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We present the Manuscripts of Handwritten Arabic~(Muharaf) dataset, which is a machine learning dataset consisting of more than 1,600 historic handwritten page images transcribed by experts in archival Arabic. Each document image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Mehreen Saeed , Adrian Chan , Anupam Mijar , Joseph Moukarzel , Georges Habchi , Carlos Younes , Amin Elias , Chau-Wai Wong , Akram Khater

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) under limited labeled data remains a challenging problem, particularly for Arabic-script languages. Although modern sequence-based recognizers perform well in high-resource settings, their accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sana Al-azzawi , Elisa Barney , Marcus Liwicki

Arabic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Handwriting Recognition (HWR) pose unique challenges due to the cursive and context-sensitive nature of the Arabic script. This study introduces Qalam, a novel foundation model designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Gagan Bhatia , El Moatez Billah Nagoudi , Fakhraddin Alwajih , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

This paper presents a thoroughly automated method for identifying and interpreting cuneiform characters via advanced deep-learning algorithms. Five distinct deep-learning models were trained on a comprehensive dataset of cuneiform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Shahad Elshehaby , Alavikunhu Panthakkan , Hussain Al-Ahmad , Mina Al-Saad

The complexities of Arabic language in morphology, orthography and dialects makes sentiment analysis for Arabic more challenging. Also, text feature extraction from short messages like tweets, in order to gauge the sentiment, makes this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Abdulaziz M. Alayba , Vasile Palade , Matthew England , Rahat Iqbal

In this paper we address the problem of offline Arabic handwriting word recognition. Off-line recognition of handwritten words is a difficult task due to the high variability and uncertainty of human writing. The majority of the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Mohamed Ali Mahjoub , Nabil Ghanmy , Khlifia jayech , Ikram Miled

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

The identification of the language of the script is an important stage in the process of recognition of the writing. There are several works in this research area, which treat various languages. Most of the used methods are global or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-05 Sofiene Haboubi , Samia Maddouri , Hamid Amiri

Social media is becoming a source of news for many people due to its ease and freedom of use. As a result, fake news has been spreading quickly and easily regardless of its credibility, especially in the last decade. Fake news publishers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Ali Bou Nassif , Ashraf Elnagar , Omar Elgendy , Yaman Afadar

The Arabic language has undergone notable transformations over time, including the emergence of new vocabulary, the obsolescence of others, and shifts in word usage. This evolution is evident in the distinction between the classical and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zainab Alhathloul , Irfan Ahmad

We trained a model to automatically transliterate Judeo-Arabic texts into Arabic script, enabling Arabic readers to access those writings. We employ a recurrent neural network (RNN), combined with the connectionist temporal classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ori Terner , Kfir Bar , Nachum Dershowitz

This paper presents an approach based on supervised machine learning methods to build a classifier that can identify text complexity in order to present Arabic language learners with texts suitable to their levels. The approach is based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Sadik Bessou , Ghozlane Chenni

An end-to-end, segmentation-free, deep learning model trained from scratch is proposed, leveraging DCNN for feature extraction, alongside Bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory (BLSTM) for sequence recognition and Connectionist Temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sondos Aabed , Ahmad Khairaldin

Question semantic similarity is a challenging and active research problem that is very useful in many NLP applications, such as detecting duplicate questions in community question answering platforms such as Quora. Arabic is considered to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Hesham Al-Bataineh , Wael Farhan , Ahmad Mustafa , Haitham Seelawi , Hussein T. Al-Natsheh

Over the past three years, the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has had a profound impact on multiple areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly in Natural Language Processing (NLP) across diverse languages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Haneh Rhel , Dmitri Roussinov

In this paper, a new hybrid algorithm which combines both of token-based and character-based approaches is presented. The basic Levenshtein approach has been extended to token-based distance metric. The distance metric is enhanced to set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-09-24 T. El-Shishtawy

The importance of building sentiment analysis tools for Arabic social media has been recognized during the past couple of years, especially with the rapid increase in the number of Arabic social media users. One of the main difficulties in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Samhaa R. El-Beltagy , Talaat Khalil , Amal Halaby , Muhammad Hammad

This paper presents a new unsupervised learning approach with stacked autoencoder (SAE) for Arabic handwritten digits categorization. Recently, Arabic handwritten digits recognition has been an important area due to its applications in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Mohamed Loey , Ahmed El-Sawy , Hazem EL-Bakry

This research is the second phase in a series of investigations on developing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of Arabic historical documents and examining how different modeling procedures interact with the problem. The first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Aly Mostafa , Omar Mohamed , Ali Ashraf , Ahmed Elbehery , Salma Jamal , Anas Salah , Amr S. Ghoneim

Handwritten text recognition is an open problem of great interest in the area of automatic document image analysis. The transcription of handwritten content present in digitized documents is significant in analyzing historical archives or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jorge Sueiras