4 papers
Character Iconicity vs. Arbitrariness: An Arabic NLP Perspective
Dorieh Alomari, Irfan Ahmad, Maged S. Al-shaibani
Arabic script uses 28 letters, many of which share a common base shape (rasm) and are distinguished only by dot placement. Because early Arabic manuscripts were written without dot…
Automatic Classification of Arabic Literature into Historical Eras
Zainab Alhathloul, Irfan Ahmad
The Arabic language has undergone notable transformations over time, including the emergence of new vocabulary, the obsolescence of others, and shifts in word usage. This evolution…
Poem Meter Classification of Recited Arabic Poetry: Integrating High-Resource Systems for a Low-Resource Task
Maged S. Al-Shaibani, Zaid Alyafeai, Irfan Ahmad
Arabic poetry is an essential and integral part of Arabic language and culture. It has been used by the Arabs to spot lights on their major events such as depicting brutal battles…
Dotless Representation of Arabic Text: Analysis and Modeling
Maged S. Al-Shaibani, Irfan Ahmad
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…