Al Mukhtar Al Hadhrami


2025

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Lab17 @ Ahasis Shared Task 2025: Fine-Tuning and Prompting techniques for Sentiment Analysis of Saudi and Darija Dialects
Al Mukhtar Al Hadhrami | Firas Al Mahrouqi | Mohammed Al Shaaili | Hala Mulki
Proceedings of the Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Dialects

In this paper, we describe our contribution in Ahasis shared task: Sentiment analysis on Arabic Dialects in the Hospitality Domain. Through the presented framework, we explored using two learning strategies tailored to a Large Language Model (LLM) and Transformer-based model variants. While few-shot prompting was used with GPT-4o, fine-tuning was adopted once to refine the essential MARBERT model on the Ahasis dataset and then to utilize a MARBERT variant model, SODA-BERT, that was pretrained on an Omani sentiment dataset and later evaluated with the shared task data.