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We report upon the results of a research and prototype building project \emph{Worldly~OCR} dedicated to developing new, more accurate image-to-text conversion software for several languages and writing systems. These include the cursive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Marek Rychlik , Dwight Nwaigwe , Yan Han , Dylan Murphy

While the computational processing of Kurdish has experienced a relative increase, the machine translation of this language seems to be lacking a considerable body of scientific work. This is in part due to the lack of resources especially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Zhila Amini , Mohammad Mohammadamini , Hawre Hosseini , Mehran Mansouri , Daban Jaff

The cursive nature of multilingual characters segmentation and recognition of Arabic, Persian, Urdu languages have attracted researchers from academia and industry. However, despite several decades of research, still multilingual characters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Amjad Rehman , Majid Harouni , Tanzila Saba

Now a day computer is necessary for human being and it is very useful in many fields like search engine, text processing, short messaging services, voice chatting and text recognition. Since last many years there are many tools and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-30 H Muhammad Shakeel , Rashid Khan , Muhammad Waheed

A morphological analyzer, which is a significant component of many natural language processing applications especially for morphologically rich languages, divides an input word into all its composing morphemes and identifies their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Morteza Naserzade , Aso Mahmudi , Hadi Veisi , Hawre Hosseini , Mohammad MohammadAmini

The ultimate aim of handwriting recognition is to make computers able to read and/or authenticate human written texts, with a performance comparable to or even better than that of humans. Reading means that the computer is given a piece of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Manal A. Abdullah , Lulwah M. Al-Harigy , Hanadi H. Al-Fraidi

In this paper, we have shown a script conversion (transliteration) technique that converts Sindhi text in the Devanagari script to the Perso-Arabic script. We showed this by incorporating a hybrid approach where some part of the text is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Shivani Singh Rathore , Bharti Nathani , Nisheeth Joshi , Pragya Katyayan , Chander Prakash Dadlani

Urdu is a combination of several languages like Arabic, Hindi, English, Turkish, Sanskrit etc. It has a complex and rich morphology. This is the reason why not much work has been done in Urdu language processing. Stemming is used to convert…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-10-03 Vaishali Gupta , Nisheeth Joshi , Iti Mathur

This research paper introduces a novel word-level Optical Character Recognition (OCR) model specifically designed for digital Urdu text, leveraging transformer-based architectures and attention mechanisms to address the distinct challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Ahmed Mustafa , Muhammad Tahir Rafique , Muhammad Ijlal Baig , Hasan Sajid , Muhammad Jawad Khan , Karam Dad Kallu

OCR algorithms have received a significant improvement in performance recently, mainly due to the increase in the capabilities of artificial intelligence algorithms. However, this advancement is not evenly distributed over all languages.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Atique Ur Rehman , Sibt Ul Hussain

Recent advancements in text-to-speech (TTS) models have aimed to streamline the two-stage process into a single-stage training approach. However, many single-stage models still lag behind in audio quality, particularly when handling Kurdish…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Hawraz A. Ahmad , Tarik A. Rashid

This paper explores the use of a learned classifier for post-OCR text correction. Experiments with the Arabic language show that this approach, which integrates a weighted confusion matrix and a shallow language model, improves the vast…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ido Kissos , Nachum Dershowitz

This paper presents a novel approach to the segmentation of orthographic word forms in contemporary Hebrew, focusing purely on splitting without carrying out morphological analysis or disambiguation. Casting the analysis task as…

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The inherent complexities of Arabic script; its cursive nature, diacritical marks (tashkeel), and varied typography, pose persistent challenges for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). We present Qari-OCR, a series of vision-language models…

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Text detection in natural scene images has applications for autonomous driving, navigation help for elderly and blind people. However, the research on Urdu text detection is usually hindered by lack of data resources. We have developed a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Hazrat Ali

This paper presents an approach to spelling correction in agglutinative languages that is based on two-level morphology and a dynamic programming based search algorithm. Spelling correction in agglutinative languages is significantly…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Kemal Oflazer

Pronoun resolution is a challenging subset of an essential field in natural language processing called coreference resolution. Coreference resolution is about finding all entities in the text that refers to the same real-world entity. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Hassan Haji Mohammadi , Alireza Talebpour , Ahmad Mahmoudi Aznaveh , Samaneh Yazdani

A hybrid approach for the transliteration of Algerian Arabizi: A primary study In this paper, we present a hybrid approach for the transliteration of the Algerian Arabizi. We define a set of rules enable us the passage from Arabizi to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Imane Guellil , Faical Azouaou , Fodil Benali , Ala-Eddine Hachani , Houda Saadane

Due to reasons of convenience and lack of tech literacy, transliteration (i.e., Romanizing native scripts instead of using localization tools) is eminently prevalent in the context of low-resource languages such as Sinhala, which have their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yomal De Mel , Kasun Wickramasinghe , Nisansa de Silva , Surangika Ranathunga

We investigate tokenization strategies for Kurdish word embeddings by comparing word-level, morpheme-based, and BPE approaches on morphological similarity preservation tasks. We develop a BiLSTM-CRF morphological segmenter using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ali Salehi , Cassandra L. Jacobs