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We present our work on collecting ArzEn-ST, a code-switched Egyptian Arabic - English Speech Translation Corpus. This corpus is an extension of the ArzEn speech corpus, which was collected through informal interviews with bilingual…

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There are many difficulties facing a handwritten Arabic recognition system such as unlimited variation in human handwriting, similarities of distinct character shapes, interconnections of neighbouring characters and their position in the…

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Arabic language is one of the most popular languages in the world. Hundreds of millions of people in many countries around the world speak Arabic as their native speaking. However, due to complexity of Arabic language, recognition of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Ashraf A. Shahin

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of extracting digitized text from images of scanned documents. While OCR systems have already matured in many languages, they still have shortcomings in cursive languages with overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Hussein Osman , Karim Zaghw , Mostafa Hazem , Seifeldin Elsehely

In this paper, we have shown a script conversion (transliteration) technique that converts Sindhi text in the Devanagari script to the Perso-Arabic script. We showed this by incorporating a hybrid approach where some part of the text is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Shivani Singh Rathore , Bharti Nathani , Nisheeth Joshi , Pragya Katyayan , Chander Prakash Dadlani

Arabic morphological analysis is one of the essential stages in Arabic Natural Language Processing. In this paper we present an approach for Arabic morphological analysis. This approach is based on Arabic morphological automaton (AMAUT).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-01-31 Mourad Gridach , Noureddine Chenfour

Now a day computer is necessary for human being and it is very useful in many fields like search engine, text processing, short messaging services, voice chatting and text recognition. Since last many years there are many tools and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-30 H Muhammad Shakeel , Rashid Khan , Muhammad Waheed

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 work we present our expert system of Automatic reading or speech synthesis based on a text written in Standard Arabic, our work is carried out in two great stages: the creation of the sound data base, and the transformation of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Tebbi Hanane , Azzoune Hamid

In natural language processing, multilingual models like mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa promise broad coverage but often struggle with languages that share a script yet differ in orthographic norms and cultural context. This issue is especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Abdulhady Abas Abdullah , Amir H. Gandomi , Tarik A Rashid , Seyedali Mirjalili , Laith Abualigah , Milena Živković , Hadi Veisi

HTR models development has become a conventional step for digital humanities projects. The performance of these models, often quite high, relies on manual transcription and numerous handwritten documents. Although the method has proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Lucas Noëmie , Clément Salah , Chahan Vidal-Gorène

A computer program is a set of electronic instructions executed from within the computer memory by the computer central processing unit. Its purpose is to control the functionalities of the computer allowing it to perform various tasks.…

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In the past decade, we have observed a growing interest in using technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and chatbots to provide assistance to language learners, especially in second language learning. By using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Sicong Shao , Saleem Alharir , Salim Hariri , Pratik Satam , Sonia Shiri , Abdessamad Mbarki

Our study utilizes deep learning methods for the automated transcription of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals written in Arabic script Ottoman Turkish (OT) using the Transkribus platform. We discuss the historical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Suphan Kirmizialtin , David Wrisley

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

Arabic Language Models (LMs) are pretrained predominately on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and are expected to transfer to its dialects. While MSA as the standard written variety is commonly used in formal settings, people speak and write…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Abdulmuizz Khalak , Abderrahmane Issam , Gerasimos Spanakis

Handwritten Arabic script recognition is a challenging task due to the script's dynamic letter forms and contextual variations. This paper proposes a hybrid approach combining convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Chaouki Boufenar , Mehdi Ayoub Rabiai , Boualem Nadjib Zahaf , Khelil Rafik Ouaras

In general, speech processing models consist of a language model along with an acoustic model. Regardless of the language model's complexity and variants, three critical pre-processing steps are needed in language models: cleaning,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-16 Romina Oji , Seyedeh Fatemeh Razavi , Sajjad Abdi Dehsorkh , Alireza Hariri , Hadi Asheri , Reshad Hosseini

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

With the advent of globalization, there is an increasing demand for multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR), handling language and dialectal variation of spoken content. Recent studies show its efficacy over monolingual systems. In…

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