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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…
Seminar Users in the Arabic Twitter Sphere
Kareem Darwish, Dimitar Alexandrov, Preslav Nakov +1
We introduce the notion of "seminar users", who are social media users engaged in propaganda in support of a political entity. We develop a framework that can identify such users w…
Trump vs. Hillary: What went Viral during the 2016 US Presidential Election
Kareem Darwish, Walid Magdy, Tahar Zanouda
In this paper, we present quantitative and qualitative analysis of the top retweeted tweets (viral tweets) pertaining to the US presidential elections from September 1, 2016 to Ele…