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title = "Addax at {W}ojood{NER} 2024: Attention-Based Dual-Channel Neural Network for {A}rabic Named Entity Recognition",
author = "Yahia, Issam and
Atou, Houdaifa and
Berrada, Ismail",
editor = "Habash, Nizar and
Bouamor, Houda and
Eskander, Ramy and
Tomeh, Nadi and
Abu Farha, Ibrahim and
Abdelali, Ahmed and
Touileb, Samia and
Hamed, Injy and
Onaizan, Yaser and
Alhafni, Bashar and
Antoun, Wissam and
Khalifa, Salam and
Haddad, Hatem and
Zitouni, Imed and
AlKhamissi, Badr and
Almatham, Rawan and
Mrini, Khalil",
booktitle = "Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.103",
pages = "867--873",
abstract = "Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that focuses on extracting entities such as names of people, organizations, locations, and dates from text. Despite significant advancements due to deep learning and transformer architectures like BERT, NER still faces challenges, particularly in low-resource languages like Arabic. This paper presents a BERT-based NER system that utilizes a two-channel parallel hybrid neural network with an attention mechanism specifically designed for the NER Shared Task 2024. In the competition, our approach ranked second by scoring 90.13{\%} in micro-F1 on the test set. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of combining advanced neural network architectures with contextualized word embeddings in improving NER performance for Arabic.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Addax at WojoodNER 2024: Attention-Based Dual-Channel Neural Network for Arabic Named Entity Recognition
%A Yahia, Issam
%A Atou, Houdaifa
%A Berrada, Ismail
%Y Habash, Nizar
%Y Bouamor, Houda
%Y Eskander, Ramy
%Y Tomeh, Nadi
%Y Abu Farha, Ibrahim
%Y Abdelali, Ahmed
%Y Touileb, Samia
%Y Hamed, Injy
%Y Onaizan, Yaser
%Y Alhafni, Bashar
%Y Antoun, Wissam
%Y Khalifa, Salam
%Y Haddad, Hatem
%Y Zitouni, Imed
%Y AlKhamissi, Badr
%Y Almatham, Rawan
%Y Mrini, Khalil
%S Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
%D 2024
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Bangkok, Thailand
%F yahia-etal-2024-addax
%X Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing (NLP) that focuses on extracting entities such as names of people, organizations, locations, and dates from text. Despite significant advancements due to deep learning and transformer architectures like BERT, NER still faces challenges, particularly in low-resource languages like Arabic. This paper presents a BERT-based NER system that utilizes a two-channel parallel hybrid neural network with an attention mechanism specifically designed for the NER Shared Task 2024. In the competition, our approach ranked second by scoring 90.13% in micro-F1 on the test set. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of combining advanced neural network architectures with contextualized word embeddings in improving NER performance for Arabic.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.103
%P 867-873
Markdown (Informal)
[Addax at WojoodNER 2024: Attention-Based Dual-Channel Neural Network for Arabic Named Entity Recognition](https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.103) (Yahia et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
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