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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…
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…
A Culturally-diverse Multilingual Multimodal Video Benchmark & Model
Bhuiyan Sanjid Shafique, Ashmal Vayani, Muhammad Maaz +26
Large multimodal models (LMMs) have recently gained attention due to their effectiveness to understand and generate descriptions of visual content. Most existing LMMs are in Englis…
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…