Mansour M. Alghamdi

Associate Professor in Phonetics,

Computer and Electronic Research Institute

KACST,

Riyadh.

Email:  mghamdi@mghamdi.com

1. Books

2. Journal Papers

3. Conference Papers

4. Technical Reports

5. Patents

6. Scientific Projects

7. Committees

8. Administration Positions

9. Websites

10. Lectures

11. Training Courses

12. Articles

13. Other Related Work

.1. Books:

• Alghamdi, Mansour (...) Arabic Phonetics and Phonology (in press).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2000) Arabic Phonetics, Attaoobah, Riyadh (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2004) Analysis, Synthesis and Perception of Voicing in Arabic. Al-Toubah Bookshop, Riyadh. (The book is now available on the web)

2. Journal Papers:

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2006) "Voice Print": Voice Onset Time as a Model. Arab Journal for Security Studies and Training. 21. 42: 89-118 (in Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2006) Designing Arabic Fonts to Represent International Phonetic Alphabets. Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Engineering Sciences. 16, 2: 27-64. (in Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour M., Dahham I. Alani, Fayz A. Alharqan  and Muhammad I. Alkanhal (2006) Online Translation: A Proposed System for Translation to and from Arabic. Journal of King Saud University: Languages and Translation: 18: 47-71.(in Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2005) Algorithms for Romanizing Arabic Names.  Journal of King Saud University: Computer Sciences and Information. 17: 1-27. (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour, Husni Al-Muhtaseb, Mustafa Elshafei (2004) Arabic Phonological Rules, Journal of King Saud University: Computer Sciences and Information. 16: 1-25. (in Arabic).

• Elshafei, Mustafa, Husni Al-Muhtaseb and Mansour Alghamdi (2002) Techniques for High Quality Arabic Speech Synthesis, Information Science, 140 (3-4) 255-267.

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1998) A Spectrographic Analysis of Arabic Vowels: A Cross-dialect Study, Journal of King Saud University: Arts, (10) 1: 3-24.

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1997) Word Concord of The Talking Board, at-Tawasul al-Lisanee, 3: 145-148 (in Arabic).

3. Conference Papers:

• Alotaibi, Yousef Ajami , Mansour Alghamdi and Fahad Alotaiby (2008) Using a Telephony Saudi Accented Arabic Corpus in Automatic Recognition of Spoken Arabic Digits. 4th International Symposium on Image/Video Communications over fixed and mobile networks (ISIVC08), Bilbao, Spain.

• Alotaibi, Yousef Ajami , Mansour Alghamdi and Fahad Alotaiby (2008) Speech Recognition System of Arabic Digits based on A Telephony Arabic Corpus. The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition. Las Vegas, USA.

• Alkanhal, Mohamed, Mansour Alghamdi, Fahad Alotaibi and Ammar Alinazi (2008) Arabic Spoken Name Recognition. International Workshop on Signal Processing and Its Applications, 18 – 20 March 2008, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, U.A.E.

• Alghamdi, Mansour, Yahia El Hadj, Mohamed Alkanhal (2007) A Manual System to Segment and Transcribe Arabic Speech. IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSPC07). Dubai, UAE: 24–27 November 2007.

• Alghamdi, Mansour, Ibraheem Alkharashi and Imad Alsughayr (2007) CERI Contributions in Arabic Language Research. Expert Meeting on Electronic Arabic Dictionary. Damascus: 11-13 June 2007. (slides)  (in Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour, Mohamed Alkanhal, Abdullah Alansari and Yahia El Hadj (2007). New Sound Symbols for Arabic Sounds. Information Technology Symposium on Shariyah and Arabic. Riyadh. 6-7 March 2007. (in Arabic)

• Elshafei, Moustafa, Mohammad Ali, Husni Al-Muhtaseb and Mansour Alghamdi (2007) Automatic Segmentation of Arabic Speech. Workshop on Information Technology and Islamic Sciences, Imam Mohammad bin Saud University, Riyadh.

• Alsalman, Abdulmalik, Mansour Alghamdi, Khalid Alhuqayl and Salih Alsubay  (2007) A Computerized System to Romanize Arabic Names. The First International Symposium on Computers and Arabic Language. 25-28/3/2007.  (in Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour and Zeeshan Muzaffar  (2007) KACST Arabic Diacritizer. The First International Symposium on Computers and Arabic Language. 25-28/3/2007.

• Alkanhal, Mohamed, Mansour Alghamdi and Zeeshan Muzaffar (2007) Speaker Verification Based on Saudi Accented Arabic Database. International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and its Applications. Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. 12-15 February 2007.

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2006) A Proposed System for Name Transliteration Between Languages. Symposium: Transliteration Between Languages: Romanization of Arabic Proper Names organized and hosted by Naif Arab University for Security Sciences. 13-15/11/2006. Show slides.  (in Arabic)

• Elshafei, Mustafa, Husni Al-Muhtaseb and Mansour Alghamdi (2006). Machine Generation of Arabic Diacritical Marks. The 2006 World Congress in Computer Science Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. Las Vegas, USA. 26-29/6/2006.

• Elshafei, Mustafa, Husni Al-Muhtaseb and Mansour Alghamdi (2006) Statistical Methods for Automatic Diacritization of Arabic Text. The Saudi 18th National Computer Conference. Riyadh. 18: 301-306.

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2006) The Role of Arabic Linguists on CERI Projects. The Saudi 18th National Computer Conference. Riyadh. 18: 281-285. Show slides  (in Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2005) Biometrics: Voiceprint. Using Modern Technology to Prevent Crimes. Naif Arab University for Security Sciences. Riyadh. The slides.  (in Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour M., Muhammad I. Alkanhal, Dahham Ismail Alani and Fayz A. Alharqan (2005) Online Translation: A Proposed System. Arab Forum for Translation. Beirut. 239-257.   (in Arabic)

• Alani, Dahham I., Fayz A. Alharqan, Mansour M. Alghamdi and Muhammad I. Alkanhal (2004) Tools to use the Internet to Build Arabic Scientific Dictionary. The Third Conference of the Arabic Group. Damascus.  9-12 October 2004. (in Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2004) Arabic International Phonetic Alphabet, The 3rd Symposium on the Horizons of Scientific Research and Technology Development in the Arab World, Riyadh.  (in Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2004) Human-machine Communication and Databases, Science and Technology Workshop, Almadeenah Almunawwarah. (in Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2004) KACST Arabic Phonetics Database and Lip-reading, The 29th Symposium for the Deaf. Riyadh.125-129. (in Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2003) KACST Arabic Phonetics Database, The Fifteenth International Congress of Phonetics Science, Barcelona, 3109-3112.

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2003) Arabic International Phonetic Alphabet, The Ninth Annual Conference on Arabizing Sciences, 'Ayeen Shams University, Cairo. (in Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2003) The International Phonetic Alphabet and the Roman Letter, Standardization of Arabic Proper Names Transliteration: Security Dimensions, Riyadh, 243-264 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour, Mustafa Elshafei and Husni Al-Muhtaseb (2002) Speech Units for Arabic Text-to-speech, The Fourth Workshop on Computer and Inforamtion Sciences. Dammam. 199-212 (in Arabic).

• Al-Muhtaseb, Husni, Mustafa Elshafei and Mansour Alghamdi (2000) Techniques for High Quality Arabic Text-to-speech, The Third Workshop on Computer and Information Sciences. Dammam. 73-82.

• Alghamdi, Mansour, Muhammad Basalamah, Mahmood Seeni and Afdhal Husain (1997) Database of Arabic Sounds: Words, 15th National Computer Conference, Dammam. 2: 797-815 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1992) Automatic Recognition of Arabic Gemination, The First International Conference on Arabic and Advanced Technology, Riydh (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour and Mustafa Elshafei (1993) The Talking Board I., The First Conference of the Saudi Society for Handicapped Children, Riyadh, 624-637 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour, Mustafa Elshafei, Mishal Alqadhi, Imad Alhammadi, Salah Azzamil (1992) Talking Board Project. The 13th National Computer Conference, Riyadh. 1: 50-59.  (in Arabic)

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4. Technical Reports:

• Alghamdi, Mansour, Abdulmalik Alsalman, Abuous Alshamsan, Faysal Almuhanna, Mahmoud Salih, Mansour Alwayili, Khalid Alhuqayl, Salih Alsubai (2006) Romanization System for Arabic Names (Final Report) KACST.  

• Alghamdi, Mansour, Muhammad Khursheed, Mustafa Elshafei; Fayz Alhargan, Muhammed Alkanhal, Abu Aus Alshamsan, Saad Alqahtani, Syed Zeeshan Muzaffar, Yasser Altowim, Adnan Yusuf and Husni Al-Muhtaseb (2006) Automatic Arabic Text Diacritizer (Final Report) KACST. (In Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour. Video Games Effects on Users, 2005. (in Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour, Mustafa Elshafei and Husni Al-Muhtaseb (2004) Arabic Text-to-speech System, General Directory of Grants Programs (Project: AT-18-12), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour. Second Language Effect on Native Language, 2003. (in Arabic)

• Alghamdi, Mansour, Abdulaziz Alhumayid and Muneer ad-Dusooqee (2003) Arabic Sound Database: Sentences, Computer and Electronics Research Institute (HK-28), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour, Fayz Alharqan, Muhammad Alkanhal, Ashraf Alkhayri and Muneer Addusooqiee (2003) Saudi Accented Arabic Voice Bank, Computer and Electronics Research Institute (M - K - 6 - 1), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh (in Arabic).

.5. Patents:

• Patent in Arabic text diacritizer that is linguistically independent, submission date: 11-6-2006, No 06270175. KACST.

.6. Scientific Projects:

• Principle investigator of the project: Arabic Text Autoscoring. Supported by KACST (2008-210).

• Principle investigator of the project: Interactive Arabic Electronic Dictionary. Supported by KACST and ALECSO (2008-210). Organizing the second workshop (05-05-2008).

• Member of the team (PI Ashraf Alkhayri) for the "Formant Synthesis of the Arabic Sounds" project. CERI, KACST (2007-2008).

• Member of the team (PI Yousuf Alotaybi) for the "Automatic Recognition of Arabic Numbers and Letters Using HMM" project. King Saud University (2007-2008).

• Member of the team (PI Muhammad Almaneea) for the "Auto Segmentation of Arabic Speech Sounds" project. CERI, KACST (2007-2008).

• Member of the team (PI Heidi Alaskari) for the "Saudi Nasality Norms" project , Prince Salman Center for Disability Research (2006-2007).

• Member of the research team (PI Mustafa Alshafei) on the project "Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition System". King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals. Granted by KACST (2005-2007).

• Member of the research team (PI Yahiya Alhaj) on the project "Automatic Speech Recognition of the Holy Quran" (2006-2008).

• Member of the research team (PI Muhammad Alkanahal) on the project "Speech Recognition in IVR" (2005-2006).

• Principle investigator of the project Romanization of Arabic Names. Products: Eng. Abdullah Alwihaybi and Sultan Alghamdi (Romanization using Oracle); Project brochure. The website. The 100 most common Arabic names according to Sultan Qabus Encyclopedia of Arab Names, 1991.

• Principle investigator of the project Arabic Text Diacritization. Some of its products are: Prof. Ibraheem Alshamsan (Derivation Rules; Diacritization Rules); Project brochure. The system that solely developed by the research team. Al-Muhtaseb, Husni, Muhammad Alloosh and Ziad Hamoodah. Automatic Diacritization. 2004. A program to evaluate Arabic text diacritizer, written by Eng. Abdullah Alzamil, 2004 (1, 2).

• Supervising Eng. Alaa Alhimyari on the project: Arabic Affix and Suffix Analyzer. 2004.

• Supervising Eng. Mansour Alwayli on the project: Converting Arabic names: Arabic to Roman. 2004. (Source Code).

• Principle investigator of the project: Arabic Text-to-speech. Project brochure.2004. See output demos, prepared by Eng. Faysal Alshuayr. The first Arabic TTS is now available as an open source for researchers and developers.

• Supervising the graduation project of Sultan and Salim Alqahtanis, 2003, (Converting Arabic Writing into Sound Symbols).

• Designing fonts for Arabic International Phonetic Alphabet. Project brochure. 2003. Computer and Electronic Research Institute, KACST.

• Co-supervising the graduation project of Waleed Alhazmi and Ahmad Annafei, 2003, (Auto-segmentation of Arabic Speech).

• Principle investigator of the project: Saudi Accented Arabic Voice Bank. 2003. Project brochure. (Samples: 1, 2, 3, 4). Saudi Arabian Dialect map.

• Principle investigator of the project: Database of Arabic Sounds: Sentences (ended in 2003). (Arabic text analyzer, Source)

• Principle investigator of the project: KACST Arabic Phonetics Database. 1999. Project brochure. Samples.

7. Committees:

• Member of KACST Website Content Committee (2008).

• Member of the consultant committee "Quran and Modern Technology: Information Technology" organized by King Fahad Complex for the Printing the Holy Quran (2008).

• Member of KACST Editorial Committee for the Annual Report for the years: 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.  

• Member of Sign Language Standardization Committee (2006-2007), Saudi Association for Hearing Impairment.

• Member of the Preparation Committee for King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz  Translation Award (2006-2007), King Abdulaziz Public Library.

• Member of the committee for the National Digital Excellence (2006-2007). Ministry of Communication and Information Technology.

• Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of the First International Symposium on Computers and Arabic Language (2005-2007).

• The Head of the Scientific Committee of the Symposium: Transliteration Between Languages: Romanization of Arabic Proper Names organized and hosted by Naif Arab University for Security Sciences. 13-15/11/2006.

• Member of the Committee formed to study the effect of the electronic/video games on users, 20/3/2006.

• Member of the Research Committee at Prince Salman Center for Disability Research (2005-2006)

• Member of the Training and Scholarship Committee at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (1/1/2005-31/12/2007).

• Head of the Scientific Committee of the the symposium on Standardizing Arabic Names Transliteration: Security Dimensions, Riyadh 2003 (One of its recommendations).

• Member of the Translation committee of the World Book Encyclopedia into Arabic. 1996.

• Head of the Translation Committee of the National Festival for Heritage and Culture, 2000-2001.

8. Administration Positions:

• Deputy Director of the Computer and Electronic Research Institute (2003-...).

• Head of Kacst Speech Center (2001- ...).

• Deputy Director of Department of Humanities, King Khalid Military Academy (1997-2001).

9. Websites:

• Supervising with the CERI team the Translation website (2006).

• Supervising with the CERI team the Eresearch website (2006).

10. Lectures:

• Lecture at College of Computer Sciences, King Saud University  titled "Language and Computer", 30/7/2006.

• Lecture titled "Biometrics and Voiceprint" 20/9/2005.

• Part-time lecturer at King Saud University since 1998.

11. Training Courses:

• Participating in the training course that CERI organized under the title Analyzing Speech Signal Using Praat (20-21/6/2006). Day1 Show Slides, Day2 Show Slides.

• Training course on "Voiceprint". PNUSS. 2004.

• Organizing the training course: Arabic Text-to-speech System, 2004. Dr. Mustafa Elshafei, Eng. Husni Al-Muhtaseb, lecturers at King Fahad University for Petroleum and Minerals.

• Organizing a training course on Arabic Speech Analysis for the teaching staff at Arabic Department, King Saud University, 2003.

• Organizing a training course on Arabic Speech Analysis at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, 1997.

12. Articles:

• Aliqtasadiyah Symposium, Arab International Economist,  26, 11, 2007.

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2007) Arabic and Computer Symposiums after 15 years, The International Symposium on Computer and Arabic Language, 12, 11, 2007.

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2007) KACST and Language, The International Symposium on Computer and Arabic Language, 11, 11, 2007.

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2006) The Role of Arabic Linguists on CERI Projects (1-2).  Aljazirah Newspaper.  (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2006) The Role of Arabic Linguists on CERI Projects (2-2).  Aljazirah Newspaper.  (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1990) Linguistics Reviews: Book Review, King Khalid Military Academy Quarterly, (9) 34: 110-112 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1990) Language and Problems of Knowledge: Book Review, ar-Riyadh Newspaper, 8417, p. 16 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1991) Arabic Sounds, Riyadh Daily Newspaper, (8) 182, p. 8.

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1992) Arabic in the Twenty-First Century, Okaz Newspaper, 9416, p. 18 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1992) Trade Mark Infringement, Okaz Newspaper, 9440, p 16 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1993) Phonetics: The Forgotten Science (Part One), ar-Riyadh Newspaper, 9005: p. 26 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1993) Phonetics: The Forgotten Science (Part Two), ar-Riyadh Newspaper, 9012: p. 28 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1993) Phonetics: The Forgotten Science (Part Three), ar-Riyadh Newspaper, 9019: p. 25 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1993) Passiveness in Water Shortage, Okaz Newspaper, 9762: p. 18 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1993) Energy, Okaz Newspaper, 9768: p. 18 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1993) Possession in Human Psychology, Okaz Newspaper, 9780: p. 5 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1993) Secrets, Okaz Newspaper, 9724: p. 5 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1994) The Military Ingeniousness of The Sword of God: Khalid ibn al-Waleed (Part One), King Khalid Military Academy Quarterly, (11) 42: 10-16 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1994) The Military Ingeniousness of The Sword of God: Khalid ibn al-Waleed (Part Two), King Khalid Military Academy Quarterly, (11) 43: 22-29 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1995) The Military Ingeniousness of The Sword of God: Khalid ibn al-Waleed (Part Three), King Khalid Military Academy Quarterly, (12) 45: 82-90 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1997) Speaker's Identification "Voice Print", King Khalid Military Academy Quarterly, (14) 54: 24-28 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1998) Speech Disorder, King Khalid Military Academy Quarterly, (14) 56: 80-84 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1998) Echo of the Unification, King Khalid Military Academy Quarterly, (15) 57: 194-195 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1999) A Personal Interpretation of Centennial Logo, King Khalid Military Academy Quarterly, (15) 58: 3-4.

• Alghamdi, Mansour (1999) English for Arabic Speaking Cadets, King Khalid Military Academy Quarterly, (16) 59: 8-10.

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2001) Standing Within the Mainstream, King Khalid Military Academy Quarterly, (17) 67: 40-41 (in Arabic).

• Alghamdi, Mansour (2002) The First Two Decades for Man at King Khalid Military Academy, King Khalid Military Academy Quarterly, (18) 69: 40-41 (in Arabic).

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13. Other academic activities:

• The Arabic font used at KACST, designed by CERI (2006). Other fonts designed by CERI.

• Producing a film named: The Role of the Nasal and Pharyngeal Cavities on Speech Production, 1991. The film is 80 Mb and can be sent upon request.

• Designing a solar oven. Alyamamah (25/12/1981). 669. P. 84.