English
Related papers

Related papers: Octopus: A Multitask Model and Toolkit for Arabic …

200 papers

This paper introduces a pioneering English-Azerbaijani (Arabic Script) parallel corpus, designed to bridge the technological gap in language learning and machine translation (MT) for under-resourced languages. Consisting of 548,000 parallel…

In many languages like Arabic, diacritics are used to specify pronunciations as well as meanings. Such diacritics are often omitted in written text, increasing the number of possible pronunciations and meanings for a word. This results in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Sawsan Alqahtani , Ajay Mishra , Mona Diab

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the field of natural language processing, enhancing capabilities in both language understanding and generation across diverse domains. However, developing LLMs for Arabic presents…

Arabic medical text generation is increasingly needed to help users interpret symptoms and access general health guidance in their native language. Nevertheless, many existing methods assume uniform importance across training samples,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ahmed Alansary , Molham Mohamed , Ali Hamdi

The study of natural language, especially Arabic, and mechanisms for the implementation of automatic processing is a fascinating field of study, with various potential applications. The importance of tools for natural language processing is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-06-05 Riadh Bouslimi , Houda Amraoui

In recent years, the task of cross-domain, context-dependent text-to-SQL has received significant attention. Enables users with no prior knowledge of SQL to have a conversation with databases using natural language. However, most of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Saleh Almohaimeed , May Alsofyani , Saad Almohaimeed , Mansour Al Ghanim , Liqiang Wang

Developing an efficient retriever to retrieve knowledge from a large-scale knowledge base (KB) is critical for task-oriented dialogue systems to effectively handle localized and specialized tasks. However, widely used generative models such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Weizhou Shen , Yingqi Gao , Canbin Huang , Fanqi Wan , Xiaojun Quan , Wei Bi

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

Open Arabic large language models split into two classes: sub-1B multilingual models that treat Arabic as an afterthought (Qwen2.5-0.5B, Falcon-H1-0.5B), and 7B-70B Arabic-specialized models that require a server to run (Jais, AceGPT,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jaber Jaber , Osama Jaber

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

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.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Youssef Bassil

This paper presents FOOCTTS, an automatic pipeline for a football commentator that generates speech with background crowd noise. The application gets the text from the user, applies text pre-processing such as vowelization, followed by the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Massa Baali , Ahmed Ali

Arabic is a semitic language characterized by a complex and rich morphology. The exceptional degree of ambiguity in the writing system, the rich morphology, and the highly complex word formation process of roots and patterns all contribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Ibrahim Abdelaziz , Sherif Abdou

We describe AraNet, a collection of deep learning Arabic social media processing tools. Namely, we exploit an extensive host of publicly available and novel social media datasets to train bidirectional encoders from transformer models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Chiyu Zhang , Azadeh Hashemi , El Moatez Billah Nagoudi

We present Text2App -- a framework that allows users to create functional Android applications from natural language specifications. The conventional method of source code generation tries to generate source code directly, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Masum Hasan , Kazi Sajeed Mehrab , Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Rifat Shahriyar

Multilingual task-oriented dialogue (ToD) facilitates access to services and information for many (communities of) speakers. Nevertheless, the potential of this technology is not fully realised, as current datasets for multilingual ToD -…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Olga Majewska , Evgeniia Razumovskaia , Edoardo Maria Ponti , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen

How far are we really from automatically generating neural networks? While neural network weight generation shows promise, current approaches struggle with generalization to unseen tasks and practical application exploration. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Bowen Tian , Wenshuo Chen , Zexi Li , Songning Lai , Jiemin Wu , Yutao Yue

Existing dialog system models require extensive human annotations and are difficult to generalize to different tasks. The recent success of large pre-trained language models such as BERT and GPT-2 (Devlin et al., 2019; Radford et al., 2019)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Qingyang Wu , Yichi Zhang , Yu Li , Zhou Yu

Arabic is one of the most important and growing languages in the world. With the rise of social media platforms such as Twitter, Arabic spoken dialects have become more in use. In this paper, we describe our approach on the NADI Shared Task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Ahmad Beltagy , Abdelrahman Wael , Omar ElSherief

Machine translation between Arabic and Hebrew has so far been limited by a lack of parallel corpora, despite the political and cultural importance of this language pair. Previous work relied on manually-crafted grammars or pivoting via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Yonatan Belinkov , James Glass