12 papers
From Dialect Gaps to Identity Maps: Tackling Variability in Speaker Verification
Abdulhady Abas Abdullah, Soran Badawi, Dana A. Abdullah +1
The complexity and difficulties of Kurdish speaker detection among its several dialects are investigated in this work. Because of its great phonetic and lexical differences, Kurdis…
Advanced Clustering Techniques for Speech Signal Enhancement: A Review and Metanalysis of Fuzzy C-Means, K-Means, and Kernel Fuzzy C-Means Methods
Abdulhady Abas Abdullah, Aram Mahmood Ahmed, Tarik Rashid +1
Speech signal processing is a cornerstone of modern communication technologies, tasked with improving the clarity and comprehensibility of audio data in noisy environments. The pri…
Artificial Liver Classifier: A New Alternative to Conventional Machine Learning Models
Mahmood A. Jumaah, Yossra H. Ali, Tarik A. Rashid
Supervised machine learning classifiers sometimes face challenges related to the performance, accuracy, or overfitting. This paper introduces the Artificial Liver Classifier (ALC),…
An Improved FOX Optimization Algorithm Using Adaptive Exploration and Exploitation for Global Optimization
Mahmood A. Jumaah, Yossra H. Ali, Tarik A. Rashid
Optimization algorithms are essential for solving many real-world problems. However, challenges such as getting trapped in local minima and effectively balancing exploration and ex…
The Role of Orthographic Consistency in Multilingual Embedding Models for Text Classification in Arabic-Script Languages
Abdulhady Abas Abdullah, Amir H. Gandomi, Tarik A Rashid +4
In natural language processing, multilingual models like mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa promise broad coverage but often struggle with languages that share a script yet differ in orthograph…
Speaker Diarization for Low-Resource Languages Through Wav2vec Fine-Tuning
Abdulhady Abas Abdullah, Sarkhel H. Taher Karim, Sara Azad Ahmed +2
Speaker diarization is a fundamental task in speech processing that involves dividing an audio stream by speaker. Although state-of-the-art models have advanced performance in high…