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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…
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…
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.…
SemEval-2020 Task 12: Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval 2020)
Marcos Zampieri, Preslav Nakov, Sara Rosenthal +6
We present the results and main findings of SemEval-2020 Task 12 on Multilingual Offensive Language Identification in Social Media (OffensEval 2020). The task involves three subtas…
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…
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…