Search Results for author: Wajdi Zaghouani

Found 38 papers, 6 papers with code

UPV at the Arabic Hate Speech 2022 Shared Task: Offensive Language and Hate Speech Detection using Transformers and Ensemble Models

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).

Hate Speech Detection

Chinese Offensive Language Detection:Current Status and Future Directions

no code implementations27 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.

Can ChatGPT be Your Personal Medical Assistant?

no code implementations19 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.

Language Modelling Large Language Model

ArAIEval Shared Task: Persuasion Techniques and Disinformation Detection in Arabic Text

no code implementations6 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.

Transformers and Ensemble methods: A solution for Hate Speech Detection in Arabic languages

1 code implementation17 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.

Hate Speech Detection

Overview of the WANLP 2022 Shared Task on Propaganda Detection in Arabic

no code implementations18 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.

Propaganda detection

DTW at Qur'an QA 2022: Utilising Transfer Learning with Transformers for Question Answering in a Low-resource Domain

1 code implementation12 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.

Ensemble Learning Machine Reading Comprehension +3

Political Framing: US COVID19 Blame Game

no code implementations19 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.

Building a Corpus of Qatari Arabic Expressions

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.

DAICT: A Dialectal Arabic Irony Corpus Extracted from Twitter

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.

A Fine-Grained Annotated Multi-Dialectal Arabic Corpus

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.

Arap-Tweet: A Large Multi-Dialect Twitter Corpus for Gender, Age and Language Variety Identification

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.

Guidelines and Annotation Framework for Arabic Author Profiling

no code implementations23 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.

Critical Survey of the Freely Available Arabic Corpora

no code implementations25 Feb 2017 Wajdi Zaghouani

Currently, there is not easy was to access to a comprehensive and updated list of freely available Arabic corpora.

Guidelines and Framework for a Large Scale Arabic Diacritized Corpus

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.

Applying the Cognitive Machine Translation Evaluation Approach to Arabic

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.

Machine Translation Translation

Building an Arabic Machine Translation Post-Edited Corpus: Guidelines and Annotation

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.

Machine Translation Translation

Large Scale Arabic Error Annotation: Guidelines and Framework

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.

Machine Translation

Can Crowdsourcing be used for Effective Annotation of Arabic?

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.

Entity Resolution Multiple-choice +5

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