Papers by Ali Hussein
QASR: QCRI Aljazeera Speech Resource A Large Scale Annotated Arabic Speech Corpus (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | QASR is the largest transcribed Arabic speech corpus in the broadcast domain. |
| Approach: | They introduce the largest transcribed Arabic speech corpus, QASR, collected from the broadcast domain. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset contains 2,000 hours of speech sampled at 16kHz crawled from Aljazeera news channel. |
PARME: Parallel Corpora for Low-Resourced Middle Eastern Languages (2025.acl-long)
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Sina Ahmadi, Rico Sennrich, Erfan Karami, Ako Marani, Parviz Fekrazad, Gholamreza Akbarzadeh Baghban, Hanah Hadi, Semko Heidari, Mahîr Dogan, Pedram Asadi, Dashne Bashir, Mohammad Amin Ghodrati, Kourosh Amini, Zeynab Ashourinezhad, Mana Baladi, Farshid Ezzati, Alireza Ghasemifar, Daryoush Hosseinpour, Behrooz Abbaszadeh, Amin Hassanpour, Bahaddin Jalal Hamaamin, Saya Kamal Hama, Ardeshir Mousavi, Sarko Nazir Hussein, Isar Nejadgholi, Mehmet Ölmez, Horam Osmanpour, Rashid Roshan Ramezani, Aryan Sediq Aziz, Ali Salehi, Mohammadreza Yadegari, Kewyar Yadegari, Sedighe Zamani Roodsari
| Challenge: | UNESCO has identified 60 varieties of Middle Eastern languages as underrepresented . a limited availability of language technology perpetuates a cycle of digital exclusion . |
| Approach: | They develop a parallel corpora for eight severely under-resourced varieties in the region . they evaluate machine translation capabilities through zero-shot approaches and fine-tuning experiments . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model aims to improve the processing of the eight under-resourced languages in the Middle East. |
The Makerere Radio Speech Corpus: A Luganda Radio Corpus for Automatic Speech Recognition (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing work in the area of radio browsing using automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been done by the United Nations in Uganda, and Keyword Spotting systems in Somalia. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a Luganda radio speech corpus of 155 hours to build a usable radio monitoring automatic speech recognition system. |
| Outcome: | The makerere artificial intelligence lab releases a Luganda radio speech corpus of 155 hours. |