List of Publications

2021

• Achraf Othman, Oussama El Ghoul, “Syntactic and semantic annotation tool for Qatari Sign Language Corpus”, 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility ICTA’21, December 8-10, 2021 [online].

• Mohamed Koutheair Khribi, Achraf Othman, Aljazi Nasser Al Jabor, “Fostering ICT accessibility proficiency through Mada ICT-AID Competency Framework”, 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility ICTA’21, December 8-10, 2021 [online].

• Fadi Adnan, Aljazi Al Jabr, Mike Park, Achraf Othman, “Mada Web Accessibility Monitor Tool”, 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility ICTA’21, December 8-10, 2021 [online].

• Dena A. Al Thani, Asma Hassan, Hajer Chalghoumi, Achraf Othman, Suzanne Hammad, “Addressing the Digital Gap for the Older Persons and their caregivers in the State of Qatar: A Stakeholders’ Perspective”, 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility ICTA’21, December 8-10, 2021 [online].

2020

• Book Chapter Othman, A. and Al-Sinani, A., (2020). Tawasol Symbols: Alternative Augmented Communication Pictograms to Support the Inclusion During Pandemics. In Radical Solutions for Education in a Crisis Context (pp. 225-239). Springer, Singapore.

• Book Chapter Tlili, A., Amelina, N., Burgos, D., Othman, A., Huang, R., Jemni, M., Lazor, M., Zhang, X. and Chang, T.W., (2020). Remote Special Education During Crisis: COVID-19 as a Case Study. In Radical Solutions for Education in a Crisis Context (pp. 69-83). Springer, Singapore.

• Conference ICCHP’2020 El Ghoul O., Ahmed I., Othman A., Al-Thani D.A., Al-Tamimi A. (2020) Mada Accessibility and Assistive Technology Glossary: A Digital Resource of Specialized Terms. In: ICCHP 2020.

• DOI Conference ICCHP’2020 El Ghoul O., Ahmed I., Othman A., Al-Thani D.A., Al-Tamimi A. (2020) An Overview of the New 8-Dots Arabic Braille Coding System. In: Miesenberger K., Manduchi R., Covarrubias Rodriguez M., Peňáz P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12376. Springer, Cham.

• Book Huang, R., Liu, D., Tlili, A., Lazor, M., Amelina, N., Varoglu, Z., Chang, T. W., Zhang, X., Jemni, M., Burgos, D., Othman, A., & Altinay, F. (2020). Guidance on Providing Open and Distance Learning for Students with Disabilities during School Closures: Enhancing Inclusive Learning under COVID-19.

2019

• Conference ICTA’2019 Dena Al Thani, Amani Al Tamimi, Achraf Othman, Ahmed Habib, Anirban Lahiri, Shahbaz Ahmed, “Mada Innovation Program: A Go-to-Market ecosystem for Arabic Accessibility Solutions“, 7^th International Conference On Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility ICTA’19, December 13-15, 2019, Hammamet, Tunisia.

• Conference ICTA’2019 Imen Lagha,  Achraf Othman, “Understanding Prosodic Pauses in Sign Language from Motion-Capture and Video-data“, 7^th International Conference On Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility ICTA’19, December 13-15, 2019, Hammamet, Tunisia.

• Conference VisCHI’2019 Achraf Othman, “Research Trends on the Development of Accessible User Interfaces for Persons with Disabilities and Elderly“,  1^st International Conference on Visualization and Computer-Human Interaction (VisCHI), November 25-26, 2019, Doha, Qatar.

• Journal Achraf Othman, Mohamed Jemni, “Designing High Accuracy Statistical Machine Translation for Sign Language Using Parallel Corpus—Case study English and American Sign Language“, Journal of Information Technology Research, Volume 12, Issue 2, 2019.

2017

• Conference ICTA’2017 Achraf Othman, Mohammed Moshin, “How Robots Could Improve Social Skills in Children with Autism “, 6^th International Conference On Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility ICTA’17, December 19-21, 2017, Muscat, Oman.

• Conference ICTA’2017 Achraf Othman, Mohamed Jemni, “An XML-Gloss Annotation System for Sign Language Processing“, 6^th International Conference On Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility ICTA’17, December 19-21, 2017, Muscat, Oman.

• PHD Thesis Achraf Othman. “Machine Translation for Sign Language based on Statistical Approach“, PhD Thesis, University of Sfax, Tunisia, 2017.

2015

• Conference ICTA’2015 Achraf Othman, Imen Lagha. “Human Face Texture Generation Based on MPEG-4 Standard“. 5^th International Conference On Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility ICTA15, Marrakech, Morocco, 21-23 December 2015.

• Conference ISCLE’2015 Mohamed Jemni, Koutheair Khribi, Achraf Othman, Oussama Elghoul, Kabil Jaballah. “AlecsoApps: Toward Empowering Mobile Applications Development in the Arab World“., Springer State-of-the-Art and Future Directions of Smart Learning, Part of the series Lecture Notes in Educational Technology pp 87-93, The 2nd ISCLE, Sinaia, Romania, September 23-25, 2015

2014

• Conference ICCHP’2014 Achraf Othman, Mohamed Jemni. “A Novel Approach for Translating English Statements to American Sign Language Gloss“. 14thICCHP 2014, Paris, France, July 9-11, 2014, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8548, Springer 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-08598-2, pp 431-438.

2013

• Conference ICTA’2013 Achraf Othman and Raouia Hamdoun. “Toward a new Transcription Model in XML for Sign Language Processing based on Gloss Notation System“. Fourth International Conference On Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility ICTA’13, October 24-26, 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia.

• Conference ICTA’2013 Achraf Othman and Zouhour Tmar. “English-ASL Gloss Parallel Corpus 2012: ASLG-PC12, The Second Release“. Fourth International Conference On Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility ICTA’13, October 24-26, 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia.

• Conference ICTA’2013 Mohamed Jemni, Sameer Semreen, Achraf Othman, Zouhour Tmar and Nadia Aouiti. “Toward the creation of an Arab GLOSS for Arabic Sign Language Notation“. Fourth International Conference On Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility ICTA’13, October 24-26, 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia.

• Conference ICEESA’2013 Achraf Othman, Oussama El Ghoul. “A Novel Approach for 3D Head Segmentation and Facial Feature Points Extraction“. International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Software Applications ICEESA , March 21-23, 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia.

• Conference ICEESA’2013 Zouhour Tmar, Achraf Othman, Mohamed Jemni. “A Rule-Based Approach for Building an Artificial English-ASL Corpus“. International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Software Applications ICEESA, March 21-23, 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia.

2012

• Journal Mohamed Jemni, Sameer Semreen, Oussama El ghoul, Achraf Othman, “المعالجة الآلية للغة الاشارة و برمجيات التواصل مع الصم“. Special Issue in the Communications of Arab Society, Vol 5, No 2, 2012.

• Workshop Mohamed Jemni, Sameer Semreen, Oussama El ghoul, Achraf Othman, “المعالجة الآلية للغة الاشارة و برمجيات التواصل مع الصم“. ورشة العمل الافتراضية الخامسة حول نظم الحوسبة الذكية وتطبيقاتھا, 10-11 سبتمبر 2012

• Conference ISI’2012 Achraf Othman, Mohamed Jemni. A probabilistic model for Sign Language Translation Memory“. The 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Informatics, ISI’12, August, Chennai, India, 4-5, 2012.

• Conference ICCHP’2012 Achraf Othman, Zouhour Tmar, Mohamed Jemni.”Toward developing a very big Sign Language Parallel Corpus“. The 13th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs ‘ICCHP’, Lecture Note in Computer Science LNCS Springer, July 11-13, 2012, University of Linz, Austria.

• Workshop Mohamed Jemni, Sameer Samreen, Achraf Othman,. “دور التكنولوجيات الحديثة في تطوير لغة الاشارة و تسهيل التواصل مع الصم“. المؤتمر العلمي الثاني للصم و ضعاف السمع، 1-3 مايو 2012، الدوحة، قطر.

• Conference LREC’2012 Achraf Othman, Mohamed Jemni. “English-ASL Gloss Parallel Corpus 2012: ASLG-PC12“. LREC 2012, 5th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Interactions between Corpus and Lexicon, May 51-27, 2012, Istanbul Turkey.

• Conference InfoL@ngue’2012 Achraf Othman, Mohamed Jemni, “La traduction automatique à base de statistiques au service de la langue des signes“. 4^ème édition du colloque INFOL@NGUES 2012, April 5-7, 2012, Béjà, Tunisia.

• Conference GRAPP’2012 Achraf Othman, Oussama El Ghoul, Mohamed Jemni. “An automatic approach for facial feature points extraction from 3D head“. International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications GRAPP’12, February 24-26, 2012, Rome, Italy.

2011

• Journal Achraf Othman, Mohamed Jemni. “Statistical Sign Language Machine Translation: from English written text to American Sign Language Gloss“. International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol 8, Issue 5, September 30, pp. 65-73.

• Conference EGI’2011 Achraf Othman, Heithem Abbes, Mohamed Jemni. “Gridification of facial feature vertices extractionfrom 3D head“. The EUMEDGRID-Support User Forum Workshop / The EGI Technical Forum 2011. September 19-23, 2011, Lyon, France.

2010

• Conference ICCHP’2010 Achraf Othman, Oussama El Ghoul, Mohamed Jemni. “Sport Sign: A new service to make sports news accessible for deaf persons“. The 12th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs ‘ICCHP’, Lecture Note in Computer Science LNCS Springer, pp.169-176, vol. 6190, July 14-16, 2010, Vienna, Austria.