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High-quality WordNets are crucial for achieving high-quality results in NLP applications that rely on such resources. However, the wordnets of most languages suffer from serious issues of correctness and completeness with respect to the…

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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

Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) aims to extract the semantic information from the speech utterance of user queries. It is a core component in a task-oriented dialogue system. With the spectacular progress of deep neural network models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Haroun Elleuch , Salima Mdhaffar , Yannick Estève , Fethi Bougares

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

Idiom detection using Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the computerized process of recognizing figurative expressions within a text that convey meanings beyond the literal interpretation of the words. While idiom detection has seen…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Skala Kamaran Omer , Hossein Hassani

Despite growing interest in Quranic data research, existing Quran datasets remain limited in both scale and diversity. To address this gap, we present Tadabur, a large-scale Quran audio dataset. Tadabur comprises more than 1400+ hours of…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Faisal Alherran

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive results in multiple domains of natural language processing (NLP) but are mainly focused on the English language. Recently, more LLMs have incorporated a larger proportion of multilingual…

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) nominals present many morphological and lexical modeling challenges that have not been consistently addressed previously. This paper attempts to define the space of such challenges, and leverage a recently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Christian Khairallah , Reham Marzouk , Salam Khalifa , Mayar Nassar , Nizar Habash

Mental health disorders significantly impact people globally, regardless of background, education, or socioeconomic status. However, access to adequate care remains a challenge, particularly for underserved communities with limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Hassan Alhuzali , Ashwag Alasmari , Hamad Alsaleh

Automatic Arabic diacritization is useful in many applications, ranging from reading support for language learners to accurate pronunciation predictor for downstream tasks like speech synthesis. While most of the previous works focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Parnia Bahar , Mattia Di Gangi , Nick Rossenbach , Mohammad Zeineldeen

In this paper, we introduce MADARi, a joint morphological annotation and spelling correction system for texts in Standard and Dialectal Arabic. The MADARi framework provides intuitive interfaces for annotating text and managing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Ossama Obeid , Salam Khalifa , Nizar Habash , Houda Bouamor , Wajdi Zaghouani , Kemal Oflazer

This paper addresses the challenge of learning to recite the Quran for non-Arabic speakers. We explore the possibility of crowdsourcing a carefully annotated Quranic dataset, on top of which AI models can be built to simplify the learning…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Raghad Salameh , Mohamad Al Mdfaa , Nursultan Askarbekuly , Manuel Mazzara

Labelling of user's utterances to understanding his attends which called Dialogue Act (DA) classification, it is considered the key player for dialogue language understanding layer in automatic dialogue systems. In this paper, we proposed a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Abdelrahim A Elmadany , Sherif M Abdou , Mervat Gheith

Scarcity of resources such as annotated text corpora for under-resourced languages like Albanian is a serious impediment in computational linguistics and natural language processing research. This paper presents AlbNER, a corpus of 900…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Erion Çano

Text segmentation task is an essential processing task for many of Natural Language Processing (NLP) such as text summarization, text translation, dialogue language understanding, among others. Turns segmentation considered the key player…

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

Many languages have vast amounts of handwritten texts, such as ancient scripts about folktale stories and historical narratives or contemporary documents and letters. Digitization of those texts has various applications, such as daily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ameer Majeed , Hossein Hassani

This paper introduces JobArabi, a large-scale corpus of Arabic job announcements collected from social media between January 2024 and October 2025. The dataset contains 20,528 public posts from X and captures more than two years of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Wajdi Zaghouani , Shimaa Amer Ibrahim , Mabrouka Bessghaier , Houda Bouamor

The Arabic language suffers from a great shortage of datasets suitable for training deep learning models, and the existing ones include general non-specialized classifications. In this work, we introduce a new Arab medical dataset, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Jaafar Hammoud , Aleksandra Vatian , Natalia Dobrenko , Nikolai Vedernikov , Anatoly Shalyto , Natalia Gusarova

Prediction of language varieties and dialects is an important language processing task, with a wide range of applications. For Arabic, the native tongue of ~ 300 million people, most varieties remain unsupported. To ease this bottleneck, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Chiyu Zhang , AbdelRahim Elmadany , Arun Rajendran , Lyle Ungar

We present DialectalArabicMMLU, a new benchmark for evaluating the performance of large language models (LLMs) across Arabic dialects. While recently developed Arabic and multilingual benchmarks have advanced LLM evaluation for Modern…