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Several high-resource Text to Speech (TTS) systems currently produce natural, well-established human-like speech. In contrast, low-resource languages, including Arabic, have very limited TTS systems due to the lack of resources. We propose…

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The computational handling of Modern Standard Arabic is a challenge in the field of natural language processing due to its highly rich morphology. However, several authors have pointed out that the Arabic morphological system is in fact…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Alicia Gonzalez Martinez , Susana Lopez Hervas , Doaa Samy , Carlos G. Arques , Antonio Moreno Sandoval

This study addresses the critical gap in Arabic natural language processing by developing an effective Arabic Reverse Dictionary (RD) system that enables users to find words based on their descriptions or meanings. We present a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Serry Sibaee , Samar Ahmed , Abdullah Al Harbi , Omer Nacar , Adel Ammar , Yasser Habashi , Wadii Boulila

Like most natural language understanding and generation tasks, state-of-the-art models for summarization are transformer-based sequence-to-sequence architectures that are pretrained on large corpora. While most existing models focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Moussa Kamal Eddine , Nadi Tomeh , Nizar Habash , Joseph Le Roux , Michalis Vazirgiannis

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

Dialectal Arabic is the primary spoken language used by native Arabic speakers in daily communication. The rise of social media platforms has notably expanded its use as a written language. However, Arabic dialects do not have standard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Bashar Alhafni , Sarah Al-Towaity , Ziyad Fawzy , Fatema Nassar , Fadhl Eryani , Houda Bouamor , Nizar Habash

In this paper, we introduce MADARi, a joint morphological annotation and spelling correction system for texts in Standard and Dialectal Arabic. The MADARi framework provides intuitive interfaces for annotating text and managing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Ossama Obeid , Salam Khalifa , Nizar Habash , Houda Bouamor , Wajdi Zaghouani , Kemal Oflazer

Natural language processing (NLP) utilizes text data augmentation to overcome sample size constraints. Increasing the sample size is a natural and widely used strategy for alleviating these challenges. In this study, we chose Arabic to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Ahlam Alrehili , Areej Alhothali

Arabic text recognition is a challenging task because of the cursive nature of Arabic writing system, its joint writing scheme, the large number of ligatures and many other challenges. Deep Learning DL models achieved significant progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Mohammad Fasha , Bassam Hammo , Nadim Obeid , Jabir Widian

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

This paper presents the annotation guidelines of the Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus (BAREC), a large-scale resource for fine-grained sentence-level readability assessment in Arabic. BAREC includes 69,441 sentences (1M+ words)…

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We present AraLingBench: a fully human annotated benchmark for evaluating the Arabic linguistic competence of large language models (LLMs). The benchmark spans five core categories: grammar, morphology, spelling, reading comprehension, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Mohammad Zbeeb , Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Sina Mukalled , Nadine Rizk , Fatima Karnib , Issam Lakkis , Ammar Mohanna , Bernard Ghanem

The volume of information is increasing at an incredible rate with the rapid development of the Internet and electronic information services. Due to time constraints, we don't have the opportunity to read all this information. Even the task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Khabibulla Madatov , Shukurla Bekchanov , Jernej Vičič

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

Assessing spoken language is challenging, and quantifying pronunciation metrics for machine learning models is even harder. However, for the Holy Quran, this task is simplified by the rigorous recitation rules (tajweed) established by…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Abdullah Abdelfattah , Mahmoud I. Khalil , Hazem Abbas

The detection of toxic language in the Arabic language has emerged as an active area of research in recent years, and reviewing the existing datasets employed for training the developed solutions has become a pressing need. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Imene Bensalem , Paolo Rosso , Hanane Zitouni

We present an annotation schema as part of an effort to create a manually annotated corpus for Arabic dialogue language understanding including spoken dialogue and written "chat" dialogue for inquiry-answer domain. The proposed schema…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-19 AbdelRahim A. Elmadany , Sherif M. Abdou , Mervat Gheith

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 there have been an extrinsic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Ahmed Abdelali , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , Hassan Sajjad

We present a methodology combining surface NLP and Machine Learning techniques for ranking asbtracts and generating summaries based on annotated corpora. The corpora were annotated with meta-semantic tags indicating the category of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-10-27 Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan , Fernandez Silvia , Sanjuan Eric , Charton Eric

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…

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