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title = "{A}rabic Diacritics in the Wild: Exploiting Opportunities for Improved Diacritization",
author = "Elgamal, Salman and
Obeid, Ossama and
Kabbani, Mhd and
Inoue, Go and
Habash, Nizar",
editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei and
Martins, Andre and
Srikumar, Vivek",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.792/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.792",
pages = "14815--14829",
abstract = "The widespread absence of diacritical marks in Arabic text poses a significant challenge for Arabic natural language processing (NLP). This paper explores instances of naturally occurring diacritics, referred to as {\textquotedblleft}diacritics in the wild,{\textquotedblright} to unveil patterns and latent information across six diverse genres: news articles, novels, children`s books, poetry, political documents, and ChatGPT outputs. We present a new annotated dataset that maps real-world partially diacritized words to their maximal full diacritization in context. Additionally, we propose extensions to the analyze-and-disambiguate approach in Arabic NLP to leverage these diacritics, resulting in notable improvements. Our contributions encompass a thorough analysis, valuable datasets, and an extended diacritization algorithm. We release our code and datasets as open source."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Arabic Diacritics in the Wild: Exploiting Opportunities for Improved Diacritization
%A Elgamal, Salman
%A Obeid, Ossama
%A Kabbani, Mhd
%A Inoue, Go
%A Habash, Nizar
%Y Ku, Lun-Wei
%Y Martins, Andre
%Y Srikumar, Vivek
%S Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2024
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Bangkok, Thailand
%F elgamal-etal-2024-arabic
%X The widespread absence of diacritical marks in Arabic text poses a significant challenge for Arabic natural language processing (NLP). This paper explores instances of naturally occurring diacritics, referred to as “diacritics in the wild,” to unveil patterns and latent information across six diverse genres: news articles, novels, children‘s books, poetry, political documents, and ChatGPT outputs. We present a new annotated dataset that maps real-world partially diacritized words to their maximal full diacritization in context. Additionally, we propose extensions to the analyze-and-disambiguate approach in Arabic NLP to leverage these diacritics, resulting in notable improvements. Our contributions encompass a thorough analysis, valuable datasets, and an extended diacritization algorithm. We release our code and datasets as open source.
%R 10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.792
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.792/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.792
%P 14815-14829
Markdown (Informal)
[Arabic Diacritics in the Wild: Exploiting Opportunities for Improved Diacritization](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.792/) (Elgamal et al., ACL 2024)
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