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The rise of social media such as blogs and social networks has fueled interest in sentiment analysis. With the proliferation of reviews, ratings, recommendations and other forms of online expression, online opinion has turned into a kind of…

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Dialectal Arabic (DA) speech data vary widely in domain coverage, dialect labeling practices, and recording conditions, complicating cross-dataset comparison and model evaluation. To characterize this landscape, we conduct a computational…

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Recent advancements in instruction fine-tuning, alignment methods such as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and optimization techniques like direct preference optimization (DPO) have significantly enhanced the adaptability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Samar M. Magdy , Sang Yun Kwon , Fakhraddin Alwajih , Safaa Abdelfadil , Shady Shehata , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

In order to provide benchmark performance for Urdu text document classification, the contribution of this paper is manifold. First, it pro-vides a publicly available benchmark dataset manually tagged against 6 classes. Second, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Muhammad Nabeel Asim , Muhammad Usman Ghani , Muhammad Ali Ibrahim , Sheraz Ahmad , Waqar Mahmood , Andreas Dengel

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress in reasoning abilities and general natural language processing (NLP) tasks, yet their performance on Arabic data, characterized by rich morphology, diverse dialects, and complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ahmed Hasanaath , Aisha Alansari , Ahmed Ashraf , Chafik Salmane , Hamzah Luqman , Saad Ezzini

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for measuring the degree of similarity between categories of two pieces of Persian text, which were published as descriptions of two separate advertisements. We built an appropriate dataset for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Hossein Keshavarz , Shohreh Tabatabayi Seifi , Mohammad Izadi

Artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced speech recognition applications. However, many existing neural network-based methods struggle with noise, reducing accuracy in real-world environments. This study addresses isolated…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Ali Nasr-Esfahani , Mehdi Bekrani , Roozbeh Rajabi

Automatic spelling correction stands as a pivotal challenge within the ambit of natural language processing (NLP), demanding nuanced solutions. Traditional spelling correction techniques are typically only capable of detecting and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Seyed Mohammad Sadegh Dashti , Amid Khatibi Bardsiri , Mehdi Jafari Shahbazzadeh

State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing algorithms rely heavily on efficient word segmentation. Urdu is amongst languages for which word segmentation is a complex task as it exhibits space omission as well as space insertion issues.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Haris Bin Zia , Agha Ali Raza , Awais Athar

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) plays a vital role in enabling natural human-machine interaction across applications such as virtual assistants, industrial automation, customer support, and real-time transcription. However, developing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Mahmoud Salhab , Shameed Sait , Mohammad Abusheikh , Hasan Abusheikh

Large Language Models (LLMs) are the engines driving today's AI agents. The better these models understand human languages, the more natural and user-friendly the interaction with AI becomes, from everyday devices like computers and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Mohamed Mahdi

Semantic role labeling is a crucial task in natural language processing, enabling better comprehension of natural language. However, the lack of annotated data in multiple languages has posed a challenge for researchers. To address this, a…

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Argument mining is a subfield of natural language processing to identify and extract the argument components, like premises and conclusions, within a text and to recognize the relations between them. It reveals the logical structure of…

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Rule-based techniques to extract relational entities from documents allow users to specify desired entities with natural language questions, finite state automata, regular expressions and structured query language. They require linguistic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Amin Jaber , Fadi A. Zaraket

This paper introduces a pioneering English-Azerbaijani (Arabic Script) parallel corpus, designed to bridge the technological gap in language learning and machine translation (MT) for under-resourced languages. Consisting of 548,000 parallel…

One fundamental task for NLP is to determine the similarity between two texts and evaluate the extent of their likeness. The previous methods for the Persian language have low accuracy and are unable to comprehend the structure and meaning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Seyed Mojtaba Sadjadi , Zeinab Rajabi , Leila Rabiei , Mohammad-Shahram Moin

Over the past years, interest in discourse analysis and discourse parsing has steadily grown, and many discourse-annotated corpora and, as a result, discourse parsers have been built. In this paper, we present a discourse-annotated corpus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Sara Shahmohammadi , Hadi Veisi , Ali Darzi

Language recognition has been significantly advanced in recent years by means of modern machine learning methods such as deep learning and benchmarks with rich annotations. However, research is still limited in low-resource formal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Hadi Abdi Khojasteh , Ebrahim Ansari , Mahdi Bohlouli

We present AraLingBench: a fully human annotated benchmark for evaluating the Arabic linguistic competence of large language models (LLMs). The benchmark spans five core categories: grammar, morphology, spelling, reading comprehension, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Mohammad Zbeeb , Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Sina Mukalled , Nadine Rizk , Fatima Karnib , Issam Lakkis , Ammar Mohanna , Bernard Ghanem

In recent years, social media data has exponentially increased, which can be enumerated as one of the largest data repositories in the world. A large portion of this social media data is natural language text. However, the natural language…

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