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Bulbul: A Dataset for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
Ahmed Ashraf, Aisha Alansari, Fadel Al Abbas +30
Arabic automatic speech recognition (ASR) faces unique challenges due to diglossia, extensive regional dialect variation, and limited speech resources. Existing speech datasets oft…
Character Iconicity vs. Arbitrariness: An Arabic NLP Perspective
Dorieh Alomari, Irfan Ahmad, Maged S. Al-shaibani
Arabic script uses 28 letters, many of which share a common base shape (rasm) and are distinguished only by dot placement. Because early Arabic manuscripts were written without dot…
MeXtract: Light-Weight Metadata Extraction from Scientific Papers
Zaid Alyafeai, Maged S. Al-Shaibani, Bernard Ghanem
Metadata plays a critical role in indexing, documenting, and analyzing scientific literature, yet extracting it accurately and efficiently remains a challenging task. Traditional a…
The Arabic AI Fingerprint: Stylometric Analysis and Detection of Large Language Models Text
Maged S. Al-Shaibani, Moataz Ahmed
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved unprecedented capabilities in generating human-like text, posing subtle yet significant challenges for information integrity across criti…
Pearl: A Multimodal Culturally-Aware Arabic Instruction Dataset
Fakhraddin Alwajih, Samar M. Magdy, Abdellah El Mekki +34
Mainstream large vision-language models (LVLMs) inherently encode cultural biases, highlighting the need for diverse multimodal datasets. To address this gap, we introduce PEARL, a…
MOLE: Metadata Extraction and Validation in Scientific Papers Using LLMs
Zaid Alyafeai, Maged S. Al-Shaibani, Bernard Ghanem
Metadata extraction is essential for cataloging and preserving datasets, enabling effective research discovery and reproducibility, especially given the current exponential growth…
Poem Meter Classification of Recited Arabic Poetry: Integrating High-Resource Systems for a Low-Resource Task
Maged S. Al-Shaibani, Zaid Alyafeai, Irfan Ahmad
Arabic poetry is an essential and integral part of Arabic language and culture. It has been used by the Arabs to spot lights on their major events such as depicting brutal battles…
CIDAR: Culturally Relevant Instruction Dataset For Arabic
Zaid Alyafeai, Khalid Almubarak, Ahmed Ashraf +9
Instruction tuning has emerged as a prominent methodology for teaching Large Language Models (LLMs) to follow instructions. However, current instruction datasets predominantly cate…
Dotless Representation of Arabic Text: Analysis and Modeling
Maged S. Al-Shaibani, Irfan Ahmad
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…
Ashaar: Automatic Analysis and Generation of Arabic Poetry Using Deep Learning Approaches
Zaid Alyafeai, Maged S. Al-Shaibani, Moataz Ahmed
Poetry holds immense significance within the cultural and traditional fabric of any nation. It serves as a vehicle for poets to articulate their emotions, preserve customs, and con…
Taqyim: Evaluating Arabic NLP Tasks Using ChatGPT Models
Zaid Alyafeai, Maged S. Alshaibani, Badr AlKhamissi +3
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on various downstream tasks without requiring fine-tuning, including ChatGPT, a chat-based model built on top…
A Bibliography of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions Detection Methods using Brain MRIs
Atif Shah, Maged S. Al-Shaibani, Moataz Ahmad +1
Introduction: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease that affects millions of people across the globe. MS can critically affect different organs of the central nervous system…
BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model
BigScience Workshop, :, Teven Le Scao +391
Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to wi…
Masader Plus: A New Interface for Exploring +500 Arabic NLP Datasets
Yousef Altaher, Ali Fadel, Mazen Alotaibi +18
Masader (Alyafeai et al., 2021) created a metadata structure to be used for cataloguing Arabic NLP datasets. However, developing an easy way to explore such a catalogue is a challe…
PromptSource: An Integrated Development Environment and Repository for Natural Language Prompts
Stephen H. Bach, Victor Sanh, Zheng-Xin Yong +24
PromptSource is a system for creating, sharing, and using natural language prompts. Prompts are functions that map an example from a dataset to a natural language input and target…
Masader: Metadata Sourcing for Arabic Text and Speech Data Resources
Zaid Alyafeai, Maraim Masoud, Mustafa Ghaleb +1
The NLP pipeline has evolved dramatically in the last few years. The first step in the pipeline is to find suitable annotated datasets to evaluate the tasks we are trying to solve.…
Calliar: An Online Handwritten Dataset for Arabic Calligraphy
Zaid Alyafeai, Maged S. Al-shaibani, Mustafa Ghaleb +1
Calligraphy is an essential part of the Arabic heritage and culture. It has been used in the past for the decoration of houses and mosques. Usually, such calligraphy is designed ma…
Evaluating Various Tokenizers for Arabic Text Classification
Zaid Alyafeai, Maged S. Al-shaibani, Mustafa Ghaleb +1
The first step in any NLP pipeline is to split the text into individual tokens. The most obvious and straightforward approach is to use words as tokens. However, given a large text…
A Survey on Transfer Learning in Natural Language Processing
Zaid Alyafeai, Maged Saeed AlShaibani, Irfan Ahmad
Deep learning models usually require a huge amount of data. However, these large datasets are not always attainable. This is common in many challenging NLP tasks. Consider Neural M…