@inproceedings{zarnoufi-2025-maproc,
    title = "{MAPROC} at {AH}a{SIS} Shared Task: Few-Shot and Sentence Transformer for Sentiment Analysis of {A}rabic Hotel Reviews",
    author = "Zarnoufi, Randa",
    editor = "Alharbi, Maram  and
      Chafik, Salmane  and
      Ezzini, Saad  and
      Mitkov, Ruslan  and
      Ranasinghe, Tharindu  and
      Hettiarachchi, Hansi",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Dialects",
    month = sep,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Varna, Bulgaria",
    publisher = "INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2026-01/2025.ranlp-ahasis.8/",
    pages = "46--53",
    abstract = "Sentiment analysis of Arabic dialects presents significant challenges due to linguistic diversity and the scarcity of annotated data. This paper describes our approach to the AHaSIS shared task, which focuses on sentiment analysis on Arabic dialects in the hospitality domain. The dataset comprises hotel reviews written in Moroccan and Saudi dialects, and the objective is to classify the reviewers' sentiment as positive, negative, or neutral. We employed the SetFit (Sentence Transformer Fine-tuning) framework, a data-efficient few-shot learning technique. On the official evaluation set, our system achieved an F1 of 73{\%}, ranking 12th among 26 participants. This work highlights the potential of few-shot learning to address data scarcity in processing nuanced dialectal Arabic text within specialized domains like hotel reviews."
}