An Empirical Evaluation of Arabic Text Formality Transfer: A Comparative Study

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Title: An Empirical Evaluation of Arabic Text Formality Transfer: A Comparative Study Authors: Fahad Abdu, Raed Mughaus, Shadi Abudalfa, Moataz Ahmed, Ahmed Abdelali Journal: Language Resources and Evaluation URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-025-09873-w

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@article{abdu2025empirical, title={An empirical evaluation of arabic text formality transfer: a comparative study}, author={Abdu, Fahad J and Mughaus, Raed and Abudalfa, Shadi and Ahmed, Moataz and Abdelali, Ahmed}, journal={Language Resources and Evaluation}, pages={1--61}, year={2025}, publisher={Springer} }

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• Multi-Arabic Dialect Applications and Resources Corpus (MADAR): Bouamor, H., Habash, N., Salameh, M., Zaghouani, W., Rambow, O., Abdulrahim, D., Obeid, O., Khalifa, S., Eryani, F., Erdmann, A., et al.: The madar arabic dialect corpus and lexicon. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018) (2018)
• Parallel Arabic Dialect Corpus (PADIC): Meftouh, K., Harrat, S., Jamoussi, S., Abbas, M., Smaili, K.: Machine translation experiments on PADIC: A parallel arabic dialect corpus. In: Proceedings of the 29th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, pp. 26–34 (2015)
• Multi-Dialectal Parallel Corpus (MDPC): Bouamor, H., Habash, N., Oflazer, K.: A multidialectal parallel corpus of arabic. In: LREC, pp. 1240–1245 (2014)
• The Bible: Abdelali, A., Attia, M., Samih, Y., Darwish, K., Mubarak, H.: Diacritization of maghrebi arabic sub-dialects. arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.06619 (2018)