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title = "Pirates at {A}rabic{NLU}2024: Enhancing {A}rabic Word Sense Disambiguation using Transformer-Based Approaches",
author = "Wael, Tasneem and
Elrefai, Eman and
Makram, Mohamed and
Selim, Sahar and
Khoriba, Ghada",
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-1.31",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.arabicnlp-1.31",
pages = "372--376",
abstract = "This paper presents a novel approach to Ara-bic Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) lever-aging transformer-based models to tackle thecomplexities of the Arabic language. Utiliz-ing the SALMA dataset, we applied severaltechniques, including Sentence Transformerswith Siamese networks and the SetFit frame-work optimized for few-shot learning. Our ex-periments, structured around a robust evalua-tion framework, achieved a promising F1-scoreof up to 71{\%}, securing second place in theArabicNLU 2024: The First Arabic NaturalLanguage Understanding Shared Task compe-tition. These results demonstrate the efficacyof our approach, especially in dealing with thechallenges posed by homophones, homographs,and the lack of diacritics in Arabic texts. Theproposed methods significantly outperformedtraditional WSD techniques, highlighting theirpotential to enhance the accuracy of Arabicnatural language processing applications.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Pirates at ArabicNLU2024: Enhancing Arabic Word Sense Disambiguation using Transformer-Based Approaches
%A Wael, Tasneem
%A Elrefai, Eman
%A Makram, Mohamed
%A Selim, Sahar
%A Khoriba, Ghada
%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 wael-etal-2024-pirates
%X This paper presents a novel approach to Ara-bic Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) lever-aging transformer-based models to tackle thecomplexities of the Arabic language. Utiliz-ing the SALMA dataset, we applied severaltechniques, including Sentence Transformerswith Siamese networks and the SetFit frame-work optimized for few-shot learning. Our ex-periments, structured around a robust evalua-tion framework, achieved a promising F1-scoreof up to 71%, securing second place in theArabicNLU 2024: The First Arabic NaturalLanguage Understanding Shared Task compe-tition. These results demonstrate the efficacyof our approach, especially in dealing with thechallenges posed by homophones, homographs,and the lack of diacritics in Arabic texts. Theproposed methods significantly outperformedtraditional WSD techniques, highlighting theirpotential to enhance the accuracy of Arabicnatural language processing applications.
%R 10.18653/v1/2024.arabicnlp-1.31
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.31
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.arabicnlp-1.31
%P 372-376
Markdown (Informal)
[Pirates at ArabicNLU2024: Enhancing Arabic Word Sense Disambiguation using Transformer-Based Approaches](https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.31) (Wael et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
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