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Arabic is a complex language with many varieties and dialects spoken by over 450 millions all around the world. Due to the linguistic diversity and variations, it is challenging to build a robust and generalized ASR system for Arabic. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Abdul Waheed , Bashar Talafha , Peter Sullivan , AbdelRahim Elmadany , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Discriminating between closely-related language varieties is considered a challenging and important task. This paper describes our submission to the DSL 2016 shared-task, which included two sub-tasks: one on discriminating similar languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Yonatan Belinkov , James Glass

This paper presents an Arabic Alphabet Sign Language recognition approach, using deep learning methods in conjunction with transfer learning and transformer-based models. We study the performance of the different variants on two publicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Mazen Balat , Rewaa Awaad , Hend Adel , Ahmed B. Zaky , Salah A. Aly

Arabic dialect identification (ADI) systems are essential for large-scale data collection pipelines that enable the development of inclusive speech technologies for Arabic language varieties. However, the reliability of current ADI systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Badr M. Abdullah , Matthew Baas , Bernd Möbius , Dietrich Klakow

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) plays a vital role in enabling natural human-machine interaction across applications such as virtual assistants, industrial automation, customer support, and real-time transcription. However, developing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Mahmoud Salhab , Shameed Sait , Mohammad Abusheikh , Hasan Abusheikh

Despite major advancements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), the state-of-the-art ASR systems struggle to deal with impaired speech even with high-resource languages. In Arabic, this challenge gets amplified, with added complexities in…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Massa Baali , Ibrahim Almakky , Shady Shehata , Fakhri Karray

This paper proposes a sequence-to-sequence learning approach for Arabic pronoun resolution, which explores the effectiveness of using advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques, specifically Bi-LSTM and the BERT pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Hanan S. Murayshid , Hafida Benhidour , Said Kerrache

In this work, we present several deep learning models for the automatic diacritization of Arabic text. Our models are built using two main approaches, viz. Feed-Forward Neural Network (FFNN) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), with several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Ali Fadel , Ibraheem Tuffaha , Bara' Al-Jawarneh , Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub

This survey offers a comprehensive overview of Large Language Models (LLMs) designed for Arabic language and its dialects. It covers key architectures, including encoder-only, decoder-only, and encoder-decoder models, along with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Malak Mashaabi , Shahad Al-Khalifa , Hend Al-Khalifa

The use of multilingual language models for tasks in low and high-resource languages has been a success story in deep learning. In recent times, Arabic has been receiving widespread attention on account of its dialectal variance. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Soumajyoti Sarkar , Kaixiang Lin , Sailik Sengupta , Leonard Lausen , Sheng Zha , Saab Mansour

Automatic Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI) of text has gained great popularity since it was introduced in the early 2010s. Multiple datasets were developed, and yearly shared tasks have been running since 2018. However, ADI systems are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Amr Keleg , Walid Magdy

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

Crafting an effective Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) solution for dialects demands innovative approaches that not only address the data scarcity issue but also navigate the intricacies of linguistic diversity. In this paper, we address…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Ahmed Amine Ben Abdallah , Ata Kabboudi , Amir Kanoun , Salah Zaiem

Diacritization of Arabic text is both an interesting and a challenging problem at the same time with various applications ranging from speech synthesis to helping students learning the Arabic language. Like many other tasks or problems in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Ali Fadel , Ibraheem Tuffaha , Bara' Al-Jawarneh , Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub

This paper proposes a novel approach to an automatic estimation of three speaker traits from Arabic speech: gender, emotion, and dialect. After showing promising results on different text classification tasks, the multi-task learning (MTL)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Wael Farhan , Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Qusai Abu Obaidah , Hisham al Bataineh , Zyad Sober , Hussein T. Al-Natsheh

Diacritization process attempt to restore the short vowels in Arabic written text; which typically are omitted. This process is essential for applications such as Text-to-Speech (TTS). While diacritization of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Ahmed Abdelali , Mohammed Attia , Younes Samih , Kareem Darwish , Hamdy Mubarak

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is crucial for human-machine interaction in diverse applications like conversational agents, industrial robotics, call center automation, and automated subtitling. However, developing high-performance ASR…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Mahmoud Salhab , Marwan Elghitany , Shameed Sait , Syed Sibghat Ullah , Mohammad Abusheikh , Hasan Abusheikh

The study of natural language, especially Arabic, and mechanisms for the implementation of automatic processing is a fascinating field of study, with various potential applications. The importance of tools for natural language processing is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Riadh Bouslimi , Houda Amraoui

This study presents systems submitted by the University of Texas at Dallas, Center for Robust Speech Systems (UTD-CRSS) to the MGB-3 Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI) subtask. This task is defined to discriminate between five dialects of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-03 Ahmet E. Bulut , Qian Zhang , Chunlei Zhang , Fahimeh Bahmaninezhad , John H. L. Hansen

Arabic is a Semitic language which is widely spoken with many dialects. Given the success of pre-trained language models, many transformer models trained on Arabic and its dialects have surfaced. While these models have been compared with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Ahmed Abdelali , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , Hassan Sajjad