1 code implementation • EACL (WANLP) 2021 • Ibrahim Abu Farha, Wajdi Zaghouani, Walid Magdy
This paper provides an overview of the WANLP 2021 shared task on sarcasm and sentiment detection in Arabic.
1 code implementation • OSACT (LREC) 2022 • Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula, Paolo Rosso, Imene Bensalem, Wajdi Zaghouani
This paper describes our participation in the shared task Fine-Grained Hate Speech Detection on Arabic Twitter at the 5th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT).
1 code implementation • OSACT (LREC) 2022 • Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Wajdi Zaghouani, Ruslan Mitkov
The goal of the Qur’an QA 2022 shared task is to fill this gap by producing state-of-the-art question answering and reading comprehension research on Qur’an.
no code implementations • 27 Mar 2024 • Yunze Xiao, Houda Bouamor, Wajdi Zaghouani
Despite the considerable efforts being made to monitor and regulate user-generated content on social media platforms, the pervasiveness of offensive language, such as hate speech or cyberbullying, in the digital space remains a significant challenge.
no code implementations • 30 Dec 2023 • Ashhadul Islam, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Wajdi Zaghouani, Samir Brahim Belhaouari, Zubair Shah
To bolster our analysis, we assess the model's performance post fine-tuning for specific tasks.
no code implementations • 19 Dec 2023 • Md. Rafiul Biswas, Ashhadul Islam, Zubair Shah, Wajdi Zaghouani, Samir Brahim Belhaouari
This study aims to evaluate the potential of using a fine-tuned ChatGPT model as a personal medical assistant in the Arabic language.
no code implementations • 6 Nov 2023 • Maram Hasanain, Firoj Alam, Hamdy Mubarak, Samir Abdaljalil, Wajdi Zaghouani, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Abed Alhakim Freihat
We present an overview of the ArAIEval shared task, organized as part of the first ArabicNLP 2023 conference co-located with EMNLP 2023.
1 code implementation • 17 Mar 2023 • Angel Felipe Magnossão de Paula, Imene Bensalem, Paolo Rosso, Wajdi Zaghouani
This paper describes our participation in the shared task of hate speech detection, which is one of the subtasks of the CERIST NLP Challenge 2022.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2022 • Firoj Alam, Hamdy Mubarak, Wajdi Zaghouani, Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov
Thus, there has been a lot of recent research on automatic detection of propaganda techniques in text as well as in memes.
1 code implementation • 12 May 2022 • Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Wajdi Zaghouani, Ruslan Mitkov
The goal of the Qur'an QA 2022 shared task is to fill this gap by producing state-of-the-art question answering and reading comprehension research on Qur'an.
no code implementations • NAACL (NLP4IF) 2021 • Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alex Nikolov, Wajdi Zaghouani, Preslav Nakov, Anna Feldman
Here, we present the tasks, analyze the results, and discuss the system submissions and the methods they used.
no code implementations • 19 Jul 2020 • Chereen Shurafa, Kareem Darwish, Wajdi Zaghouani
Through the use of Twitter, framing has become a prominent presidential campaign tool for politically active users.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Sara Al-Mulla, Wajdi Zaghouani
The current Arabic natural language processing resources are mainly build to address the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), while we witnessed some scattered efforts to build resources for various Arabic dialects such as the Levantine and the Egyptian dialects.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Ines Abbes, Wajdi Zaghouani, Omaima El-Hardlo, Faten Ashour
Identifying irony in user-generated social media content has a wide range of applications; however to date Arabic content has received limited attention.
2 code implementations • Findings (EMNLP) 2021 • Firoj Alam, Shaden Shaar, Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad, Alex Nikolov, Hamdy Mubarak, Giovanni Da San Martino, Ahmed Abdelali, Nadir Durrani, Kareem Darwish, Abdulaziz Al-Homaid, Wajdi Zaghouani, Tommaso Caselli, Gijs Danoe, Friso Stolk, Britt Bruntink, Preslav Nakov
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 global infodemic.
no code implementations • RANLP 2019 • Anis Charfi, Wajdi Zaghouani, Syed Hassan Mehdi, Esraa Mohamed
We present ARAP-Tweet 2. 0, a corpus of 5 million dialectal Arabic tweets and 50 million words of about 3000 Twitter users from 17 Arab countries.
no code implementations • LREC 2018 • Ossama Obeid, Salam Khalifa, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Wajdi Zaghouani, Kemal Oflazer
In this paper, we introduce MADARi, a joint morphological annotation and spelling correction system for texts in Standard and Dialectal Arabic.
no code implementations • LREC 2018 • Wajdi Zaghouani, Anis Charfi
In this paper, we present Arap-Tweet, which is a large-scale and multi-dialectal corpus of Tweets from 11 regions and 16 countries in the Arab world representing the major Arabic dialectal varieties.
no code implementations • 23 Aug 2018 • Wajdi Zaghouani, Anis Charfi
In this paper, we present the annotation pipeline and the guidelines we wrote as part of an effort to create a large manually annotated Arabic author profiling dataset from various social media sources covering 16 Arabic countries and 11 dialectal regions.
no code implementations • LREC 2018 • Nizar Habash, Fadhl Eryani, Salam Khalifa, Owen Rambow, Dana Abdulrahim, Alex Erdmann, er, Reem Faraj, Wajdi Zaghouani, Houda Bouamor, Nasser Zalmout, Sara Hassan, Faisal Al-Shargi, Sakhar Alkhereyf, Basma Abdulkareem, Esk, Ramy er, Mohammad Salameh, Hind Saddiki
no code implementations • 25 Feb 2017 • Wajdi Zaghouani
Currently, there is not easy was to access to a comprehensive and updated list of freely available Arabic corpora.
no code implementations • WS 2016 • Wajdi Zaghouani, Abdelati Hawwari, Sawsan Alqahtani, Houda Bouamor, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Mona Diab, Kemal Oflazer
Arabic writing is typically underspecified for short vowels and other markups, referred to as diacritics.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Wajdi Zaghouani, Houda Bouamor, Abdelati Hawwari, Mona Diab, Ossama Obeid, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Sawsan Alqahtani, Kemal Oflazer
This paper presents the annotation guidelines developed as part of an effort to create a large scale manually diacritized corpus for various Arabic text genres.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Irina Temnikova, Wajdi Zaghouani, Stephan Vogel, Nizar Habash
The goal of the cognitive machine translation (MT) evaluation approach is to build classifiers which assign post-editing effort scores to new texts.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Wajdi Zaghouani, Nizar Habash, Ossama Obeid, Behrang Mohit, Houda Bouamor, Kemal Oflazer
We present our guidelines and annotation procedure to create a human corrected machine translated post-edited corpus for the Modern Standard Arabic.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Wajdi Zaghouani, Behrang Mohit, Nizar Habash, Ossama Obeid, Nadi Tomeh, Alla Rozovskaya, Noura Farra, Sarah Alkuhlani, Kemal Oflazer
Finally, we present the annotation tool that was developed as part of this project, the annotation pipeline, and the quality of the resulting annotations.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Wajdi Zaghouani, Kais Dukes
Crowdsourcing has been used recently as an alternative to traditional costly annotation by many natural language processing groups.