Bashar Talafha

Atar: Attention-based LSTM for Arabizi transliteration

2021 · International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems/International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

A non-standard romanization of Arabic script, known as Arbizi, is widely used in Arabic online and SMS/chat communities. However, since state-of-the-art tools and applications for Arabic NLP expects Arabic to be written in Arabic script, …

Sarcasm Detection and Quantification in Arabic Tweets

2021 · 2021 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI)

The role of predicting sarcasm in the text is known as automatic sarcasm detection. Given the prevalence and challenges of sarcasm in sentiment-bearing text, this is a critical phase in most sentiment analysis tasks. With …

Multi-Dialect Arabic BERT for Country-Level Dialect Identification

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Arabic dialect identification is a complex problem for a number of inherent properties of the language itself. In this paper, we present the experiments conducted, and the models developed by our competing team, Mawdoo3 AI, …