3 papers
cs.CL2026
CANDLE: CTC-based Arabic Noisy-character Deduplication using a Lightweight Encoder
Faris Alasmary, Taif Nono, Orjuwan Zaafarani +5
Handling repeated characters in text can be tricky, since they can represent either the correct spelling of a word or informal character elongation often seen in social media posts…
cs.CL2025
Abjad AI at NADI 2025: CATT-Whisper: Multimodal Diacritic Restoration Using Text and Speech Representations
Ahmad Ghannam, Naif Alharthi, Faris Alasmary +3
In this work, we tackle the Diacritic Restoration (DR) task for Arabic dialectal sentences using a multimodal approach that combines both textual and speech information. We propose…
cs.CL2024
CATT: Character-based Arabic Tashkeel Transformer
Faris Alasmary, Orjuwan Zaafarani, Ahmad Ghannam
Tashkeel, or Arabic Text Diacritization (ATD), greatly enhances the comprehension of Arabic text by removing ambiguity and minimizing the risk of misinterpretations caused by its a…