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# Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)

Workshop series Published by [Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/association-for-computational-linguistics/)

- [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/venues/wanlp/)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/S7407085968)

[**34** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/works/) · [**1,126** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/works/) · [**457** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/works/) · [**2017–2022** years of the works here](#years)

## Works by year

Works in our library by year 34 dated works from 2017 to 2022; the busiest year is 2021 with 20.

**The numbers**

| Year | Works |
| --- | --- |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2021 | 20 |
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2019 | 4 |
| 2017 | 4 |

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Semitic languages (34)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion (19)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Morphology (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Coreference resolution (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Hebrew & Aramaic (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) · [Biblical Hebrew (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/biblical-hebrew/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Universal Dependencies (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/)

## Fields

[Computer Science (33)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (31)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Social Sciences (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Ahmed Abdelali**3 works here · 349 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-abdelali/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hamdy Mubarak**3 works here · 349 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamdy-mubarak/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kareem Darwish**3 works here · 349 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kareem-darwish/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nizar Habash**3 works here · 304 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/) · [🧑‍🔬**Walid Magdy**3 works here · 194 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walid-magdy/) · [🧑‍🔬**Younes Samih**2 works here · 235 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/younes-samih/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ibrahim Abu Farha**2 works here · 176 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ibrahim-abu-farha/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hend Al-Khalifa**2 works here · 41 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hend-al-khalifa/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kfir Bar**2 works here · 15 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kfir-bar/) · [🧑‍🔬**Abdulrahman Aloraini**2 works here · 7 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdulrahman-aloraini/) · [🧑‍🔬**Massimo Poesio**2 works here · 7 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/massimo-poesio/) · [🧑‍🔬**Houda Bouamor**1 work here · 218 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houda-bouamor/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**New York University Abu Dhabi** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university-abu-dhabi/) · [🎓**Qassim University** Buraidah · Saudi Arabia 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/qassim-university/) · [🎓**Queen Mary University of London** London · United Kingdom 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/queen-mary-university-of-london/) · [🎓**Hamad bin Khalifa University** Doha · Qatar 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hamad-bin-khalifa-university/) · [🎓**University of Essex** Colchester · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-essex/) · [🎓**University of Jordan** Amman · Jordan 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-jordan/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**University of Leeds** Leeds · United Kingdom 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-leeds/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Tel Aviv University** Tel Aviv · Israel 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tel-aviv-university/) · [🔬**DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory** Adelphi · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/devcom-army-research-laboratory/) · [🎓**University of Malta** Msida · Malta 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-malta/)

## Works in our library (34)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. [**The MADAR Shared Task on Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification**Houda Bouamor, Sabit Hassan, Nizar Habash*2019 · 218 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bouamor-2019-madar-shared-task-arabic-fine/)
2. [**Arabic Offensive Language on Twitter: Analysis and Experiments**Hamdy Mubarak, Ammar Rashed, Kareem Darwish, et al.*2021 · 165 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mubarak-2021-arabic-offensive-language-twitter-analysis/)
3. [**Arabic Diacritization: Stats, Rules, and Hacks**Kareem Darwish, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelali*2017 · 114 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/darwish-2017-arabic-diacritization-stats-rules-hacks/)
4. [**Overview of the WANLP 2021 Shared Task on Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic**Ibrahim Abu Farha, Wajdi Zaghouani, Walid Magdy*2021 · 112 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/farha-2021-overview-wanlp-2021-shared-task/)
5. [**A Neural Architecture for Dialectal Arabic Segmentation**Younes Samih, Mohammed Attia, Mohamed Eldesouki, et al.*2017 · 70 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samih-2017-neural-architecture-dialectal-arabic-segmentation/)
6. [**Benchmarking Transformer-based Language Models for Arabic Sentiment and Sarcasm Detection**Ibrahim Abu Farha, Walid Magdy*2021 · 64 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/farha-2021-benchmarking-transformer-based-language-models/)
7. [**Universal Dependencies for Arabic**Dima Taji, Nizar Habash, Daniel Zeman*2017 · 52 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/taji-2017-universal-dependencies-arabic/)
8. [**Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection In Arabic Tweets Using BERT-based Models and Data Augmentation**Abeer Abuzayed, Hend Al-Khalifa*2021 · 36 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abuzayed-2021-sarcasm-sentiment-detection-arabic-tweets/)
9. [**Morphologically Annotated Corpora for Seven Arabic Dialects: Taizi, Sanaani, Najdi, Jordanian, Syrian, Iraqi and Moroccan**Faisal Alshargi, Shahd Dibas, Sakhar Alkhereyf, et al.*2019 · 34 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alshargi-2019-morphologically-annotated-corpora-seven-arabic/)
10. [**Machine Learning-Based Model for Sentiment and Sarcasm Detection**Hamada Nayel, Eslam Amer, Aya Allam, et al.*2021 · 25 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nayel-2021-machine-learning-based-model-sentiment/)
11. [**Deep Multi-Task Model for Sarcasm Detection and Sentiment Analysis in Arabic Language**Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Abdellah El Mekki, Kabil Essefar, et al.*2021 · 22 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mahdaouy-2021-deep-multi-task-model-sarcasm/)
12. [**Leveraging Offensive Language for Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic**Fatemah Husain, Ozlem Uzuner*2021 · 19 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/husain-2021-leveraging-offensive-language-sarcasm-sentiment/)
13. [**SarcasmDet at Sarcasm Detection Task 2021 in Arabic using AraBERT Pretrained Model**Dalya Faraj, Malak Abdullah*2021 · 18 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/faraj-2021-sarcasmdet-sarcasm-detection-task-2021/)
14. [**Arabic Tweet-Act: Speech Act Recognition for Arabic Asynchronous Conversations**Bushra Algotiml, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Walid Magdy*2019 · 18 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/algotiml-2019-arabic-tweet-act-speech-act/)
15. [**A Contextual Word Embedding for Arabic Sarcasm Detection with Random Forests**Hazem Elgabry, Shimaa Attia, Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, et al.*2021 · 16 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elgabry-2021-contextual-word-embedding-arabic-sarcasm/)
16. [**Multi-task Learning Using a Combination of Contextualised and Static Word Embeddings for Arabic Sarcasm Detection and Sentiment Analysis**Abdullah I. Alharbi, Mark Lee*2021 · 14 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alharbi-2021-multi-task-learning-combination-contextualised/)
17. [**Preprocessing Solutions for Detection of Sarcasm and Sentiment for Arabic**Mohamed Lichouri, Mourad Abbas, Besma Benaziz, et al.*2021 · 13 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lichouri-2021-preprocessing-solutions-detection-sarcasm-sentiment/)
18. [**AraBERT and Farasa Segmentation Based Approach For Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic Tweets**Anshul Wadhawan*2021 · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wadhawan-2021-arabert-farasa-segmentation-based-approach/)
19. [**On the Importance of Tokenization in Arabic Embedding Models**Mohamed Alkaoud, Mairaj Syed*2020 · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alkaoud-2020-importance-tokenization-arabic-embedding-models/)
20. [**Towards Arabic Sentence Simplification via Classification and Generative Approaches**Nouran Khallaf, Serge Sharoff, Rasha Soliman*2022 · 10 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khallaf-2022-arabic-sentence-simplification-classification-generative/)
21. [**The IDC System for Sentiment Classification and Sarcasm Detection in Arabic**Abraham Israeli, Yotam Nahum, Shai Fine, et al.*2021 · 10 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/israeli-2021-idc-system-sentiment-classification-sarcasm/)
22. [**Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic language A Hybrid Approach Combining Embeddings and Rule-based Features**Kamel Gaanoun, Imade Benelallam*2021 · 9 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gaanoun-2021-sarcasm-sentiment-detection-arabic-language/)
23. [**Morphological Analysis for the Maltese Language: The challenges of a hybrid system**Claudia Borg, Albert Gatt*2017 · 9 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/borg-2017-morphological-analysis-maltese-language-challenges/)
24. [**ArSarcasm Shared Task: An Ensemble BERT Model for SarcasmDetection in Arabic Tweets**Laila Bashmal, Daliyah AlZeer*2021 · 8 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bashmal-2021-arsarcasm-shared-task-ensemble-bert/)
25. [**iCompass at Shared Task on Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic**Malek Naski, Abir Messaoudi, Hatem Haddad, et al.*2021 · 7 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naski-2021-icompass-shared-task-sarcasm-sentiment/)

[See all 34 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/works/)

Venues, publishers and identifiers from OpenAlex (2026-10-14) and the ACL Anthology; yearly proceedings are counted as one series.