Ahmed Ali

94 papers A* 1A 16C 6Misc 8Journal 43Unranked 18
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
IQRA 2026: Interspeech Challenge on Automatic Assessment Pronunciation for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
CoRR
Yassine El Kheir, Amit Meghanani, Mostafa Shahin, Omnia Ibrahim, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Nada AlMarwani, Yousseif Elshahawy, Ahmed Ali
2025 A conf
CS-FLEURS: A Massively Multilingual and Code-Switched Speech Dataset.
INTERSPEECH
Brian Yan, Injy Hamed, Shuichiro Shimizu, Vasista Sai Lodagala, William Chen, Olga Iakovenko, Bashar Talafha, Amir Hussein, Alexander Polok, Kalvin Chang, Dominik Klement, Sara Althubaiti, Puyuan Peng, Matthew Wiesner, Thamar Solorio, Ahmed Ali, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Shinji Watanabe
2025 J jnl
CS-FLEURS: A Massively Multilingual and Code-Switched Speech Dataset.
CoRR
Brian Yan, Injy Hamed, Shuichiro Shimizu, Vasista Sai Lodagala, William Chen, Olga Iakovenko, Bashar Talafha, Amir Hussein, Alexander Polok, Kalvin Chang, Dominik Klement, Sara Althubaiti, Puyuan Peng, Matthew Wiesner, Thamar Solorio, Ahmed Ali, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Shinji Watanabe, Chih-Chen Chen, Zhen Wu, Karim Benharrak, Anuj Diwan, Samuele Cornell, Eunjung Yeo, Kwanghee Choi, Carlos Carvalho, Karen Rosero
2025 J jnl
Fanar: An Arabic-Centric Multimodal Generative AI Platform.
CoRR
Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad, Firoj Alam, Enes Altinisik, Ehsaneddin Asgari, Yazan Boshmaf, Sabri Boughorbel, Sanjay Chawla, Shammur A. Chowdhury, Fahim Dalvi, Kareem Darwish, Nadir Durrani, Mohamed Elfeky, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Mohamed Y. Eltabakh, Masoomali Fatehkia, Anastasios Fragkopoulos, Maram Hasanain, Majd Hawasly, Mus'ab Husaini, Soon-Gyo Jung, Ji Kim Lucas, Walid Magdy, Safa Messaoud, Abubakr Mohamed, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Basel Mousi, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmad Musleh, Zan Naeem, Mourad Ouzzani, Dorde Popovic, Amin Sadeghi, Husrev Taha Sencar, Mohammed Shinoy, Omar Sinan, Yifan Zhang, Ahmed Ali, Yassine El Kheir, Xiaosong Ma, Chaoyi Ruan
2025 A conf
SawtArabi: A Benchmark Corpus for Arabic TTS. Standard, Dialectal and Code-Switching.
INTERSPEECH
Vasista Sai Lodagala, Lamya Alkanhal, Daniel Izham, Shivam Mehta, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Aqeelah Makki, Hamdy S. Hussein, Gustav Eje Henter, Ahmed Ali
2025 A conf
Towards a Unified Benchmark for Arabic Pronunciation Assessment: Qur'anic Recitation as Case Study.
INTERSPEECH
Yassine El Kheir, Omnia Ibrahim, Amit Meghanani, Nada AlMarwani, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Sadeen Alharbi, Modar Alfadly, Lamya Alkanhal, Ibrahim Selim, Shehab Elbatal, Salima Mdhaffar, Thomas Hain, Yasser Hifny, Mostafa Shahin, Ahmed Ali
2025 J jnl
Towards a Unified Benchmark for Arabic Pronunciation Assessment: Quranic Recitation as Case Study.
CoRR
Yassine El Kheir, Omnia Ibrahim, Amit Meghanani, Nada AlMarwani, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Sadeen Alharbi, Modar Alfadly, Lamya Alkanhal, Ibrahim Selim, Shehab Elbatal, Salima Mdhaffar, Thomas Hain, Yasser Hifny, Mostafa Shahin, Ahmed Ali
2025 J jnl
Unlocking the Potential of Arabic Voice-Generation Technologies.
Commun. ACM
Shammur Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali, Ahmed Abdelali, Mohamed G. Elfeky, Kareem Darwish
2024 — conf
Beyond Orthography: Automatic Recovery of Short Vowels and Dialectal Sounds in Arabic.
ACL (1)
Yassine El Kheir, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Ali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury
2024 Misc conf
L1-Aware Multilingual Mispronunciation Detection Framework.
ICASSP
Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
2024 — conf
LAraBench: Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models.
EACL (1)
Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Maram Hasanain, Basel Mousi, Sabri Boughorbel, Samir Abdaljalil, Yassine El Kheir, Daniel Izham, Fahim Dalvi, Majd Hawasly, Nizi Nazar, Yousseif Elshahawy, Ahmed Ali, Nadir Durrani, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Firoj Alam
2024 — conf
LLMeBench: A Flexible Framework for Accelerating LLMs Benchmarking.
EACL (Demonstrations)
Fahim Dalvi, Maram Hasanain, Sabri Boughorbel, Basel Mousi, Samir Abdaljalil, Nizi Nazar, Ahmed Abdelali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Ali
2024 Misc conf
Speech Collage: Code-Switched Audio Generation by Collaging Monolingual Corpora.
ICASSP
Amir Hussein, Dorsa Zeinali, Ondrej Klejch, Matthew Wiesner, Brian Yan, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali, Shinji Watanabe, Sanjeev Khudanpur
2024 — conf
Speech Representation Analysis Based on Inter- and Intra-Model Similarities.
ICASSP Workshops
Yassine El Kheir, Ahmed Ali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury
2024 J jnl
Speech Representation Analysis based on Inter- and Intra-Model Similarities.
CoRR
Yassine El Kheir, Ahmed Ali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury
2024 J jnl
What do end-to-end speech models learn about speaker, language and channel information? A layer-wise and neuron-level analysis.
Comput. Speech Lang.
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Nadir Durrani, Ahmed Ali
2023 — conf
Automatic Pronunciation Assessment - A Review.
EMNLP (Findings)
Yassine El Kheir, Ahmed Ali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury
2023 J jnl
Automatic Pronunciation Assessment - A Review.
CoRR
Yassine El Kheir, Ahmed Ali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury
2023 J jnl
Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models.
CoRR
Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Maram Hasanain, Basel Mousi, Sabri Boughorbel, Yassine El Kheir, Daniel Izham, Fahim Dalvi, Majd Hawasly, Nizi Nazar, Yousseif Elshahawy, Ahmed Ali, Nadir Durrani, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Firoj Alam
2023 J jnl
FOOCTTS: Generating Arabic Speech with Acoustic Environment for Football Commentator.
CoRR
Massa Baali, Ahmed Ali
2023 J jnl
L1-aware Multilingual Mispronunciation Detection Framework.
CoRR
Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
2023 J jnl
LLMeBench: A Flexible Framework for Accelerating LLMs Benchmarking.
CoRR
Fahim Dalvi, Maram Hasanain, Sabri Boughorbel, Basel Mousi, Samir Abdaljalil, Nizi Nazar, Ahmed Abdelali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Ali, Majd Hawasly, Nadir Durrani, Firoj Alam
2023 — conf
Multi-View Multi-Task Representation Learning for Mispronunciation Detection.
SLaTE
Yassine El Kheir, Shammur A. Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
2023 J jnl
Multi-View Multi-Task Representation Learning for Mispronunciation Detection.
CoRR
Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
2023 Misc conf
Multilingual Word Error Rate Estimation: E-Wer3.
ICASSP
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
2023 J jnl
Multilingual Word Error Rate Estimation: e-WER3.
CoRR
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
2023 J jnl
MyVoice: Arabic Speech Resource Collaboration Platform.
CoRR
Yousseif Elshahawy, Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
2023 J jnl
QVoice: Arabic Speech Pronunciation Learning Application.
CoRR
Yassine El Kheir, Fouad Khnaisser, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Shazia Afzal, Ahmed Ali
2023 — conf
SpeechBlender: Speech Augmentation Framework for Mispronunciation Data Generation.
SLaTE
Yassine El Kheir, Shammur A. Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali, Hamdy Mubarak, Shazia Afzal
2023 J jnl
The complementary roles of non-verbal cues for Robust Pronunciation Assessment.
CoRR
Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
2023 J jnl
Unsupervised Data Selection for TTS: Using Arabic Broadcast News as a Case Study.
CoRR
Massa Baali, Tomoki Hayashi, Hamdy Mubarak, Soumi Maiti, Shinji Watanabe, Wassim El-Hajj, Ahmed Ali
2022 J jnl
Arabic speech recognition by end-to-end, modular systems and human.
Comput. Speech Lang.
Amir Hussein, Shinji Watanabe, Ahmed Ali
2022 — conf
Benchmarking Evaluation Metrics for Code-Switching Automatic Speech Recognition.
SLT
Injy Hamed, Amir Hussein, Oumnia Chellah, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Sunayana Sitaram, Nizar Habash, Ahmed Ali
2022 J jnl
Benchmarking Evaluation Metrics for Code-Switching Automatic Speech Recognition.
CoRR
Injy Hamed, Amir Hussein, Oumnia Chellah, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Sunayana Sitaram, Nizar Habash, Ahmed Ali
2022 J jnl
Code-Switching Text Augmentation for Multilingual Speech Processing.
CoRR
Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Abdelali, Najim Dehak, Ahmed Ali
2022 J jnl
Creating Speech-to-Speech Corpus from Dubbed Series.
CoRR
Massa Baali, Wassim El-Hajj, Ahmed Ali
2022 J jnl
SpeechBlender: Speech Augmentation Framework for Mispronunciation Data Generation.
CoRR
Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Shazia Afzal, Ahmed Ali
2022 J jnl
Ten Years after ImageNet: A 360° Perspective on AI.
CoRR
Sanjay Chawla, Preslav Nakov, Ahmed Ali, Wendy Hall, Issa Khalil, Xiaosong Ma, Husrev Taha Sencar, Ingmar Weber, Michael A. Wooldridge, Ting Yu
2022 — conf
Textual Data Augmentation for Arabic-English Code-Switching Speech Recognition.
SLT
Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Abdelali, Najim Dehak, Ahmed Ali, Sanjeev Khudanpur
2021 A conf
Arabic Code-Switching Speech Recognition Using Monolingual Data.
Interspeech
Ahmed Ali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Amir Hussein, Yasser Hifny
2021 J jnl
Arabic Code-Switching Speech Recognition using Monolingual Data.
CoRR
Ahmed Ali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Amir Hussein, Yasser Hifny
2021 J jnl
Arabic Speech Recognition by End-to-End, Modular Systems and Human.
CoRR
Amir Hussein, Shinji Watanabe, Ahmed Ali
2021 J jnl
Connecting Arabs: bridging the gap in dialectal speech recognition.
Commun. ACM
Ahmed Ali, Shammur A. Chowdhury, Mohamed Afify, Wassim El-Hajj, Hazem M. Hajj, Mourad Abbas, Amir Hussein, Nada Ghneim, Mohammad A. M. Abushariah, Assal A. M. Alqudah
2021 J jnl
KARI: KAnari/QCRI's End-to-End systems for the INTERSPEECH 2021 Indian Languages Code-Switching Challenge.
CoRR
Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
2021 J jnl
QASR: QCRI Aljazeera Speech Resource - A Large Scale Annotated Arabic Speech Corpus.
CoRR
Hamdy Mubarak, Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
2021 — conf
QASR: QCRI Aljazeera Speech Resource A Large Scale Annotated Arabic Speech Corpus.
ACL/IJCNLP (1)
Hamdy Mubarak, Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
2021 A conf
Towards One Model to Rule All: Multilingual Strategy for Dialectal Code-Switching Arabic ASR.
Interspeech
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Amir Hussein, Ahmed Abdelali, Ahmed Ali
2021 J jnl
Towards One Model to Rule All: Multilingual Strategy for Dialectal Code-Switching Arabic ASR.
CoRR
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Amir Hussein, Ahmed Abdelali, Ahmed Ali
2021 J jnl
What do End-to-End Speech Models Learn about Speaker, Language and Channel Information? A Layer-wise and Neuron-level Analysis.
CoRR
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Nadir Durrani, Ahmed Ali
2020 Misc conf
ADI17: A Fine-Grained Arabic Dialect Identification Dataset.
ICASSP
Suwon Shon, Ahmed Ali, Younes Samih, Hamdy Mubarak, James R. Glass
2020 A conf
Effects of Dialectal Code-Switching on Speech Modules: A Study Using Egyptian Arabic Broadcast Speech.
INTERSPEECH
Shammur A. Chowdhury, Younes Samih, Mohamed Eldesouki, Ahmed Ali
2020 J jnl
Efficient Arabic emotion recognition using deep neural networks.
CoRR
Ahmed Ali, Yasser Hifny
2020 A conf
What Does an End-to-End Dialect Identification Model Learn About Non-Dialectal Information?
INTERSPEECH
Shammur A. Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali, Suwon Shon, James R. Glass
2020 A* conf
What Was Written vs. Who Read It: News Media Profiling Using Text Analysis and Social Media Context.
ACL
Ramy Baly, Georgi Karadzhov, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Yoan Dinkov, Ahmed Ali, James R. Glass, Preslav Nakov
2020 J jnl
What Was Written vs. Who Read It: News Media Profiling Using Text Analysis and Social Media Context.
CoRR
Ramy Baly, Georgi Karadzhov, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Yoan Dinkov, Ahmed Ali, James R. Glass, Preslav Nakov
2020 A conf
Word Error Rate Estimation Without ASR Output: e-WER2.
INTERSPEECH
Ahmed Ali, Steve Renals
2020 J jnl
Word Error Rate Estimation Without ASR Output: e-WER2.
CoRR
Ahmed Ali, Steve Renals
2019 Misc conf
A Factorial Deep Markov Model for Unsupervised Disentangled Representation Learning from Speech.
ICASSP
Sameer Khurana, Shafiq Rayhan Joty, Ahmed Ali, James R. Glass
2019 A conf
Analyzing Phonetic and Graphemic Representations in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition.
INTERSPEECH
Yonatan Belinkov, Ahmed Ali, James R. Glass
2019 J jnl
Analyzing Phonetic and Graphemic Representations in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition.
CoRR
Yonatan Belinkov, Ahmed Ali, James R. Glass
2019 J jnl
DARTS: Dialectal Arabic Transcription System.
CoRR
Sameer Khurana, Ahmed Ali, James R. Glass
2019 C conf
Detecting Deception in Political Debates Using Acoustic and Textual Features.
ASRU
Daniel Kopev, Ahmed Ali, Ivan Koychev, Preslav Nakov
2019 J jnl
Detecting Deception in Political Debates Using Acoustic and Textual Features.
CoRR
Daniel Kopev, Ahmed Ali, Ivan Koychev, Preslav Nakov
2019 Misc conf
Domain Attentive Fusion for End-to-end Dialect Identification with Unknown Target Domain.
ICASSP
Suwon Shon, Ahmed Ali, James R. Glass
2019 Misc conf
Efficient Arabic Emotion Recognition Using Deep Neural Networks.
ICASSP
Yasser Hifny, Ahmed Ali
2019 A conf
FarSpeech: Arabic Natural Language Processing for Live Arabic Speech.
INTERSPEECH
Mohamed Eldesouki, Naassih Gopee, Ahmed Ali, Kareem Darwish
2019 A conf
Predicting the Leading Political Ideology of YouTube Channels Using Acoustic, Textual, and Metadata Information.
INTERSPEECH
Yoan Dinkov, Ahmed Ali, Ivan Koychev, Preslav Nakov
2019 J jnl
Predicting the Leading Political Ideology of YouTube Channels Using Acoustic, Textual, and Metadata Information.
CoRR
Yoan Dinkov, Ahmed Ali, Ivan Koychev, Preslav Nakov
2019 C conf
The MGB-5 Challenge: Recognition and Dialect Identification of Dialectal Arabic Speech.
ASRU
Ahmed Ali, Suwon Shon, Younes Samih, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelali, James R. Glass, Steve Renals, Khalid Choukri
2019 A conf
Towards Variability Resistant Dialectal Speech Evaluation.
INTERSPEECH
Ahmed Ali, Salam Khalifa, Nizar Habash
2018 — conf
Convolutional Neural Network and Language Embeddings for End-to-End Dialect Recognition.
Odyssey
Suwon Shon, Ahmed Ali, James R. Glass
2018 J jnl
Convolutional Neural Networks and Language Embeddings for End-to-End Dialect Recognition.
CoRR
Suwon Shon, Ahmed Ali, James R. Glass
2018 J jnl
Domain Attentive Fusion for End-to-end Dialect Identification with Unknown Target Domain.
CoRR
Suwon Shon, Ahmed Ali, James R. Glass
2018 Misc conf
Exploiting Convolutional Neural Networks for Phonotactic Based Dialect Identification.
ICASSP
Maryam Najafian, Sameer Khurana, Suwon Shon, Ahmed Ali, James R. Glass
2018 — conf
Language Identification and Morphosyntactic Tagging: The Second VarDial Evaluation Campaign.
VarDial@COLING 2018
Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Preslav Nakov, Ahmed Ali, Suwon Shon, James R. Glass, Yves Scherrer, Tanja Samardzic, Nikola Ljubesic, Jörg Tiedemann, Chris van der Lee, Stefan Grondelaers, Nelleke Oostdijk, Dirk Speelman, Antal van den Bosch, Ritesh Kumar, Bornini Lahiri, Mayank Jain
2018 — ed.
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, VarDial@COLING 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, August 20, 2018
VarDial@COLING 2018
Marcos Zampieri, Preslav Nakov, Nikola Ljubesic, Jörg Tiedemann, Shervin Malmasi, Ahmed Ali
2018 — conf
Word Error Rate Estimation for Speech Recognition: e-WER.
ACL (2)
Ahmed Ali, Steve Renals
2017 C conf
Automatic speech recognition of Arabic multi-genre broadcast media.
ASRU
Maryam Najafian, Wei-Ning Hsu, Ahmed Ali, James R. Glass
2017 — conf
Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2017.
VarDial
Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi, Nikola Ljubesic, Preslav Nakov, Ahmed Ali, Jörg Tiedemann, Yves Scherrer, Noëmi Aepli
2017 J jnl
MIT-QCRI Arabic Dialect Identification System for the 2017 Multi-Genre Broadcast Challenge.
CoRR
Suwon Shon, Ahmed Ali, James R. Glass
2017 C conf
MIT-QCRI Arabic dialect identification system for the 2017 multi-genre broadcast challenge.
ASRU
Suwon Shon, Ahmed Ali, James R. Glass
2017 — ed.
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, VarDial 2017, Valencia, Spain, April 3, 2017
VarDial
Preslav Nakov, Marcos Zampieri, Nikola Ljubesic, Jörg Tiedemann, Shervin Malmasi, Ahmed Ali
2017 A conf
QMDIS: QCRI-MIT Advanced Dialect Identification System.
INTERSPEECH
Sameer Khurana, Maryam Najafian, Ahmed Ali, Tuka Al Hanai, Yonatan Belinkov, James R. Glass
2017 C conf
Speech recognition challenge in the wild: Arabic MGB-3.
ASRU
Ahmed Ali, Stephan Vogel, Steve Renals
2017 C conf
WERD: Using social text spelling variants for evaluating dialectal speech recognition.
ASRU
Ahmed Ali, Preslav Nakov, Peter Bell, Steve Renals
2016 A conf
Automatic Dialect Detection in Arabic Broadcast Speech.
INTERSPEECH
Ahmed Ali, Najim Dehak, Patrick Cardinal, Sameer Khurana, Sree Harsha Yella, James R. Glass, Peter Bell, Steve Renals
2016 — conf
Discriminating between Similar Languages and Arabic Dialect Identification: A Report on the Third DSL Shared Task.
VarDial@COLING
Shervin Malmasi, Marcos Zampieri, Nikola Ljubesic, Preslav Nakov, Ahmed Ali, Jörg Tiedemann
2016 J jnl
The MGB-2 Challenge: Arabic Multi-Dialect Broadcast Media Recognition.
CoRR
Ahmed Ali, Peter Bell, James R. Glass, Yacine Messaoui, Hamdy Mubarak, Steve Renals, Yifan Zhang
2016 — conf
The MGB-2 challenge: Arabic multi-dialect broadcast media recognition.
SLT
Ahmed Ali, Peter Bell, James R. Glass, Yacine Messaoui, Hamdy Mubarak, Steve Renals, Yifan Zhang
2015 A conf
Crowdsource a little to label a lot: labeling a speech corpus of dialectal Arabic.
INTERSPEECH
Samantha Wray, Ahmed Ali
2014 — conf
A complete KALDI recipe for building Arabic speech recognition systems.
SLT
Ahmed Ali, Yifan Zhang, Patrick Cardinal, Najim Dehak, Stephan Vogel, James R. Glass
2014 — conf
Advances in dialectal Arabic speech recognition: a study using Twitter to improve Egyptian ASR.
IWSLT
Ahmed Ali, Hamdy Mubarak, Stephan Vogel
2014 J jnl
Non-Negative Factor Analysis of Gaussian Mixture Model Weight Adaptation for Language and Dialect Recognition.
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process.
Mohamad Hasan Bahari, Najim Dehak, Hugo Van hamme, Lukás Burget, Ahmed Ali, Jim Glass
2014 A conf
Recent advances in ASR applied to an Arabic transcription system for Al-Jazeera.
INTERSPEECH
Patrick Cardinal, Ahmed Ali, Najim Dehak, Yu Zhang, Tuka Al Hanai, Yifan Zhang, James R. Glass, Stephan Vogel