Mostafa Gaafar

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2026

We describe ENSAR, our submission to the AraSeg 2026 shared task on Arabic sentence segmentation, where a system must decide, for every word in a document, whether a sentence ends there. The four tracks strip punctuation, paragraph breaks, both, or neither. We start from an ensemble of five fine-tuned encoders decoded with a length-aware semi-Markov program. It is strong, but most of its mistakes are places where all five models are wrong and all five assign high confidence, so averaging them or moving a threshold changes nothing. ENSAR adds a reasoning stage on top. Two LLM juries, each holding a written policy learned from its own graded errors on the training split, debate every document and apply only the edits both endorse. Our system ranked first on three of the four tracks in both the closed and open settings.