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The ambition of a character recognition system is to transform a text document typed on paper into a digital format that can be manipulated by word processor software Unlike other languages, Arabic has unique features, while other language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-06-15 A. A Zaidan , B. B Zaidan , Hamid. A. Jalab , Hamdan. O. Alanazi , Rami Alnaqeib

Dialectal Arabic (DA) speech data vary widely in domain coverage, dialect labeling practices, and recording conditions, complicating cross-dataset comparison and model evaluation. To characterize this landscape, we conduct a computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Peter Sullivan , AbdelRahim Elmadany , Alcides Alcoba Inciarte , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

This paper explores the efficacy of Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) in detecting abnormal heart sounds using two classification strategies: a single classifier and an ensemble classifier approach. Heart sounds were first…

In this work, we explore Parameter-Efficient-Learning (PEL) techniques to repurpose a General-Purpose-Speech (GSM) model for Arabic dialect identification (ADI). Specifically, we investigate different setups to incorporate trainable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Srijith Radhakrishnan , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Sumeer Ahmad Khan , Narsis A. Kiani , David Gomez-Cabrero , Jesper N. Tegner

This work is an attempt to introduce a comprehensive benchmark for Arabic speech recognition, specifically tailored to address the challenges of telephone conversations in Arabic language. Arabic, characterized by its rich dialectal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Qusai Abo Obaidah , Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Adnan Jaljuli , Ali Mahboub , Asma Hakouz , Bashar Al-Rfooh , Yazan Estaitia

In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for the recognition of Persian phonemes in the Persian Consonant-Vowel Combination (PCVC) speech dataset. Nowadays, deep neural networks play a crucial role in classification tasks. However, the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Saber Malekzadeh , Mohammad Hossein Gholizadeh , Hossein Ghayoumi zadeh , Seyed Naser Razavi

Automated Essay Scoring (AES) plays a crucial role in assessing language learners' writing quality, reducing grading workload, and providing real-time feedback. The lack of annotated essay datasets inhibits the development of Arabic AES…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Chatrine Qwaider , Bashar Alhafni , Kirill Chirkunov , Nizar Habash , Ted Briscoe

Inner speech recognition has gained enormous interest in recent years due to its applications in rehabilitation, developing assistive technology, and cognitive assessment. However, since language and speech productions are a complex…

This paper discusses the dominancy of local features (LFs), as input to the multilayer neural network (MLN), extracted from a Bangla input speech over mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs). Here, LF-based method comprises three…

Audio classification is vital in areas such as speech and music recognition. Feature extraction from the audio signal, such as Mel-Spectrograms and MFCCs, is a critical step in audio classification. These features are transformed into…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-06 C. S. Sonali , Chinmayi B S , Ahana Balasubramanian

The Vocal Joystick Vowel Corpus, by Washington University, was used to study monophthongs pronounced by native English speakers. The objective of this study was to quantitatively measure the extent at which speech recognition methods can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Keith Y. Patarroyo , Vladimir Vargas-Calderón

Diacritics (short vowels) are typically omitted when writing Arabic text, and readers have to reintroduce them to correctly pronounce words. There are two types of Arabic diacritics: the first are core-word diacritics (CW), which specify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Kareem Darwish , Ahmed Abdelali , Hamdy Mubarak , Mohamed Eldesouki

Displaying a document in Middle Eastern languages requires contextual analysis due to different presentational forms for each character of the alphabet. The words of the document will be formed by the joining of the correct positional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Kazem Taghva

Arabic is one of the languages that present special challenges to Optical character recognition (OCR). The main challenge in Arabic is that it is mostly cursive. Therefore, a segmentation process must be carried out to determine where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Mahmoud A. A. Mousa , Mohammed S. Sayed , Mahmoud I. Abdalla

The importance of building sentiment analysis tools for Arabic social media has been recognized during the past couple of years, especially with the rapid increase in the number of Arabic social media users. One of the main difficulties in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Samhaa R. El-Beltagy , Talaat Khalil , Amal Halaby , Muhammad Hammad

This paper introduces a novel Arabic pronunciation learning application QVoice, powered with end-to-end mispronunciation detection and feedback generator module. The application is designed to support non-native Arabic speakers in enhancing…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Yassine El Kheir , Fouad Khnaisser , Shammur Absar Chowdhury , Hamdy Mubarak , Shazia Afzal , Ahmed Ali

In this paper, we show that the multiple-stem approach to nouns with a broken plural pattern allows for greater generalizations to be stated in the morphological system. Such an approach dispenses with truncating/deleting rules and other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Abdelhadi Soudi , Violetta Cavalli-Sforza , Abderrahim Jamari

Hate speech identification in social media has become an increasingly important issue in recent years. In this research, we address two problems: 1) to detect hate speech in Arabic text, 2) to clean a given text from hate speech. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Salam Thabet Doghmash , Motaz Saad

The Arabic language is among the most popular languages in the world with a huge variety of dialects spoken in 22 countries. In this study, we address the problem of classifying 18 Arabic dialects of the QADI dataset of Arabic tweets. RNN…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Omar A. Essameldin , Ali O. Elbeih , Wael H. Gomaa , Wael F. Elsersy

Unlike other languages, the Arabic language has a morphological complexity which makes the Arabic sentiment analysis is a challenging task. Moreover, the presence of the dialects in the Arabic texts have made the sentiment analysis task is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Omar Al-Harbi