AUB MIND Lab at OSACT 4 Shared Task on Offensive Language Detection

The use of social media platforms has become more prevalent, which has provided tremendous opportunities for people to connect but has also opened the door for misuse with the spread of hate speech and offensive language. This phenomenon has been driving more and more...

AraBERT : Pre-training BERT for Arabic Language Understanding

Authors: Wissam Antoun, Fady Baly, Hazem Hajj   AraBERT is an Arabic pretrained language model based on Google’s BERT architecture. AraBERT uses the same BERT-Base config. More details are available in the AraBERT PAPER and in the AraBERT Meetup There is two...

State of the Art Models for Fake News Detection Tasks

Authors: Wissam Antoun ; Fady Baly ; Rim Achour ; Amir Hussein ; Hazem Hajj Abstract: This paper presents state of the art methods for addressing three important challenges in automated fake news detection: fake news detection, domain identification, and bot...

hULMonA: tHe first Universal Language MOdel iN Arabic

Authors: Obeida ElJundi, Wissam Antoun, Nour El Droubi, Hazem Hajj, Wassim El-Hajj, Khaled Shaban Paper: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-4608 Source Code Repository: https://github.com/aub-mind/hULMonA Project: http://oma-project.com/   Introduction Recent...