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Tokenization shapes how language models perceive morphology and meaning in NLP, yet widely used frequency-driven subword tokenizers (e.g., Byte Pair Encoding and WordPiece) can fragment morphologically rich and agglutinative languages in…

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This work investigates how effectively large language models (LLMs) and their tokenization schemes represent and generate Arabic root-pattern morphology, probing whether they capture genuine morphological structure or rely on surface…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yara Alakeel , Chatrine Qwaider , Hanan Aldarmaki , Sawsan Alqahtani

Accessing and comprehending religious texts, particularly the Quran (the sacred scripture of Islam) and Ahadith (the corpus of the sayings or traditions of the Prophet Muhammad), in today's digital era necessitates efficient and accurate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Faiza Qamar , Seemab Latif , Rabia Latif

We present a formal Arabic wordnet built on the basis of a carefully designed ontology hereby referred to as the Arabic Ontology. The ontology provides a formal representation of the concepts that the Arabic terms convey, and its content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Mustafa Jarrar

We present the Knesset Corpus, a corpus of Hebrew parliamentary proceedings containing over 30 million sentences (over 384 million tokens) from all the (plenary and committee) protocols held in the Israeli parliament between 1998 and 2022.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Gili Goldin , Nick Howell , Noam Ordan , Ella Rabinovich , Shuly Wintner

Arabic is a widely-spoken language with a long and rich history, but existing corpora and language technology focus mostly on modern Arabic and its varieties. Therefore, studying the history of the language has so far been mostly limited to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Yonatan Belinkov , Alexander Magidow , Alberto Barrón-Cedeño , Avi Shmidman , Maxim Romanov

Arabic is a semitic language characterized by a complex and rich morphology. The exceptional degree of ambiguity in the writing system, the rich morphology, and the highly complex word formation process of roots and patterns all contribute…

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We present PashtoCorp, a 1.25-billion-word corpus for Pashto, a language spoken by 60 million people that remains severely underrepresented in NLP. The corpus is assembled from 39 sources spanning seven HuggingFace datasets and 32…

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We describe a resource-based method of morphological annotation of written Korean text. Korean is an agglutinative language. The output of our system is a graph of morphemes annotated with accurate linguistic information. The language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-11-22 Hyun-Gue Huh , Eric Laporte

Quranic Question Answering presents unique challenges due to the linguistic complexity of Classical Arabic and the semantic richness of religious texts. In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage framework that addresses both passage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Mohamed Basem , Islam Oshallah , Ali Hamdi , Khaled Shaban , Hozaifa Kassab

This paper presents the development of Rezwan, a large-scale AI-assisted Hadith corpus comprising over 1.2M narrations, extracted and structured through a fully automated pipeline. Building on digital repositories such as Maktabat Ahl…

In this paper, we present Arap-Tweet, which is a large-scale and multi-dialectal corpus of Tweets from 11 regions and 16 countries in the Arab world representing the major Arabic dialectal varieties. To build this corpus, we collected data…

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We introduce ArVoice, a multi-speaker Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) speech corpus with diacritized transcriptions, intended for multi-speaker speech synthesis, and can be useful for other tasks such as speech-based diacritic restoration,…

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This work consists of creating a system of the Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) based on a system of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for the Arabic language using the tool CMU Sphinx3 [1], based on the approach of HMM. To this…

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Ontology can be seen as a formal representation of knowledge. They have been investigated in many artificial intelligence studies including semantic web, software engineering, and information retrieval. The aim of ontology is to develop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Fouzi Harrag , Abdullah Al-Nasser , Abdullah Al-Musnad , Rayan Al-Shaya

We introduce Konooz, a novel multi-dimensional corpus covering 16 Arabic dialects across 10 domains, resulting in 160 distinct corpora. The corpus comprises about 777k tokens, carefully collected and manually annotated with 21 entity types…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Nagham Hamad , Mohammed Khalilia , Mustafa Jarrar

Word similarity computation is a widely recognized task in the field of lexical semantics. Most proposed tasks test on similarity of word pairs of single morpheme, while few works focus on words of two morphemes or more morphemes. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Junjie Huang , Fanchao Qi , Chenghao Yang , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

This research paper presents a part-of-speech (POS) annotated dataset and tagger tool for the low-resource Uzbek language. The dataset includes 12 tags, which were used to develop a rule-based POS-tagger tool. The corpus text used in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Maksud Sharipov , Elmurod Kuriyozov , Ollabergan Yuldashev , Ogabek Sobirov

We describe a new sense-tagged corpus for word sense disambiguation. The corpus is constituted of instances of 20 French polysemous verbs. Each verb instance is annotated with three sense labels: (1) the actual translation of the verb in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Myriam Rakho , Eric Laporte , Matthieu Constant

Semitic languages can be highly ambiguous, having several interpretations of the same surface forms, and morphologically rich, having many morphemes that realize several morphological features. This is further exacerbated for dialectal…

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