Arabic NLP

Tha3aroon at NSURL-2019 Task 8: Semantic Question Similarity in Arabic

In this paper, we describe our team's effort on the semantic text question similarity task of NSURL 2019. Our top performing system utilizes several innovative data augmentation techniques to enlarge the training data. Then, it takes ELMo pre-trained …

Neural Arabic Text Diacritization: State of the Art Results and a Novel Approach for Machine Translation

In this work, we present several deep learning models for the automatic diacritization of Arabic text. Our models are built using two main approaches, viz. Feed-Forward Neural Network (FFNN) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), with several …

Team JUST at the MADAR Shared Task on Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification

In this paper, we describe our team’s effort on the MADAR Shared Task on Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification. The task requires building a system capable of differentiating between 25 different Arabic dialects in addition to MSA. Our approach …

Arabic Text Diacritization Using Deep Neural Networks

Diacritization of Arabic text is both an interesting and a challenging problem at the same time with various applications ranging from speech synthesis to helping students learning the Arabic language. Like many other tasks or problems in Arabic …