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Converting images of Arabic text into plain text is a widely researched topic in academia and industry. However, recognition of Arabic handwritten and printed text presents difficult challenges due to the complex nature of variations of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Alhossien Waly , Bassant Tarek , Ali Feteha , Rewan Yehia , Gasser Amr , Walid Gomaa , Ahmed Fares

Character-level features are currently used in different neural network-based natural language processing algorithms. However, little is known about the character-level patterns those models learn. Moreover, models are often compared only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Fréderic Godin , Kris Demuynck , Joni Dambre , Wesley De Neve , Thomas Demeester

Low-resource languages serve as invaluable repositories of human history, preserving cultural and intellectual diversity. Despite their significance, they remain largely absent from modern natural language processing systems. While progress…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Offiong Bassey Edet , Mbuotidem Sunday Awak , Emmanuel Oyo-Ita , Benjamin Okon Nyong , Ita Etim Bassey

This paper addresses the classification of Arabic text data in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), with a particular focus on Natural Language Inference (NLI) and Contradiction Detection (CD). Arabic is considered a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Mohammad Majd Saad Al Deen , Maren Pielka , Jörn Hees , Bouthaina Soulef Abdou , Rafet Sifa

The automatic interpretation of sign languages is a challenging task, as it requires the usage of high-level vision and high-level motion processing systems for providing accurate image perception. In this paper, we use Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Gustaf Halvardsson , Johanna Peterson , César Soto-Valero , Benoit Baudry

Deep learning based methods have been dominating the text recognition tasks in different and multilingual scenarios. The offline handwritten Chinese text recognition (HCTR) is one of the most challenging tasks because it involves thousands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Brian Liu , Xianchao Xu , Yu Zhang

Despite the significant success in the field of text recognition, complex and unsolved problems still exist in this field. In recent years, the recognition accuracy of the English language has greatly increased, while the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Sergey A. Ilyuhin , Alexander V. Sheshkus , Vladimir L. Arlazarov

The progress of Natural Language Processing (NLP), although fast in recent years, is not at the same pace for all languages. African languages in particular are still behind and lack automatic processing tools. Some of these tools are very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Derguene Mbaye , Moussa Diallo

African languages are numerous, complex and low-resourced. The datasets required for machine translation are difficult to discover, and existing research is hard to reproduce. Minimal attention has been given to machine translation for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Laura Martinus , Jade Z. Abbott

Training data for machine learning models can come from many different sources, which can be of dubious quality. For resource-rich languages like English, there is a lot of data available, so we can afford to throw out the dubious data. For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Andrew Zupon , Evan Crew , Sandy Ritchie

The national languages of Senegal, like those of West Africa country in general, are written with two alphabets : the Latin alphabet that draws its strength from official decreesm and the completed Arabic script (Ajami), widespread and well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 El hadji M. Fall , El hadji M. Nguer , Bao Diop Sokhna , Mouhamadou Khoule , Mathieu Mangeot , Mame T. Cisse

This project is centered around building a neural network that is able to recognize ASL letters in images, particularly within the scope of a live video feed. Initial testing results came up short of expectations when both the convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Kyle Boone , Ben Wurster , Seth Thao , Yu Hen Hu

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

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is becoming a dominant subset of artificial intelligence as the need to help machines understand human language looks indispensable. Several NLP applications are ubiquitous, partly due to the myriad of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Toheeb Aduramomi Jimoh , Tabea De Wille , Nikola S. Nikolov

Abuse on the Internet represents a significant societal problem of our time. Previous research on automated abusive language detection in Twitter has shown that community-based profiling of users is a promising technique for this task.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Pushkar Mishra , Marco Del Tredici , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

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

Virtual assistants and text chatbots have recently been gaining popularity. Given the short message nature of text-based chat interactions, the language identification systems of these bots might only have 15 or 20 characters to make a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Bernardt Duvenhage , Mfundo Ntini , Phala Ramonyai

This abstract explores an RNN-based approach to online handwritten recognition problem. Our method uses data from an accelerometer and a gyroscope mounted on a handheld pen-like device to train and run a character pre-diction model. We have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Davit Soselia , Shota Amashukeli , Irakli Koberidze , Levan Shugliashvili

The Houma Alliance Book, one of history's earliest calligraphic examples, was unearthed in the 1970s. These artifacts were meticulously organized, reproduced, and copied by the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xiaoyu Yuan , Xiaohua Huang , Zibo Zhang , Yabo Sun

Though dialectal language is increasingly abundant on social media, few resources exist for developing NLP tools to handle such language. We conduct a case study of dialectal language in online conversational text by investigating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Su Lin Blodgett , Lisa Green , Brendan O'Connor