@inproceedings{elshehy-etal-2026-aramodernbert,
    title = "{A}ra{M}odern{BERT}: Transtokenized Initialization and Long-Context Encoder Modeling for {A}rabic",
    author = "Elshehy, Omar  and
      Nacar, Omer  and
      Djamai, Abdelbasset  and
      Ragab, Muhammed  and
      AL Jallad, Khloud  and
      Abdelazim, Mona",
    editor = "El-Haj, Mo  and
      Rayson, Paul  and
      Jarrar, Mustafa  and
      Ezeani, Ignatius  and
      Ezzini, Saad  and
      Ahmadi, Sina  and
      Haddad Haddad, Amal  and
      Amol, Cynthia  and
      Abdelali, Ahmad  and
      Abudalfa, Shadi",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on {NLP} for Languages Using {A}rabic Script",
    month = mar,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Rabat, Morocco",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-old-resolve/2026.abjadnlp-1.39/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.abjadnlp-1.39",
    pages = "313--321"
}