Faisal Qarah

3 papers on this site · 2024

current affiliationTaibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia

Faisal Qarah has 3 papers on this site, in 2024, most of them on Semitic languages, Language models & pretraining.

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SaudiBERT: A Large Language Model Pretrained on Saudi Dialect Corpora (2024 · 14 citations)
Saudi dialect is hard to process. Its spelling is not standardized, it is full of slang and regional expressions, and it differs from Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Earlier Arabic language models were trained on MSA or on mixed-dialect data, and existing Saudi corpora were too small or mostly MSA to support…
AraPoemBERT: A Pretrained Language Model for Arabic Poetry Analysis (2024 · 11 citations)
Arabic poetry is difficult for NLP. Verses follow strict prosodic meters and their variants, a whole poem keeps one rhyme, and the language differs from everyday prose. Earlier computational work mostly addressed only meter detection and sentiment, using rule systems or recurrent networks. Faisal Qarah introduces…
EgyBERT: A Large Language Model Pretrained on Egyptian Dialect Corpora (2024 · 10 citations)
Egyptian Arabic is one of the most widely used Arabic varieties. Existing Arabic language models, however, are trained mostly on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or on mixtures of many dialects, and earlier Egyptian corpora are too small to pretrain a BERT-style model. Qarah addresses this gap by building two new…

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