Program

Workshop Program

(Timezone: GMT+4)

09:00 - 09:05

Opening Remarks - General Chair: Houda Bouamor

09:10 - 10:00

Keynote Speaker: Karim Bouzoubaa

10:00 - 10:30

Session 1 - Information Extraction (Chair: Hend Al-Khalifa)

  • CAraNER: The COVID-19 Arabic Named Entity Corpus

  • Joint Coreference Resolution for Zeros and non-Zeros in Arabic

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30

Session 2 - NLU/NLG (Chair: Nadi Tomeh)

  • SAIDS: A Novel Approach for Sentiment Analysis Informed of Dialect and Sarcasm

  • AraBART: a Pretrained Arabic Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Abstractive Summarization

  • Towards Arabic Sentence Simplification via Classification and Generative Approaches

  • Generating Classical Arabic Poetry using Pre-trained Models

  • A Benchmark Study of Contrastive Learning for Arabic Social Meaning

  • Adversarial Text-to-Speech for low-resource languages

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:45

Panel discussion: Young Researchers in Arabic NLP (Moderator: Salam Khalifa)

14:45 - 15:00

Best Paper Award Oral talk (Chair: Houda Bouamor)

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00

Session 3 - Arabic Dialects (Chair: Kareem Darwish)

  • ArzEn-ST: A Three-way Speech Translation Corpus for Code-Switched Egyptian Arabic - English

  • Maknuune: A Large Open Palestinian Arabic Lexicon

  • Developing a Tag-Set and Extracting the Morphological Lexicons to Build a Morphological Analyzer for Egyptian Arabic

  • A Weak Supervised Transfer Learning Approach for Sentiment Analysis to the Kuwaiti Dialect

17:00 - 18:15

Session 4 - Poster and Demo Session (Chair: Ahmed Abdelali)

  • Mawqif: A Multi-label Arabic Dataset for Target-specific Stance Detection

  • A Pilot Study to Assess Linguistic Knowledge in Arabic Pretrained Language Models Using Minimal Pairs

  • Identifying Code-switching in Arabizi

  • Authorship Verification for Arabic Short Texts Using Arabic Knowledge-Base Model (AraKB)

  • A Semi-supervised Approach for a Better Translation of Sentiment in Dialectical Arabic UGT

  • Cross-lingual transfer for low-resource Arabic language understanding

  • Improving POS Tagging for Arabic Dialects on Out-of-Domain Texts

  • Domain Adaptation for Arabic Crisis Response

  • Weakly and Semi-Supervised Learning for Arabic Text Classification using Monodialectal Language Models

  • Event-Based Knowledge MLM for Arabic Event Detection

  • Establishing a Baseline for Arabic Patents Classification A Comparison of Twelve Approaches

  • AraDepSu: Detecting Depression and Suicidal Ideation in Arabic Tweets Using Transformers

  • End-to-End Speech Translation of Arabic to English Broadcast News

  • Arabic keyphrase extraction: Enhancing Deep Learning Models with Pre-trained Contextual Embedding and External Features

  • ArabIE: Joint Entity, Relation and Event Extraction for Arabic

  • Emoji Sentiment Roles for Sentiment Analysis: A Case Study in Arabic Texts

  • Learning From Arabic Corpora But Not Always From Arabic Speakers: A Case Study of the Arabic Wikipedia Editions

  • A Pilot Study on the Collection and Computational Analysis of Linguistic Differences Amongst Men and Women in a Kuwaiti Arabic WhatsApp Dataset

  • (Demo) Beyond Arabic: Software for Perso-Arabic Script Manipulation

  • Towards Learning Arabic Morphophonology

  • (Demo) Coreference Annotation of an Arabic Corpus Using a Virtual World Game

  • Gulf Arabic Diacritization: Guidelines, Initial Dataset, and Results

  • (Demo) NatiQ: An End-to-end Text-to-Speech System for Arabic

  • (Shared Task) Generative Approach for Gender-Rewriting Task with ArabicT5

  • (Shared Task) Optimizing Naive Bayes for Arabic Dialect Identification

  • (Shared Task) iCompass Working Notes for the Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared task

  • (Shared Task) TF-IDF or Transformers for Arabic Dialect Identification? ITFLOWS participation in the NADI 2022 Shared Task

  • (Shared Task) Domain-Adapted BERT-based Models for Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification and Tweet Sentiment Analysis

  • (Shared Task) Benchmarking transfer learning approaches for sentiment analysis of Arabic dialect

  • (Shared Task) SQU-CS @ NADI 2022: Dialectal Arabic Identification using One-vs-One Classification with TF-IDF Weights Computed on Character n-grams

  • (Shared Task) Ahmed and Khalil at NADI 2022: Transfer Learning and Addressing Class Imbalance for Arabic Dialect Identification and Sentiment Analysis

  • (Shared Task) Arabic Sentiment Analysis by Pretrained Ensemble

  • (Shared Task) Dialect & Sentiment Identification in Nuanced Arabic Tweets Using an Ensemble of Prompt-based, Fine-tuned, and Multitask BERT-Based Models

  • (Shared Task) On The Arabic Dialects' Identification: Overcoming Challenges of Geographical Similarities Between Arabic dialects and Imbalanced Datasets

  • (Shared Task) Arabic dialect identification using machine learning and transformer-based models: Submission to the NADI 2022 Shared Task

  • (Shared Task) NLP_DI at NADI Shared Task Subtask-1: Sub-word Level Convolutional Neural Models and Pre-trained Binary Classifiers for Dialect Identification

  • (Shared Task) Word Representation Models for Arabic Dialect Identification

  • (Shared Task) Building an Ensemble of Transformer Models for Arabic Dialect Classification and Sentiment Analysis

  • (Shared Task) Arabic Dialect Identification and Sentiment Classification using Transformer-based Models

  • (Shared Task) AraProp at WANLP 2022 Shared Task: Leveraging Pre-Trained Language Models for Arabic Propaganda Detection

  • (Shared Task) TUB at WANLP22 Shared Task: Using Semantic Similarity for Propaganda Detection in Arabic

  • (Shared Task) SI2M & AIOX Labs at WANLP 2022 Shared Task: Propaganda Detection in Arabic, A Data Augmentation and Name Entity Recognition Approach

  • (Shared Task) iCompass at WANLP 2022 Shared Task: ARBERT and MARBERT for Multilabel Propaganda Classification of Arabic Tweets

  • (Shared Task) ChavanKane at WANLP 2022 Shared Task: Large Language Models for Multi-label Propaganda Detection

  • (Shared Task) AraBERT Model for Propaganda Detection

  • (Shared Task) AraBEM at WANLP 2022 Shared Task: Propaganda Detection in Arabic Tweets

  • (Shared Task) IITD at WANLP 2022 Shared Task: Multilingual Multi-Granularity Network for Propaganda Detection

  • (Shared Task) Pythoneers at WANLP 2022 Shared Task: Monolingual AraBERT for Arabic Propaganda Detection and Span Extraction

  • (Shared Task) CNLP-NITS-PP at WANLP 2022 Shared Task: Propaganda Detection in Arabic using Data Augmentation and AraBERT Pre-trained Model

  • (Shared Task) NGU_CNLP atWANLP 2022 Shared Task: Propaganda Detection in Arabic

18:15 - 18:30

Closing Remarks (General Chair: Houda Bouamor)

19:00 - 22:00

Main Conference - Welcome Reception