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Arabic word segmentation is essential for a variety of NLP applications such as machine translation and information retrieval. Segmentation entails breaking words into their constituent stems, affixes and clitics. In this paper, we compare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Mohamed Eldesouki , Younes Samih , Ahmed Abdelali , Mohammed Attia , Hamdy Mubarak , Kareem Darwish , Kallmeyer Laura

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

From the literature, it is demonstrated that performing text-line segmentation directly in the run-length compressed handwritten document images significantly reduces the computational time and memory space. In this paper, we investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Amarnath R , P. Nagabhushan , Mohammed Javed

There are numerous complex and rich morphological features in the Arabic language, which are highly useful when analyzing traditional Arabic textbooks, especially in the literary and religious contexts, and help in understanding the meaning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Huda AlShuhayeb , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli , Mohammad E. Shenassa , Sayyed-Ali Hossayni

The recognition of unconstrained handwriting continues to be a difficult task for computers despite active research for several decades. This is because handwritten text offers great challenges such as character and word segmentation,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Yusuf Perwej

Neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved impressive performance on machine translation task in recent years. However, in consideration of efficiency, a limited-size vocabulary that only contains the top-N highest frequency words are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Yirong Pan , Xiao Li , Yating Yang , Rui Dong

Morphological segmentation has traditionally been modeled with non-hierarchical models, which yield flat segmentations as output. In many cases, however, proper morphological analysis requires hierarchical structure -- especially in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Ryan Cotterell , Arun Kumar , Hinrich Schütze

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

Canonical morphological segmentation is the process of analyzing words into the standard (aka underlying) forms of their constituent morphemes. This is a core task in language documentation, and NLP systems have the potential to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Enora Rice , Ali Marashian , Luke Gessler , Alexis Palmer , Katharina von der Wense

This paper describes the method to recognize offline handwritten characters. A robust algorithm for handwriting segmentation is described here with the help of which individual characters can be segmented from a selected word from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Jayati Ghosh Dastidar , Surabhi Sarkar , Rick Punyadyuti Sinha , Kasturi Basu

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

Handwriting recognition refers to the identification of written characters. Handwriting recognition has become an acute research area in recent years for the ease of access of computer science. In this paper primarily discussed On-line and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Dr. Firoj Parwej

State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing algorithms rely heavily on efficient word segmentation. Urdu is amongst languages for which word segmentation is a complex task as it exhibits space omission as well as space insertion issues.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Haris Bin Zia , Agha Ali Raza , Awais Athar

In this work we propose a hybrid NN/HMM model for online Arabic handwriting recognition. The proposed system is based on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and Multi Layer Perceptron Neural Networks (MLPNNs). The input signal is segmented to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-03 Najiba Tagougui , Houcine Boubaker , Monji Kherallah , Adel M. ALIMI

Word segmentation is the task of inserting or deleting word boundary characters in order to separate character sequences that correspond to words in some language. In this article we propose an approach based on a beam search algorithm and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yerai Doval , Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez

On-line handwritten character segmentation is often associated with handwriting recognition and even though recognition models include mechanisms to locate relevant positions during the recognition process, it is typically insufficient to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Michael Jungo , Beat Wolf , Andrii Maksai , Claudiu Musat , Andreas Fischer

We present three innovations in tokenization and subword segmentation. First, we propose to use unsupervised morphological analysis with Morfessor as pre-tokenization. Second, we present an algebraic method for obtaining subword embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jindřich Libovický , Jindřich Helcl

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

The first step in any NLP pipeline is to split the text into individual tokens. The most obvious and straightforward approach is to use words as tokens. However, given a large text corpus, representing all the words is not efficient in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Zaid Alyafeai , Maged S. Al-shaibani , Mustafa Ghaleb , Irfan Ahmad

Word segmentation is a low-level NLP task that is non-trivial for a considerable number of languages. In this paper, we present a sequence tagging framework and apply it to word segmentation for a wide range of languages with different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Yan Shao , Christian Hardmeier , Joakim Nivre