The predominance of English and Latin-based large language models (LLMs) has led to a notable deficit in native Arabic LLMs. This discrepancy is accentuated by the prevalent inclusion of English tokens in existing Arabic models, detracting from their efficacy in processing native Arabic's intricate morphology and syntax. Consequently, there is a theoretical and practical imperative for developing LLMs predominantly focused on Arabic linguistic elements. To address this gap, this paper proposes ArabianGPT, a series of transformer-based models within the ArabianLLM suite designed explicitly for Arabic. These models, including ArabianGPT-0.1B and ArabianGPT-0.3B, vary in size and complexity, aligning with the nuanced linguistic characteristics of Arabic. The AraNizer tokenizer, integral to these models, addresses the unique morphological aspects of Arabic script, ensuring more accurate text processing. Empirical results from fine-tuning the models on tasks like sentiment analysis and summarization demonstrate significant improvements. For sentiment analysis, the fine-tuned ArabianGPT-0.1B model achieved a remarkable accuracy of 95%, a substantial increase from the base model's 56%. Similarly, in summarization tasks, fine-tuned models showed enhanced F1 scores, indicating improved precision and recall in generating concise summaries. Comparative analysis of fine-tuned ArabianGPT models against their base versions across various benchmarks reveals nuanced differences in performance, with fine-tuning positively impacting specific tasks like question answering and summarization. These findings underscore the efficacy of fine-tuning in aligning ArabianGPT models more closely with specific NLP tasks, highlighting the potential of tailored transformer architectures in advancing Arabic NLP.
Dhati+: Fine-tuned Large Language Models for Arabic Subjectivity Evaluation
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science(数学与计算机科学系);Lab. des Mathématiques et Sciences Appliquées (LMSA)(应用数学与科学实验室(LMSA));Exact Sciences and Computer Science Faculty(精确科学与计算机科学系);Lab. d’Informatique et Mathématiques (LIM)(计算机与数学实验室(LIM))
Alignment at Pre-training! Towards Native Alignment for Arabic LLMs
Shenzhen Research Institue of Big Data(深圳大数据研究院);The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen(香港中文大学(深圳));King Abdullah University of Science and Technology(阿卜杜拉国王科技大学);Shenzhen International Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics(深圳国际工业与应用数学中心)
The Landscape of Arabic Large Language Models (ALLMs): A New Era for Arabic Language Technology
is a Researcher at iWAN Research Group, King Saud University(iWAN研究组,国王沙特大学);is a Senior Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute(卡塔尔计算研究所);is a Professor at King Saud University(国王沙特大学);Head of iWAN Research Group(iWAN研究组)
AceGPT, Localizing Large Language Models in Arabic
Shenzhen International Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics(深圳国际工业与应用数学中心);Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data(深圳大数据研究院);The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen(香港中文大学(深圳));King Abdullah University of Science and Technology(阿卜杜拉国王科技大学)
Native vs Non-Native Language Prompting: A Comparative Analysis
Qatar Computing Research Institute(卡塔尔计算研究所);Qatar University(卡塔尔大学);Qatar University of Doha for Science and Technology(多哈科学技术卡塔尔大学);Liverpool John Moores University(利物浦约翰摩尔大学);Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar(卡塔尔卡内基梅隆大学)
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence(莫扎伊德·本·泽德人工智能大学);SDAIA;Al-Balqa Applied University(巴尔加应用大学);Khalifa University(卡利法大学);HUMAIN, Data and AI Models(HUMAIN、数据与人工智能模型)
Linguistic markers of personality traits have been studied extensively, but few cross-cultural studies exist. In this paper, we evaluate how native speakers of American English and Arabic perceive personality traits and naturalness of English utterances that vary along the dimensions of verbosity, hedging, lexical and syntactic alignment, and formality. The utterances are the turns within dialogue fragments that are presented as text transcripts to the workers of Amazon's Mechanical Turk. The results of the study suggest that all four dimensions can be used as linguistic markers of all persona…
Language-Specific versus Cross-Lingual Knowledge Graphs for Implicit Aspect Identification in Arabic: A Comparative Study of Reasoning and Adaptation Strategies
The acceleration in telecommunication needs leads to many groups of research, especially in communication facilitating and Machine Translation fields. While people contact with others having different languages and cultures, they need to have instant translations. However, the available instant translators are still providing somewhat bad Arabic-English Translations, for instance when translating books or articles, the meaning is not totally accurate. Therefore, using the semantic web techniques to deal with the homographs and homonyms semantically, the aim of this research is to extend a mode…
HBKU(哈马德·本·哈利法大学);Qatar Computing Research Institute(卡塔尔计算研究所);Kanari AI(卡纳里人工智能公司);Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学)
Recent advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) have achieved accuracy levels comparable to human transcribers, which led researchers to debate if the machine has reached human performance. Previous work focused on the English language and modular hidden Markov model-deep neural network (HMM-DNN) systems. In this paper, we perform a comprehensive benchmarking for end-to-end transformer ASR, modular HMM-DNN ASR, and human speech recognition (HSR) on the Arabic language and its dialects. For the HSR, we evaluate linguist performance and lay-native speaker performance on a new dataset colle…
ArabicMMLU: Assessing Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Arabic
MBZUAI(穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学);Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University(萨塔姆·本·阿卜杜勒阿齐兹王子大学);King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals(法赫德国王石油与矿业大学);Core42;New York University Abu Dhabi(纽约大学阿布扎比分校);The University of Melbourne(墨尔本大学)
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)
Exploiting Dialect Identification in Automatic Dialectal Text Normalization
Computational Approaches to Modeling Language Lab(语言建模计算方法实验室);New York University Abu Dhabi(纽约大学迪拜分校);Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar(卡内基梅隆大学多哈分校)
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology(阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王科技城)
The signal sound contains many different features, including Voice Onset Time (VOT), which is a very important feature of stop sounds in many languages. The only application of VOT values is stopping phoneme subsets. This subset of consonant sounds is stop phonemes exist in the Arabic language, and in fact, all languages. The pronunciation of these sounds is hard and unique especially for less-educated Arabs and non-native Arabic speakers. VOT can be utilized by the human auditory system to distinguish between voiced and unvoiced stops such as /p/ and /b/ in English.This search focuses on comp…
University of Lisbon(里斯本大学);University of Wolverhampton(伍尔弗汉普顿大学);Harvard Medical School(哈佛医学院);Macquarie University(麦考瑞大学)
In this paper we present NLI-PT, the first Portuguese dataset compiled for Native Language Identification (NLI), the task of identifying an author's first language based on their second language writing. The dataset includes 1,868 student essays written by learners of European Portuguese, native speakers of the following L1s: Chinese, English, Spanish, German, Russian, French, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Tetum, Arabic, Polish, Korean, Romanian, and Swedish. NLI-PT includes the original student text and four different types of annotation: POS, fine-grained POS, constituency parses, and dependency…
ARCADE: A City-Scale Corpus for Fine-Grained Arabic Dialect Tagging
Tuwaiq Academy(图瓦伊克学院);Robotics and Internet-of-Things Laboratory(机器人与物联网实验室);Prince Sultan University(普森大学);Higher School of Communication of Tunis (SUP’COM)(突尼斯通信高级学校)
University College Dublin(都柏林大学学院);ADAPT SFI Research Centre(ADAPT SFI研究中心)
The objective of this work is to investigate complementary features which can aid the quintessential Mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) in the task of closed, limited set word recognition for non-native English speakers of different mother-tongues. Unlike the MFCCs, which are derived from the spectral energy of the speech signal, the proposed frequency-centroids (FCs) encapsulate the spectral centres of the different bands of the speech spectrum, with the bands defined by the Mel filterbank. These features, in combination with the MFCCs, are observed to provide relative performance im…
University of Savoie(萨瓦大学);Chalmers University of Technology(查尔姆斯理工大学)
Urdu is a challenging language because of, first, its Perso-Arabic script and second, its morphological system having inherent grammatical forms and vocabulary of Arabic, Persian and the native languages of South Asia. This paper describes an implementation of the Urdu language as a software API, and we deal with orthography, morphology and the extraction of the lexicon. The morphology is implemented in a toolkit called Functional Morphology (Forsberg & Ranta, 2004), which is based on the idea of dealing grammars as software libraries. Therefore this implementation could be reused in applicati…
University of British Columbia(不列颠哥伦比亚大学);University of Pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚大学)
Prediction of language varieties and dialects is an important language processing task, with a wide range of applications. For Arabic, the native tongue of ~ 300 million people, most varieties remain unsupported. To ease this bottleneck, we present a very large scale dataset covering 319 cities from all 21 Arab countries. We introduce a hierarchical attention multi-task learning (HA-MTL) approach for dialect identification exploiting our data at the city, state, and country levels. We also evaluate use of BERT on the three tasks, comparing it to the MTL approach. We benchmark and release our d…
Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学);George Mason University(乔治梅森大学);University of Haifa(海法大学);University of Washington(华盛顿大学)
State-of-the-art machine translation (MT) systems are typically trained to generate the "standard" target language; however, many languages have multiple varieties (regional varieties, dialects, sociolects, non-native varieties) that are different from the standard language. Such varieties are often low-resource, and hence do not benefit from contemporary NLP solutions, MT included. We propose a general framework to rapidly adapt MT systems to generate language varieties that are close to, but different from, the standard target language, using no parallel (source--variety) data. This also inc…
SemRel2024: A Collection of Semantic Textual Relatedness Datasets for 13 Languages
Cardiff University(卡迪夫大学);University of Pretoria(比勒陀利亚大学);Institute For Experiential AI, Northeastern University(东北大学体验式人工智能研究所);BITS Pilani(pilani工学院);MBZUAI(穆罕默德·本·扎耶德人工智能大学);KU Leuven(鲁汶大学);Universität Hamburg(汉堡大学);Bahir Dar University(巴希尔达大学);IIIT Hyderabad(海得拉巴国际信息技术学院);Uppsala University(乌普萨拉大学);The University of Melbourne(墨尔本大学);Adama Science and Technology University(阿达马科技大学);Digital Umuganda(数字乌干达);Kotebe University of Education(科特贝教育大学);University of Toronto(多伦多大学);HKUST(香港科技大学);National Research Council Canada(加拿大国家研究委员会)