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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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Abdelkader El Mahdaouy , Abdellah El Mekki , Kabil Essefar , Nabil El Mamoun , Ismail Berrada , Ahmed Khoumsi

We present an analysis of diacritic recognition performance in Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. As most existing Arabic speech corpora do not contain all diacritical marks, which represent short vowels and other phonetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Hanan Aldarmaki , Ahmad Ghannam

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

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 train a bilingual Arabic-Hebrew language model using a transliterated version of Arabic texts in Hebrew, to ensure both languages are represented in the same script. Given the morphological, structural similarities, and the extensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Aviad Rom , Kfir Bar

This paper describes our submission to SemEval-2022 Task 6 on sarcasm detection and its five subtasks for English and Arabic. Sarcasm conveys a meaning which contradicts the literal meaning, and it is mainly found on social networks. It has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Shubham Kumar Nigam , Mosab Shaheen

We trained a model to automatically transliterate Judeo-Arabic texts into Arabic script, enabling Arabic readers to access those writings. We employ a recurrent neural network (RNN), combined with the connectionist temporal classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ori Terner , Kfir Bar , Nachum Dershowitz

In this paper, we tackle the Arabic Fine-Grained Hate Speech Detection shared task and demonstrate significant improvements over reported baselines for its three subtasks. The tasks are to predict if a tweet contains (1) Offensive language;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Badr AlKhamissi , Mona Diab

Handwritten character recognition has been the center of research and a benchmark problem in the sector of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, and it continues to be a challenging research topic. Due to its enormous application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Akm Ashiquzzaman , Abdul Kawsar Tushar , Md Ashiqur Rahman

The continuous increase in the use of social media and the visual content on the internet have accelerated the research in computer vision field in general and the image captioning task in specific. The process of generating a caption that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Bashar Talafha

Text correction, especially the semantic correction of more widely used scenes, is strongly required to improve, for the fluency and writing efficiency of the text. An adversarial multi-task learning method is proposed to enhance the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Fanyu Wang , Zhenping Xie

Based on an annotated multimedia corpus, television series Mar{\=a}y{\=a} 2013, we dig into the question of ''automatic standardization'' of Arabic dialects for machine translation. Here we distinguish between rule-based machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Abidrabbo Alnassan

Dialectal Arabic is the primary spoken language used by native Arabic speakers in daily communication. The rise of social media platforms has notably expanded its use as a written language. However, Arabic dialects do not have standard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Bashar Alhafni , Sarah Al-Towaity , Ziyad Fawzy , Fatema Nassar , Fadhl Eryani , Houda Bouamor , Nizar Habash

Research into statistical parsing for English has enjoyed over a decade of successful results. However, adapting these models to other languages has met with difficulties. Previous comparative work has shown that Modern Arabic is one of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-10-27 Kais Dukes

Arabic text recognition is a challenging task because of the cursive nature of Arabic writing system, its joint writing scheme, the large number of ligatures and many other challenges. Deep Learning DL models achieved significant progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Mohammad Fasha , Bassam Hammo , Nadim Obeid , Jabir Widian

We present a simple, model-agnostic post-processing technique for fine-grained Arabic readability classification in the BAREC 2025 Shared Task (19 ordinal levels). Our method applies conformal prediction to generate prediction sets with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Ahmed Abdou

Automatic text-based diacritic restoration models generally have high diacritic error rates when applied to speech transcripts as a result of domain and style shifts in spoken language. In this work, we explore the possibility of improving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sara Shatnawi , Sawsan Alqahtani , Hanan Aldarmaki

Despite the importance of handwritten numeral classification, a robust and effective method for a widely used language like Arabic is still due. This study focuses to overcome two major limitations of existing works: data diversity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 S. M. A. Sharif , Ghulam Mujtaba , S. M. Nadim Uddin

We investigate the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) for text diacritization in two typologically distinct languages: Arabic and Yoruba. To enable a rigorous evaluation, we introduce a novel multilingual dataset MultiDiac, with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hawau Olamide Toyin , Samar Mohamed Magdy , Hanan Aldarmaki

The first step in any NLP pipeline is to split the text into individual tokens. The most obvious and straightforward approach is to use words as tokens. However, given a large text corpus, representing all the words is not efficient in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Zaid Alyafeai , Maged S. Al-shaibani , Mustafa Ghaleb , Irfan Ahmad