Papers by Muhamed Al Khalil
Arabic Word-level Readability Visualization for Assisted Text Simplification (2022.emnlp-demos)
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| Challenge: | a Google Docs add-on for automatic Arabic word-level readability visualization is available for free. |
| Approach: | They propose a Google Docs add-on for automatic Arabic word-level readability visualization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed add-on can be used to assess the reading difficulty of a text and identify difficult words as part of manual text simplification. |
A Large-Scale Leveled Readability Lexicon for Standard Arabic (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a large-scale leveled readability lexicon for Modern Standard Arabic is not available in many other languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a large-scale leveled readability lexicon for Arabic with 26,000 lemmas . they manually annotate a lexico from three different regions in the arab world . |
| Outcome: | The proposed lexicon is publicly available for Arabic readability tasks. |
A Leveled Reading Corpus of Modern Standard Arabic (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Using a reading corpus in Modern Standard Arabic, we explore the lexical coverage of textbooks and unabridged works of fiction. |
| Approach: | They propose to use textbooks from the United Arab Emirates curriculum and a reading corpus in Modern Standard Arabic to enrich the sparse collection of resources available for educational applications. |
| Outcome: | The corpus spans all 12 grades and contains 129 unabridged works of fiction spanning grades 1-12 . lexical coverage is compared to other genres, and the results show that the two sub-corpora are similar to each other to measure their genres. |
The SAMER Arabic Text Simplification Corpus (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Our corpus includes 159K words selected from 15 publicly available Arabic fiction novels . text simplification aims to reduce the complexity of a text while maintaining the overall grammaticality and core content. |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate Arabic parallel corpus for text simplification targeting school-aged learners. |
| Outcome: | The SAMER Corpus includes readability level annotations at both the document and word levels, as well as two simplified parallel versions for each text targeting learners at two different readability levels. |
An Online Readability Leveled Arabic Thesaurus (2020.coling-demos)
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| Challenge: | a small minority of dictionaries specify the readability level of their words, let alone their lexical relations with other words. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Arabic lemmas, roots, English glosses, related Arabic words and phrases to provide a readability leveled Arabic thesaurus interface. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system provides the user with lemmas, roots, English glosses, related Arabic words and phrases, and readability on a five-level readability scale. |