Natural language processing for dialects of a language: A survey

A Joshi, R Dabre, D Kanojia, Z Li, H Zhan… - ACM Computing …, 2025 - dl.acm.org
State-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models are trained on massive training
corpora, and report a superlative performance on evaluation datasets. This survey delves …

Systematic literature review of dialectal Arabic: identification and detection

A Elnagar, SM Yagi, AB Nassif, I Shahin… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is becoming increasingly difficult to know who is working on what and how in
computational studies of Dialectal Arabic. This study comes to chart the field by conducting a …

ARBERT & MARBERT: Deep bidirectional transformers for Arabic

M Abdul-Mageed, AR Elmadany… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Pre-trained language models (LMs) are currently integral to many natural language
processing systems. Although multilingual LMs were also introduced to serve many …

The interplay of variant, size, and task type in Arabic pre-trained language models

G Inoue, B Alhafni, N Baimukan, H Bouamor… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we explore the effects of language variants, data sizes, and fine-tuning task
types in Arabic pre-trained language models. To do so, we build three pre-trained language …

AraT5: Text-to-text transformers for Arabic language generation

AR Elmadany, M Abdul-Mageed - … of the 60th annual meeting of …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Transfer learning with a unified Transformer framework (T5) that converts all language
problems into a text-to-text format was recently proposed as a simple and effective transfer …

Gptaraeval: A comprehensive evaluation of chatgpt on arabic nlp

MTI Khondaker, A Waheed, EMB Nagoudi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
ChatGPT's emergence heralds a transformative phase in NLP, particularly demonstrated
through its excellent performance on many English benchmarks. However, the model's …

A panoramic survey of natural language processing in the Arab world

K Darwish, N Habash, M Abbas, H Al-Khalifa… - Communications of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
THE TERM NATURAL language refers to any system of symbolic communication (spoken,
signed, or written) that has evolved naturally in humans without intentional human planning …

AraT5: Text-to-text transformers for Arabic language generation

EMB Nagoudi, AR Elmadany… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Transfer learning with a unified Transformer framework (T5) that converts all language
problems into a text-to-text format was recently proposed as a simple and effective transfer …

Beyond english: Evaluating llms for arabic grammatical error correction

SY Kwon, G Bhatia, EMB Nagoudi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs) finetuned to follow human instruction have recently
exhibited significant capabilities in various English NLP tasks. However, their performance …

Nâbra: Syrian Arabic dialects with morphological annotations

A Nayouf, T Hammouda, M Jarrar, F Zaraket… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper presents Nabra, a corpora of Syrian Arabic dialects with morphological
annotations. A team of Syrian natives collected more than 6K sentences containing about …