Summary of A Context-contrastive Inference Approach to Partial Diacritization, by Muhammad Elnokrashy et al.
A Context-Contrastive Inference Approach To Partial Diacritization
by Muhammad ElNokrashy, Badr AlKhamissi
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper explores the role of partial diacritization in improving readability and disambiguating Arabic texts. The authors focus on Context-Contrastive Partial Diacritization (CCPD), an innovative approach that integrates with existing systems by processing each word twice, once with context and once without. CCPD selectively diacritizes characters based on disparities between the two inferences. Novel indicators are introduced to measure partial diacritization quality, establishing this as a machine learning task. The authors also propose TD2, a Transformer-variant that outperforms existing systems on proposed indicators. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making Arabic texts easier to read by adding just some of the special marks called diacritics. Right now, people are trying to add all the marks, but this can actually make it harder for good readers to understand the text. This study shows that adding only a few important marks can actually help readers more than not adding any marks at all. The researchers came up with a new way of doing this called Context-Contrastive Partial Diacritization (CCPD), which looks at each word and decides which marks are most helpful to add. They also developed some tools to measure how well this works, and showed that their method outperforms others. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Machine learning * Transformer
