A New State-of-the-Art BERT Model for Judeo-Arabic

Elisha Rosensweig; Yitzchak Lindenbaum; Hillel Gershuni; Vered Raziel-Kretzmer; Daniel Caine; Avi Shmidman

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A New State-of-the-Art BERT Model for Judeo-Arabic

Elisha Rosensweig, Yitzchak Lindenbaum, Hillel Gershuni, Vered Raziel-Kretzmer, Daniel Caine, Avi Shmidman

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We present JABERT, the first BERT model pretrained specifically for historical Judeo-Arabic texts. We demonstrate that JABERT outperforms Arabic and multilingual models on the downstream task of Judeo-Arabic homograph disambiguation. Furthermore, in order to test the latter, we have curated and annotated the first Judeo-Arabic homograph test set. We release both JABERT and the Judeo-Arabic homograph test to the public for unrestricted use.

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Volume:: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA 2026) @ LREC 2026
Month:: May
Year:: 2026
Address:: Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
Editors:: Rachele Sprugnoli, Marco Passarotti
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Cite (ACL):: Elisha Rosensweig, Yitzchak Lindenbaum, Hillel Gershuni, Vered Raziel-Kretzmer, Daniel Caine, and Avi Shmidman. 2026. A New State-of-the-Art BERT Model for Judeo-Arabic. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA 2026) @ LREC 2026, pages 58–71, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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[A New State-of-the-Art BERT Model for Judeo-Arabic](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lt4hala-1.6/) (Rosensweig et al., LT4HALA 2026)

A New State-of-the-Art BERT Model for Judeo-Arabic (Rosensweig et al., LT4HALA 2026)

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Elisha Rosensweig, Yitzchak Lindenbaum, Hillel Gershuni, Vered Raziel-Kretzmer, Daniel Caine, and Avi Shmidman. 2026. A New State-of-the-Art BERT Model for Judeo-Arabic. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA 2026) @ LREC 2026, pages 58–71, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).