🧑‍🔬 Bashar Al-Rfooh

Topics

Semitic languages3Evaluation & benchmarks2Speech & spoken language1

Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Evaluation of Semantic Search and its Role in Retrieved-Augmented-Generation (RAG) for Arabic Language (2024 · 2 citations)
   The paper targets a gap in Arabic NLP: there is no standard benchmark for semantic search, and little is known about how the choice of retriever affects Arabic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
2. Fine-Tashkeel: Finetuning Byte-Level Models for Accurate Arabic Text Diacritization (2023 · 2 citations)
   Written Arabic usually leaves out the short-vowel diacritics, so many words are ambiguous homographs. Restoring the marks helps readers, especially learners, and text-to-speech systems. Earlier diacritization models were trained from random initialization. This paper instead adapts a pretrained, token-free…
3. A New Benchmark for Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition in the Arabic Call Domain (2024 · 1 citation)
   Arabic speech recognition is especially hard on phone calls. Speakers mix many dialects, switch into English and talk informally, and the audio is often noisy or degraded. Benchmarks for this setting were missing, so the authors built one from real recordings of agents talking with customers. The calls came from a…

Co-authors here

6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Adnan Jaljuli ×2
• Ali Mahboub ×2
• Asma Hakouz ×2
• Muhy Eddin Za'ter ×2
• Yazan Estaitia ×2
• Rami Al-Rfou

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Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read).

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