 covers all Arabic-speaking countries' dialects. It comprises 3,556 hours from 19 Arabic dialects in addition to Modern…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Haroun Elleuch , Salima Mdhaffar , Yannick Estève , Fethi Bougares

Accurately classifying accents and assessing accentedness in non-native speakers are both challenging tasks due to the complexity and diversity of accent and dialect variations. In this study, embeddings from advanced pre-trained language…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Shahram Ghorbani , John H. L. Hansen

Word embeddings are a core component of modern natural language processing systems, making the ability to thoroughly evaluate them a vital task. We describe DiaLex, a benchmark for intrinsic evaluation of dialectal Arabic word embedding.…

This work explores the application of various supervised classification approaches using prosodic information for the identification of spoken North S\'ami language varieties. Dialects are language varieties that enclose characteristics…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-12 Sofoklis Kakouros , Katri Hiovain , Martti Vainio , Juraj Šimko

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

Diacritization process attempt to restore the short vowels in Arabic written text; which typically are omitted. This process is essential for applications such as Text-to-Speech (TTS). While diacritization of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Ahmed Abdelali , Mohammed Attia , Younes Samih , Kareem Darwish , Hamdy Mubarak

This paper describes Elyadata \& LIA's joint submission to the NADI multi-dialectal Arabic Speech Processing 2025. We participated in the Spoken Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI) and multi-dialectal Arabic ASR subtasks. Our submission…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Haroun Elleuch , Youssef Saidi , Salima Mdhaffar , Yannick Estève , Fethi Bougares

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

Although many Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have been developed for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Dialectal Arabic (DA), few studies have focused on dialect-specific implementations, particularly for low-resource Arabic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ayman Mansour

Poetry holds immense significance within the cultural and traditional fabric of any nation. It serves as a vehicle for poets to articulate their emotions, preserve customs, and convey the essence of their culture. Arabic poetry is no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Zaid Alyafeai , Maged S. Al-Shaibani , Moataz Ahmed

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in many language tasks, yet they continue to struggle with complex historical and religious Arabic texts such as the Quran and Hadith. To address this limitation, we develop a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Somaya Eltanbouly , Samer Rashwani

Despite major advancements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the state-of-the-art ASR systems struggle to deal with impaired speech even with high-resource languages. In Arabic, this challenge gets amplified, with added complexities in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Massa Baali , Ibrahim Almakky , Shady Shehata , Fakhri Karray

Modern noise-cancelling headphones have significantly improved users' auditory experiences by removing unwanted background noise, but they can also block out sounds that matter to users. Machine learning (ML) models for sound event…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 N Shashaank , Berker Banar , Mohammad Rasool Izadi , Jeremy Kemmerer , Shuo Zhang , Chuan-Che Huang