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32 papers
NatiQ: An End-to-end Text-to-Speech System for Arabic
Ahmed Abdelali, Nadir Durrani, Cenk Demiroglu +3
NatiQ is end-to-end text-to-speech system for Arabic. Our speech synthesizer uses an encoder-decoder architecture with attention. We used both tacotron-based models (tacotron-1 and…
Automatic Expansion and Retargeting of Arabic Offensive Language Training
Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelali, Kareem Darwish +1
Rampant use of offensive language on social media led to recent efforts on automatic identification of such language. Though offensive language has general characteristics, attacks…
News Consumption in Time of Conflict: 2021 Palestinian-Israel War as an Example
Kareem Darwish
This paper examines news consumption in response to a major polarizing event, and we use the May 2021 Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an example. We conduct a detailed analysis of…
Cross-lingual Emotion Detection
Sabit Hassan, Shaden Shaar, Kareem Darwish
Emotion detection can provide us with a window into understanding human behavior. Due to the complex dynamics of human emotions, however, constructing annotated datasets to train a…
Pre-Training BERT on Arabic Tweets: Practical Considerations
Ahmed Abdelali, Sabit Hassan, Hamdy Mubarak +2
Pretraining Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) for downstream NLP tasks is a non-trival task. We pretrained 5 BERT models that differ in the size of the…
BERT Transformer model for Detecting Arabic GPT2 Auto-Generated Tweets
Fouzi Harrag, Maria Debbah, Kareem Darwish +1
During the last two decades, we have progressively turned to the Internet and social media to find news, entertain conversations and share opinion. Recently, OpenAI has developed a…
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…
Political Framing: US COVID19 Blame Game
Chereen Shurafa, Kareem Darwish, Wajdi Zaghouani
Through the use of Twitter, framing has become a prominent presidential campaign tool for politically active users. Framing is used to influence thoughts by evoking a particular pe…
Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media: A Holistic Perspective and a Call to Arms
Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi, Shaden Shaar +8
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, people turned to social media to read and to share timely information including statistics, warnings, advice, and inspirational stories.…
Arabic Dialect Identification in the Wild
Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Younes Samih +2
We present QADI, an automatically collected dataset of tweets belonging to a wide range of country-level Arabic dialects -covering 18 different countries in the Middle East and Nor…
Embeddings-Based Clustering for Target Specific Stances: The Case of a Polarized Turkey
Ammar Rashed, Mucahid Kutlu, Kareem Darwish +2
On June 24, 2018, Turkey conducted a highly consequential election in which the Turkish people elected their president and parliament in the first election under a new presidential…
Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic: Modeling the Perspective of Journalists, Fact-Checkers, Social Media Platforms, Policy Makers, and the Society
Firoj Alam, Shaden Shaar, Fahim Dalvi +14
With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the medical aspects of disinformation merged as the problem got elevated to a whole new level to become the first glo…
A Few Topical Tweets are Enough for Effective User-Level Stance Detection
Younes Samih, Kareem Darwish
Stance detection entails ascertaining the position of a user towards a target, such as an entity, topic, or claim. Recent work that employs unsupervised classification has shown th…
Arabic Offensive Language on Twitter: Analysis and Experiments
Hamdy Mubarak, Ammar Rashed, Kareem Darwish +2
Detecting offensive language on Twitter has many applications ranging from detecting/predicting bullying to measuring polarization. In this paper, we focus on building a large Arab…
Arabic Diacritic Recovery Using a Feature-Rich biLSTM Model
Kareem Darwish, Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak +1
Diacritics (short vowels) are typically omitted when writing Arabic text, and readers have to reintroduce them to correctly pronounce words. There are two types of Arabic diacritic…
Quantifying Polarization on Twitter: the Kavanaugh Nomination
Kareem Darwish
This paper addresses polarization quantification, particularly as it pertains to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court and his subsequent confirmation with the…
Tanbih: Get To Know What You Are Reading
Yifan Zhang, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño +10
We introduce Tanbih, a news aggregator with intelligent analysis tools to help readers understanding what's behind a news story. Our system displays news grouped into events and ge…
Embedding-based Qualitative Analysis of Polarization in Turkey
Mucahid Kutlu, Kareem Darwish, Cansin Bayrak +2
On June 24, 2018, Turkey conducted a highly-consequential election in which the Turkish people elected their president and parliament in the first election under a new presidential…
Predicting the Topical Stance of Media and Popular Twitter Users
Peter Stefanov, Kareem Darwish, Atanas Atanasov +1
Discovering the stances of media outlets and influential people on current, debatable topics is important for social statisticians and policy makers. Many supervised solutions exis…
Unsupervised User Stance Detection on Twitter
Kareem Darwish, Peter Stefanov, Michaël Aupetit +1
We present a highly effective unsupervised framework for detecting the stance of prolific Twitter users with respect to controversial topics. In particular, we use dimensionality r…
To Kavanaugh or Not to Kavanaugh: That is the Polarizing Question
Kareem Darwish
On October 6, 2018, the US Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh with the narrowest margin for a successful confirmation since 1881 and where the senators voted overwhelmingly along par…
Diacritization of Maghrebi Arabic Sub-Dialects
Ahmed Abdelali, Mohammed Attia, Younes Samih +2
Diacritization process attempt to restore the short vowels in Arabic written text; which typically are omitted. This process is essential for applications such as Text-to-Speech (T…
Devam vs. Tamam: 2018 Turkish Elections
Mucahid Kutlu, Kareem Darwish, Tamer Elsayed
On June 24, 2018, Turkey held a historical election, transforming its parliamentary system to a presidential one. One of the main questions for Turkish voters was whether to start…
Arabic Multi-Dialect Segmentation: bi-LSTM-CRF vs. SVM
Mohamed Eldesouki, Younes Samih, Ahmed Abdelali +4
Arabic word segmentation is essential for a variety of NLP applications such as machine translation and information retrieval. Segmentation entails breaking words into their consti…