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Arabic text diacritization remains a persistent challenge in natural language processing due to the language's morphological richness. In this paper, we introduce Sadeed, a novel approach based on a fine-tuned decoder-only language model…

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An end-to-end, segmentation-free, deep learning model trained from scratch is proposed, leveraging DCNN for feature extraction, alongside Bidirectional Long-Short Term Memory (BLSTM) for sequence recognition and Connectionist Temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sondos Aabed , Ahmad Khairaldin

This paper addresses the classification of Arabic text data in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), with a particular focus on Natural Language Inference (NLI) and Contradiction Detection (CD). Arabic is considered a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Mohammad Majd Saad Al Deen , Maren Pielka , Jörn Hees , Bouthaina Soulef Abdou , Rafet Sifa

This study addresses the critical gap in Arabic natural language processing by developing an effective Arabic Reverse Dictionary (RD) system that enables users to find words based on their descriptions or meanings. We present a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Serry Sibaee , Samar Ahmed , Abdullah Al Harbi , Omer Nacar , Adel Ammar , Yasser Habashi , Wadii Boulila

Automatic diacritization of Arabic text involves adding diacritical marks (diacritics) to the text. This task poses a significant challenge with noteworthy implications for computational processing and comprehension. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Abderrahman Skiredj , Ismail Berrada

The first step in any NLP pipeline is to split the text into individual tokens. The most obvious and straightforward approach is to use words as tokens. However, given a large text corpus, representing all the words is not efficient in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Zaid Alyafeai , Maged S. Al-shaibani , Mustafa Ghaleb , Irfan Ahmad

We present OCR-Quality, a comprehensive human-annotated dataset designed for evaluating and developing OCR quality assessment methods. The dataset consists of 1,000 PDF pages converted to PNG images at 300 DPI, sampled from diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yulong Zhang

Kurdish libraries have many historical publications that were printed back in the early days when printing devices were brought to Kurdistan. Having a good Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to help process these publications and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Blnd Yaseen , Hossein Hassani

Mubeen is a proprietary Arabic language model developed by MASARAT SA, optimized for deep understanding of Arabic linguistics, Islamic studies, and cultural heritage. Trained on an extensive collection of authentic Arabic sources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mohammed Aljafari , Ismail Alturki , Ahmed Mori , Yehya Kadumi

The ambition of a character recognition system is to transform a text document typed on paper into a digital format that can be manipulated by word processor software Unlike other languages, Arabic has unique features, while other language…

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Segmentation of Arabic manuscripts into lines of text and words is an important step to make recognition systems more efficient and accurate. The problem of segmentation into text lines is solved since there are carefully annotated dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Hakim Bouchal , Ahror Belaid

The Arabic language suffers from a great shortage of datasets suitable for training deep learning models, and the existing ones include general non-specialized classifications. In this work, we introduce a new Arab medical dataset, which…

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This paper presents a novel dotless representation of Arabic text as an alternative to the standard Arabic text representation. We delve into its implications through comprehensive analysis across five diverse corpora and four different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Maged S. Al-Shaibani , Irfan Ahmad

The study explores the integration of transfer learning (TL) with mobile-enabled convolutional neural networks (MbNets) to enhance Arabic Handwritten Character Recognition (AHCR). Addressing challenges like extensive computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mohsine El Khayati , Ayyad Maafiri , Yassine Himeur , Hamzah Ali Alkhazaleh , Shadi Atalla , Wathiq Mansoor

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

We present ASCAT (Arabic Scientific Corpus for Advanced Translation), a high-quality English-Arabic parallel benchmark corpus designed for scientific translation evaluation constructed through a systematic multi-engine translation and human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Serry Sibaee , Khloud Al Jallad , Zineb Yousfi , Israa Elsayed Elhosiny , Yousra El-Ghawi , Batool Balah , Omer Nacar

This work introduces NOVAK, a modular gradient-based optimization algorithm that integrates adaptive moment estimation, rectified learning-rate scheduling, decoupled weight regularization, multiple variants of Nesterov momentum, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Sergii Kavun

Word segmentation plays a pivotal role in improving any Arabic NLP application. Therefore, a lot of research has been spent in improving its accuracy. Off-the-shelf tools, however, are: i) complicated to use and ii) domain/dialect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Hassan Sajjad , Fahim Dalvi , Nadir Durrani , Ahmed Abdelali , Yonatan Belinkov , Stephan Vogel

There are numerous complex and rich morphological features in the Arabic language, which are highly useful when analyzing traditional Arabic textbooks, especially in the literary and religious contexts, and help in understanding the meaning…

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