Houda Bouamor

Fine-Grained Arabic Dialect Identification

2018 · International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Previous work on the problem of Arabic Dialect Identification typically targeted coarse-grained five dialect classes plus Standard Arabic (6-way classification). This paper presents the first results on a fine-grained dialect classification task covering 25 specific …

The MADAR Shared Task on Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification

2019

In this paper, we present the results and findings of the MADAR Shared Task on Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification. This shared task was organized as part of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, collocated …

The Interplay of Variant, Size, and Task Type in Arabic Pre-trained Language Models

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

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 models across three variants of Arabic: …