Papers by Aya Mourad
AdabNER: Arabic Digital Archive Books with Nested Entity Recognition (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a subtask of information extraction that classifies entities into predefined categories like person names. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale nested Arabic Named Entity Recognition dataset . they fine-tuned five pre-trained Arabic BERT encoders in two settings . |
| Outcome: | The first large-scale nested NER dataset for Arabic literary texts is published online . the dataset yields 78,530 entity mentions, 18.96% of which are nestated . |