Bashar Alhafni

According to our database, Bashar Alhafni authored at least 31 papers between 2019 and 2026.

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2026

Arabic Morphosyntactic Tagging and Dependency Parsing with Large Language Models.

Mohamed Adel, Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash

CoRR, March, 2026

MBZUAI at AMIYA Shared Task 2026: Adapting Open-Source LLMs for Dialectal Arabic.

Rana Gaber, Yara Allam, Serag Amin, Ranwa Aly, Bashar Alhafni

Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, 2026

Do Diacritics Matter? Evaluating the Impact of Arabic Diacritics on Tokenization and LLM Benchmarks.

Go Inoue, Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash, Timothy Baldwin

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026, 2026

A Tale of Two Scripts: Transliteration and Post-Correction for Judeo-Arabic.

Juan Moreno Gonzalez, Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash

Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026

2025

Opportunities and Challenges of LLMs in Education: An NLP Perspective.

Sowmya Vajjala, Bashar Alhafni, Stefano Bannò, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Ekaterina Kochmar

CoRR, July, 2025

BALSAM: A Platform for Benchmarking Arabic Large Language Models.

Rawan N. Al-Matham, Kareem Darwish, Raghad Al-Rasheed, Waad Alshammari, Muneera Alhoshan, Amal Almazrua, Asma Al Wazrah, Mais Alheraki, Firoj Alam, Preslav Nakov, Norah A. Alzahrani, Eman Albilali, Nizar Habash, Abdelrahman El-Sheikh, Muhammad Morsy Elmallah, Haonan Li, Hamdy Mubarak, Mohamed Anwar, Zaid Alyafeai, Ahmed Abdelali, Nora Al-Twairesh, Maram Hasanain, Abdulmohsen Al Thubaity, Shady Shehata, Bashar Alhafni, Injy Hamed, Go Inoue, Khalid N. Elmadani, Ossama Obeid, Fatima Haouari, Tamer Elsayed, Emad A. Alghamdi, Khalid Almubarak, Saied Alshahrani, Ola Aljarrah, Safa Alajlan, Areej Alshaqarawi, Maryam Alshihri, Sultana Alghurabi, Atikah Alzeghayer, Afrah Altamimi, Abdullah Alfaifi, Abdulrahman Alosaimy

CoRR, July, 2025

ARWI: Arabic Write and Improve.

Kirill Chirkunov, Bashar Alhafni, Chatrine Qwaider, Nizar Habash, Ted Briscoe

CoRR, April, 2025

BAREC Shared Task 2025 on Arabic Readability Assessment.

Khalid N. Elmadani, Bashar Alhafni, Hanada Taha-Thomure, Nizar Habash

Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: ArabicNLP 2025, 2025

Enhancing Arabic Automated Essay Scoring with Synthetic Data and Error Injection.

Chatrine Qwaider, Bashar Alhafni, Kirill Chirkunov, Nizar Habash, Ted Briscoe

Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2025

Enhancing Text Editing for Grammatical Error Correction: Arabic as a Case Study.

Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

2024

LLMs in Education: Novel Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities.

Bashar Alhafni, Sowmya Vajjala, Stefano Bannò, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Ekaterina Kochmar

CoRR, 2024

Strategies for Arabic Readability Modeling.

Juan David Pineros Liberato, Bashar Alhafni, Muhamed Al-Khalil, Nizar Habash

CoRR, 2024

Personalized Text Generation with Fine-Grained Linguistic Control.

Bashar Alhafni, Vivek Kulkarni, Dhruv Kumar, Vipul Raheja

CoRR, 2024

Strategies for Arabic Readability Modeling.

Juan David Pineros Liberato, Bashar Alhafni, Mohammad Khalilia, Nizar Habash

Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, 2024

Exploiting Dialect Identification in Automatic Dialectal Text Normalization.

Bashar Alhafni, Sarah Al-Towaity, Ziyad Fawzy, Fatema Nassar, Fadhl Eryani, Houda Bouamor, Nizar Habash

Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, 2024

mEdIT: Multilingual Text Editing via Instruction Tuning.

Vipul Raheja, Dimitris Alikaniotis, Vivek Kulkarni, Bashar Alhafni, Dhruv Kumar

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

The SAMER Arabic Text Simplification Corpus.

Bashar Alhafni, Reem Hazim, Juan David Pineros Liberato, Muhamed Al-Khalil, Nizar Habash

Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023

Perception, performance, and detectability of conversational artificial intelligence across 32 university courses.

Hazem Ibrahim, Fengyuan Liu, Rohail Asim, Balaraju Battu, Sidahmed Benabderrahmane, Bashar Alhafni, Wifag Adnan, Tuka Alhanai, Bedoor K. AlShebli, Riyadh Baghdadi, Jocelyn J. Bélanger, Elena Beretta, Kemal Celik, Moumena Chaqfeh, Mohammed F. Daqaq, Zaynab El Bernoussi, Daryl Fougnie, Borja Garcia de Soto, Alberto Gandolfi, András György, Nizar Habash, J. Andrew Harris, Aaron R. Kaufman, Lefteris Kirousis, Korhan Kocak, Kangsan Lee, Seungah S. Lee, Samreen Malik, Michail Maniatakos, David Melcher, Azzam Mourad, Minsu Park, Mahmoud Rasras, Alicja Reuben, Dania Zantout, Nancy W. Gleason, Kinga Makovi, Talal Rahwan, Yasir Zaki

CoRR, 2023

Advancements in Arabic Grammatical Error Detection and Correction: An Empirical Investigation.

Bashar Alhafni, Go Inoue, Christian Khairallah, Nizar Habash

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

2022

The Shared Task on Gender Rewriting.

Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ossama Obeid, Sultan Alrowili, Daliyah Alzeer, Khawlah M. Alshanqiti, Ahmed ElBakry, Muhammad N. ElNokrashy, Mohamed Gabr, Abderrahmane Issam, Abdelrahim Qaddoumi, K. Vijay-Shanker, Mahmoud Zyate

CoRR, 2022

The User-Aware Arabic Gender Rewriter.

Bashar Alhafni, Ossama Obeid, Nizar Habash

CoRR, 2022

Zero-shot Cross-Linguistic Learning of Event Semantics.

Malihe Alikhani, Thomas Kober, Bashar Alhafni, Yue Chen, Mert Inan, Elizabeth Nielsen, Shahab Raji, Mark Steedman, Matthew Stone

CoRR, 2022

The Shared Task on Gender Rewriting.

Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ossama Obeid, Sultan Alrowili, Daliyah Alzeer, Kawla Mohmad Shnqiti, Ahmed ElBakry, Muhammad N. ElNokrashy, Mohamed Gabr, Abderrahmane Issam, Abdelrahim Qaddoumi, Vijay Shanker, Mahmoud Zyate

Proceedings of the The Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, 2022

User-Centric Gender Rewriting.

Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022

The Arabic Parallel Gender Corpus 2.0: Extensions and Analyses.

Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

Arabic Word-level Readability Visualization for Assisted Text Simplification.

Reem Hazim, Hind Saddiki, Bashar Alhafni, Muhamed Al-Khalil, Nizar Habash

Proceedings of the The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022

CrisisLTLSum: A Benchmark for Local Crisis Event Timeline Extraction and Summarization.

Hossein Rajaby Faghihi, Bashar Alhafni, Ke Zhang, Shihao Ran, Joel R. Tetreault, Alejandro Jaimes

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022

2021

The Interplay of Variant, Size, and Task Type in Arabic Pre-trained Language Models.

Go Inoue, Bashar Alhafni, Nurpeiis Baimukan, Houda Bouamor, Nizar Habash

Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, 2021

2020

CAMeL Tools: An Open Source Python Toolkit for Arabic Natural Language Processing.

Ossama Obeid, Nasser Zalmout, Salam Khalifa, Dima Taji, Mai Oudah, Bashar Alhafni, Go Inoue, Fadhl Eryani, Alexander Erdmann, Nizar Habash

Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

2019

Contextualized Word Embeddings Enhanced Event Temporal Relation Extraction for Story Understanding.

Rujun Han, Mengyue Liang, Bashar Alhafni, Nanyun Peng

CoRR, 2019

Mapping Areas using Computer Vision Algorithms and Drones.

Bashar Alhafni, Saulo Fernando Guedes, Lays Cavalcante Ribeiro, Juhyun Park, Jeongkyu Lee

CoRR, 2019