# AraSpell: A Deep Learning Approach for Arabic Spelling Correction

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06981 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.06981/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 10 of its 31 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 11 May 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 10 of 10)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11929/) (2020)
- [End-to-End Object Detection with Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.12872/) (2020)
- [Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Vision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.00567/) (2015)
- [Conformer: Convolution-augmented Transformer for Speech Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.08100/) (2020)
- [Developing Real-time Streaming Transformer Transducer for Speech Recognition on Large-scale Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11395/) (2020)
- [MultiSpeech: Multi-Speaker Text to Speech with Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.04664/) (2020)
- [Correcting Arabic Soft Spelling Mistakes using BiLSTM-based Machine Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.01141/) (2021)
- [Hierarchical Character Tagger for Short Text Spelling Error Correction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.14259/) (2021)
- [Arabic Spelling Correction using Supervised Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.8309/) (2014)

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Large Language Models and Arabic Content: A Review](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.08004/) (2025)
- [TiSpell: A Semi-Masked Methodology for Tibetan Spelling Correction covering Multi-Level Error with Data Augmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.08037/) (2025)
- [PERCORE: A Deep Learning-Based Framework for Persian Spelling Correction with Phonetic Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.14789/) (2024)
- [Automatic Real-word Error Correction in Persian Text](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.14795/) (2024)
- [Improving the quality of Persian clinical text with a novel spelling correction system](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.03622/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Spelling correction is the task of identifying spelling mistakes, typos, and grammatical mistakes in a given text and correcting them according to their context and grammatical structure. This work introduces "AraSpell," a framework for Arabic spelling correction using different seq2seq model architectures such as Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and Transformer with artificial data generation for error injection, trained on more than 6.9 Million Arabic sentences. Thorough experimental studies provide empirical evidence of the effectiveness of the proposed approach, which achieved 4.8% and 1.11% word error rate (WER) and character error rate (CER), respectively, in comparison with labeled data of 29.72% WER and 5.03% CER. Our approach achieved 2.9% CER and 10.65% WER in comparison with labeled data of 10.02% CER and 50.94% WER. Both of these results are obtained on a test set of 100K sentences.