Unit for Research in Arabic Social and Digital Spaces

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Empowering Arabic Digital Spaces with NLP, ML, and Computational Linguistics.

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Publications

Abou Chakra, C., Hamoud, H., Rakan Al Mraikhat, O., Abu Obaida, Q., Ballout, M., & Zaraket, F. A.

"NeoAraBERT: A Modern Foundation Model for Arabic Embeddings with Diacritics-Aware Tokenization and POS-Targeted Masking"

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, 2026

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Haidar, N., Kashmar, A., & Zaraket, F. A.

"Back-of-the-Book Index Automation for Arabic Documents"

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script, 2026

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Karout, Y., Hammoud, H., & Zaraket, F. A.

"Arabic Citation Parsing using Part of Speech and Named Entity Recognition"

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script, 2026

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Nasser, M., Sayyah, L., & Zaraket, F. A.

"MASRAD: Arabic Terminology Management Corpora with Semi-Automatic Construction"

LREC 2026, 2026

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Hamdan, N., Rakan Al Mraikhat, O., & Zaraket, F. A.

"R-BPE: Improving BPE-Tokenizers with Token Reuse"

EMNLP, 2025

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Bashiti, A., Aljabari, A., Hamoud, H. K., Biswas, M. R., Shalash, B. M., Jarrar, M., Zaraket, F. A., Mikros, G., Asgari, E., & Zaghouani, W.

"ImageEval 2025: The First Arabic Image Captioning Shared Task"

ArabicNLP Shared Tasks, 2025

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Rakan Al Mraikhat, O., Hamoud, H., & Zaraket, F. A.

"AREEj: Arabic Relation Extraction with Evidence"

ArabicNLP, 2024

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Hamoud, H., Abou Chakra, C., Hamdan, N., Rakan Al Mraikhat, O., Albared, D., & Zaraket, F. A.

"DRU at WojoodNER 2024: A Multi-level Method Approach"

ArabicNLP, 2024

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Hamdan, N., Hamoud, H., Abou Chakra, C., Rakan Al Mraikhat, O., Albared, D., & Zaraket, F. A.

"DRU at WojoodNER 2024: ICL LLM for Arabic NER"

ArabicNLP, 2024

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Albared, D., Hamoud, H., & Zaraket, F. A.

"Arabic Topic Classification in the Generative and AutoML Era"

ArabicNLP, 2023

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