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title = "Neural {A}rabic Text Diacritization: State of the Art Results and a Novel Approach for Machine Translation",
author = "Fadel, Ali and
Tuffaha, Ibraheem and
Al-Jawarneh, Bara{'} and
Al-Ayyoub, Mahmoud",
editor = "Nakazawa, Toshiaki and
Ding, Chenchen and
Dabre, Raj and
Kunchukuttan, Anoop and
Doi, Nobushige and
Oda, Yusuke and
Bojar, Ond{\v{r}}ej and
Parida, Shantipriya and
Goto, Isao and
Mino, Hidaya",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation",
month = nov,
year = "2019",
address = "Hong Kong, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/D19-5229",
doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-5229",
pages = "215--225",
abstract = "In this work, we present several deep learning models for the automatic diacritization of Arabic text. Our models are built using two main approaches, viz. Feed-Forward Neural Network (FFNN) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), with several enhancements such as 100-hot encoding, embeddings, Conditional Random Field (CRF) and Block-Normalized Gradient (BNG). The models are tested on the only freely available benchmark dataset and the results show that our models are either better or on par with other models, which require language-dependent post-processing steps, unlike ours. Moreover, we show that diacritics in Arabic can be used to enhance the models of NLP tasks such as Machine Translation (MT) by proposing the Translation over Diacritization (ToD) approach.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Neural Arabic Text Diacritization: State of the Art Results and a Novel Approach for Machine Translation
%A Fadel, Ali
%A Tuffaha, Ibraheem
%A Al-Jawarneh, Bara’
%A Al-Ayyoub, Mahmoud
%Y Nakazawa, Toshiaki
%Y Ding, Chenchen
%Y Dabre, Raj
%Y Kunchukuttan, Anoop
%Y Doi, Nobushige
%Y Oda, Yusuke
%Y Bojar, Ondřej
%Y Parida, Shantipriya
%Y Goto, Isao
%Y Mino, Hidaya
%S Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Asian Translation
%D 2019
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Hong Kong, China
%F fadel-etal-2019-neural
%X In this work, we present several deep learning models for the automatic diacritization of Arabic text. Our models are built using two main approaches, viz. Feed-Forward Neural Network (FFNN) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), with several enhancements such as 100-hot encoding, embeddings, Conditional Random Field (CRF) and Block-Normalized Gradient (BNG). The models are tested on the only freely available benchmark dataset and the results show that our models are either better or on par with other models, which require language-dependent post-processing steps, unlike ours. Moreover, we show that diacritics in Arabic can be used to enhance the models of NLP tasks such as Machine Translation (MT) by proposing the Translation over Diacritization (ToD) approach.
%R 10.18653/v1/D19-5229
%U https://aclanthology.org/D19-5229
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D19-5229
%P 215-225
Markdown (Informal)
[Neural Arabic Text Diacritization: State of the Art Results and a Novel Approach for Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/D19-5229) (Fadel et al., WAT 2019)
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