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We introduce ALARB, a dataset and suite of tasks designed to evaluate the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) within the Arabic legal domain. While existing Arabic benchmarks cover some knowledge-intensive tasks such as…

Automatic diacritization of Arabic text involves adding diacritical marks (diacritics) to the text. This task poses a significant challenge with noteworthy implications for computational processing and comprehension. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Abderrahman Skiredj , Ismail Berrada

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities, not only in generating human-like text, but also in acquiring knowledge. This highlights the need to go beyond the typical Natural Language Processing downstream benchmarks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Ahmad Mustapha , Hadi Al-Khansa , Hadi Al-Mubasher , Aya Mourad , Ranam Hamoud , Hasan El-Husseini , Marwah Al-Sakkaf , Mariette Awad

Encoder-only transformer models remain widely used for discriminative NLP tasks, yet recent architectural advances have largely focused on English. In this work, we present AraModernBERT, an adaptation of the ModernBERT encoder architecture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Omar Elshehy , Omer Nacar , Abdelbasset Djamai , Muhammed Ragab , Khloud Al Jallad , Mona Abdelazim

We present a formal Arabic wordnet built on the basis of a carefully designed ontology hereby referred to as the Arabic Ontology. The ontology provides a formal representation of the concepts that the Arabic terms convey, and its content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Mustafa Jarrar

Proper nouns in Arabic Wikipedia are frequently undiacritized, creating ambiguity in pronunciation and interpretation, especially for transliterated named entities of foreign origin. While transliteration and diacritization have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Rawan Bondok , Mayar Nassar , Salam Khalifa , Kurt Micallef , Nizar Habash

This paper describes a computationally inexpensive and efficient generic summarization algorithm for Arabic texts. The algorithm belongs to extractive summarization family, which reduces the problem into representative sentences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Tarek El-Shishtawy , Fatma El-Ghannam

Language models (LMs) have introduced a major paradigm shift in Natural Language Processing (NLP) modeling where large pre-trained LMs became integral to most of the NLP tasks. The LMs are intelligent enough to find useful and relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Abbas Raza Ali , Muhammad Ajmal Siddiqui , Rema Algunaibet , Hasan Raza Ali

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant promise for various applications in healthcare. However, their efficacy in the Arabic medical domain remains unexplored due to the lack of high-quality domain-specific datasets and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Mouath Abu Daoud , Chaimae Abouzahir , Leen Kharouf , Walid Al-Eisawi , Nizar Habash , Farah E. Shamout

Arabizi is Arabic text that is written using Latin characters. Arabizi is used to present both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Arabic dialects. It is commonly used in informal settings such as social networking sites and is often with mixed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-07-01 Kareem Darwish

We present a graph-based approach enriched with lexicons to predict document-level readability in Arabic, developed as part of the Constrained Track of the BAREC Shared Task 2025. Our system models each document as a sentence-level graph,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Passant Elchafei , Mayar Osama , Mohamed Rageh , Mervat Abuelkheir

Social media user-generated text is actually the main resource for many NLP tasks. This text however, does not follow the standard rules of writing. Moreover, the use of dialect such as Moroccan Arabic in written communications increases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Randa Zarnoufi , Walid Bachri , Hamid Jaafar , Mounia Abik

While recent Arabic NLP benchmarks focus on scale, they often rely on synthetic or translated data which may benefit from deeper linguistic verification. We introduce ALPS (Arabic Linguistic & Pragmatic Suite), a native, expert-curated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Hussein S. Al-Olimat , Ahmad Alshareef

Text categorization is the process of grouping documents into categories based on their contents. This process is important to make information retrieval easier, and it became more important due to the huge textual information available…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Ashraf Odeh , Aymen Abu-Errub , Qusai Shambour , Nidal Turab

Dialectal Arabic (DA) varieties are under-served by language technologies, particularly large language models (LLMs). This trend threatens to exacerbate existing social inequalities and limits LLM applications, yet the research community…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Nathaniel R. Robinson , Shahd Abdelmoneim , Kelly Marchisio , Sebastian Ruder

Arabic remains one of the most underrepresented languages in natural language processing research, particularly in medical applications, due to the limited availability of open-source data and benchmarks. The lack of resources hinders…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mouath Abu-Daoud , Leen Kharouf , Omar El Hajj , Dana El Samad , Mariam Al-Omari , Jihad Mallat , Khaled Saleh , Nizar Habash , Farah E. Shamout

This study aims at investigating the effect of applying single learner machine learning approach and ensemble machine learning approach for offensive language detection on Arabic language. Classifying Arabic social media text is a very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Fatemah Husain

We present an Arabic crossword puzzle generator from a given text that utilizes advanced language models such as GPT-4-Turbo, GPT-3.5-Turbo and Llama3-8B-Instruct, specifically developed for educational purposes, this innovative generator…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Kamyar Zeinalipour , Mohamed Zaky Saad , Marco Maggini , Marco Gori

Data contamination undermines the validity of Large Language Model evaluation by enabling models to rely on memorized benchmark content rather than true generalization. While prior work has proposed contamination detection methods, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Chaymaa Abbas , Nour Shamaa , Mariette Awad

We propose a novel architecture for labelling character sequences that achieves state-of-the-art results on the Tashkeela Arabic diacritization benchmark. The core is a two-level recurrence hierarchy that operates on the word and character…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Badr AlKhamissi , Muhammad N. ElNokrashy , Mohamed Gabr