Papers by Osama Rakan Al Mraikhat
NeoAraBERT: A Modern Foundation Model for Arabic Embeddings with Diacritics-Aware Tokenization and POS-Targeted Masking (2026.findings-acl)
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Chadi Abou Chakra, Hadi Khaled Hamoud, Osama Rakan Al Mraikhat, Qusai Abu Obaida, Mohamad Ballout, Fadi Zaraket
| Challenge: | NeoAraBERT is an open-source text-embedding model for Arabic. |
| Approach: | They propose to train Arabic text-embedding models on open-source datasets . they benchmarked NeoAraBERT against five top-performing Arabic models on 23 tasks . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms five other models on 23 tasks in Arabic . it shows substantial improvement on classical and modern standard Arabic compared to other models . |