Arabic natural language processing

A Brief Overview of Arabic NLP

Prof. Sakhar B. Alkhereyf

Nov 7, 15:30 - 17:00

B5 L5 R5209

nlp Arabic natural language processing

Arabic, being one of the six official languages of the United Nations and the sixth most commonly spoken language across the globe, holds a significant stance in the linguistic landscape. The diglossic nature of Arabic, where Classical Arabic (CA), Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and various dialects coexist, coupled with its complex morphological structure, presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities for the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Arabic NLP @ AI Initiative

Oleg Serikov, AI Initiative, KAUST

Dec 13, 09:00 - 10:00

B1 L3 R3309

Arabic natural language processing

Abstract Rather than a talk, this firstmost is an invitation to discussion. We’re working on pre-training LLMs for Arabic and evaluation at AI Init and will share the progress, as well as some afterthoughts. Right now our efforts comprise two directions of work: pre-training (we learn to pretrain various models from scratch) and evaluation (just have it in-house + to not only observe perplexity on the pretraining dashboard). Figuring out the potential collaboration directions is our key interest for this meeting.