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most citedPre-Training BERT on Arabic Tweets: Practical Considerations

85 citations · 126 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL20223 cited

Probing for Constituency Structure in Neural Language Models

David Arps, Younes Samih, Laura Kallmeyer +1

In this paper, we investigate to which extent contextual neural language models (LMs) implicitly learn syntactic structure. More concretely, we focus on constituent structure as re…

cs.CL202185 cited

Pre-Training BERT on Arabic Tweets: Practical Considerations

Ahmed Abdelali, Sabit Hassan, Hamdy Mubarak +2

Pretraining Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) for downstream NLP tasks is a non-trival task. We pretrained 5 BERT models that differ in the size of the…

cs.CL202025 cited

Arabic Dialect Identification in the Wild

Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Younes Samih +2

We present QADI, an automatically collected dataset of tweets belonging to a wide range of country-level Arabic dialects -covering 18 different countries in the Middle East and Nor…

cs.SI20202 cited

A Few Topical Tweets are Enough for Effective User-Level Stance Detection

Younes Samih, Kareem Darwish

Stance detection entails ascertaining the position of a user towards a target, such as an entity, topic, or claim. Recent work that employs unsupervised classification has shown th…

cs.CL2020

Arabic Offensive Language on Twitter: Analysis and Experiments

Hamdy Mubarak, Ammar Rashed, Kareem Darwish +2

Detecting offensive language on Twitter has many applications ranging from detecting/predicting bullying to measuring polarization. In this paper, we focus on building a large Arab…

cs.CL2018

Diacritization of Maghrebi Arabic Sub-Dialects

Ahmed Abdelali, Mohammed Attia, Younes Samih +2

Diacritization process attempt to restore the short vowels in Arabic written text; which typically are omitted. This process is essential for applications such as Text-to-Speech (T…