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This study introduces an integrated approach to recognizing Arabic Sign Language (ArSL) using state-of-the-art deep learning models such as MobileNetV3, ResNet50, and EfficientNet-B2. These models are further enhanced by explainable AI…

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Tashkeel, or Arabic Text Diacritization (ATD), greatly enhances the comprehension of Arabic text by removing ambiguity and minimizing the risk of misinterpretations caused by its absence. It plays a crucial role in improving Arabic text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Faris Alasmary , Orjuwan Zaafarani , Ahmad Ghannam

We present a machine learning approach that ranked on the first place in the Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI) Closed Shared Tasks of the 2018 VarDial Evaluation Campaign. The proposed approach combines several kernels using multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Andrei M. Butnaru , Radu Tudor Ionescu

We investigate different approaches for dialect identification in Arabic broadcast speech, using phonetic, lexical features obtained from a speech recognition system, and acoustic features using the i-vector framework. We studied both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Ahmed Ali , Najim Dehak , Patrick Cardinal , Sameer Khurana , Sree Harsha Yella , James Glass , Peter Bell , Steve Renals

Arabic dialect identification is a complex problem for a number of inherent properties of the language itself. In this paper, we present the experiments conducted, and the models developed by our competing team, Mawdoo3 AI, along the way to…

This paper presents a novel Dialect Identification (DID) system developed for the Fifth Edition of the Multi-Genre Broadcast challenge, the task of Fine-grained Arabic Dialect Identification (MGB-5 ADI Challenge). The system improves upon…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-20 Xiaoxiao Miao , Ian McLoughlin

Recent advances in multimodal deep learning have greatly enhanced the capability of systems for speech analysis and pronunciation assessment. Accurate pronunciation detection remains a key challenge in Arabic, particularly in the context of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Ayhan Kucukmanisa , Derya Gelmez , Sukru Selim Calik , Zeynep Hilal Kilimci

This paper proposes a Dialect Identification (DID) approach inspired by the Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss function as used in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). CTC-DID frames the dialect identification task as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Muhammad Umar Farooq , Oscar Saz

In this paper, we tackle the Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI) shared task (Abdul-Mageed et al., 2021) and demonstrate state-of-the-art results on all of its four subtasks. Tasks are to identify the geographic origin of short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Badr AlKhamissi , Mohamed Gabr , Muhammad ElNokrashy , Khaled Essam

We explore the performance of several state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) models on a large-scale Arabic speech dataset, the SADA (Saudi Audio Dataset for Arabic), which contains 668 hours of high-quality audio from Saudi…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Branislav Gerazov , Marcello Politi , Sébastien Bratières

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

Arabic has diverse dialects, where one dialect can be substantially different from the others. In the NLP literature, some assumptions about these dialects are widely adopted (e.g., ``Arabic dialects can be grouped into distinguishable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Amr Keleg , Sharon Goldwater , Walid Magdy

This paper presents our approach to address the EACL WANLP-2021 Shared Task 1: Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI). The task is aimed at developing a system that identifies the geographical location(country/province) from where an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Anshul Wadhawan

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

Developing robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for Arabic requires effective strategies to manage its diversity. Existing ASR systems mainly cover the modern standard Arabic (MSA) variety and few high-resource dialects, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Amirbek Djanibekov , Hawau Olamide Toyin , Raghad Alshalan , Abdullah Alitr , Hanan Aldarmaki

We present the speech to text transcription system, called DARTS, for low resource Egyptian Arabic dialect. We analyze the following; transfer learning from high resource broadcast domain to low-resource dialectal domain and semi-supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Sameer Khurana , Ahmed Ali , James Glass

Closed-set spoken language identification is the task of recognizing the language being spoken in a recorded audio clip from a set of known languages. In this study, a language identification system was built and trained to distinguish…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Benjamin Kepecs , Homayoon Beigi

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

Large language models (LLMs) for Arabic are still dominated by Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), with limited support for Saudi dialects such as Najdi and Hijazi. This underrepresentation hinders their ability to capture authentic dialectal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Hassan Barmandah

We present QADI, an automatically collected dataset of tweets belonging to a wide range of country-level Arabic dialects -covering 18 different countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. Our method for building this dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Ahmed Abdelali , Hamdy Mubarak , Younes Samih , Sabit Hassan , Kareem Darwish