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Handwritten numeral recognition is in general a benchmark problem of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. Compared to the problem of printed numeral recognition, the problem of handwritten numeral recognition is compounded due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-10 Nibaran Das , Ayatullah Faruk Mollah , Sudip Saha , Syed Sahidul Haque

The growing importance of culturally-aware natural language processing systems has led to an increasing demand for resources that capture sociopragmatic phenomena across diverse languages. Nevertheless, Arabic-language resources for…

The widespread absence of diacritical marks in Arabic text poses a significant challenge for Arabic natural language processing (NLP). This paper explores instances of naturally occurring diacritics, referred to as "diacritics in the wild,"…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Salman Elgamal , Ossama Obeid , Tameem Kabbani , Go Inoue , Nizar Habash

In this paper, we present an ongoing effort in lexical semantic analysis and annotation of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) text, a semi automatic annotation tool concerned with the morphologic, syntactic, and semantic levels of description.

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Abdelaziz Lakhfif , Mohammed T. Laskri , Eric Atwell

Arabic is a complex language with many varieties and dialects spoken by over 450 millions all around the world. Due to the linguistic diversity and variations, it is challenging to build a robust and generalized ASR system for Arabic. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Abdul Waheed , Bashar Talafha , Peter Sullivan , AbdelRahim Elmadany , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

The detection of toxic language in the Arabic language has emerged as an active area of research in recent years, and reviewing the existing datasets employed for training the developed solutions has become a pressing need. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Imene Bensalem , Paolo Rosso , Hanane Zitouni

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) are integral to many modern natural language processing (NLP) systems. Although multilingual models cover a wide range of languages, they often grapple with challenges like high inference costs and a lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Murtadha Ahmed , Saghir Alfasly , Bo Wen , Jamaal Qasem , Mohammed Ahmed , Yunfeng Liu

Arabic is a widely-spoken language with a rich and long history spanning more than fourteen centuries. Yet existing Arabic corpora largely focus on the modern period or lack sufficient diachronic information. We develop a large-scale,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Yonatan Belinkov , Alexander Magidow , Maxim Romanov , Avi Shmidman , Moshe Koppel

In recent years, Large Language Models have revolutionized the field of natural language processing, showcasing an impressive rise predominantly in English-centric domains. These advancements have set a global benchmark, inspiring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Manel Aloui , Hasna Chouikhi , Ghaith Chaabane , Haithem Kchaou , Chehir Dhaouadi

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a vital computational method for addressing language processing, analysis, and generation. NLP tasks form the core of many daily applications, from automatic text correction to speech recognition. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Caroline Sabty

We present a unified benchmark for mispronunciation detection in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) using Qur'anic recitation as a case study. Our approach lays the groundwork for advancing Arabic pronunciation assessment by providing a…

The rapid evolution of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has favoured major languages such as English, leaving a significant gap for many others due to limited resources. This is especially evident in the context of data annotation, a task…

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

The Arabic language is a complex language; it is different from Western languages especially at the morphological and spelling variations. Indeed, the performance of information retrieval systems in the Arabic language is still a problem.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-04-06 Abd El Salam Al Hajjar , Anis Ismail , Mohammad Hajjar , Mazen El-Sayed

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

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

Hybrid approaches for automatic vowelization of Arabic texts are presented in this article. The process is made up of two modules. In the first one, a morphological analysis of the text words is performed using the open source morphological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Mohamed Bebah , Chennoufi Amine , Mazroui Azzeddine , Lakhouaja Abdelhak

There is a significant gap in evaluating cultural reasoning in LLMs using conversational datasets that capture culturally rich and dialectal contexts. Most Arabic benchmarks focus on short text snippets in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA),…

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

This survey provides the first systematic review of Arabic LLM benchmarks, analyzing 40+ evaluation benchmarks across NLP tasks, knowledge domains, cultural understanding, and specialized capabilities. We propose a taxonomy organizing…