Lahouari Ghouti
Lahouari Ghouti has 4 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on Semitic languages, Machine translation, Language models & pretraining; often with Anis Koubaa, Serry Sibaee, Abdullah Alharbi.
OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 20 · 105 works · 1 845 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14
4 works in our library · 28 citations in our library · 4 more works in our library · ⭐ Paper Star rank #4609
Affiliations
- Prince Sultan University · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — 2020–2025 on 20 papers
- King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals · Dhahran, Saudi Arabia — 1997–2024 on 46 papers
- Queen's University Belfast · Belfast, United Kingdom — 2005–2006 on 11 papers
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2020s
Papers
- ArabianGPT: Native Arabic GPT-based Large Language Model (2024 · 17 citations)
The paper argues that Arabic lacks generative language models built mainly around Arabic itself. Many existing models are multilingual or bilingual, and their vocabularies carry many English tokens, which the authors see as a poor fit for Arabic's rich morphology. Their answer is ArabianGPT, part of a wider… - ASOS at OSACT6 Shared Task: Investigation of Data Augmentation in Arabic Dialect-MSA Translation (2024 · 4 citations)
This paper presents the ASOS team's submission to the OSACT 2024 shared task, which involved converting dialectal Arabic (Gulf, Egyptian, Levantine, Iraqi, Maghrebi) into Modern Standard Arabic. The main obstacle is the lack of data: the organizers supplied only about 200 parallel sentences per dialect. - ASOS at NADI 2024 shared task: Bridging Dialectness Estimation and MSA Machine Translation for Arabic Language Enhancement (2024 · 2 citations)
This NADI 2024 submission tackles two linked Arabic tasks. The first is predicting a sentence's Arabic Level of Dialectness (ALDi) as a continuous score. The second is translating four dialects (Egyptian, Emirati, Jordanian, Palestinian) into Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). - CANDLE: CTC-based Arabic Noisy-character Deduplication using a Lightweight Encoder (2026)
Writers on social media often stretch Arabic words by repeating letters for emphasis. Some doubled letters, however, belong to the correct spelling, and collapsing them can turn one word into another, for example "kingdom" into "queen". CANDLE tackles this without rules, dictionaries or morphological analyzers. It…
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- Anis Koubaa ×3
- Serry Sibaee ×3
- Abdullah Alharbi ×2
- Omer Nacar ×2
- Adel Ammar
- Ahmad Ghannam
- Omar Najar
- Samar Ahmed
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