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MorphBPE: A Morpho-Aware Tokenizer Bridging Linguistic Complexity for Efficient LLM Training Across Morphologies
Ehsaneddin Asgari, Yassine El Kheir, Mohammad Ali Sadraei Javaheri
Tokenization is fundamental to Natural Language Processing (NLP), directly impacting model efficiency and linguistic fidelity. While Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) is widely used in Larg…
Fanar: An Arabic-Centric Multimodal Generative AI Platform
Fanar Team, Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad +39
We present Fanar, a platform for Arabic-centric multimodal generative AI systems, that supports language, speech and image generation tasks. At the heart of Fanar are Fanar Star an…
L1-aware Multilingual Mispronunciation Detection Framework
Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
The phonological discrepancies between a speaker's native (L1) and the non-native language (L2) serves as a major factor for mispronunciation. This paper introduces a novel multili…
The complementary roles of non-verbal cues for Robust Pronunciation Assessment
Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali
Research on pronunciation assessment systems focuses on utilizing phonetic and phonological aspects of non-native (L2) speech, often neglecting the rich layer of information hidden…
LAraBench: Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models
Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Absar Chowdhury +13
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly influenced the landscape of language and speech research. Despite this progress, these models lack specific b…