Publications
Edition
M. Abbas and A.A. Freihat, Edition of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, ICNLSP 2022, Trento, Italy, December 16-17, 2022. ACL proceedings. @2022 The Association for Computational Linguistics.
A.A. Freihat and M. Abbas, Edition of the 3rd International Workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages (NSURL 2022) co-located with ICNLSP 2022, Trento, Italy, December 18, 2022. ACL proceedings. @2022 The Association for Computational Linguistics.
M. Abbas and A.A. Freihat, Edition of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, ICNLSP 2021, Trento, Italy, November 12-13, 2021. ACL proceedings. @2021 The Association for Computational Linguistics.
A.A. Freihat and M. Abbas, Edition of the 2nd International Workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages (NSURL 2021) co-located with ICNLSP 2021, Trento, Italy, November 14, 2021. ACL proceedings. @2021 The Association for Computational Linguistics.
M. Abbas and A.A. Freihat, Edition of the 3rd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, ICNLSP 2019, Trento, Italy, September 12-13, 2019. ACL proceedings. @2019 The Association for Computational Linguistics.
A.A. Freihat and M. Abbas, Edition of the 1st International Workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages (NSURL 2019) co-located with ICNLSP 2019, Trento, Italy, September 11-12, 2019. ACL proceedings. @2019 The Association for Computational Linguistics.
M. Abbas, Edition of the 2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, ICNLSP 2018, Algiers, Algeria, April 25-26, 2018. IEEE.
M. Abbas, A. Abdelali, Edition of the 1st International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, ICNLSP 2015, Algiers, Algeria, October 18-19, 2015. Procedia Computer Science 128, 2018, Elsevier
Publications in journals and Conference proceedings
2023
A. Freihat, G. Bella, M. Abbas, H. Mubarak, F. Giunchiglia, (2023). ALP: An Arabic Linguistic Pipeline. In: Abbas, M. (eds) Analysis and Application of Natural Language and Speech Processing. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11035-1_4
B. Dahou, L. Falek, M. Abbas, S. Mekaoui, M. Lichouri, A. Zitouni, DZ-SMS: an authentic corpus of Algerian SMS. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (2023). ACM https://doi.org/10.1145/3610522
2022
K. Lounnas, M. Abbas, M. Lichouri, M. Hamidi, H. Satori, H. Teffahi, Enhancement of spoken digits recognition for under-resourced languages: case of Algerian and Moroccan dialects. Int J Speech Technol (2022). Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/s10772-022-09971-y
K.Lounnas, M. Lichouri, M. Abbas, T. Chahboub, S. Salmi, Towards an Automatic Dialect Identification System using Algerian Youtube Videos, ICNLSP 2022, 5th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, 16-17 December 2022. ACL proceedings. @2022 The Association for Computational Linguistics.
M. Lichouri, M. Abbas,; K. Lounnas, Statistical and Neural Techniques for Arabic Dialects Identification using Parallel and Non Parallel Corpora. International Symposium on Informatics and its Applications (ISIA'22), IEEE, 2022.
K. Lounnas, M. Lichouri, M. Abbas. Analysis of the Effect of Audio Data Augmentation Techniques on Phone Digit Recognition For Algerian Arabic Dialect, International Conference on Advanced Aspects of Software Engineering (ICAASE), IEEE, 2022.
2021
K. Darwish, N. Habash, M. Abbas, H. Al-Khalifa, H. Al-Natsheh, S. El-Beltagy, H. Bouamor, K. Bouzoubaa, V. Cavalli-Sforza, W. El-Hajj, M. Jarrar, H. Mubarak, A Panoramic Survey of Natural Language Processing in the Arab World. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 64, n. 4, 2021. ACM .
Ahmed Ali, Shammur Chowdhury, Mohamed Afify, Wassim El-Hajj, Hazem Hajj, Mourad Abbas, Amir Hussein, Nada Ghneim, Mohammad Abushariah, Assal Alqudah, Connecting Arabs: Bridging the Gap in Dialectal Speech Recognition, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 64 No. 4, Pages 124-129, April 2021. ACM .
M. Lichouri, M. Abbas, Machine Translation for Zero and Low-resourced Dialects using a New Extended Version of the Dialectal Parallel Corpus (Padic v2.0), ICNLSP 2021, 4th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, 12-13 November 2021. ACL proceedings. @2021 The Association for Computational Linguistics.
K. Lounnas, M. Abbas, M. Lichouri, Towards Phone Number Recognition For Code Switched Algerian Dialect, ICNLSP 2021, 4th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, 12-13 November 2021, Italy. ACL proceedings. @2021 The Association for Computational Linguistics.
M. Abbas, M. Lichouri, TPT: An Empirical Term Selection for Arabic Text Categorization, ICNLSP 2021, 4th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, 12-13 November 2021, Italy. ACL proceedings. @2021 The Association for Computational Linguistics.
A. Zitouni, L. Falek, M. Abbas, M. Lichouri, K. Lounnas, Analysis of the influence of the Arabic fricatives vocalic context on their spectral parameters, Advances in Computing Systems and Applications: Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Computing Systems and Applications, pp. 255-264, 2021, Springer.
F. Meziani, L. Bouchakour, K. Ghribi, M. Yahiaoui, H. Latrache and M. Abbas, Arabic Handwritten Text to Line Segmentation, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Information Systems and Advanced Technologies, ICISAT 2021, 2021.
M. Lichouri, M. Abbas, K. Lounnas, B. Benaziz, A. Zitouni, Arabic Dialect Identification based on Weighted Concatenation of TF-IDF Features, WANLP 2021 colocated with EACL 2021. The Association for Computational Linguistics.
M. Lichouri, M. Abbas, B. Benaziz, A. Zitouni, K. Lounnas, Preprocessing Solutions for Detection of Sarcasm and Sentiment for Arabic, WANLP 2021 colocated with EACL 2021. The Association for Computational Linguistics.
K. Lounnas, M. Abbas, M. Lichouri, H. Teffahi, M. Hamidi and H. Satori, A Transfer Learning Approach For Identifying Spoken Maghrebi Dialects, ESAI 2021, 2021, Morocco. Springer.
M. Hamidi, H. Satori, O. Zealouk, K. Lounnas, M. Abbas, M. and H. Teffahi, Mixed ASR System for Amazigh and Arabic Under-Resourced Di-alects in Maghreb Region, ESAI 2021, 2021, Morocco. Springer.
2020
M. Lichouri, M Abbas, Simple vs Oversampling-based Classification Methods for Fine Grained Arabic Dialect Identification in Twitter, the Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, 2020, Spain. The Association for Computational Linguistics.
Mohamed Lichouri, Mourad Abbas, SpeechTrans@SMM4H’20: Impact of Preprocessing and N-grams on Automatic Classification of Tweets That Mention Medications, SMM4H'20, 2020, Spain.
M. Lichouri, M. Abbas, B. Benaziz, Profiling Fake News Spreaders on Twitter based on TFIDF Features and Morphological Process. Notebook for PAN at CLEF 2020, CLEF 2020, Thessaloniki, Greece, September22-25, 2020.
K. Darwish, N. Habash, M. Abbas, H. Al-Khalifa, H. Al-Natsheh, S. El-Beltagy, H. Bouamor, K. Bouzoubaa, V. Cavalli-Sforza, W. El-Hajj, M. Jarrar, H. Mubarak, A Panoramic Survey of Natural Language Processing in the Arab World. , arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.12631, 2020.
K. Lounnas, H. Satori, H. Teffahi, M. Abbas, M. Lichouri, CLIASR: A Combined Automatic Speech Recognition and Language Identification System, 1st International Conference on Innovative Research in Applied Science, Engineering and Technology (IRASET 2020), IEEE , May 2020, Morocco.
2019
M. Lichouri, M. Abbas , B. Benaziz, A. Freihat, ST NSURL 2019 Shared Task: Semantic Question Similarity in Arabic, NSURL 2019, colocated with ICNLSP 2019 Trento, Italy. The Association for Computational Linguistics.
M. Abbas, M. Lichouri , R. Djeradi, A. Djeradi, An Arabic Multi-Domain Spoken Language Understanding System, ICNLSP 2019, 3rd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, 12-13 September 2019, Italy. ACL proceedings. @2019 The Association for Computational Linguistics.
K. Lounnas, M. Abbas, M. Lichouri, Building a Speech Corpus based on Arabic Podcasts for Language and Dialect Identification, ICNLSP 2019, 3rd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, 12-13 September 2019, Italy. ACL proceedings. @2019 The Association for Computational Linguistics.
M. Abbas, M. Lichouri, A. Zeggada, Classification of Arabic Poems: from the 5th to the 15th Century. ICIAP 2019, 20th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, Italy, 9-13 September, 2019. Springer.
M. Abbas, M. Lichouri, A. Freihat, ST MADAR 2019 Shared Task: Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification, WANLP 2019: The Fourth Workshop for Arabic Natural Language Processing, 2019, Italy. ACL proceedings. @2019 The Association for Computational Linguistics.
M. Lichouri R. Djeradi, A. Djeradi, M. Abbas. Towards a Portable SLU System Applied to MSA and Low-resourced Algerian Dialects, AMLTA 2019, 28-30 March 2019, Cairo. Springer
K. Lounnas, M. Abbas, H. Teffahi, M. Lichouri. A Language Identification System based on Voxforge Speech Corpus, AMLTA 2019, 28-30 March 2019, Cairo. Springer
2018
M. Lichouri, M. Abbas, A. Freihat, D. Megtouf. Word-Level vs Sentence-Level Language Identification: Application to Algerian and Arabic Dialects, ACLING 2018, November, 17-19, 2018, Dubai. Procedia Computer Science, 142. Elsevier, Pages 246-253.
A. Freihat, M. Abbas, G. Bella, F. Giunchiglia. Towards an Optimal Solution to Lemmatization in Arabic, ACLING 2018, November, 17-19, 2018, Dubai. Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier, 142. Pages 132-140
Mourad Abbas, Dhiya Megtouf. Towards a practical and efficient WER Calculation for Arabic ASR systems, 2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing ICNLSP 2018, 25, 26 April 2018, Algeria, 2018. IEEE.
Adil Bakri, Abderrahmane Amrouche, Mourad Abbas. An improved packet loss concealment technique for speech transmission in VOIP, 2nd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing ICNLSP 2018, 25, 26 April 2018, Algeria, 2018. IEEE.
2017
G. Imene, F. Azouaou, M. Abbas, Neural Vs Statistical Translation of Algerian Arabic Dialect written with Arabizi and Arabic letter, 31st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2017, Philippines, 2017.
G. Imene, F. Azouaou, M. Abbas, F. Sadat, Transliteration of Algerian Arabic dialect into Modern Standard Arabic , First workshop on Social Media and User Generated Content Machine Translation, Co-located with EAMT 2017, Czech Republic, 2017.
G. Imene, F. Azouaou, M. Abbas,Comparison between Neural and Statistical translation after transliteration of Algerian Arabic Dialect, The first WiNLP workshop, co-located with ACL 2017, Vancouver, 2017.
2016
S. Harrat, K. Meftouh, M. Abbas, K.W. Hidouci, K. Smaili, An Algerian dialect: Study and Resources, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications IJACSA, Vol. 7, issue 3, 2016.
2015
K. Meftouh, S. Harrat, S. Jamoussi, M. Abbas, K. Smaïli, Machine Translation Experiments on PADIC: A Parallel Arabic DIalect Corpus, The 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2015, Shanghai, 2015. ACL proceedings. @2015 The Association for Computational Linguistics
A. Bakri, A. Amrouche, M. Abbas, L. Bouchakour, Automatic Speech Recognition for VoIP with Packet Loss Concealment, First International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing- ICNLSP, Algiers, Algeria. Procedia Computer Science 128, Elsevier 2018
S. Harrat, K. Meftouh, M. Abbas, S. Jamoussi, M. Saad, K. Smaili, Cross-dialectal Arabic processing, 16th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics - CICLing 2015 (2015), Egypt. [Poster] Springer
L. Bouchakour, M. Debyeche, M. Abbas, A. Bakri, Speech Recognition System HMM and ANN based over Mobile Network AMR and DSR Coders' International Conference on Pattern Analysis and Intelligent Systems PAIS 2015, Algeria, 2015
2014
S. Harrat, K. Meftouh, M. Abbas, K. Smaili. Building Resources for Algerian Arabic Dialects. 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2014), 2014, Singapore. [Poster]
S. Harrat, K. Meftouh, M. Abbas, K. Smaili.Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion: An Arabic Dialect Case. The 4th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU'14), 2014, Russia.
2013
S. Harrat, M. Abbas, K. Meftouh, K. Smaili. Diacritics restoration for Arabic dialect texts. 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2013), 2013, France. [Poster]
M. Abbas, Arabic Language Learning Software based on ASR and TTS Systems. The International Conference on Soft Computing and Software Engineering, SCSE 2013, March 1-2, 2013, San Francisco, USA, 2013.
M. Abbas, "Arabic Language Learning Software based on ASR and TTS Systems," International Journal of Soft Computing and Software Engineering, Vol. 3, N.3, 2013.
2011
M. Abbas, K. Smaili, D. Berkani, "Evaluation of Topic Identification Methods for Arabic Texts and their Combination by using a Corpus Extracted from the Omani Newspaper Alwatan." Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research 29.3-4 (2011): 183-191.
M. Abbas, K. Smaili, D. Berkani. (2011). Evaluation of Topic Identification Methods on Arabic Corpora. Journal of Digital Information Management Vol. 9 No. 5, pp.185-192.
2010
M. Abbas, K. Smaili, D. Berkani. Efficiency of TR-Classifier versus TFIDF. First International Conference on Integrated Intelligent Computing - ICIIC 2010, August 5-7, 2010. IEEE publisher.
M. Abbas, K. Smaili, D. Berkani. (2010). TR-Classifier and kNN Evaluation for Topic Identification Tasks. Special Issue on Advances in Arabic Language Processing, the International Journal on Information and Communication Technologies (IJICT), Vol 3, N 3, pp. 65-74, Serial Publications.
2009
M. Abbas, K. Smaili, D. Berkani.Comparing TR-Classifier and KNN by using Reduced Sizes of Vocabularies. The 3rd International Conference on Arabic Language Processing, CITALA 2009, 4-5 May 2009, Mohammadia School of Engineers, Rabat, Morroco.
M. Abbas, K. Smaili, D. Berkani. Multi-category support vector machines for identifying Arabic topics, 10th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics - CICLing 2009 (2009), Mexico.
M. Abbas, K. Smaili, D. Berkani. A Trigger-based Classifier. The 2nd International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools MEDAR 2009, 22-23 April 2009, Cairo, Egypt.
M. Abbas, K. Smaili, D. Berkani. Identification de Thèmes: Cas de l'Arabe Standard. In: Traitement et Analyse de l’Information: Méthodes et ApplicationsTAIMA 2009, 4-9 may 2009, Tunisia.
M. Abbas, K. Smaili, D. Berkani. (2009). Multi-Category Support Vector Machines for Identifying Arabic Topics. Advances in Computaional Linguistics, Special issue of Journal of Research in computing Science. Vol. 41, pp.217-226, Volume Editor Alexander Gelbukh. [pdf]
M. Abbas, K. Smaili, D. Berkani. (2009). Topic Identification for Arabic Texts. International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering in Arabic, Vol. 2, N3, Phillips Publishing. [english abstract.pdf] , [arabic abstract.pdf] التعرف الموضوعي للنصوص العربية
2006
M. Abbas, D. Berkani. A Topic Identification Task for Modern Standard Arabic, 10th International Conference on Computers, July 10-15, 2006, Athens, Greece, pp.1092-1096.
M. Abbas, D. Berkani. (2006). Topic Identification by Statistical Methods for Arabic language. Wseas Transactions on Computers, Issue 9. Volume 5. pp. 1908-1913. 2006. [pdf]
2005
M. Abbas, K. Smaili. Comparison of Topic Identification Methods for Arabic Language, International conference - RANLP 2005: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing , 21-23 september 2005, Borovets, Bulgary. [pdf]
M. Abbas, D. Berkani. Le codage par transformation. The 2nd International conference in Language Engineering, 27 & 28 june 2005, Algiers.
2004
M. Abbas, M. Debyeche. Un système de reconnaissance automatique de la parole en Multibandes, International Conference on Complexes Systems CISC 2004, from 6 to 8 september 2004, Algeria.
2002
M. Abbas, M. Debyeche. Automatic Recognition of Arabic Phonemes in Continuous speech. The 7th Magrebian Conference on Computer Sciences, vol.1, pp. 79-87, 6-8 may 2002, Annaba.