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Artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced speech recognition applications. However, many existing neural network-based methods struggle with noise, reducing accuracy in real-world environments. This study addresses isolated…

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In this work, we present a new Vector Space Model (VSM) of speech utterances for the task of spoken dialect identification. Generally, DID systems are built using two sets of features that are extracted from speech utterances; acoustic and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Sameer Khurana , Ahmed Ali , Steve Renals

In multi-label emotion classification, particularly for low-resource languages like Arabic, the challenges of class imbalance and label correlation hinder model performance, especially in accurately predicting minority emotions. To address…

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Speech-based depression detection (SDD) has emerged as a non-invasive and scalable alternative to conventional clinical assessments. However, existing methods still struggle to capture robust depression-related speech characteristics, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yuxin Li , Eng Siong Chng , Cuntai Guan

There are many difficulties facing a handwritten Arabic recognition system such as unlimited variation in human handwriting, similarities of distinct character shapes, interconnections of neighbouring characters and their position in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-27 Ahmed Sahlol , Cheng Suen

The largest dataset of Arabic speech mispronunciation detections in Egyptian dialogues is introduced. The dataset is composed of annotated audio files representing the top 100 words that are most frequently used in the Arabic language,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Salah A. Aly , Abdelrahman Salah , Hesham M. Eraqi

Hawrami, a dialect of Kurdish, is classified as an endangered language as it suffers from the scarcity of data and the gradual loss of its speakers. Natural Language Processing projects can be used to partially compensate for data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Aram Khaksar , Hossein Hassani

This paper presents a new probabilistic graphical model used to model and recognize words representing the names of Tunisian cities. In fact, this work is based on a dynamic hierarchical Bayesian network. The aim is to find the best model…

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In this work, we present several deep learning models for the automatic diacritization of Arabic text. Our models are built using two main approaches, viz. Feed-Forward Neural Network (FFNN) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), with several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Ali Fadel , Ibraheem Tuffaha , Bara' Al-Jawarneh , Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub

This article describes an unsupervised language model adaptation approach that can be used to enhance the performance of language identification methods. The approach is applied to a current version of the HeLI language identification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Tommi Jauhiainen , Krister Lindén , Heidi Jauhiainen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved unprecedented capabilities in generating human-like text, posing subtle yet significant challenges for information integrity across critical domains, including education, social media, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Maged S. Al-Shaibani , Moataz Ahmed

Dialect and standard language identification are crucial tasks for many Arabic natural language processing applications. In this paper, we present our deep learning-based system, submitted to the second NADI shared task for country-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Abdellah El Mekki , Abdelkader El Mahdaouy , Kabil Essefar , Nabil El Mamoun , Ismail Berrada , Ahmed Khoumsi

Automatic Arabic diacritization is useful in many applications, ranging from reading support for language learners to accurate pronunciation predictor for downstream tasks like speech synthesis. While most of the previous works focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Parnia Bahar , Mattia Di Gangi , Nick Rossenbach , Mohammad Zeineldeen

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 study aims at investigating the effect of applying single learner machine learning approach and ensemble machine learning approach for offensive language detection on Arabic language. Classifying Arabic social media text is a very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Fatemah Husain

Developing robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for Arabic requires effective strategies to manage its diversity. Existing ASR systems mainly cover the modern standard Arabic (MSA) variety and few high-resource dialects, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Amirbek Djanibekov , Hawau Olamide Toyin , Raghad Alshalan , Abdullah Alitr , Hanan Aldarmaki

This work consists of creating a system of the Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) based on a system of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for the Arabic language using the tool CMU Sphinx3 [1], based on the approach of HMM. To this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Naim Terbeh , Mounir Zrigui

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

Effective extraction and application of linguistic features are central to the enhancement of spoken Language IDentification (LID) performance. With the success of recent large models, such as GPT and Whisper, the potential to leverage such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Peng Shen , Xuguang Lu , Hisashi Kawai

Arabic poses a particular challenge for natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) due to its complex morphology, optional diacritics and the coexistence of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and various dialects. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Salah Eddine Bekhouche , Azeddine Benlamoudi , Yazid Bounab , Fadi Dornaika , Abdenour Hadid