This paper describes the Arabic handwriting recognition competition held at ICDAR 2009. This third competition (the first was at ICDAR 2005 and the second at ICDAR 2007) again use...
Sheffield's participation in the inaugural Arabic cross language track is described here. Our goal was to examine how well one could achieve retrieval of Arabic text with the...
This paper examines the phenomenon of consonant spreading in Arabic stems. Each spreading involves a local surface copying of an underlying consonant, and, in certain phonological...
In this paper, we present a novel approach for detecting and removing pre-printed rule-lines from binary handwritten Arabic document images. The proposed technique is based on a d...
We investigate in this paper the adequate unit of analysis for Arabic Mention Detection. We experiment different segmentation schemes with various feature-sets. Results show that ...