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Automated Essay Scoring (AES) has gained increasing attention in recent years, yet research on Arabic AES remains limited due to the lack of publicly available datasets. To address this, we introduce LAILA, the largest publicly available…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 May Bashendy , Walid Massoud , Sohaila Eltanbouly , Salam Albatarni , Marwan Sayed , Abrar Abir , Houda Bouamor , Tamer Elsayed

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

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

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

Handwriting recognition is a challenging and critical problem in the fields of pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications spanning a wide range of domains. In this paper, we focus on the specific issue of recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Saleh Momeni , Bagher BabaAli

We present Algerian Dialect, a large-scale sentiment-annotated dataset consisting of 45,000 YouTube comments written in Algerian Arabic dialect. The comments were collected from more than 30 Algerian press and media channels using the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zakaria Benmounah , Abdennour Boulesnane

Poetry has long been a central art form for Arabic speakers, serving as a powerful medium of expression and cultural identity. While modern Arabic speakers continue to value poetry, existing research on Arabic poetry within Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Abdelrahman Sadallah , Kareem Elozeiri , Mervat Abassy , Rania Elbadry , Mohamed Anwar , Abed Alhakim Freihat , Preslav Nakov , Fajri Koto

We present QADI, an automatically collected dataset of tweets belonging to a wide range of country-level Arabic dialects -covering 18 different countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. Our method for building this dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Ahmed Abdelali , Hamdy Mubarak , Younes Samih , Sabit Hassan , Kareem Darwish

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

Deaf people are using sign language for communication, and it is a combination of gestures, movements, postures, and facial expressions that correspond to alphabets and words in spoken languages. The proposed Arabic sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Muhammad Al-Barham , Ahmad Jamal , Musa Al-Yaman

The role of predicting sarcasm in the text is known as automatic sarcasm detection. Given the prevalence and challenges of sarcasm in sentiment-bearing text, this is a critical phase in most sentiment analysis tasks. With the increasing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Bashar Talafha , Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Samer Suleiman , Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub , Mohammed N. Al-Kabi

The main aim of this study is the assessment and discussion of a model for hand-written Arabic through segmentation. The framework is proposed based on three steps: pre-processing, segmentation, and evaluation. In the pre-processing step,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Nisreen AbdAllah , Serestina Viriri

We present Camelira, a web-based Arabic multi-dialect morphological disambiguation tool that covers four major variants of Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian, Gulf, and Levantine. Camelira offers a user-friendly web interface that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Ossama Obeid , Go Inoue , Nizar Habash

Research into statistical parsing for English has enjoyed over a decade of successful results. However, adapting these models to other languages has met with difficulties. Previous comparative work has shown that Modern Arabic is one of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Kais Dukes

Image classification is an ongoing research challenge. Most of the available research focuses on image classification for the English language, however there is very little research on image classification for the Arabic language. Expanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Abdulkareem Alsudais

Most Arabic natural language processing tools and resources are developed to serve Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), which is the official written language in the Arab World. Some Dialectal Arabic varieties, notably Egyptian Arabic, have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Salam Khalifa , Nizar Habash , Dana Abdulrahim , Sara Hassan

The continuous increase in the use of social media and the visual content on the internet have accelerated the research in computer vision field in general and the image captioning task in specific. The process of generating a caption that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Bashar Talafha

In This paper we presented new approach for cursive Arabic text recognition system. The objective is to propose methodology analytical offline recognition of handwritten Arabic for rapid implementation. The first part in the writing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Ahlam Maqqor , Akram Halli , Khaled Satori

In this paper, we present a new Russian and Kazakh database (with about 95% of Russian and 5% of Kazakh words/sentences respectively) for offline handwriting recognition. A few pre-processing and segmentation procedures have been developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Daniyar Nurseitov , Kairat Bostanbekov , Daniyar Kurmankhojayev , Anel Alimova , Abdelrahman Abdallah

This article presents a Bangla handwriting dataset named BanglaWriting that contains single-page handwritings of 260 individuals of different personalities and ages. Each page includes bounding-boxes that bounds each word, along with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 M. F. Mridha , Abu Quwsar Ohi , M. Ameer Ali , Mazedul Islam Emon , Muhammad Mohsin Kabir