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With the continuing spread of misinformation and disinformation online, it is of increasing importance to develop combating mechanisms at scale in the form of automated systems that support multiple languages. One task of interest is claim…

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The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) is a visual program synthesis benchmark designed to test challenging out-of-distribution generalization in humans and machines. Since 2019, limited progress has been observed on the challenge using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Solim LeGris , Wai Keen Vong , Brenden M. Lake , Todd M. Gureckis

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Nsrin Ashraf , Fathy Elkazaz , Mohamed Taha , Hamada Nayel , Tarek Elshishtawy

This paper presents a dataset for closest opposite questions in Arabic language. The dataset is the first of its kind for the Arabic language. It is beneficial for the assessment of systems on the aspect of antonymy detection. The structure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Sandra Rizkallah , Amir F. Atiya , Samir Shaheen

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

Although Arabic is spoken by over 400 million people, advanced Arabic writing assistance tools remain limited. To address this gap, we present ARWI, a new writing assistant that helps learners improve essay writing in Modern Standard…

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We present ArabicNumBench, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating large language models on Arabic number reading tasks across Eastern Arabic-Indic numerals (0-9 in Arabic script) and Western Arabic numerals (0-9). We evaluate 71 models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Anas Alhumud , Abdulaziz Alhammadi , Muhammad Badruddin Khan

This paper presents a novel dotless representation of Arabic text as an alternative to the standard Arabic text representation. We delve into its implications through comprehensive analysis across five diverse corpora and four different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Maged S. Al-Shaibani , Irfan Ahmad

Arabic remains one of the most underrepresented languages in natural language processing research, particularly in medical applications, due to the limited availability of open-source data and benchmarks. The lack of resources hinders…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mouath Abu-Daoud , Leen Kharouf , Omar El Hajj , Dana El Samad , Mariam Al-Omari , Jihad Mallat , Khaled Saleh , Nizar Habash , Farah E. Shamout

Converting images of Arabic text into plain text is a widely researched topic in academia and industry. However, recognition of Arabic handwritten and printed text presents difficult challenges due to the complex nature of variations of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Alhossien Waly , Bassant Tarek , Ali Feteha , Rewan Yehia , Gasser Amr , Walid Gomaa , Ahmed Fares

Arabic, with its rich diversity of dialects, remains significantly underrepresented in Large Language Models, particularly in dialectal variations. We address this gap by introducing seven synthetic datasets in dialects alongside Modern…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Basel Mousi , Nadir Durrani , Fatema Ahmad , Md. Arid Hasan , Maram Hasanain , Tameem Kabbani , Fahim Dalvi , Shammur Absar Chowdhury , Firoj Alam

In this paper, we present an ongoing effort in lexical semantic analysis and annotation of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) text, a semi automatic annotation tool concerned with the morphologic, syntactic, and semantic levels of description.

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Abdelaziz Lakhfif , Mohammed T. Laskri , Eric Atwell

Developing Question Answering systems has been one of the important research issues because it requires insights from a variety of disciplines,including,Artificial Intelligence,Information Retrieval, Information Extraction,Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-02-25 Wafa N. Bdour , Natheer K. Gharaibeh

This study addresses automatic transliteration from Tajik (Cyrillic script) to Persian (Perso-Arabic script). We present a curated, lexicographically verified parallel corpus of 52,152 Tajik--Persian words and short phrases, compiled from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mullosharaf K. Arabov

The cognitive and reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) have enabled remarkable progress in natural language processing. However, their performance in interpreting structured data, especially in tabular formats, remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Rana Alshaikh , Israa Alghanmi , Shelan Jeawak

In this paper, we introduce a comprehensive benchmark for Persian (Farsi) text embeddings, built upon the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB). Our benchmark includes 63 datasets spanning seven different tasks: classification,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Erfan Zinvandi , Morteza Alikhani , Mehran Sarmadi , Zahra Pourbahman , Sepehr Arvin , Reza Kazemi , Arash Amini

Recent work has shown that distributional word vector spaces often encode human biases like sexism or racism. In this work, we conduct an extensive analysis of biases in Arabic word embeddings by applying a range of recently introduced bias…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Anne Lauscher , Rafik Takieddin , Simone Paolo Ponzetto , Goran Glavaš

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

In this paper, we address the significant gap in Arabic natural language processing (NLP) resources by introducing ArabicaQA, the first large-scale dataset for machine reading comprehension and open-domain question answering in Arabic. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Abdelrahman Abdallah , Mahmoud Kasem , Mahmoud Abdalla , Mohamed Mahmoud , Mohamed Elkasaby , Yasser Elbendary , Adam Jatowt

This research is the second phase in a series of investigations on developing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of Arabic historical documents and examining how different modeling procedures interact with the problem. The first…

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