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Hate speech identification in social media has become an increasingly important issue in recent years. In this research, we address two problems: 1) to detect hate speech in Arabic text, 2) to clean a given text from hate speech. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Salam Thabet Doghmash , Motaz Saad

This research presents our team KEIS@JUST participation at SemEval-2020 Task 12 which represents shared task on multilingual offensive language. We participated in all the provided languages for all subtasks except sub-task-A for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Saja Khaled Tawalbeh , Mahmoud Hammad , Mohammad AL-Smadi

This paper describes the creation, optimization, and assessment of a question-answering (QA) model for a personalized learning assistant that uses BERT transformers customized for the Arabic language. The model was particularly finetuned on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Mohammad Sammoudi , Ahmad Habaybeh , Huthaifa I. Ashqar , Mohammed Elhenawy

Recent advances in multimodal deep learning have greatly enhanced the capability of systems for speech analysis and pronunciation assessment. Accurate pronunciation detection remains a key challenge in Arabic, particularly in the context of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Ayhan Kucukmanisa , Derya Gelmez , Sukru Selim Calik , Zeynep Hilal Kilimci

Generated hateful and toxic content by a portion of users in social media is a rising phenomenon that motivated researchers to dedicate substantial efforts to the challenging direction of hateful content identification. We not only need an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Marzieh Mozafari , Reza Farahbakhsh , Noel Crespi

Designing a natural voice interface rely mostly on Speech recognition for interaction between human and their modern digital life equipment. In addition, speech recognition narrows the gap between monolingual individuals to better exchange…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Ayman Mansour , Wafaa F. Mukhtar

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task to extract key information from texts, but annotated resources are scarce for dialects. This paper introduces the first dialectal NER dataset for German, BarNER, with 161K tokens…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Siyao Peng , Zihang Sun , Huangyan Shan , Marie Kolm , Verena Blaschke , Ekaterina Artemova , Barbara Plank

Pre-trained language model word representation, such as BERT, have been extremely successful in several Natural Language Processing tasks significantly improving on the state-of-the-art. This can largely be attributed to their ability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Wah Meng Lim , Harish Tayyar Madabushi

Text classification systems have been proven vulnerable to adversarial text examples, modified versions of the original text examples that are often unnoticed by human eyes, yet can force text classification models to alter their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Norah Alshahrani , Saied Alshahrani , Esma Wali , Jeanna Matthews

Cybersecurity has become a primary global concern with the rapid increase in security attacks and data breaches. Artificial intelligence is promising to help humans analyzing and identifying attacks. However, labeling millions of packets…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Ling-Hsuan Lin , Shun-Wen Hsiao

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Peter Sullivan , AbdelRahim Elmadany , Alcides Alcoba Inciarte , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Despite its significance, Arabic, a linguistically rich and morphologically complex language, faces the challenge of being under-resourced. The scarcity of large annotated datasets hampers the development of accurate tools for subjectivity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Slimane Bellaouar , Attia Nehar , Soumia Souffi , Mounia Bouameur

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have witnessed rapid, significant improvements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Utilizing Deep Learning, researchers have taken advantage of repository comments in Software Engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 William Aiken , Paul K. Mvula , Paula Branco , Guy-Vincent Jourdan , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh , Herna Viktor

This paper describes the Arabic MGB-3 Challenge - Arabic Speech Recognition in the Wild. Unlike last year's Arabic MGB-2 Challenge, for which the recognition task was based on more than 1,200 hours broadcast TV news recordings from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Ahmed Ali , Stephan Vogel , Steve Renals

In natural language processing, multilingual models like mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa promise broad coverage but often struggle with languages that share a script yet differ in orthographic norms and cultural context. This issue is especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Abdulhady Abas Abdullah , Amir H. Gandomi , Tarik A Rashid , Seyedali Mirjalili , Laith Abualigah , Milena Živković , Hadi Veisi

A sufficient amount of annotated data is usually required to fine-tune pre-trained language models for downstream tasks. Unfortunately, attaining labeled data can be costly, especially for multiple language varieties and dialects. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Muhammad Khalifa , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Khaled Shaalan

This paper presents an overview of the Arabic Natural Language Understanding (ArabicNLU 2024) shared task, focusing on two subtasks: Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) and Location Mention Disambiguation (LMD). The task aimed to evaluate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Mohammed Khalilia , Sanad Malaysha , Reem Suwaileh , Mustafa Jarrar , Alaa Aljabari , Tamer Elsayed , Imed Zitouni

This paper tackles the problem of open domain factual Arabic question answering (QA) using Wikipedia as our knowledge source. This constrains the answer of any question to be a span of text in Wikipedia. Open domain QA for Arabic entails…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Hussein Mozannar , Karl El Hajal , Elie Maamary , Hazem Hajj

This paper describes a language representation model which combines the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) learning mechanism described in Devlin et al. (2018) with a generalization of the Universal Transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Alon Rozental , Zohar Kelrich , Daniel Fleischer

Much research has been done for debunking and analysing fake news. Many researchers study fake news detection in the last year, but many are limited to social media data. Currently, multiples fact-checkers are publishing their results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Sushma Kumari