{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2620586161","doi":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w17-1319","title":"An enhanced automatic speech recognition system for Arabic","display_name":"An enhanced automatic speech recognition system for Arabic","publication_year":2017,"publication_date":"2017-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2620586161","doi":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w17-1319","mag":"2620586161"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.18653/v1/w17-1319","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w17-1319","pdf_url":"https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-1319.pdf","source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"preprint","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"gold","oa_url":"https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-1319.pdf","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5015625948","display_name":"Mohamed Amine Menacer","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210121838","display_name":"Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications","ror":"https://ror.org/02vnf0c38","country_code":"FR","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1294671590","https://openalex.org/I1294671590","https://openalex.org/I1326498283","https://openalex.org/I277688954","https://openalex.org/I4210107720","https://openalex.org/I4210121838","https://openalex.org/I4210159245","https://openalex.org/I90183372"]}],"countries":["FR"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Mohamed Amine Menacer","raw_affiliation_strings":["Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre Ls-Nancy, France","Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre L\u00e8s-Nancy, France"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre Ls-Nancy, France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210121838"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre L\u00e8s-Nancy, France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210121838"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5033617615","display_name":"Odile Mella","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210121838","display_name":"Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications","ror":"https://ror.org/02vnf0c38","country_code":"FR","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1294671590","https://openalex.org/I1294671590","https://openalex.org/I1326498283","https://openalex.org/I277688954","https://openalex.org/I4210107720","https://openalex.org/I4210121838","https://openalex.org/I4210159245","https://openalex.org/I90183372"]}],"countries":["FR"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Odile Mella","raw_affiliation_strings":["Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre Ls-Nancy, France","Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre L\u00e8s-Nancy, France"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre Ls-Nancy, France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210121838"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre L\u00e8s-Nancy, France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210121838"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5046546502","display_name":"Dominique Fohr","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210121838","display_name":"Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications","ror":"https://ror.org/02vnf0c38","country_code":"FR","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1294671590","https://openalex.org/I1294671590","https://openalex.org/I1326498283","https://openalex.org/I277688954","https://openalex.org/I4210107720","https://openalex.org/I4210121838","https://openalex.org/I4210159245","https://openalex.org/I90183372"]}],"countries":["FR"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Dominique Fohr","raw_affiliation_strings":["Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre Ls-Nancy, France","Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre L\u00e8s-Nancy, France"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre Ls-Nancy, France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210121838"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre L\u00e8s-Nancy, France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210121838"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5030903462","display_name":"Denis Jouvet","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210121838","display_name":"Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications","ror":"https://ror.org/02vnf0c38","country_code":"FR","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1294671590","https://openalex.org/I1294671590","https://openalex.org/I1326498283","https://openalex.org/I277688954","https://openalex.org/I4210107720","https://openalex.org/I4210121838","https://openalex.org/I4210159245","https://openalex.org/I90183372"]}],"countries":["FR"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Denis Jouvet","raw_affiliation_strings":["Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre Ls-Nancy, France","Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre L\u00e8s-Nancy, France"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre Ls-Nancy, France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210121838"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre L\u00e8s-Nancy, France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210121838"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5030296247","display_name":"David Langlois","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1608-3571"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210121838","display_name":"Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications","ror":"https://ror.org/02vnf0c38","country_code":"FR","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1294671590","https://openalex.org/I1294671590","https://openalex.org/I1326498283","https://openalex.org/I277688954","https://openalex.org/I4210107720","https://openalex.org/I4210121838","https://openalex.org/I4210159245","https://openalex.org/I90183372"]}],"countries":["FR"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"David Langlois","raw_affiliation_strings":["Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre Ls-Nancy, France","Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre L\u00e8s-Nancy, France"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre Ls-Nancy, France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210121838"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre L\u00e8s-Nancy, France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210121838"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5090778317","display_name":"Kamel Sma\u0131\u0308li","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4237-7303"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210121838","display_name":"Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications","ror":"https://ror.org/02vnf0c38","country_code":"FR","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1294671590","https://openalex.org/I1294671590","https://openalex.org/I1326498283","https://openalex.org/I277688954","https://openalex.org/I4210107720","https://openalex.org/I4210121838","https://openalex.org/I4210159245","https://openalex.org/I90183372"]}],"countries":["FR"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Kamel Smaili","raw_affiliation_strings":["Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre Ls-Nancy, France","Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre L\u00e8s-Nancy, France"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre Ls-Nancy, France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210121838"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre L\u00e8s-Nancy, France","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210121838"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":6,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":2.2718,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":21,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.90873811,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":90,"max":98},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"157","last_page":"165"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10201","display_name":"Speech Recognition and Synthesis","score":0.9998999834060669,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10201","display_name":"Speech Recognition and Synthesis","score":0.9998999834060669,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10181","display_name":"Natural Language Processing Techniques","score":0.9993000030517578,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10028","display_name":"Topic Modeling","score":0.9968000054359436,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.839277446269989},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/arabic","display_name":"Arabic","score":0.7290565967559814},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/speech-recognition","display_name":"Speech recognition","score":0.6932188868522644},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/word-error-rate","display_name":"Word error rate","score":0.6794653534889221},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/modern-standard-arabic","display_name":"Modern Standard Arabic","score":0.626405656337738},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/focus","display_name":"Focus (optics)","score":0.5875232219696045},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/natural-language-processing","display_name":"Natural language processing","score":0.5616668462753296},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/language-model","display_name":"Language model","score":0.5393367409706116},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/task","display_name":"Task (project management)","score":0.49958181381225586},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/artificial-intelligence","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","score":0.46823424100875854},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/acoustic-model","display_name":"Acoustic model","score":0.44994109869003296},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/rewriting","display_name":"Rewriting","score":0.41782188415527344},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/speech-processing","display_name":"Speech processing","score":0.3196738660335541},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/linguistics","display_name":"Linguistics","score":0.19112765789031982},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/programming-language","display_name":"Programming language","score":0.10119259357452393}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.839277446269989},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C96455323","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13955","display_name":"Arabic","level":2,"score":0.7290565967559814},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C28490314","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189436","display_name":"Speech recognition","level":1,"score":0.6932188868522644},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C40969351","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3516228","display_name":"Word error rate","level":2,"score":0.6794653534889221},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778243841","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56467","display_name":"Modern Standard Arabic","level":3,"score":0.626405656337738},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C192209626","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190909","display_name":"Focus (optics)","level":2,"score":0.5875232219696045},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C204321447","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30642","display_name":"Natural language processing","level":1,"score":0.5616668462753296},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C137293760","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3621696","display_name":"Language model","level":2,"score":0.5393367409706116},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780451532","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q759676","display_name":"Task (project management)","level":2,"score":0.49958181381225586},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.46823424100875854},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C155635449","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4674699","display_name":"Acoustic model","level":3,"score":0.44994109869003296},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154690210","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1668499","display_name":"Rewriting","level":2,"score":0.41782188415527344},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C61328038","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3358061","display_name":"Speech processing","level":2,"score":0.3196738660335541},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41895202","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8162","display_name":"Linguistics","level":1,"score":0.19112765789031982},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199360897","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9143","display_name":"Programming language","level":1,"score":0.10119259357452393},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C187736073","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2920921","display_name":"Management","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C120665830","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14620","display_name":"Optics","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C121332964","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q413","display_name":"Physics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.18653/v1/w17-1319","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w17-1319","pdf_url":"https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-1319.pdf","source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:HAL:hal-01531588v1","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://hal.science/hal-01531588","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306402512","display_name":"HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I1294671590","host_organization_name":"Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1294671590"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"other-oa","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/other-oa","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"The third Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop - EACL 2017, Apr 2017, Valencia, Spain","raw_type":"Conference papers"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.18653/v1/w17-1319","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w17-1319","pdf_url":"https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-1319.pdf","source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"score":0.46000000834465027,"display_name":"Quality Education","id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/4"}],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G5663603576","display_name":"Access Multilingual Information opinionS","funder_award_id":"ANR-15-CHR2-0001","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320320883","funder_display_name":"Agence Nationale de la Recherche"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320320883","display_name":"Agence Nationale de la Recherche","ror":"https://ror.org/00rbzpz17"}],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":true,"pdf":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2620586161.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2620586161.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":34,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W14331692","https://openalex.org/W62305045","https://openalex.org/W72757270","https://openalex.org/W171608785","https://openalex.org/W191851035","https://openalex.org/W1524333225","https://openalex.org/W1580585137","https://openalex.org/W1586934900","https://openalex.org/W1599512239","https://openalex.org/W1631260214","https://openalex.org/W1797288984","https://openalex.org/W1877570817","https://openalex.org/W1895481600","https://openalex.org/W1987385324","https://openalex.org/W1990501283","https://openalex.org/W2006701229","https://openalex.org/W2024903555","https://openalex.org/W2056250865","https://openalex.org/W2096257473","https://openalex.org/W2097341304","https://openalex.org/W2097927681","https://openalex.org/W2115084322","https://openalex.org/W2128014038","https://openalex.org/W2134237567","https://openalex.org/W2143910127","https://openalex.org/W2153579005","https://openalex.org/W2250854801","https://openalex.org/W2251019733","https://openalex.org/W2251667429","https://openalex.org/W2471147443","https://openalex.org/W2950186769","https://openalex.org/W2964186419","https://openalex.org/W4294170691","https://openalex.org/W4302557958"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W151018310","https://openalex.org/W3081187864","https://openalex.org/W4380605396","https://openalex.org/W2803306015","https://openalex.org/W3133352777","https://openalex.org/W1989887389","https://openalex.org/W2008737763","https://openalex.org/W2784059283","https://openalex.org/W4319779560","https://openalex.org/W4385611764"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Automatic":[0,16],"speech":[1,27,54],"recognition":[2],"for":[3,15,88,100,122],"Arabic":[4,26,52,62],"is":[5,30,92],"a":[6,115],"very":[7],"challenging":[8],"task.":[9],"Despite":[10],"all":[11],"the":[12,36,41,58,65,70,73,76,123,132,137,140],"classical":[13],"techniques":[14],"Speech":[17],"Recognition":[18],"(ASR),":[19],"which":[20,82,91],"can":[21],"be":[22],"efficiently":[23],"applied":[24],"to":[25,32,39,61,84],"recognition,":[28],"it":[29],"essential":[31],"take":[33],"into":[34],"consideration":[35],"language":[37,71,109],"specificities":[38],"improve":[40],"system":[42,99,125],"performance.":[43],"In":[44],"this":[45],"article,":[46],"we":[47],"focus":[48],"on":[49],"Modern":[50],"Standard":[51],"(MSA)":[53],"recognition.":[55],"We":[56,95,113],"introduce":[57],"challenges":[59],"related":[60],"language,":[63],"namely":[64],"complex":[66],"morphology":[67],"nature":[68],"of":[69,75,120],"and":[72,108,126,134],"absence":[74],"short":[77],"vowels":[78],"in":[79],"written":[80],"text,":[81],"leads":[83],"several":[85],"potential":[86],"vowelization":[87],"each":[89],"graphemes,":[90],"often":[93],"conflicting.":[94],"develop":[96],"an":[97],"ASR":[98],"MSA":[101],"by":[102,130,135],"using":[103],"Kaldi":[104],"toolkit.":[105],"Several":[106],"acoustic":[107],"models":[110],"are":[111],"trained.":[112],"obtain":[114],"Word":[116],"Error":[117],"Rate":[118],"(WER)":[119],"14.42":[121],"baseline":[124],"12.2":[127],"relative":[128],"improvement":[129],"rescoring":[131],"lattice":[133],"rewriting":[136],"output":[138],"with":[139],"right":[141],"hamoza":[142],"above":[143],"or":[144],"below":[145],"Alif.":[146]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":7},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":5},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":2}],"updated_date":"2026-06-20T22:02:38.213706","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}