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Multi-Dialect Arabic BERT for Country-Level Dialect Identification
CoRR, 2020 Accepted at the Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP2020) co-located with the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'2020), Barcelona, Spain, 12 Dec ...
Bashar Talafha +7 more
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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Arabic dialect sentiment analysis with ZERO effort. \\ Case study: Algerian dialect
Inteligencia Artificial, 2020 This paper presents an analytic study showing that it is entirely possible to analyze the sentiment of an Arabic dialect without constructing any resources.
Imane GUELLIL +2 more
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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L2 Journal, 2011 Arabic is a diglossic language, and learners must become competent in both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and a spoken dialect. However, Arabic dialects are typically not taught in U.S. classrooms. One reason is the question of which dialect to teach? This
Emma Trentman
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MENARA: Medical Natural Arabic Response Assistant
Machine Learning and Knowledge ExtractionDialectal variation presents a major challenge for deploying medical language models in real-world healthcare settings, where patient–clinician communication often occurs in regional vernaculars rather than standardized language forms.
Ahmed Ibrahim +6 more
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Deep Investigation of the Recent Advances in Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
IEEE Access, 2022 Speech recognition systems play an important role in human–machine interactions. Many systems exist for Arabic speech, however, there are limited systems for dialectal Arabic speech. The Arabic language comprises many properties, some of which are
Hamzah A. Alsayadi +4 more
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Verifiably Effective Arabic Dialect Identification [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2014 Several recent papers on Arabic dialect identification have hinted that using a word unigram model is sufficient and effective for the task. However, most previous work was done on a standard fairly homogeneous dataset of dialectal user comments. In this paper, we show that training on the standard dataset does not generalize, because a unigram model ...
Kareem Darwish +2 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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