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This paper proposes a methodology to prepare corpora in Arabic language from online social network (OSN) and review site for Sentiment Analysis (SA) task. The paper also proposes a methodology for generating a stopword list from the…

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Multi-class classification annotations have significantly advanced AI applications, with truth inference serving as a critical technique for aggregating noisy and biased annotations. Existing state-of-the-art methods typically model each…

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In this paper, we conduct an in-depth analysis of several key factors influencing the performance of Arabic Dialect Identification NADI'2023, with a specific focus on the first subtask involving country-level dialect identification. Our…

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We present a machine learning approach that ranked on the first place in the Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI) Closed Shared Tasks of the 2018 VarDial Evaluation Campaign. The proposed approach combines several kernels using multiple…

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We present a unified benchmark for mispronunciation detection in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) using Qur'anic recitation as a case study. Our approach lays the groundwork for advancing Arabic pronunciation assessment by providing a…

Recent papers have shown that neural networks obtain state-of-the-art performance on several different sequence tagging tasks. One appealing property of such systems is their generality, as excellent performance can be achieved with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Zhilin Yang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , William W. Cohen

Over the past years, Automated Essay Scoring (AES) systems have gained increasing attention as scalable and consistent solutions for assessing the proficiency of student writing. Despite recent progress, support for Arabic AES remains…

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In this paper, we present our approach to tackle Qur'an QA 2023 shared tasks A and B. To address the challenge of low-resourced training data, we rely on transfer learning together with a voting ensemble to improve prediction stability…

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Named Entity Recognition is an information extraction task that serves as a preprocessing step for other natural language processing tasks, such as machine translation, information retrieval, and question answering. Named entity recognition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Ebrahim Chekol Jibril , A. Cüneyd Tantğ

Arabic is one of the most important and growing languages in the world. With the rise of social media platforms such as Twitter, Arabic spoken dialects have become more in use. In this paper, we describe our approach on the NADI Shared Task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Ahmad Beltagy , Abdelrahman Wael , Omar ElSherief

The first step of processing a question in Question Answering(QA) Systems is to carry out a detailed analysis of the question for the purpose of determining what it is asking for and how to perfectly approach answering it. Our Question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Waheeb Ahmed , Dr. Anto P Babu

Arabic dialects have long been under-represented in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research due to their non-standardization and high variability, which pose challenges for computational modeling. Recent advances in the field, such as…

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We present our approach to the AbjadGenEval shared task on detecting AI-generated Arabic text. We fine-tuned the multilingual E5-large encoder for binary classification, and we explored several pooling strategies to pool token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ahmed Khaled Khamis

The prominence of figurative language devices, such as sarcasm and irony, poses serious challenges for Arabic Sentiment Analysis (SA). While previous research works tackle SA and sarcasm detection separately, this paper introduces an…

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Arabic text-to-speech (TTS) remains challenging due to limited resources and complex phonological patterns. We present reproducible baselines for Arabic TTS built on the FastPitch architecture and introduce cepstral-domain metrics for…

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This paper describes the systems submitted to iSarcasm shared task. The aim of iSarcasm is to identify the sarcastic contents in Arabic and English text. Our team participated in iSarcasm for the Arabic language. A multi-Layer machine…

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Named entity recognition (NER) identifies typed entity mentions in raw text. While the task is well-established, there is no universally used tagset: often, datasets are annotated for use in downstream applications and accordingly only…

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In this paper, we propose a novel tensor learning and coding model for third-order data completion. Our model is to learn a data-adaptive dictionary from the given observations, and determine the coding coefficients of third-order tensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Tai-Xiang Jiang , Xi-Le Zhao , Hao Zhang , Michael K. Ng

Achieving robust language technologies that can perform well across the world's many languages is a central goal of multilingual NLP. In this work, we take stock of and empirically analyse task performance disparities that exist between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Songbo Hu , Han Zhou , Moy Yuan , Milan Gritta , Guchun Zhang , Ignacio Iacobacci , Anna Korhonen , Ivan Vulić

Named entity recognition (NER) is an important research problem in natural language processing. There are three types of NER tasks, including flat, nested and discontinuous entity recognition. Most previous sequential labeling models are…

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