Program

(9:00 - 9:20) Welcome Speech

(9:20 - 10:30) Arabic downstream NLP tasks

• (9:20 - 9:30) - In-Context Meta-Learning vs. Semantic Score-Based Similarity: A Comparative Study in Arabic Short Answer Grading
  Menna Fateen, Tsunenori Mine

• (9:30 - 9:40) - Arabic Dialect Identification under Scrutiny: Limitations of Single-label Classification
  Amr Keleg, Walid Magdy

• (9:40 - 9:50) - Nâbra: Syrian Arabic Dialects with Morphological Annotations
  Amal Nayouf, Tymaa Hasanain Hammouda, Mustafa Jarrar, Fadi Zaraket, Mohamad-Bassam Kurdy

• (9:50 - 10:00) - Arabic Fine-Grained Entity Recognition
  Haneen Abdallatif Liqreina, Mustafa Jarrar, Mohammed Khalilia, Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

• (10:00 - 10:10) - Cross-Dialectal Named Entity Recognition in Arabic
  Niama El Khbir, Urchade Zaratiana, Nadi Tomeh, Thierry Charnois

• (10:10 - 10:20) - Leveraging Domain Adaptation and Data Augmentation to Improve Qur'anic IR in English and Arabic
  Vera Pavlova

• (10:20 - 10:30) - ArabIcros: AI-Powered Arabic Crossword Puzzle Generation for Educational Applications
  Kamyar Zeinalipour, Mohamed Zaky Saad, Marco Maggini, Marco Gori

(10:30 - 11:00) - Coffee Break

(11:00 - 12:30) LLMs and Applications

• (11:00 - 11:10) - Evaluating ChatGPT and Bard AI on Arabic Sentiment Analysis
  Abdulmohsen Al-Thubaity, Sakhar Alkhereyf, Hanan Saeed Murayshid, Nouf Alshalawi, Maha Bin Omirah, Raghad Alateeq, Rawabi Almutairi, Razan Alsuwailem, Manal Alhassoun, Imaan Mohammed Alkhanen

• (11:10 - 11:20) - TARJAMAT: Evaluation of Bard and ChatGPT on Machine Translation of Ten Arabic Varieties
  Karima Kadaoui, Samar Mohamed Magdy, Abdul Waheed, Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

• (11:20 - 11:30) - Analyzing Multilingual Competency of LLMs in Multi-Turn Instruction Following: A Case Study of Arabic
  Sabri Boughorbel, Majd Hawasly

• (11:30 - 11:40) - Beyond English: Evaluating LLMs for Arabic Grammatical Error Correction
  Sang Yun Kwon, Gagan Bhatia, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

• (11:40 - 11:50) - Octopus: A Multitask Model and Toolkit for Arabic Natural Language Generation
  AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

• (11:50 - 12:00) - AlGhafa Evaluation Benchmark for Arabic Language Models
  Ebtesam Almazrouei, Ruxandra Cojocaru, Michele Baldo, Quentin Malartic, Hamza Alobeidli, Daniele Mazzotta, Guilherme Penedo, Giulia Campesan, Mugariya Farooq, Maitha Alhammadi, Julien Launay, Badreddine Noune

• (12:00 - 12:10) - GARI: Graph Attention for Relative Isomorphism of Arabic Word Embeddings
  Muhammad Asif Ali, Maha Alshmrani, Jianbin Qin, Yan HU, Di Wang

• (12:10 - 12:20) - Violet: A Vision-Language Model for Arabic Image Captioning with Gemini Decoder
  Abdelrahman Mohamed, Fakhraddin Alwajih, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Alcides Alcoba Inciarte, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

• (12:20 - 12:30) - ArTST: Arabic Text and Speech Transformer
  Hawau Olamide Toyin, Amirbek Djanibekov, Ajinkya Kulkarni, Hanan Aldarmaki

(12:30 - 14:00) - Lunch Break

(14:00 - 14:20) - Arabic Core NLP

• (14:00 - 14:10) - SALMA: Arabic Sense-Annotated Corpus and WSD Benchmarks
  Mustafa Jarrar, Sanad Malaysha, Tymaa Hasanain Hammouda, Mohammed Khalilia

• (14:10 - 14:20) - CamelParser2.0: A State-of-the-Art Dependency Parser for Arabic
  Ahmed Elshabrawy, Muhammed AbuOdeh, Go Inoue, Nizar Habash

(14:20 - 14:45) - Shared-tasks Overview

• (14:20 - 14:25) - ArAIEval Shared Task: Persuasion Techniques and Disinformation Detection in Arabic Text
  Maram Hasanain, Firoj Alam, Hamdy Mubarak, Samir Abdaljalil, Wajdi Zaghouani, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Abed Alhakim Freihat

• (14:25 - 14:30) - NADI 2023: The Fourth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task
  Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Chiyu Zhang, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Houda Bouamor, Nizar Habash

• (14:30 - 14:35) - WojoodNER 2023: The First Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task
  Mustafa Jarrar, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Mohammed Khalilia, Bashar Talafha, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Nagham Hamad, Alaa' Omar

• (14:35 - 14:40) - KSAA-RD Shared Task: Arabic Reverse Dictionary
  Rawan Nasser Almatham, Waad Thuwaini Alshammari, Abdulrahman M Alosaimy, Sarah Omar Alhumoud, Asma Al Wazrah, Afrah Altamimi, Halah Alharbi, Abdullah Alaifi

• (14:40 - 14:45) - Qur’an QA 2023 Shared Task: Overview of Passage Retrieval and Reading Comprehension Tasks over the Holy Qur’an
  Rana Malhas, Watheq Mansour, Tamer Elsayed

(14:45 - 15:30) - Panel on Arabic LLMs: Challenges and Opportunities

• Moderator: Mona Diab (CMU)

• Panelists: Preslav Nakov (MBZUAI), Areeb Alowisheq (SDAIA), Kareem Darwish (aiXplain)

(15:30 - 16:00) - Coffee Break

(16:00 - 17:30) - Posters & Shared Task Papers

Main Conference Papers

• Enhancing Arabic Machine Translation for E-commerce Product Information: Data Quality Challenges and Innovative Selection Approaches
  Bryan Zhang, Salah Danial, Stephan Walter

• Multi-Parallel Corpus of North Levantine Arabic
  Mateusz Krubiński, Hashem Sellat, Shadi Saleh, Adam Pospíšil, Petr Zemánek, Pavel Pecina

• VoxArabica: A Robust Dialect-Aware Arabic Speech Recognition System
  Abdul Waheed, Bashar Talafha, Peter Sullivan, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

• Arabic Topic Classification in the Generative and AutoML Era
  Doha Albared, Hadi Hamoud, Fadi Zaraket

• Yet Another Model for Arabic Dialect Identification
  Ajinkya Kulkarni, Hanan Aldarmaki

EMNLP Findings Papers

• Automatic Pronunciation Assessment-A Review

Yassine El Kheir, Ahmed Ali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury

• Data Augmentation Techniques for Machine Translation of Code-Switched Texts: A Comparative Study

Injy Hamed, Nizar Habash, Thang Vu

• Filtered Semi-Markov CRF

Urchade Zaratiana, Nadi Tomeh, Niama El Khbir, Pierre Holat, Thierry Charnois

Shared-tasks Papers

• DetectiveRedasers at ArAIEval Shared Task: Leveraging Transformer Ensembles for Arabic Deception Detection

Bryan E Tuck, Fatima Zahra Qachfar, Dainis Boumber, Rakesh M Verma

• Nexus at ArAIEval Shared Task: Fine-Tuning Arabic Language Models for Propaganda and Disinformation Detection

Yunze Xiao, Firoj Alam

• PTUK-HULAT at ArAIEval Shared Task Fine-tuned Distilbert to Predict Disinformative Tweets

Areej Mustafa Jaber, Paloma Martinez

• ReDASPersuasion at ArAIEval Shared Task: Multilingual and Monolingual Models For Arabic Persuasion Detection

Fatima Zahra Qachfar, Rakesh M Verma

• UL & UM6P at ArAIEval Shared Task: Transformer-based model for Persuasion Techniques and Disinformation detection in Arabic

Salima Lamsiyah, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Hamza Alami, Ismail Berrada, Christoph Schommer

• UWB at Arabic Reverse Dictionary shared task: Computing the meaning of a gloss

Stephen Eugene Taylor

• NLPeople at NADI 2023 Shared Task: Arabic Dialect Identification with Augmented Context and Multi-Stage Tuning

Mohab Elkaref, Movina Moses, Shinnosuke Tanaka, James Barry, Geeth De Mel

• SANA at NADI 2023 shared task: Ensemble of Layer-Wise BERT-based models for Dialectal Arabic Identification

Nada Almarwani, Samah Aloufi

• The Helsinki-NLP Submissions at NADI 2023 Shared Task: Walking the Baseline

Yves Scherrer, Aleksandra Miletić, Olli Kuparinen

• LKAU23 at Qur'an QA 2023: Using Transformer Models for Retrieving Passages and Finding Answers to Questions from the Qur'an

Sarah Alnefaie, Abdullah N Alsaleh, Eric Atwell, Mohammad Alsalka, Abdulrahman Altahhan

• El-Kawaref at WojoodNER shared task: StagedNER for Arabic Named Entity Recognition

Nehal Elkaref, Mohab Elkaref

• UM6P & UL at WojoodNER shared task: Improving Multi-Task Learning for Flat and Nested Arabic Named Entity Recognition

Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Salima Lamsiyah, Hamza Alami, Christoph Schommer, Ismail Berrada

• LIPN at WojoodNER shared task: A Span-Based Approach for Flat and Nested Arabic Named Entity Recognition

Niama El Khbir, Urchade Zaratiana, Nadi Tomeh, Thierry Charnois

(16:00 - 17:30) - Virtual Poster Session

Main Conference Papers

• IDRISI-D: Arabic and English Datasets and Benchmarks for Location Mention Disambiguation over Disaster Microblogs
  Reem Suwaileh, Tamer Elsayed, Muhammad Imran

• HICMA: The Handwriting Identification for Calligraphy and Manuscripts in Arabic Dataset
  Anis Ismail, Zena Kamel, Reem Mahmoud

• Simplify: Automatic Arabic Sentence Simplification using Word Embeddings
  Yousef Mohamed SalahEldin, Caroline Sabty

• ArBanking77: Intent Detection Neural Model and a New Dataset in Modern and Dialectical Arabic
  Mustafa Jarrar, Ahmet Birim, Mohammed Khalilia, Mustafa Erden, Sana Ghanem

• ArSarcasMoji Dataset: The Emoji Sentiment Roles in Arabic Ironic Contexts
  Shatha Ali A Hakami, Robert Hendley, Phillip Smith

• Machine Translation of Omani Arabic Dialect from Social Media
  Khoula Al-Kharusi, Abdurahman Khalifa AAlAbdulsalam

• Automated De-Identification of Arabic Medical Records
  Veysel Kocaman, Youssef Mellah, Hasham Ul Haq, David Talby

• Arabic dialect identification: An in-depth error analysis on the MADAR parallel corpus
  Helene Bøsei Olsen, Samia Touileb, Erik Velldal

• Investigating Zero-shot Cross-lingual Language Understanding for Arabic
  Zaid Alyafeai, Moataz Ahmed

• On Enhancing Fine-Tuning for Pre-trained Language Models
  Abir Betka, Zeyd Ferhat, Riyadh Barka, Selma Boutiba, Zineddine Sarhani Kahhoul, Tiar Mohamed Lakhdar, Ahmed Abdelali, Habiba Dahmani

• LANS: Large-scale Arabic News Summarization Corpus
  Abdulaziz Alhamadani, Xuchao Zhang, Jianfeng He, Aadyant Khatri, Chang-Tien Lu

• Performance Implications of Using Unrepresentative Corpora in Arabic Natural Language Processing
  Saied Alshahrani, Norah F Alshahrani, Soumyabrata Dey, Jeanna Matthews

• ArTrivia: Harvesting Arabic Wikipedia to Build A New Arabic Question Answering Dataset
  Sultan Alrowili, K Vijay-Shanker

• ASWAT: ARABIC AUDIO DATASET FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION USING SPEECH-REPRESENTATION LEARNING
  Lamya Alkanhal, Abeer Alessa, Elaf Almahmoud, Rana Alaqil

• Offensive Language Detection in Arabizi
  Imene Bensalem, Meryem Ait Mout, Paolo Rosso

EMNLP Findings Papers

• Arabic Mini-ClimateGPT: A Climate Change and Sustainability Tailored Arabic LLM

Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Abdelrahman M Shaker, Omkar Chakradhar Thawakar, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman Khan, Fahad Khan

• Dolphin: A Challenging and Diverse Benchmark for Arabic NLG

El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Ahmed Oumar El- Shangiti, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Shared-tasks Papers

• AAST-NLP at ArAIEval Shared Task: Tackling Persuasion technique and Disinformation Detection using Pre-Trained Language Models On Imbalanced Datasets

Ahmed El-Sayed, Omar Nasr, Noureldin Elmadany

• AraDetector at ArAIEval Shared Task: An Ensemble of Arabic-specific pre-trained BERT and GPT-4 for Arabic Disinformation Detection

Ahmed Bahaaulddin A. Wahhab, Vian Sabeeh, Hanan Mohamed Belhaj, Serry Sibaee, Samar Ahmad, Ibrahim Khurfan, Abdullah I. Alharbi

• Frank at ArAIEval Shared Task: Arabic Persuasion and Disinformation: The Power of Pretrained Models

Dilshod Azizov, Jiyong Li, Shangsong Liang

• HTE at ArAIEval Shared Task: Integrating Content Type Information in Binary Persuasive Technique Detection

Khaldi Hadjer, Taqiy Eddine Bouklouha

• Itri Amigos at ArAIEval Shared Task: Transformer vs. Compression-Based Models for Persuasion Techniques and Disinformation Detection

Jehad Oumer, Nouman Ahmed, Natalia Flechas Manrique

• KnowTellConvince at ArAIEval Shared Task: Disinformation and Persuasion Detection in Arabic using Similar and Contrastive Representation Alignment

Hariram Veeramani, Surendrabikram Thapa, Usman Naseem

• Legend at ArAIEval Shared Task: Persuasion Technique Detection using a Language-Agnostic Text Representation Model

Olumide Ebenezer Ojo, Olaronke Oluwayemisi Adebanji, Hiram Calvo, Damian Oluwatobi Dieke, Olumuyiwa Emmanuel OJO, Seye Emmanuel Akinsanya, Tolulope Olalekan Abiola, Anna Feldman

• Mavericks at ArAIEval Shared Task: Towards a Safer Digital Space - Transformer Ensemble Models Tackling Deception and Persuasion

Sudeep Mangalvedhekar, Kshitij Deshpande, Yash Patwardhan, Vedant Deshpande, Ravindra Murumkar

• PD-AR at ArAIEval Shared Task: A BERT-Centric Approach to Tackle Arabic Disinformation

Pritam Deka, Ashwathy T. Revi

• Raphael at ArAIEval Shared Task: Understanding Persuasive Language and Tone, an LLM Approach

Utsav Shukla, Manan Vyas, Shailendra Tiwari

• USTHB at NADI 2023 shared task: Exploring Preprocessing and Feature Engineering Strategies for Arabic Dialect Identification

Mohamed Lichouri, Khaled Lounnas, Aicha Zitouni, Houda Latrache, Rachida Djeradi

• rematchka at ArAIEval Shared Task: Prefix-Tuning & Prompt-tuning for Improved Detection of Propaganda and Disinformation in Arabic Social Media Content

Reem Abdel-Salam

• Abed at KSAA-RD Shared Task: Enhancing Arabic Word Embedding with Modified BERT Multilingual

Abdelrahim Qaddoumi

• Qamosy at Arabic Reverse Dictionary shared task: Semi Decoder Architecture for Reverse Dictionary with SBERT Encoder

Serry Sibaee, Samar Ahmad, Ibrahim Khurfan, Vian Sabeeh, Ahmed Bahaaulddin A. Wahhab, Hanan Mohamed Belhaj, Abdullah I. Alharbi

• Rosetta Stone at KSAA-RD Shared Task: A Hop From Language Modeling To Word--Definition Alignment

Ahmed Elbakry, Mohamed Gabr, Muhammad ElNokrashy, Badr AlKhamissi

• ANLP-RG at NADI 2023 shared task: Machine Translation of Arabic Dialects: A Comparative Study of Transformer Models

Wiem Derouich, Sameh Kchaou, Rahma Boujelbane

• DialectNLU at NADI 2023 Shared Task: Transformer Based Multitask Approach Jointly Integrating Dialect and Machine Translation Tasks in Arabic

Hariram Veeramani, Surendrabikram Thapa, Usman Naseem

• Frank at NADI 2023 Shared Task: Trio-Based Ensemble Approach for Arabic Dialect Identification

Dilshod Azizov, Jiyong Li, Shangsong Liang

• ISL-AAST at NADI 2023 shared task: Enhancing Arabic Dialect Identification in the Era of Globalization and Technological Progress

Shorouk Adel Elsayed, Noureldin Elmadany

• IUNADI at NADI 2023 shared task: Country-level Arabic Dialect Classification in Tweets for the Shared Task NADI 2023

Yash Hatekar, Muhammad S. Abdo

• Mavericks at NADI 2023 Shared Task: Unravelling Regional Nuances through Dialect Identification using Transformer-based Approach

Vedant Deshpande, Yash Patwardhan, Kshitij Deshpande, Sudeep Mangalvedhekar, Ravindra Murumkar

• USTHB at NADI 2023 shared task: Exploring Preprocessing and Feature Engineering Strategies for Arabic Dialect Identification

Mohamed Lichouri, Khaled Lounnas, Aicha Zitouni, Houda Latrache, Rachida Djeradi

• UniManc at NADI 2023 Shared Task: A Comparison of Various T5-based Models for Translating Arabic Dialectical Text to Modern Standard Arabic

Abdullah Salem Khered, Ingy Yasser Abdelhalim, Nadine Abdelhalim, Ahmed Soliman, Riza Batista-Navarro

• UoT at NADI 2023 shared task: Automatic Arabic Dialect Identification is Made Possible

Abduslam F Ahmed Nwesri, Nabila Almabrok S Shinbir, Hassan Ali Ebrahem

• rematchka at NADI 2023 shared task: Parameter Efficient tuning for Dialect Identification and Dialect Machine Translation

Reem Abdel-Salam

• AHJL at Qur'an QA 2023 Shared Task: Enhancing Passage Retrieval using Sentence Transformer and Translation

Hessa Abdulrahman Alawwad, Lujain A. Alawwad, Jamilah Alharbi, Abdullah I. Alharbi

• Al-Jawaab at Qur'an QA 2023 Shared Task: Exploring Embeddings and GPT Models for Passage Retrieval and Reading Comprehension

Abdulrezzak Zekiye, Fadi Amroush

• GYM at Qur'an QA 2023 Shared Task: Multi-Task Transfer Learning for Quranic Passage Retrieval and Question Answering with Large Language Models

Ghazaleh Mahmoudi, Yeganeh Morshedzadeh, Sauleh Eetemadi

• LowResContextQA at Qur'an QA 2023 Shared Task: Temporal and Sequential Representation Augmented Question Answering Span Detection in Arabic

Hariram Veeramani, Surendrabikram Thapa, Usman Naseem

• TCE at Qur'an QA 2023 Shared Task: Low Resource Enhanced Transformer-based Ensemble Approach for Qur'anic QA

Mohammed Alaa Elkomy, Amany Sarhan

• Alex-U 2023 NLP at WojoodNER shared task: AraBINDER (Bi-encoder for Arabic Named Entity Recognition)

Mariam Fekry Hussein, Sarah Khaled Atef, Marwan Torki, Nagwa El-Makky

• AlexU-AIC at WojoodNER shared task: Sequence Labeling vs MRC and SWA for Arabic Named Entity Recognition

Shereen Elkordi, Noha Adly, Marwan Torki

• AlphaBrains at WojoodNER shared task: Arabic Named Entity Recognition by Using Character-based Context-Sensitive Word Representations

Toqeer Ehsan, Amjad Ali, Ala Al-Fuqaha

• ELYADATA at WojoodNER Shared Task: Data and Model-centric Approaches for Arabic Flat and Nested NER

Imen Laouirine, Haroun Elleuch, Fethi Bougares

• Lotus at WojoodNER Shared Task: Multilingual Transformers: Unveiling Flat and Nested Entity Recognition

Jiyong Li, Dilshod Azizov, Hilal AlQuabeh, Shangsong Liang