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title = "{A}rabic Morphosyntactic Tagging and Dependency Parsing with Large Language Models",
author = "Adel, Mohamed and
Alhafni, Bashar and
Habash, Nizar",
editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and
Dev, Sunipa and
Li, Jessy and
Elliott, Desmond",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = oct,
year = "2026",
address = "Budapest, Hungary",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1467/",
pages = "33582--33604",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0",
abstract = "LLMs perform strongly across NLP, but their ability to produce explicit grammatical analyses remains unclear. Arabic provides a challenging testbed due to its rich morphology and orthographic ambiguity, which create strong morphology{--}syntax interactions. We present a unified evaluation of LLMs on Arabic morphosyntactic tagging and dependency parsing, covering pre-tokenized, raw-text, and cascaded settings. We compare zero-shot prompting with retrieval-based in-context learning. Relevant demonstrations substantially improve performance. The strongest LLMs approach supervised tagging and parsing systems; however, they require substantial annotated data for demonstration retrieval and considerable computational resources. We make all code and data used in this paper publicly available."
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%A Adel, Mohamed
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Markdown (Informal)
[Arabic Morphosyntactic Tagging and Dependency Parsing with Large Language Models](https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1467/) (Adel et al., EMNLP 2026)
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