--- title: "WANLP 2021 — accepted papers — Elamur Research" description: "WANLP 2021 — accepted papers: 23 papers in the Elamur Research library (Kyiv, Ukraine (Virtual)), with our summaries, ranked by citations." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2021/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2021/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [WANLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/) / 2021 # WANLP 2021 — accepted papers WANLP 2021 is the 2021 edition of the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP), held in Kyiv, Ukraine (Virtual), April 2021 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 53 papers of it; our library holds 23 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. [**53** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**23** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2021/#works) · [**811** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2021/#works)**Kyiv, Ukraine (Virtual)** where it was held**April 2021** when ## All accepted papers (53) The most cited first; 23 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Contextual Word Embedding for Arabic Sarcasm Detection with Random Forests](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elgabry-2021-contextual-word-embedding-arabic-sarcasm/)**Hazem Elgabry, Shimaa Attia, Ahmed Abdel-Rahman et al.*our summary* 2. **[ALUE: Arabic Language Understanding Evaluation](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.18/)**Haitham Seelawi, Ibraheem Tuffaha, Mahmoud Gzawi et al. 3. **[Adapting MARBERT for Improved Arabic Dialect Identification: Submission to the NADI 2021 Shared Task](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.29/)**Badr AlKhamissi, Mohamed Gabr, Muhammad ElNokrashy et al. 4. **[Adult Content Detection on Arabic Twitter: Analysis and Experiments](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.14/)**Hamdy Mubarak, Sabit Hassan, Ahmed Abdelali 5. **[ArCOV-19: The First Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with Propagation Networks](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.9/)**Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh et al. 6. **[ArCOV19-Rumors: Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset for Misinformation Detection](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.8/)**Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh et al. 7. **[ArSarcasm Shared Task: An Ensemble BERT Model for SarcasmDetection in Arabic Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bashmal-2021-arsarcasm-shared-task-ensemble-bert/)**Laila Bashmal, Daliyah AlZeer*our summary* 8. **[AraBERT and Farasa Segmentation Based Approach For Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wadhawan-2021-arabert-farasa-segmentation-based-approach/)**Anshul Wadhawan*our summary* 9. **[AraELECTRA: Pre-Training Text Discriminators for Arabic Language Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/antoun-2021-araelectra-pre-training-text-discriminators/)**Wissam Antoun, Fady Baly, Hazem Hajj*our summary* 10. **[AraFacts: The First Large Arabic Dataset of Naturally Occurring Claims](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.26/)**Zien Sheikh Ali, Watheq Mansour, Tamer Elsayed et al. 11. **[AraGPT2: Pre-Trained Transformer for Arabic Language Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/antoun-2021-aragpt2-pre-trained-transformer-arabic/)**Wissam Antoun, Fady Baly, Hazem Hajj*our summary* 12. **[Arabic Compact Language Modelling for Resource Limited Devices](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.6/)**Zaid Alyafeai, Irfan Ahmad 13. **[Arabic Dialect Identification based on a Weighted Concatenation of TF-IDF Features](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.33/)**Mohamed Lichouri, Mourad Abbas, Khaled Lounnas et al. 14. **[Arabic Emoji Sentiment Lexicon (Arab-ESL): A Comparison between Arabic and European Emoji Sentiment Lexicons](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.7/)**Shatha Ali A. Hakami, Robert Hendley, Phillip Smith 15. **[Arabic Offensive Language on Twitter: Analysis and Experiments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mubarak-2021-arabic-offensive-language-twitter-analysis/)**Hamdy Mubarak, Ammar Rashed, Kareem Darwish et al.*our summary* 16. **[Automatic Difficulty Classification of Arabic Sentences](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.11/)**Nouran Khallaf, Serge Sharoff 17. **[Automatic Romanization of Arabic Bibliographic Records](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.23/)**Fadhl Eryani, Nizar Habash 18. **[BERT-based Multi-Task Model for Country and Province Level MSA and Dialectal Arabic Identification](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.31/)**Abdellah El Mekki, Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Kabil Essefar et al. 19. **[Benchmarking Transformer-based Language Models for Arabic Sentiment and Sarcasm Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/farha-2021-benchmarking-transformer-based-language-models/)**Ibrahim Abu Farha, Walid Magdy*our summary* 20. **[Combining Context-Free and Contextualized Representations for Arabic Sarcasm Detection and Sentiment Identification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hengle-2021-combining-context-free-contextualized-representations/)**Amey Hengle, Atharva Kshirsagar, Shaily Desai et al.*our summary* 21. **[Country-level Arabic Dialect Identification Using Small Datasets with Integrated Machine Learning Techniques and Deep Learning Models](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.30/)**Maha J. Althobaiti 22. **[Country-level Arabic Dialect Identification using RNNs with and without Linguistic Features](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.32/)**Elsayed Issa, Mohammed AlShakhori, Reda Al-Bahrani et al. 23. **[Deep Multi-Task Model for Sarcasm Detection and Sentiment Analysis in Arabic Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mahdaouy-2021-deep-multi-task-model-sarcasm/)**Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Abdellah El Mekki, Kabil Essefar et al.*our summary* 24. **[DeepBlueAI at WANLP-EACL2021 task 2: A Deep Ensemble-based Method for Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/song-2021-deepblueai-wanlp-eacl2021-task-2/)**Bingyan Song, Chunguang Pan, Shengguang Wang et al.*our summary* 25. **[DiaLex: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multidialectal Arabic Word Embeddings](https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.2/)**Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Shady Elbassuoni, Jad Doughman et al. [See all 53 papers in WANLP 2021 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2021/papers/) ## Papers with our summary in our library (23) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Arabic Offensive Language on Twitter: Analysis and Experiments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mubarak-2021-arabic-offensive-language-twitter-analysis/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Hamdy Mubarak, Ammar Rashed, Kareem Darwish, et al.*2021 · 165 citations* 2. **[Overview of the WANLP 2021 Shared Task on Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/farha-2021-overview-wanlp-2021-shared-task/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Ibrahim Abu Farha, Wajdi Zaghouani, Walid Magdy*2021 · 112 citations* 3. **[AraELECTRA: Pre-Training Text Discriminators for Arabic Language Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/antoun-2021-araelectra-pre-training-text-discriminators/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Wissam Antoun, Fady Baly, Hazem Hajj*2021 · 97 citations* 4. **[AraGPT2: Pre-Trained Transformer for Arabic Language Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/antoun-2021-aragpt2-pre-trained-transformer-arabic/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Wissam Antoun, Fady Baly, Hazem Hajj*2021 · 79 citations* 5. **[NADI 2021: The Second Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mageed-2021-nadi-2021-second-nuanced-arabic/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Chiyu Zhang, AbdelRahim Elmadany, et al.*2021 · 67 citations* 6. **[Benchmarking Transformer-based Language Models for Arabic Sentiment and Sarcasm Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/farha-2021-benchmarking-transformer-based-language-models/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Ibrahim Abu Farha, Walid Magdy*2021 · 64 citations* 7. **[Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection In Arabic Tweets Using BERT-based Models and Data Augmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abuzayed-2021-sarcasm-sentiment-detection-arabic-tweets/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Abeer Abuzayed, Hend Al-Khalifa*2021 · 36 citations* 8. **[Machine Learning-Based Model for Sentiment and Sarcasm Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nayel-2021-machine-learning-based-model-sentiment/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Hamada Nayel, Eslam Amer, Aya Allam, et al.*2021 · 25 citations* 9. **[Deep Multi-Task Model for Sarcasm Detection and Sentiment Analysis in Arabic Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mahdaouy-2021-deep-multi-task-model-sarcasm/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Abdellah El Mekki, Kabil Essefar, et al.*2021 · 22 citations* 10. **[Leveraging Offensive Language for Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/husain-2021-leveraging-offensive-language-sarcasm-sentiment/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Fatemah Husain, Ozlem Uzuner*2021 · 19 citations* 11. **[SarcasmDet at Sarcasm Detection Task 2021 in Arabic using AraBERT Pretrained Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/faraj-2021-sarcasmdet-sarcasm-detection-task-2021/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Dalya Faraj, Malak Abdullah*2021 · 18 citations* 12. **[A Contextual Word Embedding for Arabic Sarcasm Detection with Random Forests](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elgabry-2021-contextual-word-embedding-arabic-sarcasm/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Hazem Elgabry, Shimaa Attia, Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, et al.*2021 · 16 citations* 13. **[Multi-task Learning Using a Combination of Contextualised and Static Word Embeddings for Arabic Sarcasm Detection and Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alharbi-2021-multi-task-learning-combination-contextualised/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Abdullah I. Alharbi, Mark Lee*2021 · 14 citations* 14. **[Preprocessing Solutions for Detection of Sarcasm and Sentiment for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lichouri-2021-preprocessing-solutions-detection-sarcasm-sentiment/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Mohamed Lichouri, Mourad Abbas, Besma Benaziz, et al.*2021 · 13 citations* 15. **[AraBERT and Farasa Segmentation Based Approach For Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wadhawan-2021-arabert-farasa-segmentation-based-approach/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Anshul Wadhawan*2021 · 11 citations* 16. **[Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic language A Hybrid Approach Combining Embeddings and Rule-based Features](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gaanoun-2021-sarcasm-sentiment-detection-arabic-language/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Kamel Gaanoun, Imade Benelallam*2021 · 10 citations* 17. **[The IDC System for Sentiment Classification and Sarcasm Detection in Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/israeli-2021-idc-system-sentiment-classification-sarcasm/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Abraham Israeli, Yotam Nahum, Shai Fine, et al.*2021 · 10 citations* 18. **[ArSarcasm Shared Task: An Ensemble BERT Model for SarcasmDetection in Arabic Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bashmal-2021-arsarcasm-shared-task-ensemble-bert/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Laila Bashmal, Daliyah AlZeer*2021 · 8 citations* 19. **[iCompass at Shared Task on Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naski-2021-icompass-shared-task-sarcasm-sentiment/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Malek Naski, Abir Messaoudi, Hatem Haddad, et al.*2021 · 7 citations* 20. **[Combining Context-Free and Contextualized Representations for Arabic Sarcasm Detection and Sentiment Identification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hengle-2021-combining-context-free-contextualized-representations/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Amey Hengle, Atharva Kshirsagar, Shaily Desai, et al.*2021 · 6 citations* 21. **[WANLP 2021 Shared-Task: Towards Irony and Sentiment Detection in Arabic Tweets using Multi-headed-LSTM-CNN-GRU and MaRBERT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/salam-2021-wanlp-2021-shared-task-irony/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Reem Abdel-Salam*2021 · 5 citations* 22. **[DeepBlueAI at WANLP-EACL2021 task 2: A Deep Ensemble-based Method for Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/song-2021-deepblueai-wanlp-eacl2021-task-2/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Bingyan Song, Chunguang Pan, Shengguang Wang, et al.*2021 · 5 citations* 23. **[Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic: investigating the interest of character-level features](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghoul-2021-sarcasm-sentiment-detection-arabic-investigating/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Dhaou Ghoul, Gaël Lejeune*2021 · 2 citations* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Semitic languages (23)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion (19)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Text generation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Morphology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Fields [Computer Science (22)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities (20)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Social Sciences (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Fady Baly**2 works here · 176 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fady-baly/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hazem Hajj**2 works here · 176 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-hajj/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ibrahim Abu Farha**2 works here · 176 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ibrahim-abu-farha/) · [🧑‍🔬**Walid Magdy**2 works here · 176 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walid-magdy/) · [🧑‍🔬**Wissam Antoun**2 works here · 176 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wissam-antoun/) · [🧑‍🔬**Ahmed Abdelali**1 work here · 165 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-abdelali/) · [🧑‍🔬**Hamdy Mubarak**1 work here · 165 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamdy-mubarak/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kareem Darwish**1 work here · 165 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kareem-darwish/) · [🧑‍🔬**Younes Samih**1 work here · 165 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/younes-samih/) · [🧑‍🔬**Wajdi Zaghouani**1 work here · 112 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wajdi-zaghouani/) · [🧑‍🔬**AbdelRahim Elmadany**1 work here · 67 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdelrahim-elmadany/) · [🧑‍🔬**Chiyu Zhang**1 work here · 67 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chiyu-zhang/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**American University of Beirut** Beirut · Lebanon 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/american-university-of-beirut/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [← previous WANLP 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2020/) - [next → WANLP 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2022/) - [↑ back to WANLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)