This paper presents an approach based on supervised machine learning methods to build a classifier that can identify text complexity in order to present Arabic language learners with texts suitable to their levels. The approach is based on machine learning classification methods to discriminate between the different levels of difficulty in reading and understanding a text. Several models were trained on a large corpus mined from online Arabic websites and manually annotated. The model uses both Count and TF-IDF representations and applies five machine learning algorithms; Multinomial Naive Bayes, Bernoulli Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine and Random Forest, using unigrams and bigrams features. With the goal of extracting the text complexity, the problem is usually addressed by formulating the level identification as a classification task. Experimental results showed that n-gram features could be indicative of the reading level of a text and could substantially improve performance, and showed that SVM and Multinomial Naive Bayes are the most accurate in predicting the complexity level. Best results were achieved using TF-IDF Vectors trained by a combination of word-based unigrams and bigrams with an overall accuracy of 87.14% over four classes of complexity.
A Large and Balanced Corpus for Fine-grained Arabic Readability Assessment
Computational Approaches to Modeling Language Lab, New York University Abu Dhabi(新纽约大学阿布扎赫实验室);Zai Arabic Language Research Centre, Zayed University(扎伊阿拉伯语言研究中心)
Guidelines for Fine-grained Sentence-level Arabic Readability Annotation
Computational Approaches to Modeling Language Lab, New York University Abu Dhabi(纽约大学阿布扎克分校计算语言学建模实验室);Zai Arabic Language Research Centre, Zayed University(扎伊阿拉伯语言研究中心,扎耶德大学);Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre(阿布扎克阿拉伯语言中心)
UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment
University of Bath(巴斯大学);Cardiff University(卡迪夫大学);National University Philippines(菲律宾国家大学);Bielefeld University(比勒菲尔德大学);University of Exeter(埃克塞特大学);University of Gothenburg(哥德堡大学);UCLouvain(列日大学);MBZUAI(马克斯·普朗克智能系统研究所);Brigham Young University(Brigham Young 大学);INESC-ID Lisboa(里斯本 INESC-ID);Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)(里斯本大学学院(ISCTE-IUL));Universitat Pompeu Fabra(庞培法华大学);National Research Council, Canada(加拿大国家研究委员会);King Abdulaziz University(国王阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹大学)
Bolbosh: Script-Aware Flow Matching for Kashmiri Text-to-Speech
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)(卡塔尔国王 Abdullah 科学与技术大学);Department of Linguistics, University of Kashmir(克什米尔大学语言学系);National Institute of Technology Srinagar(锡里纳加尔国家理工学院)