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Text segmentation task is an essential processing task for many of Natural Language Processing (NLP) such as text summarization, text translation, dialogue language understanding, among others. Turns segmentation considered the key player…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-13 AbdelRahim A. Elmadany , Sherif M. Abdou , Mervat Gheith

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

Handwritten character recognition has been the center of research and a benchmark problem in the sector of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, and it continues to be a challenging research topic. Due to its enormous application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Akm Ashiquzzaman , Abdul Kawsar Tushar , Md Ashiqur Rahman

Semantic segmentation is a core component of discourse analysis, yet existing models are primarily developed and evaluated on high-resource written text, limiting their effectiveness on low-resource spoken varieties. In particular,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kirill Chirkunov , Younes Samih , Abed Alhakim Freihat , Hanan Aldarmaki

Morphological Segmentation involves decomposing words into morphemes, the smallest meaning-bearing units of language. This is an important NLP task for morphologically-rich agglutinative languages such as the Southern African Nguni language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Tumi Moeng , Sheldon Reay , Aaron Daniels , Jan Buys

This paper presents a novel Dialectal Sound and Vowelization Recovery framework, designed to recognize borrowed and dialectal sounds within phonologically diverse and dialect-rich languages, that extends beyond its standard orthographic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Yassine El Kheir , Hamdy Mubarak , Ahmed Ali , Shammur Absar Chowdhury

We present in this paper a novel framework for morpheme segmentation which uses the morpho-syntactic regularities preserved by word representations, in addition to orthographic features, to segment words into morphemes. This framework is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Tarek Sakakini , Suma Bhat , Pramod Viswanath

Language models provide a key framework for studying linguistic theories based on prediction, but phonological analysis using large language models (LLMs) is difficult; there are few phonological benchmarks beyond English and the standard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zébulon Goriely , Paula Buttery

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

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

In this paper, we present the annotation pipeline and the guidelines we wrote as part of an effort to create a large manually annotated Arabic author profiling dataset from various social media sources covering 16 Arabic countries and 11…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Wajdi Zaghouani , Anis Charfi

In this paper, we propose an automatic analysis system for the Arabic handwriting postal addresses recognition, by using the beta elliptical model. Our system is divided into different steps: analysis, pre-processing and classification. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Moncef Charfi , Monji Kherallah , Abdelkarim El Baati , Adel M. Alimi

We present labeled morphological segmentation, an alternative view of morphological processing that unifies several tasks. From an annotation standpoint, we additionally introduce a new hierarchy of morphotactic tagsets. Finally, we develop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ryan Cotterell , Thomas Müller , Alexander Fraser , Hinrich Schütze

Text categorization is the process of grouping documents into categories based on their contents. This process is important to make information retrieval easier, and it became more important due to the huge textual information available…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Ashraf Odeh , Aymen Abu-Errub , Qusai Shambour , Nidal Turab

Tokenizing raw texts into word units is an essential pre-processing step for critical tasks in the NLP pipeline such as tagging, parsing, named entity recognition, and more. For most languages, this tokenization step straightforward.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Idan Brusilovsky , Reut Tsarfaty

Arabic dialect identification is a specific task of natural language processing, aiming to automatically predict the Arabic dialect of a given text. Arabic dialect identification is the first step in various natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Maha J. Althobaiti

In a world of digitization, optical character recognition holds the automation to written history. Optical character recognition system basically converts printed images into editable texts for better storage and usability. To be completely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Abu Saleh Md. Abir , Sanjana Rahman , Samia Ellin , Maisha Farzana , Md Hridoy Manik , Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman

We present the second ever evaluated Arabic dialect-to-dialect machine translation effort, and the first to leverage external resources beyond a small parallel corpus. The subject has not previously received serious attention due to lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Alexander Erdmann , Nizar Habash , Dima Taji , Houda Bouamor

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is an important aspect of natural language processing. Arabic has a complicated morphological and syntactic structure, posing a greater challenge than other languages. Even though modern neural models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ahlam Alrehili , Areej Alhothali

This study proposes a method to develop neural models of the morphological analyzer for Japanese Hiragana sentences using the Bi-LSTM CRF model. Morphological analysis is a technique that divides text data into words and assigns information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Jun Izutsu , Kanako Komiya