King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Wasfi G Al-Khatib

Sabri A Mahmoud

Tamim Alnethary

Mohammad Husni Najib Yahia

Disclosed is a data driven error model that is based on error patterns found at the morphemes level. A model is generated by error-correct patterns generator and is stored in an error-correct patterns database (ECPD). The ECPD is used in conjunction with a correction candidates' generator (CCG) to provide a list of correction candidates for a given error word. The error model can learn the types and forms of the language patterns from an annotated corpus. The error model can be used to analyze the type of error and can provide candidates corrections for wide ranges of Arabic spelling errors.

Arabic spell checking error model

The method for retrieval of Arabic historical manuscripts using Latent Semantic Indexing approaches the problem of manuscripts indexing and retrieval by automatic indexing of Arabic historical manuscripts through word spotting, using 'Text Image' similarity of keywords. The similarity is computed using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). The method involves a manuscript page preprocessing step, a segmentation step, and a feature extraction step. Feature extraction utilizes a circular polar grid feature set. Once the salient features have been extracted, indexing of historical Arabic manuscripts using LSI is performed in support of content-based image retrieval (CBIR).

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Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Wasfi G Al-Khatib