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This research demonstrates the viability of adapting established English NLP frameworks for Arabic dialectal tasks, achieving superior performance over current large language models on specific classification benchmarks. The study highlights that methodological adaptation and linguistic alignment often yield more effective results than simply relying on generic foundation models for low-resource languages.
BARRAC: Adaptation of an English Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Approach for Classification Tasks in Arabic Dialects
arXiv:2609.38820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the rapid growth of Arabic NLP, several models, datasets and benchmarks have been reported. This paper asks whether approaches developed for majority languages like English can be adapted to Arabic tasks. We adapt an English aspect-based sentiment analysis framework to Arabic classification tasks and present the adaptation as BARRAC: Brainstorming Alignment and Replaced Representation learning for ArabiC tasks. BARRAC replaces consumer-review attribute pools with Arabic linguistic devices and markers for dialectal sentiment, sarcasm, and dialect identification, and replaces noisy self-training with two-stage training. Evaluated on five Arabic dialect datasets, BARRAC achieves a mean macro-F1 of 63.93\%, outperforming the best few-label SOTA by 3\%, and outperforming GPT-4o on four out of five tasks. Error analysis provides insights into remaining challenges. These results demonstrate that adapting task-specific approaches is a promising direction for Arabic NLP alongside adapting models, datasets and benchmarks.
Abstract:With the rapid growth of Arabic NLP, several models, datasets and benchmarks have been reported. This paper asks whether approaches developed for majority languages like English can be adapted to Arabic tasks. We adapt an English aspect-based sentiment analysis framework to Arabic classification tasks and present the adaptation as BARRAC: Brainstorming Alignment and Replaced Representation learning for ArabiC tasks. BARRAC replaces consumer-review attribute pools with Arabic linguistic devices and markers for dialectal sentiment, sarcasm, and dialect identification, and replaces noisy self-training with two-stage training. Evaluated on five Arabic dialect datasets, BARRAC achieves a mean macro-F1 of 63.93\%, outperforming the best few-label SOTA by 3\%, and outperforming GPT-4o on four out of five tasks. Error analysis provides insights into remaining challenges. These results demonstrate that adapting task-specific approaches is a promising direction for Arabic NLP alongside adapting models, datasets and benchmarks.
Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2609.38820 [cs.CL]
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