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The recognition of unconstrained handwriting continues to be a difficult task for computers despite active research for several decades. This is because handwritten text offers great challenges such as character and word segmentation,…

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The swift progress and widespread acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems highlight a pressing requirement to comprehend both the capabilities and potential risks associated with AI. Given the linguistic complexity, cultural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Emad A. Alghamdi , Reem I. Masoud , Deema Alnuhait , Afnan Y. Alomairi , Ahmed Ashraf , Mohamed Zaytoon

Diacritization of Arabic text is both an interesting and a challenging problem at the same time with various applications ranging from speech synthesis to helping students learning the Arabic language. Like many other tasks or problems in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Ali Fadel , Ibraheem Tuffaha , Bara' Al-Jawarneh , Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub

We present an Arabic crossword puzzle generator from a given text that utilizes advanced language models such as GPT-4-Turbo, GPT-3.5-Turbo and Llama3-8B-Instruct, specifically developed for educational purposes, this innovative generator…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Kamyar Zeinalipour , Mohamed Zaky Saad , Marco Maggini , Marco Gori

This study is an attempt to build a contemporary linguistic corpus for Arabic language. The corpus produced, is a text corpus includes more than five million newspaper articles. It contains over a billion and a half words in total, out of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ibrahim Abu El-khair

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

This work explores the application of textual entailment in news claim verification and stance prediction using a new corpus in Arabic. The publicly available corpus comes in two perspectives: a version consisting of 4,547 true and false…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Jude Khouja

Arabic Rhetoric is the field of Arabic linguistics which governs the art and science of conveying a message with greater beauty, impact and persuasiveness. The field is as ancient as the Arabic language itself and is found extensively in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Mandar Marathe

Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for a wide range of language generation tasks. Nevertheless, this progress has been slower in Arabic. In this work, we focus on the task of generating stories from LLMs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti , Fakhraddin Alwajih , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

The Arabic language is a complex language; it is different from Western languages especially at the morphological and spelling variations. Indeed, the performance of information retrieval systems in the Arabic language is still a problem.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-04-06 Abd El Salam Al Hajjar , Anis Ismail , Mohammad Hajjar , Mazen El-Sayed

The latest advancements in machine learning and deep learning have brought forth the concept of semantic similarity, which has proven immensely beneficial in multiple applications and has largely replaced keyword search. However, evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Ali Mahboub , Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Bashar Al-Rfooh , Yazan Estaitia , Adnan Jaljuli , Asma Hakouz

This paper addresses critical gaps in Arabic language model evaluation by establishing comprehensive theoretical guidelines and introducing a novel evaluation framework. We first analyze existing Arabic evaluation datasets, identifying…

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Arabic is a Semitic language which is widely spoken with many dialects. Given the success of pre-trained language models, many transformer models trained on Arabic and its dialects have surfaced. While these models have been compared with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Ahmed Abdelali , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , Hassan Sajjad

Lemmatization is crucial for NLP tasks in morphologically rich languages with ambiguous orthography like Arabic, but existing tools face challenges due to inconsistent standards and limited genre coverage. This paper introduces two novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Mostafa Saeed , Nizar Habash

Since their inception, transformer-based language models have led to impressive performance gains across multiple natural language processing tasks. For Arabic, the current state-of-the-art results on most datasets are achieved by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Amey Hengle , Atharva Kshirsagar , Shaily Desai , Manisha Marathe

This paper presents the design and development of multi-dialect automatic speech recognition for Arabic. Deep neural networks are becoming an effective tool to solve sequential data problems, particularly, adopting an end-to-end training of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Abbas Raza Ali

Methods for scoring text readability have been studied for over a century, and are widely used in research and in user-facing applications in many domains. Thus far, the development and evaluation of such methods have primarily relied on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Keren Gruteke Klein , Shachar Frenkel , Omer Shubi , Yevgeni Berzak

In this paper, we propose our enhanced approach to create a dedicated corpus for Algerian Arabic newspapers comments. The developed approach has to enhance an existing approach by the enrichment of the available corpus and the inclusion of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Hichem Rahab , Abdelhafid Zitouni , Mahieddine Djoudi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant promise for various applications in healthcare. However, their efficacy in the Arabic medical domain remains unexplored due to the lack of high-quality domain-specific datasets and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Mouath Abu Daoud , Chaimae Abouzahir , Leen Kharouf , Walid Al-Eisawi , Nizar Habash , Farah E. Shamout

In this research paper, I will elaborate on a method to evaluate machine translation models based on their performance on underlying syntactical phenomena between English and Arabic languages. This method is especially important as such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Ofek Rafaeli , Omri Abend , Leshem Choshen , Dmitry Nikolaev