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Parsing the Arabic language is a difficult task given the specificities of this language and given the scarcity of digital resources (grammars and annotated corpora). In this paper, we suggest a method for Arabic parsing based on supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Nabil Khoufi , Chafik Aloulou , Lamia Hadrich Belguith

In this thesis, we address several important issues concerning the morphological analysis of Arabic language applied to textual data and machine translation. First, we provided an overview on machine translation, its history and its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Sadik Bessou

Despite its significance, Arabic, a linguistically rich and morphologically complex language, faces the challenge of being under-resourced. The scarcity of large annotated datasets hampers the development of accurate tools for subjectivity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Slimane Bellaouar , Attia Nehar , Soumia Souffi , Mounia Bouameur

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

The ultimate aim of handwriting recognition is to make computers able to read and/or authenticate human written texts, with a performance comparable to or even better than that of humans. Reading means that the computer is given a piece of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Manal A. Abdullah , Lulwah M. Al-Harigy , Hanadi H. Al-Fraidi

Automatic pronunciation error detection (APED) plays an important role in the domain of language learning. As for the previous ASR-based APED methods, the decoded results need to be aligned with the target text so that the errors can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Zhan Zhang , Yuehai Wang , Jianyi Yang

Data contamination undermines the validity of Large Language Model evaluation by enabling models to rely on memorized benchmark content rather than true generalization. While prior work has proposed contamination detection methods, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Chaymaa Abbas , Nour Shamaa , Mariette Awad

This paper presents a methodology for inserting phrases in Arabic poems to conform to a specific rhythm using ByT5, a byte-level multilingual transformer-based model. Our work discusses a rule-based grapheme-to-beat transformation tailored…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mohamad Elzohbi , Richard Zhao

Online Arabic cursive character recognition is still a big challenge due to the existing complexities including Arabic cursive script styles, writing speed, writer mood and so forth. Due to these unavoidable constraints, the accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Amjad Rehman

The problem of converting images of text into plain text is a widely researched topic in both academia and industry. Arabic handwritten Text Recognation (AHTR) poses additional challenges due to diverse handwriting styles and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Alhossien Waly , Bassant Tarek , Ali Feteha , Rewan Yehia , Gasser Amr , Ahmed Fares

With the growing adoption of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in document processing, robust text recognition has become increasingly critical for knowledge extraction. While OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for English and other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Ahmed Heakl , Abdullah Sohail , Mukul Ranjan , Rania Hossam , Ghazi Shazan Ahmad , Mohamed El-Geish , Omar Maher , Zhiqiang Shen , Fahad Khan , Salman Khan

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

The performance of learning models heavily relies on the availability and adequacy of training data. To address the dataset adequacy issue, researchers have extensively explored data augmentation (DA) as a promising approach. DA generates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Dania Refai , Saleh Abo-Soud , Mohammad Abdel-Rahman

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) under limited labeled data remains a challenging problem, particularly for Arabic-script languages. Although modern sequence-based recognizers perform well in high-resource settings, their accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sana Al-azzawi , Elisa Barney , Marcus Liwicki

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

We present ARETA, an automatic error type annotation system for Modern Standard Arabic. We design ARETA to address Arabic's morphological richness and orthographic ambiguity. We base our error taxonomy on the Arabic Learner Corpus (ALC)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Riadh Belkebir , Nizar Habash

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

Automatic readability assessment is relevant to building NLP applications for education, content analysis, and accessibility. However, Arabic readability assessment is a challenging task due to Arabic's morphological richness and limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Juan Piñeros Liberato , Bashar Alhafni , Muhamed Al Khalil , Nizar Habash

This paper presents system description for Arabic medical text classification across 82 distinct categories. Our primary architecture utilizes a fine-tuned AraBERTv2 encoder enhanced with a hybrid pooling strategies, combining attention and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ahmed Khaled Khamis

Recently, string kernels have obtained state-of-the-art results in various text classification tasks such as Arabic dialect identification or native language identification. In this paper, we apply two simple yet effective transductive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Radu Tudor Ionescu , Andrei M. Butnaru