9 papers
DialectSentEval 2026: Arabic Dialect Sentiment Analysis and Swapping Shared Task
Saad Ezzini, Shadi Abudalfa, Maram Alharbi +6
Sentiment analysis is a fundamental problem in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Standard sentiment classification for the Arabic language remains challenging due to the high volu…
AraGenre 2026: A Hierarchical Definition-Guided Arabic Genre Classification Shared Task
Mo El-Haj, Saad Ezzini, Shadi Abudalfa +3
AraGenre is a shared task on hierarchical, definition-guided Arabic genre classification, motivated by the limited availability of annotated data in Arabic and other low-resource l…
AlexandriaX 2026: The First Shared Task on Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation
Abdellah El Mekki, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Samar M. Magdy +6
Dialectal Arabic machine translation (MT) remains challenging despite recent progress in Arabic language technologies, particularly because effective translation requires modeling…
AraDetox: A Multi-Dialect Arabic Detoxification Dataset
Mo El-Haj
Arabic harmful-language detection has received considerable attention, yet Arabic text detoxification remains underexplored. We introduce AraDetox, a multi-dialect Arabic detoxific…
Structured Prompting for Arabic Essay Proficiency: A Trait-Centric Evaluation Approach
Salim Al Mandhari, Hieu Pham Dinh, Mo El-Haj +1
This paper presents a novel prompt engineering framework for trait specific Automatic Essay Scoring (AES) in Arabic, leveraging large language models (LLMs) under zero-shot and few…
Tarab: A Multi-Dialect Corpus of Arabic Lyrics and Poetry
Mo El-Haj
We introduce the Tarab Corpus, a large-scale cultural and linguistic resource that brings together Arabic song lyrics and poetry within a unified analytical framework. The corpus c…
FreeTxt-Vi: A Benchmarked Vietnamese-English Toolkit for Segmentation, Sentiment, and Summarisation
Hung Nguyen Huy, Mo El-Haj, Dawn Knight +1
FreeTxt-Vi is a free and open source web based toolkit for creating and analysing bilingual Vietnamese English text collections. Positioned at the intersection of corpus linguistic…
VietJobs: A Vietnamese Job Advertisement Dataset
Hieu Pham Dinh, Hung Nguyen Huy, Mo El-Haj
VietJobs is the first large-scale, publicly available corpus of Vietnamese job advertisements, comprising 48,092 postings and over 15 million words collected from all 34 provinces…
AraFinNLP 2024: The First Arabic Financial NLP Shared Task
Sanad Malaysha, Mo El-Haj, Saad Ezzini +5
The expanding financial markets of the Arab world require sophisticated Arabic NLP tools. To address this need within the banking domain, the Arabic Financial NLP (AraFinNLP) share…