Zeyad El-Zanaty


2019

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Zeyad at SemEval-2019 Task 6: That’s Offensive! An All-Out Search For An Ensemble To Identify And Categorize Offense in Tweets.
Zeyad El-Zanaty
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

The objective of this paper is to provide a description for a classification system built for SemEval-2019 Task 6: OffensEval. This system classifies a tweet as either offensive or not offensive (Sub-task A) and further classifies offensive tweets into categories (Sub-tasks B - C). The system consists of two phases; a brute-force grid search to find the best learners amongst a given set and an ensemble of a subset of these best learners. The system achieved an F1-score of 0.728, ranking in subtask A, an F1-score score of 0.616 in subtask B and an F1-score of 0.509 in subtask C.

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Arabic Dialect Identification with Deep Learning and Hybrid Frequency Based Features
Youssef Fares | Zeyad El-Zanaty | Kareem Abdel-Salam | Muhammed Ezzeldin | Aliaa Mohamed | Karim El-Awaad | Marwan Torki
Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop

Studies on Dialectical Arabic are growing more important by the day as it becomes the primary written and spoken form of Arabic online in informal settings. Among the important problems that should be explored is that of dialect identification. This paper reports different techniques that can be applied towards such goal and reports their performance on the Multi Arabic Dialect Applications and Resources (MADAR) Arabic Dialect Corpora. Our results show that improving on traditional systems using frequency based features and non deep learning classifiers is a challenging task. We propose different models based on different word and document representations. Our top model is able to achieve an F1 macro averaged score of 65.66 on MADAR’s small-scale parallel corpus of 25 dialects and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).