: NLP Vocabulary: diacritic mark

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diacritic mark

Diacritic marks help reduce the number of possible lexical word choices assigned to a source word which leads to better quality translated sentences. (Alqahtani, Ghoneim & Diab, 2016)
One important diacritic mark that is often missing from digital versions is shadda (gemination) which may be used to easily resolve some lexical ambiguities. (Terner, Bar & Dershowitz, 2020)
Research has indicated that excessive diacritic marks can hinder skilled readers-reducing reading speed and accuracy. (ElNokrashy & AlKhamissi, 2024)
The absence of diacritic marks makes Arabic language more ambiguous (Meddeb et al 2016) (Mahmoud & Zrigui, 2017)
White (2013) also notes that diacritic marks are often a common source of errors due to their small size and distance from the main character and that training in a combined approach also greatly expands the larger OCR character set. (Biggs, 2015)

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