Mawdoo3 AI at MADAR Shared Task: Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification with Ensemble Learning

Ahmad Ragab, Haitham Seelawi, Mostafa Samir, Abdelrahman Mattar, Hesham Al-Bataineh, Mohammad Zaghloul, Ahmad Mustafa, Bashar Talafha, Abed Alhakim Freihat, Hussein Al-Natsheh


Abstract
In this paper we discuss several models we used to classify 25 city-level Arabic dialects in addition to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as part of MADAR shared task (sub-task 1). We propose an ensemble model of a group of experimentally designed best performing classifiers on a various set of features. Our system achieves an accuracy of 69.3% macro F1-score with an improvement of 1.4% accuracy from the baseline model on the DEV dataset. Our best run submitted model ranked as third out of 19 participating teams on the TEST dataset with only 0.12% macro F1-score behind the top ranked system.
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W19-4630
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Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
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August
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2019
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Florence, Italy
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Wassim El-Hajj, Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Fethi Bougares, Walid Magdy, Imed Zitouni, Nadi Tomeh, Mahmoud El-Haj, Wajdi Zaghouani
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WANLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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244–248
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10.18653/v1/W19-4630
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Ahmad Ragab, Haitham Seelawi, Mostafa Samir, Abdelrahman Mattar, Hesham Al-Bataineh, Mohammad Zaghloul, Ahmad Mustafa, Bashar Talafha, Abed Alhakim Freihat, and Hussein Al-Natsheh. 2019. Mawdoo3 AI at MADAR Shared Task: Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification with Ensemble Learning. In Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, pages 244–248, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Mawdoo3 AI at MADAR Shared Task: Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification with Ensemble Learning (Ragab et al., WANLP 2019)
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