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Arabic is one of the oldest languages still in use today. As a result, several Arabic-speaking regions have developed dialects that are unique to them. Dialect and emotion recognition have various uses in Arabic text analysis, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Nasser A Alsadhan

In this article we focus firstly on the principle of pedagogical indexing and characteristics of Arabic language and secondly on the possibility of adapting the standard for describing learning resources used (the LOM and its Application…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Asma Boudhief , Mohsen Maraoui , Mounir Zrigui

The Arabic language is a complex language; it is different from Western languages especially at the morphological and spelling variations. Indeed, the performance of information retrieval systems in the Arabic language is still a problem.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-04-06 Abd El Salam Al Hajjar , Anis Ismail , Mohammad Hajjar , Mazen El-Sayed

We present ArabDiscrim, a decade-long lexical resource and corpus of 293K public Arabic Facebook posts (2014--2024) discussing racism and discrimination. Unlike existing Twitter-centric datasets, ArabDiscrim integrates platform-native…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Wajdi Zaghouani , Shimaa Amer Ibrahim , Mabrouka Bessghaier , Houda Bouamor

This paper introduces the Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus (BAREC), a large-scale, fine-grained dataset for Arabic readability assessment. BAREC consists of 69,441 sentences spanning 1+ million words, carefully curated to cover…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Khalid N. Elmadani , Nizar Habash , Hanada Taha-Thomure

Despite the progress made in recent years in addressing natural language understanding (NLU) challenges, the majority of this progress remains to be concentrated on resource-rich languages like English. This work focuses on Persian…

We present DictaLM, a large-scale language model tailored for Modern Hebrew. Boasting 7B parameters, this model is predominantly trained on Hebrew-centric data. As a commitment to promoting research and development in the Hebrew language,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Shaltiel Shmidman , Avi Shmidman , Amir David Nissan Cohen , Moshe Koppel

In recent years, we witnessed great progress in different tasks of natural language understanding using machine learning. Question answering is one of these tasks which is used by search engines and social media platforms for improved user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Mohammed ElKomy , Amany M. Sarhan

The complexities of Arabic language in morphology, orthography and dialects makes sentiment analysis for Arabic more challenging. Also, text feature extraction from short messages like tweets, in order to gauge the sentiment, makes this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Abdulaziz M. Alayba , Vasile Palade , Matthew England , Rahat Iqbal

Large Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) have become ubiquitous in the development of language understanding technology and lie at the heart of many artificial intelligence advances. While advances reported for English using PLMs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Amit Seker , Elron Bandel , Dan Bareket , Idan Brusilovsky , Refael Shaked Greenfeld , Reut Tsarfaty

This study investigates logistic regression, linear support vector machine, multinomial Naive Bayes, and Bernoulli Naive Bayes for classifying Libyan dialect utterances gathered from Twitter. The dataset used is the QADI corpus, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Mansour Essgaer , Khamis Massud , Rabia Al Mamlook , Najah Ghmaid

Building dialogues systems interaction has recently gained considerable attention, but most of the resources and systems built so far are tailored to English and other Indo-European languages. The need for designing systems for other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-13 AbdelRahim A. Elmadany , Sherif M. Abdou , Mervat Gheith

This paper introduces the hmBlogs corpus for Persian, as a low resource language. This corpus has been prepared based on a collection of nearly 20 million blog posts over a period of about 15 years from a space of Persian blogs and includes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Hamzeh Motahari Khansari , Mehrnoush Shamsfard

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly embedded in our daily lives, evaluating their quality and reliability across diverse contexts has become essential. While comprehensive benchmarks exist for assessing LLM performance in…

Understanding Arabic text and generating human-like responses is a challenging endeavor. While many researchers have proposed models and solutions for individual problems, there is an acute shortage of a comprehensive Arabic natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 AbdelRahim Elmadany , El Moatez Billah Nagoudi , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

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

Darija Open Dataset (DODa) is an open-source project for the Moroccan dialect. With more than 10,000 entries DODa is arguably the largest open-source collaborative project for Darija-English translation built for Natural Language Processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Aissam Outchakoucht , Hamza Es-Samaali

Addressing the gap in Large Language Model pretrained from scratch with Malaysian context, We trained models with 1.1 billion, 3 billion, and 5 billion parameters on a substantial 349GB dataset, equivalent to 90 billion tokens based on our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Husein Zolkepli , Aisyah Razak , Kamarul Adha , Ariff Nazhan

This study addresses the critical gap in Arabic natural language processing by developing an effective Arabic Reverse Dictionary (RD) system that enables users to find words based on their descriptions or meanings. We present a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Serry Sibaee , Samar Ahmed , Abdullah Al Harbi , Omer Nacar , Adel Ammar , Yasser Habashi , Wadii Boulila