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08/08/2023
ChatGPT for Arabic Grammatical Error Correction
Recently, large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned to follow human instru...
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08/06/2023
TARJAMAT: Evaluation of Bard and ChatGPT on Machine Translation of Ten Arabic Varieties
Large language models (LLMs) finetuned to follow human instructions have...
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06/08/2023
Mixture-of-Supernets: Improving Weight-Sharing Supernet Training with Architecture-Routed Mixture-of-Experts
Weight-sharing supernet has become a vital component for performance est...
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06/05/2023
N-Shot Benchmarking of Whisper on Diverse Arabic Speech Recognition
Whisper, the recently developed multilingual weakly supervised model, is...
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06/01/2023
On the Robustness of Arabic Speech Dialect Identification
Arabic dialect identification (ADI) tools are an important part of the l...
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05/24/2023
Dolphin: A Challenging and Diverse Benchmark for Arabic NLG
We present Dolphin, a novel benchmark that addresses the need for an eva...
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05/24/2023
GPTAraEval: A Comprehensive Evaluation of ChatGPT on Arabic NLP
The recent emergence of ChatGPT has brought a revolutionary change in th...
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04/27/2023
LaMini-LM: A Diverse Herd of Distilled Models from Large-Scale Instructions
Large language models (LLMs) with instruction finetuning demonstrate sup...
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04/26/2023
Zero-Shot Slot and Intent Detection in Low-Resource Languages
Intent detection and slot filling are critical tasks in spoken and natur...
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04/21/2023
UBC-DLNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 12: Impact of Transfer Learning on African Sentiment Analysis
We describe our contribution to the SemEVAl 2023 AfriSenti-SemEval share...
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12/21/2022
SERENGETI: Massively Multilingual Language Models for Africa
Multilingual language models (MLMs) acquire valuable, generalizable ling...
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12/21/2022
ORCA: A Challenging Benchmark for Arabic Language Understanding
Due to their crucial role in all NLP, several benchmarks have been propo...
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12/21/2022
JASMINE: Arabic GPT Models for Few-Shot Learning
Task agnostic generative pretraining (GPT) has recently proved promising...
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11/11/2022
Cross-Platform and Cross-Domain Abusive Language Detection with Supervised Contrastive Learning
The prevalence of abusive language on different online platforms has bee...
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10/22/2022
A Benchmark Study of Contrastive Learning for Arabic Social Meaning
Contrastive learning (CL) brought significant progress to various NLP ta...
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10/21/2022
AfroLID: A Neural Language Identification Tool for African Languages
Language identification (LID) is a crucial precursor for NLP, especially...
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10/18/2022
NADI 2022: The Third Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task
We describe findings of the third Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification ...
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10/14/2022
AutoMoE: Neural Architecture Search for Efficient Sparsely Activated Transformers
Neural architecture search (NAS) has demonstrated promising results on i...
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05/27/2022
TURJUMAN: A Public Toolkit for Neural Arabic Machine Translation
We present TURJUMAN, a neural toolkit for translating from 20 languages ...
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05/14/2022
Improving Neural Machine Translation of Indigenous Languages with Multilingual Transfer Learning
Machine translation (MT) involving Indigenous languages, including those...
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04/10/2022
Decay No More: A Persistent Twitter Dataset for Learning Social Meaning
With the proliferation of social media, many studies resort to social me...
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03/19/2022
Automatic Detection of Entity-Manipulated Text using Factual Knowledge
In this work, we focus on the problem of distinguishing a human written ...
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03/16/2022
Towards Afrocentric NLP for African Languages: Where We Are and Where We Can Go
Aligning with ACL 2022 special Theme on "Language Diversity: from Low Re...
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03/15/2022
InfoDCL: A Distantly Supervised Contrastive Learning Framework for Social Meaning
Existing supervised contrastive learning frameworks suffer from two majo...
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02/10/2022
Improving Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-Native English with Transfer Learning and Language Model Decoding
ASR systems designed for native English (L1) usually underperform on non...
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10/01/2021
Speech Technology for Everyone: Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-Native English with Transfer Learning
To address the performance gap of English ASR models on L2 English speak...
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08/08/2021
Machine Translation of Low-Resource Indo-European Languages
Transfer learning has been an important technique for low-resource neura...
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08/07/2021
Improving Similar Language Translation With Transfer Learning
We investigate transfer learning based on pre-trained neural machine tra...
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08/01/2021
Improving Social Meaning Detection with Pragmatic Masking and Surrogate Fine-Tuning
Masked language models (MLMs) are pretrained with a denoising objective ...
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05/28/2021
Investigating Code-Mixed Modern Standard Arabic-Egyptian to English Machine Translation
Recent progress in neural machine translation (NMT) has made it possible...
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05/18/2021
Exploring Text-to-Text Transformers for English to Hinglish Machine Translation with Synthetic Code-Mixing
We describe models focused at the understudied problem of translating be...
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04/28/2021
AraStance: A Multi-Country and Multi-Domain Dataset of Arabic Stance Detection for Fact Checking
With the continuing spread of misinformation and disinformation online, ...
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03/07/2021
Translating the Unseen? Yorùbá → English MT in Low-Resource, Morphologically-Unmarked Settings
Translating between languages where certain features are marked morpholo...
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03/04/2021
NADI 2021: The Second Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task
We present the findings and results of the Second Nuanced Arabic Dialect...
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01/12/2021
Self-Training Pre-Trained Language Models for Zero- and Few-Shot Multi-Dialectal Arabic Sequence Labeling
A sufficient amount of annotated data is usually required to fine-tune p...
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12/27/2020
ARBERT MARBERT: Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Arabic
Masked language models (MLM) have become an integral part of many natura...
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11/22/2020
DiaLex: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multidialectal Arabic Word Embeddings
Word embeddings are a core component of modern natural language processi...
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11/10/2020
Translating Similar Languages: Role of Mutual Intelligibility in Multilingual Transformers
We investigate different approaches to translate between similar languag...
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11/05/2020
Machine Generation and Detection of Arabic Manipulated and Fake News
Fake news and deceptive machine-generated text are serious problems thre...
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11/02/2020
Automatic Detection of Machine Generated Text: A Critical Survey
Text generative models (TGMs) excel in producing text that matches the s...
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10/21/2020
NADI 2020: The First Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task
We present the results and findings of the First Nuanced Arabic Dialect ...
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10/10/2020
Toward Micro-Dialect Identification in Diaglossic and Code-Switched Environments
Although the prediction of dialects is an important language processing ...
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06/23/2020
One Model to Pronounce Them All: Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion With a Transformer Ensemble
The task of grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion is important for both s...
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06/07/2020
Growing Together: Modeling Human Language Learning With n-Best Multi-Checkpoint Machine Translation
We describe our submission to the 2020 Duolingo Shared Task on Simultane...
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05/04/2020
Understanding and Detecting Dangerous Speech in Social Media
Social media communication has become a significant part of daily activi...
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05/02/2020
Mega-COV: A Billion-Scale Dataset of 65 Languages For COVID-19
We describe Mega-COV, a billion-scale dataset from Twitter for studying ...
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12/30/2019
AraNet: A Deep Learning Toolkit for Arabic Social Media
We describe AraNet, a collection of deep learning Arabic social media pr...
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11/02/2019
Sentence-Level BERT and Multi-Task Learning of Age and Gender in Social Media
Social media currently provide a window on our lives, making it possible...
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10/31/2019
DiaNet: BERT and Hierarchical Attention Multi-Task Learning of Fine-Grained Dialect
Prediction of language varieties and dialects is an important language p...
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09/09/2019
