🥁 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Registration is now open for 𝗗𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗿𝗴𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸, which will be held as part of the ArabicNLP 2026 conference, co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest.

@gronlp.bsky.social
#ArgumentMining #ArabicNLP #EMNLP2026

📢 New CFP Alert
ArabicNLP 2025 : The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
Call For Paper Date: September 5 - November 9, 2025

🎓 Huge congratulations to Dr. Bashar Alhafni on successfully defending his PhD!

#PhDDefense #ArabicNLP #NaturalLanguageGeneration #CAMeLLab

New paper in Interspeech 2025 🚨
@interspeech.bsky.social

A Robust Model for Arabic Dialect Identification using Voice Conversion

Paper 📝 arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24713
Demo 🎙️https://shorturl.at/rrMm6

#Arabic #SpeechTech #NLProc #AI #Speech #ArabicDialects #Interspeech2025 #ArabicNLP

Cohere's new open-source ASR model, Transcribe Arabic, beats Whisper and OmniASR on Arabic dialects and code-switching. 2B params, Apache 2.0. Huge for regional voice apps. #ArabicNLP

👉 Voller Beitrag: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7480319796480339968/

🎤 #AthNLP2026 Speaker Announcement

@nyhabash.bsky.social (NYU Abu Dhabi)

Focus: NLP, computational linguistics & Arabic language technologies, including MT and morphology.

🎯 Talk: Arabic NLP: A 40-Year Perspective

📌 athnlp.github.io/2026/

#NLP #AI #MachineLearning #LLM #ArabicNLP

Arabic text representation doesn't need to follow classic Arabic NLP! Ancient Arabic was dotless. How to imagine? Well, the authors of this article propose to use dotless representation successfully.

Read about it at: doi.org/10.1162/coli...
#NLProc #ArabicNLP #NLP

CultranAI added over 22 000 Arabic cultural MCQs and fine‑tuned Fanar‑1‑9B‑Instruct with LoRA, hitting 84.1% accuracy on the development set. It placed fifth on the blind test with 70.5% accuracy. https://getnews.me/cultranai-boosts-arabic-cultural-knowledge-with-data-augmentation/ #arabicnlp #lora

Researchers released ALARB, a benchmark of over 13,000 Saudi commercial court cases. A modest 12‑billion‑parameter model fine‑tuned on it reaches verdict‑prediction accuracy comparable to GPT‑4o. https://getnews.me/new-arabic-legal-reasoning-benchmark-boosts-ai-performance/ #arabicnlp #legalai

The ArabJobs corpus, released on 26 Sep 2025, offers over 8,500 Arabic job ads from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. It contains over half a million words. Read more: https://getnews.me/arabjobs-corpus-releases-large-arabic-job-ads-dataset-for-ai-research/ #arabjobs #arabicnlp

Domain‑adaptive pre‑training and adapter‑based fine‑tuning improve Arabic aspect‑based sentiment analysis, delivering modest gains while cutting memory use and training time. https://getnews.me/domain-adaptive-pre-training-improves-arabic-aspect-based-sentiment-analysis/ #arabicnlp #adaptertuning

In September 2025, a team topped all six BAREC tracks with a confidence‑weighted ensemble of four Arabic transformers, reaching 87.5% QWK for sentences. Read more: https://getnews.me/arabic-transformer-ensemble-triumphs-at-barec-2025-readability-challenge/ #arabicnlp #readability

🚀 Deepseek AI in Darija? 🇲🇦

We built a Chatbot Arena on @hf.co to compare top models in Moroccan Darija! Get a prompt, see two LLM replies (hidden!), and you vote for the best! 🗳️

From idioms to Moroccan culture join the fun & help us find the best model!

#AI #Darija #LLM #Morocco #ArabicNLP

📖 New LAMSADE paper: Burhan at IslamicEval: Fact-Augmented and LLM-Driven Retrieval for Islamic QA. (ArabicNLP (Shared Tasks)) https://aclanthology.org/2025.arabicnlp-sharedtasks.73/