Mike Wald

Mike Wald has 3 papers in our library, in 2011–2016, most of them on Semitic languages, Machine translation, Speech & spoken language; often with Nawar Halabi, Wajdi Zaghouani.

3 papers in our library · 2011–2016

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Arabic Text to Arabic Sign Language Translation System for the Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Community (2011 · 43 citations)
The paper presents a prototype that translates written Arabic into Arabic Sign Language (ArSL). The authors argue that earlier ArSL systems failed because their builders treated ArSL as a word-by-word mirror of Arabic or as fingerspelling, when it is an independent language with its own grammar. Three deaf native…
Phonetic Inventory for an Arabic Speech Corpus (2016 · 28 citations)
The authors tackle a gap in corpus design for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) speech synthesis. English has well-studied recording scripts. For MSA, it is unclear which sound units a script must cover. Before choosing sentences, they examine MSA phonetics and phonology to decide which units belong in the "phonetic…
Generating acceptable Arabic Core Vocabularies and Symbols for AAC users (2015 · 5 citations)
Therapists and teachers in the Arabic-speaking Gulf often rely on Western symbol sets and English core vocabularies, which fit poorly with Arabic language and culture.

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Updated 1 November 2026