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Interplay of Machine Translation, Diacritics, and Diacritization
Wei-Rui Chen, Ife Adebara, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
We investigate two research questions: (1) how do machine translation (MT) and diacritization influence the performance of each other in a multi-task learning setting (2) the effec…
Distilling Text Style Transfer With Self-Explanation From LLMs
Chiyu Zhang, Honglong Cai, Yuezhang +4
Text Style Transfer (TST) seeks to alter the style of text while retaining its core content. Given the constraints of limited parallel datasets for TST, we propose CoTeX, a framewo…
Cheetah: Natural Language Generation for 517 African Languages
Ife Adebara, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Low-resource African languages pose unique challenges for natural language processing (NLP) tasks, including natural language generation (NLG). In this paper, we develop Cheetah, a…
ProMap: Effective Bilingual Lexicon Induction via Language Model Prompting
Abdellah El Mekki, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, ElMoatez Billah Nagoudi +2
Bilingual Lexicon Induction (BLI), where words are translated between two languages, is an important NLP task. While noticeable progress on BLI in rich resource languages using sta…
VoxArabica: A Robust Dialect-Aware Arabic Speech Recognition System
Abdul Waheed, Bashar Talafha, Peter Sullivan +2
Arabic is a complex language with many varieties and dialects spoken by over 450 millions all around the world. Due to the linguistic diversity and variations, it is challenging to…
WojoodNER 2023: The First Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task
Mustafa Jarrar, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Mohammed Khalilia +4
We present WojoodNER-2023, the first Arabic Named Entity Recognition (NER) Shared Task. The primary focus of WojoodNER-2023 is on Arabic NER, offering novel NER datasets (i.e., Woj…