Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop

Abstract

A number of Arabic NLP (or Arabic NLP-related) workshops and conferences have taken place in the last few years, both in the Arab World and in association with international conferences. The Arabic NLP workshop at ACL 2019 follows in the footsteps of these previous efforts to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work. This particular workshop is the fourth in a series, following the First Arabic NLP workshop held at EMNLP 2014 in Doha, Qatar; the Second Arabic NLP workshop held at ACL 2015 in Beijing, China; the Third Arabic NLP workshop held at EACL 2017 in Valencia, Spain. This workshop included a shared task on Arabic dialect identification. As opposed to previous shared tasks which focused on regional level dialect labeling, this shared task is the first to target a large set of dialect labels at the city and country levels.