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In this paper, we present “Kalema”, a system for digitizing Arabic scanned documents for the visually impaired such that it can be converted to audio format or Braille. This is done through a GWAP which offers a simple, challenging game that helps attract many volunteers for this cause. We show how such a tedious task can be achieved accurately and easily through the use of crowdsourcing.
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Akila, G., El-Menisy, M., Khaled, O., Sharaf, N., Tarhony, N., Abdennadher, S. (2015). Kalema: Digitizing Arabic Content for Accessibility Purposes Using Crowdsourcing. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9042. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18117-2_49
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