AbjadNLP 2025 will run on 19 January. The workshop will take place in the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC).
>>>> We will be at Conference Hall B (D) <<<<
The times below are all in UAE’s local time. The workshop is an in-person (face to face) event and will not broadcast online.
01:40 – 02:00
Talk 9: A Derivational ChainBank for Modern Standard ArabicReham Marzouk, Sondos Krouna, Nizar Habash14
| Time | Activity | Authors | Paper ID |
| 09:00 – 09:05 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Dr Mo El-Haj | |
| Session 1 (Chair: Mo El-Haj) |
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| 09:05 – 09:25 | Talk 1: The Best of Both Worlds: Exploring Wolofal in the Context of NLP | Ngoc Tan Le, Ali Mijiyawa, Abdoulahat Leye, Fatiha Sadat | 26 |
| 09:25 – 09:45 | Talk 2: MultiProp Framework: Ensemble Models for Enhanced Cross-Lingual Propaganda Detection in Social Media and News using Data Augmentation, Text Segmentation, and Meta-Learning | Farizeh Aldabbas, Shaina Ashraf, Rafet Sifa, Lucie Flek | 24 |
| 09:45 – 10:05 | Talk 3: Towards Unified Processing of Perso-Arabic Scripts for ASR | Srihari Bandarupalli, Bhavana Akkiraju, Sri Charan Devarakonda, Harinie Sivaramasethu, Vamshiraghusimha Narasinga, Anil Vuppala | 7 |
| 10:05 – 10:25 | Talk 4: In-Depth Analysis of Arabic-Origin Words in the Turkish Morpholex | Mounes Zaval, Abdullah İhsanoğlu, Asım Ersoy, Olcay Taner Yıldız | 13 |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 2 (Chair: Paul Rayson) | |||
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Talk 5: DadmaTools V2: an Adapter-Based Natural Language Processing Toolkit for the Persian Language | Sadegh Jafari, Farhan Farsi, Navid Ebrahimi, Mohamad Bagher Sajadi, Sauleh Eetemadi | 4 |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Talk 6: Developing an Informal-Formal Persian Corpus: Highlighting the Differences between Two Writing Styles | Vahide Tajalli, Mehrnoush Shamsfard, Fateme Kalantari | 1 |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Talk 7: Boosting Sentiment Analysis in Persian through a GAN-Based Synthetic Data Augmentation Method | Masoumeh Mohammadi, Mohammad Ruhul Amin, Shadi Tavakoli | 12 |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Talk 8: Psychological Health Chatbot, Detecting and Assisting Patients in their Path to Recovery | Sadegh Jafari, Mohammad Erfan Zare, Amireza Vishte, Mirzae Melike, Zahra Amiri, Sima Mohammadparast, Sauleh Eetemadi | 22 |
| 12:20 – 01:40 | Lunch Break | ||
| Session 3 (Chair: Mo El-Haj) | |||
| 01:40 – 02:00 | Talk 9: A Derivational ChainBank for Modern Standard Arabic | Reham Marzouk, Sondos Krouna, Nizar Habash | 14 |
| 02:00 – 02:20 | Talk 10: Evaluating Large Language Models on Health-Related Claims Across Arabic Dialects | Abdulsalam Obaid Alharbi, Abdullah Alsuhaibani, Abdulrahman Abdullah Alalawi, Usman Naseem, Shoaib Jameel, Salil Kanhere, Imran Razzak | 8 |
| 02:20 – 02:40 | Talk 11: Can LLMs Verify Arabic Claims? Evaluating the Arabic Fact-Checking Abilities of Multilingual LLMs | Ayushman Gupta, Aryan Singhal, Thomas Law, Veekshith Rao, Evan Duan, Ryan Luo Li | 9 |
| 02:40 – 03:00 | Talk 12: Can LLMs Translate Cultural Nuance in Dialects? A Case Study on Lebanese Arabic | Silvana Yakhni, Ali Chehab | 10 |
| 03:00 – 03:20 | Talk 13: Automated Generation of Arabic Verb Conjugations with Multilingual Urdu Translation: An NLP Approach | Haq Nawaz, Manal Elobaid, Ali Al-Laith, Saif Ullah | 21 |
| 03:30 – 04:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 4 (Chair: Salim Al Mandhari) | |||
| 04:00 – 04:20 | Talk 15: Evaluation of Large Language Models on Arabic Punctuation Prediction | Asma Ali Al Wazrah, Afrah Altamimi, Hawra Aljasim, Waad Alshammari, Rawan Al-Matham, Omar Elnashar, Mohamed Amin, Abdulrahman AlOsaimy | 19 |
| 04:20 – 04:40 | Talk 16: Evaluating RAG Pipelines for Arabic Lexical Information Retrieval: A Comparative Study of Embedding and Generation Models | Raghad Al-Rasheed, Abdullah Al Muaddi, Hawra Aljasim, Rawan Al-Matham, Muneera Alhoshan, Asma Al Wazrah, Abdulrahman AlOsaimy | 20 |
| 04:40 – 04:45 | Closing Remarks and Wrap-Up | Dr Mo El-Haj | |