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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

In this paper, we address the problems of Arabic Text Classification and stemming using Transducers and Rational Kernels. We introduce a new stemming technique based on the use of Arabic patterns (Pattern Based Stemmer). Patterns are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Attia Nehar , Djelloul Ziadi , Hadda Cherroun

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has many real world applications. The existing methods normally detect where the characters are, and then recognize the character for each detected location. Thus the accuracy of characters recognition is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Baohua Sun , Michael Lin , Hao Sha , Lin Yang

Arabic is one of the oldest languages still in use today. As a result, several Arabic-speaking regions have developed dialects that are unique to them. Dialect and emotion recognition have various uses in Arabic text analysis, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Nasser A Alsadhan

The use of OCR in postal services is not yet universal and there are still many countries that process mail sorting manually. Automated Arabic/Indian numeral Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems for Postal services are being used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-05-07 Yasser M. Alginaih , Abdul Ahad Siddiqi

The preprocessing phase is one of the key phases within the text classification pipeline. This study aims at investigating the impact of the preprocessing phase on text classification, specifically on offensive language and hate speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Fatemah Husain

Thousands of users consult digital archives daily, but the information they can access is unrepresentative of the diversity of documentary history. The sequence-to-sequence architecture typically used for optical character recognition (OCR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Jacob Carlson , Tom Bryan , Melissa Dell

Automatic diacritization of Arabic text involves adding diacritical marks (diacritics) to the text. This task poses a significant challenge with noteworthy implications for computational processing and comprehension. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Abderrahman Skiredj , Ismail Berrada

A prototype system for the transliteration of diacritics-less Arabic manuscripts at the sub-word or part of Arabic word (PAW) level is developed. The system is able to read sub-words of the input manuscript using a set of skeleton-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-27 Reza Farrahi Moghaddam , Mohamed Cheriet , Thomas Milo , Robert Wisnovsky

Name matching between multiple natural languages is an important step in cross-enterprise integration applications and data mining. It is difficult to decide whether or not two syntactic values (names) from two heterogeneous data sources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Ahmed H. Yousef

Text editing frames grammatical error correction (GEC) as a sequence tagging problem, where edit tags are assigned to input tokens, and applying these edits results in the corrected text. This approach has gained attention for its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Bashar Alhafni , Nizar Habash

In natural speech, the speaker does not pause between words, yet a human listener somehow perceives this continuous stream of phonemes as a series of distinct words. The detection of boundaries between spoken words is an instance of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-06-28 Jerry R. Van Aken

Arabic morphology encapsulates many valuable features such as word root. Arabic roots are being utilized for many tasks; the process of extracting a word root is referred to as stemming. Stemming is an essential part of most Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Mahmoud El-Defrawy , Yasser El-Sonbaty , Nahla A. Belal

Arabic is one of the most important and growing languages in the world. With the rise of social media platforms such as Twitter, Arabic spoken dialects have become more in use. In this paper, we describe our approach on the NADI Shared Task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Ahmad Beltagy , Abdelrahman Wael , Omar ElSherief

Displaying a document in Middle Eastern languages requires contextual analysis due to different presentational forms for each character of the alphabet. The words of the document will be formed by the joining of the correct positional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Kazem Taghva

In this paper, we present the annotation pipeline and the guidelines we wrote as part of an effort to create a large manually annotated Arabic author profiling dataset from various social media sources covering 16 Arabic countries and 11…

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

Kurdish libraries have many historical publications that were printed back in the early days when printing devices were brought to Kurdistan. Having a good Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to help process these publications and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Blnd Yaseen , Hossein Hassani

Arabic Handwritten Character Recognition (AHCR) has recently advanced significantly with deep Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets). However, many models in the literature are deep and computationally expensive in terms of parameters and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mohsine El Khayati , Rachid Elouahbi , Abdelillah Semma

Handwritten Arabic script recognition is a challenging task due to the script's dynamic letter forms and contextual variations. This paper proposes a hybrid approach combining convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Chaouki Boufenar , Mehdi Ayoub Rabiai , Boualem Nadjib Zahaf , Khelil Rafik Ouaras

Morphological analysis in the Arabic language is computationally intensive, has numerous forms and rules, and is intrinsically parallel. The investigation presented in this paper confirms that the effective development of parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Issam Damaj , Mahmoud Imdoukh , Rached Zantout