BAREC Shared Task 2025 on Arabic Readability Assessment

Khalid N. Elmadani, Bashar Alhafni, Hanada Taha, Nizar Habash


Abstract
We present the results and findings of the BAREC Shared Task 2025 on Arabic Readability Assessment, organized as part of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025). The BAREC 2025 shared task focuses on automatic readability assessment using BAREC Corpus, addressing fine-grained classification into 19 readability levels. The shared task includes two sub-tasks: sentence-level classification and document-level classification, and three tracks: (1) Strict Track, where only BAREC Corpus is allowed; (2) Constrained Track, restricted to the BAREC Corpus, SAMER Corpus, and SAMER Lexicon, and (3) Open Track, allowing any external resources. A total of 22 teams from 12 countries registered for the task. Among these, 17 teams submitted system description papers. The winning team achieved 87.5 QWK on the sentence-level task and 87.4 QWK on the document-level task.
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2025.arabicnlp-sharedtasks.34
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Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks
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November
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2025
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Suzhou, China
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Kareem Darwish, Ahmed Ali, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Samia Touileb, Imed Zitouni, Ahmed Abdelali, Sharefah Al-Ghamdi, Sakhar Alkhereyf, Wajdi Zaghouani, Salam Khalifa, Badr AlKhamissi, Rawan Almatham, Injy Hamed, Zaid Alyafeai, Areeb Alowisheq, Go Inoue, Khalil Mrini, Waad Alshammari
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ArabicNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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239–252
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Khalid N. Elmadani, Bashar Alhafni, Hanada Taha, and Nizar Habash. 2025. BAREC Shared Task 2025 on Arabic Readability Assessment. In Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks, pages 239–252, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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BAREC Shared Task 2025 on Arabic Readability Assessment (Elmadani et al., ArabicNLP 2025)
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