5 papers
A Parallel Multi-Dialect Arabic Dependency Treebank
Noor Abo Mokh, Mohamed Adel, Jamila El-Gizuli +3
Dependency parsing resource development for Arabic has largely focused on Modern Standard Arabic, leaving dialectal Arabic comparatively under-resourced. We introduce MADARTB, the…
ArabiGEE: A Hierarchical Taxonomy for Arabic Grammatical Error Explanation
Khaled Elhady, Omar Kallas, Nizar Habash +1
We introduce ArabiGEE, the first comprehensive Arabic grammatical error explanation (GEE) taxonomy grounded in explicit error types. Unlike existing GEE approaches that treat expla…
Arabic Sentence Segmentation Across Genres and Punctuation Conditions
Mohammed Elkholy, Khalid N. Elmadani, Nizar Habash +1
Sentence segmentation in Arabic is challenging due to ambiguous and inconsistent punctuation, with many texts lacking reliable sentence boundary markers. Existing approaches rely h…
BALSAM: A Platform for Benchmarking Arabic Large Language Models
Rawan Al-Matham, Kareem Darwish, Raghad Al-Rasheed +40
The impressive advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) in English has not been matched across all languages. In particular, LLM performance in Arabic lags behind, due to data s…
Arabic Diacritics in the Wild: Exploiting Opportunities for Improved Diacritization
Salman Elgamal, Ossama Obeid, Tameem Kabbani +2
The widespread absence of diacritical marks in Arabic text poses a significant challenge for Arabic natural language processing (NLP). This paper explores instances of naturally oc…