@inproceedings{elshehy-etal-2026-aramodernbert,
    title = "{A}ra{M}odern{BERT}: Transtokenized Initialization and Long-Context Encoder Modeling for {A}rabic",
    author = "Elshehy, Omar  and
      Nacar, Omer  and
      Djamai, Abdelbasset  and
      Ragab, Muhammed  and
      AL Jallad, Khloud  and
      Abdelazim, Mona",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on {NLP} for Languages Using {A}rabic Script",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Morocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.abjadnlp-1.39/",
    pages = "313--321"
}