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Overview of the WANLP 2022 Shared Task on Propaganda Detection in Arabic
Firoj Alam, Hamdy Mubarak, Wajdi Zaghouani +2
Propaganda is the expression of an opinion or an action by an individual or a group deliberately designed to influence the opinions or the actions of other individuals or groups wi…
ArabGend: Gender Analysis and Inference on Arabic Twitter
Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam
Gender analysis of Twitter can reveal important socio-cultural differences between male and female users. There has been a significant effort to analyze and automatically infer gen…
ArCovidVac: Analyzing Arabic Tweets About COVID-19 Vaccination
Hamdy Mubarak, Sabit Hassan, Shammur Absar Chowdhury +1
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the first global infodemic have changed our lives in many different ways. We relied on social media to get the latest information about t…
QASR: QCRI Aljazeera Speech Resource -- A Large Scale Annotated Arabic Speech Corpus
Hamdy Mubarak, Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury +1
We introduce the largest transcribed Arabic speech corpus, QASR, collected from the broadcast domain. This multi-dialect speech dataset contains 2,000 hours of speech sampled at 16…
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…
ArCorona: Analyzing Arabic Tweets in the Early Days of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic
Hamdy Mubarak, Sabit Hassan
Over the past few months, there were huge numbers of circulating tweets and discussions about Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Arab region. It is important for policy makers and many…