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most citedThe Arabic Ontology -- An Arabic Wordnet with Ontologically Clean Content

34 citations · 86 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CL2023

Offensive Hebrew Corpus and Detection using BERT

Nagham Hamad, Mustafa Jarrar, Mohammad Khalilia +1

Offensive language detection has been well studied in many languages, but it is lagging behind in low-resource languages, such as Hebrew. In this paper, we present a new offensive…

cs.CR2023

Towards a Cloud-Based Ontology for Service Model Security -- Technical Report

Mohammed Kharma, Ahmed Sabbah, Mustafa Jarrar

The adoption of cloud computing has brought significant advancements in the operational models of businesses. However, this shift also brings new security challenges by expanding t…

cs.CR2023★ 1 cited

Creating Android Malware Knowledge Graph Based on a Malware Ontology

Ahmed Sabbah, Mohammed Kharma, Mustafa Jarrar

As mobile and smart connectivity continue to grow, malware presents a permanently evolving threat to different types of critical domains such as health, logistics, banking, and com…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Context-Gloss Augmentation for Improving Arabic Target Sense Verification

Sanad Malaysha, Mustafa Jarrar, Mohammed Khalilia

Arabic language lacks semantic datasets and sense inventories. The most common semantically-labeled dataset for Arabic is the ArabGlossBERT, a relatively small dataset that consist…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

A Benchmark and Scoring Algorithm for Enriching Arabic Synonyms

Sana Ghanem, Mustafa Jarrar, Radi Jarrar +1

This paper addresses the task of extending a given synset with additional synonyms taking into account synonymy strength as a fuzzy value. Given a mono/multilingual synset and a th…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

Lisan: Yemeni, Iraqi, Libyan, and Sudanese Arabic Dialect Copora with Morphological Annotations

Mustafa Jarrar, Fadi A Zaraket, Tymaa Hammouda +2

This article presents morphologically-annotated Yemeni, Sudanese, Iraqi, and Libyan Arabic dialects Lisan corpora. Lisan features around 1.2 million tokens. We collected the conten…

cs.CL2022

Wojood: Nested Arabic Named Entity Corpus and Recognition using BERT

Mustafa Jarrar, Mohammed Khalilia, Sana Ghanem

This paper presents Wojood, a corpus for Arabic nested Named Entity Recognition (NER). Nested entities occur when one entity mention is embedded inside another entity mention. Wojo…

cs.CL2022★ 9 cited

Current Trends and Approaches in Synonyms Extraction: Potential Adaptation to Arabic

Eman Naser-Karajah, Nabil Arman, Mustafa Jarrar

Extracting synonyms from dictionaries or corpora is gaining special attention as synonyms play an important role in improving NLP application performance. This paper presents a sur…

cs.CL2022★ 7 cited

Curras + Baladi: Towards a Levantine Corpus

Karim El Haff, Mustafa Jarrar, Tymaa Hammouda +1

The processing of the Arabic language is a complex field of research. This is due to many factors, including the complex and rich morphology of Arabic, its high degree of ambiguity…

cs.CL2022★ 21 cited

ArabGlossBERT: Fine-Tuning BERT on Context-Gloss Pairs for WSD

Moustafa Al-Hajj, Mustafa Jarrar

Using pre-trained transformer models such as BERT has proven to be effective in many NLP tasks. This paper presents our work to fine-tune BERT models for Arabic Word Sense Disambig…

cs.CL2022★ 34 cited

The Arabic Ontology -- An Arabic Wordnet with Ontologically Clean Content

Mustafa Jarrar

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 t…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

LU-BZU at SemEval-2021 Task 2: Word2Vec and Lemma2Vec performance in Arabic Word-in-Context disambiguation

Moustafa Al-Hajj, Mustafa Jarrar

This paper presents a set of experiments to evaluate and compare between the performance of using CBOW Word2Vec and Lemma2Vec models for Arabic Word-in-Context (WiC) disambiguation…

cs.CL2020

Extracting Synonyms from Bilingual Dictionaries

Mustafa Jarrar, Eman Karajah, Muhammad Khalifa +1

We present our progress in developing a novel algorithm to extract synonyms from bilingual dictionaries. Identification and usage of synonyms play a significant role in improving t…

cs.CL2020

A Panoramic Survey of Natural Language Processing in the Arab World

Kareem Darwish, Nizar Habash, Mourad Abbas +9

The term natural language refers to any system of symbolic communication (spoken, signed or written) without intentional human planning and design. This distinguishes natural langu…