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Diacritics are orthographic marks that clarify pronunciation, distinguish similar words, or alter meaning. They play a central role in many writing systems, yet their impact on language technology has not been systematically quantified…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Adi Cohen , Yuval Pinter

Arabic handwriting is a consonantal and cursive writing. The analysis of Arabic script is further complicated due to obligatory dots/strokes that are placed above or below most letters and usually written delayed in order. Due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Ibrahim Abdelaziz , Sherif Abdou , Hassanin Al-Barhamtoshy

Based on an annotated multimedia corpus, television series Mar{\=a}y{\=a} 2013, we dig into the question of ''automatic standardization'' of Arabic dialects for machine translation. Here we distinguish between rule-based machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Abidrabbo Alnassan

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

We present the second ever evaluated Arabic dialect-to-dialect machine translation effort, and the first to leverage external resources beyond a small parallel corpus. The subject has not previously received serious attention due to lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Alexander Erdmann , Nizar Habash , Dima Taji , Houda Bouamor

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is a well-explored problem in English with many existing models and datasets. However, research on GEC in morphologically rich languages has been limited due to challenges such as data scarcity and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Bashar Alhafni , Go Inoue , Christian Khairallah , Nizar Habash

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is an important aspect of natural language processing. Arabic has a complicated morphological and syntactic structure, posing a greater challenge than other languages. Even though modern neural models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ahlam Alrehili , Areej Alhothali

The fast-growing amount of information on the Internet makes the research in automatic document summarization very urgent. It is an effective solution for information overload. Many approaches have been proposed based on different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Kamal Al-Sabahi , Zuping Zhang , Jun Long , Khaled Alwesabi

A prototype system for the transliteration of diacritics-less Arabic manuscripts at the sub-word or part of Arabic word (PAW) level is developed. The system is able to read sub-words of the input manuscript using a set of skeleton-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-27 Reza Farrahi Moghaddam , Mohamed Cheriet , Thomas Milo , Robert Wisnovsky

We trained a model to automatically transliterate Judeo-Arabic texts into Arabic script, enabling Arabic readers to access those writings. We employ a recurrent neural network (RNN), combined with the connectionist temporal classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ori Terner , Kfir Bar , Nachum Dershowitz

Transcribed speech and user-generated text in Arabic typically contain a mixture of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the standardized language taught in schools, and Dialectal Arabic (DA), used in daily communications. To handle this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Amr Keleg , Sharon Goldwater , Walid Magdy

Research on intelligent tutoring systems has been exploring data-driven methods to deliver effective adaptive assistance. While much work has been done to provide adaptive assistance when students seek help, they may not seek help…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Mehak Maniktala , Min Chi , Tiffany Barnes

This work is part of a large research project entitled "Or\'eodule" aimed at developing tools for automatic speech recognition, translation, and synthesis for Arabic language. Our attention has mainly been focused on an attempt to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Mourad Mars , Mounir Zrigui , Mohamed Belgacem , Anis Zouaghi

Sentiment analysis becomes an essential part of every social network, as it enables decision-makers to know more about users' opinions in almost all life aspects. Despite its importance, there are multiple issues it encounters like the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Abdelrahman Kaseb , Mona Farouk

We address the problem of scarcity of educational Arabic Language Learning tools that advocate modern pedagogical models such as active learning which ensures language proficiency. In fact, we investigate the design and evaluation of an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Khaled Bachir Delassi , Lakhdar Zeggane , Hadda Cherroun , Abdelhamid Haouhat , Kaoutar Bouzouad

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

We study the performance of Arabic text classification combining various techniques: (a) tfidf vs. dependency syntax, for feature selection and weighting; (b) class association rules vs. support vector machines, for classification. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Yannis Haralambous , Yassir Elidrissi , Philippe Lenca

Sentiment analysis of Arabic dialects presents significant challenges due to linguistic diversity and the scarcity of annotated data. This paper describes our approach to the AHaSIS shared task, which focuses on sentiment analysis on Arabic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Randa Zarnoufi

With the rise of generative text-to-speech models, distinguishing between real and synthetic speech has become challenging, especially for Arabic that have received limited research attention. Most spoof detection efforts have focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mohamed Maged , Alhassan Ehab , Ali Mekky , Besher Hassan , Shady Shehata

We present the findings of the sixth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI 2025) Shared Task, which focused on Arabic speech dialect processing across three subtasks: spoken dialect identification (Subtask 1), speech recognition…