Arabic Diacritics in the Wild: Exploiting Opportunities for Improved Diacritization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05760v1
• Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 12:29:55 GMT
• Title: Arabic Diacritics in the Wild: Exploiting Opportunities for Improved Diacritization
• Authors: Salman Elgamal, Ossama Obeid, Tameem Kabbani, Go Inoue, Nizar Habash,
• Abstract summary: The absence of diacritical marks in Arabic text poses a significant challenge for Arabic natural language processing (NLP) This paper explores instances of naturally occurring diacritics, referred to as "diacritics in the wild" We present a new annotated dataset that maps real-world partially diacritized words to their maximal full diacritization in context.
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• Abstract: The widespread absence of diacritical marks in Arabic text poses a significant challenge for Arabic natural language processing (NLP). This paper explores instances of naturally occurring diacritics, referred to as "diacritics in the wild," to unveil patterns and latent information across six diverse genres: news articles, novels, children's books, poetry, political documents, and ChatGPT outputs. We present a new annotated dataset that maps real-world partially diacritized words to their maximal full diacritization in context. Additionally, we propose extensions to the analyze-and-disambiguate approach in Arabic NLP to leverage these diacritics, resulting in notable improvements. Our contributions encompass a thorough analysis, valuable datasets, and an extended diacritization algorithm. We release our code and datasets as open source.

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