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Kazakh is a Turkic language using the Arabic, Cyrillic, and Latin scripts, making it unique in terms of optical character recognition (OCR). Work on OCR for low-resource Kazakh scripts is very scarce, and no OCR benchmarks or images exist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Henry Gagnier , Sophie Gagnier , Ashwin Kirubakaran

This paper introduces UQA, a novel dataset for question answering and text comprehension in Urdu, a low-resource language with over 70 million native speakers. UQA is generated by translating the Stanford Question Answering Dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Samee Arif , Sualeha Farid , Awais Athar , Agha Ali Raza

This paper introduces the hmBlogs corpus for Persian, as a low resource language. This corpus has been prepared based on a collection of nearly 20 million blog posts over a period of about 15 years from a space of Persian blogs and includes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Hamzeh Motahari Khansari , Mehrnoush Shamsfard

We present ArabicDialectHub, a cross-dialectal Arabic learning resource comprising 552 phrases across six varieties (Moroccan Darija, Lebanese, Syrian, Emirati, Saudi, and MSA) and an interactive web platform. Phrases were generated using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Salem Lahlou

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) are integral to many modern natural language processing (NLP) systems. Although multilingual models cover a wide range of languages, they often grapple with challenges like high inference costs and a lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Murtadha Ahmed , Saghir Alfasly , Bo Wen , Jamaal Qasem , Mohammed Ahmed , Yunfeng Liu

This study addresses automatic transliteration from Tajik (Cyrillic script) to Persian (Perso-Arabic script). We present a curated, lexicographically verified parallel corpus of 52,152 Tajik--Persian words and short phrases, compiled from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mullosharaf K. Arabov

We present a novel corpus of 445 human- and computer-generated documents, comprising about 27,000 clauses, annotated for semantic clause types and coherence relations that allow for nuanced comparison of artificial and natural discourse…

We present KUTED, a speech-to-text translation (S2TT) dataset for Central Kurdish, derived from TED and TEDx talks. The corpus comprises 91,000 sentence pairs, including 170 hours of English audio, 1.65 million English tokens, and 1.40…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Mohammad Mohammadamini , Daban Q. Jaff , Josep Crego , Marie Tahon , Antoine Laurent

We present the IndicNLP corpus, a large-scale, general-domain corpus containing 2.7 billion words for 10 Indian languages from two language families. We share pre-trained word embeddings trained on these corpora. We create news article…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Anoop Kunchukuttan , Divyanshu Kakwani , Satish Golla , Gokul N. C. , Avik Bhattacharyya , Mitesh M. Khapra , Pratyush Kumar

There are many known Arabic lexicons organized on different ways, each of them has a different number of Arabic words according to its organization way. This paper has used mathematical relations to count a number of Arabic words, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Nidhal El-Abbadi , Ahmed Nidhal Khdhair , Adel Al-Nasrawi

We present the WASABI Song Corpus, a large corpus of songs enriched with metadata extracted from music databases on the Web, and resulting from the processing of song lyrics and from audio analysis. More specifically, given that lyrics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Michael Fell , Elena Cabrio , Elmahdi Korfed , Michel Buffa , Fabien Gandon

Mental health disorders significantly impact people globally, regardless of background, education, or socioeconomic status. However, access to adequate care remains a challenge, particularly for underserved communities with limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Hassan Alhuzali , Ashwag Alasmari , Hamad Alsaleh

Tokenisation - "the process of splitting text into atomic parts" (Brezina & Timperley, 2017: 1) - is a crucial step for corpus linguistics, as it provides the basis for any applicable quantitative method (e.g. collocations) while ensuring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Matteo Di Cristofaro

We describe an Arabic-Hebrew parallel corpus of TED talks built upon WIT3, the Web inventory that repurposes the original content of the TED website in a way which is more convenient for MT researchers. The benchmark consists of about 2,000…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Mauro Cettolo

Arabic language is the most spoken languages in the Semitic languages group, and one of the most common languages in the world spoken by more than 422 million. It is also of paramount importance to Muslims, it is a sacred language of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Hossam Ishkewy , Hany Harb , Hassan Farahat

Machine translation has been a major motivation of development in natural language processing. Despite the burgeoning achievements in creating more efficient machine translation systems thanks to deep learning methods, parallel corpora have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Sina Ahmadi , Hossein Hassani , Daban Q. Jaff

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

In this paper, we introduce the first phase of a new dataset for offline Arabic handwriting recognition. The aim is to collect a very large dataset of isolated Arabic words that covers all letters of the alphabet in all possible shapes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Mohamed E. Hussein , Marwan Torki , Ahmed Elsallamy , Mahmoud Fayyaz

In terms of annotation structure, most learner corpora rely on holistic flat label inventories which, even when extensive, do not explicitly separate multiple linguistic dimensions. This makes linguistically deep annotation difficult and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Elif Sayar , Tolgahan Türker , Anna Golynskaia Knezhevich , Bihter Dereli , Ayşe Demirhas , Lionel Nicolas , Gülşen Eryiğit

Existing MT evaluation frameworks, including automatic metrics and human evaluation schemes such as Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM), are largely language-agnostic. However, they often fail to capture dialect- and culture-specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Samar M. Magdy , Fakhraddin Alwajih , Abdellah El Mekki , Wesam El-Sayed , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed