@inproceedings{liberato-etal-2024-strategies,
    title = "Strategies for {A}rabic Readability Modeling",
    author = "Liberato, Juan  and
      Alhafni, Bashar  and
      Khalil, Muhamed  and
      Habash, Nizar",
    editor = "Habash, Nizar  and
      Bouamor, Houda  and
      Eskander, Ramy  and
      Tomeh, Nadi  and
      Abu Farha, Ibrahim  and
      Abdelali, Ahmed  and
      Touileb, Samia  and
      Hamed, Injy  and
      Onaizan, Yaser  and
      Alhafni, Bashar  and
      Antoun, Wissam  and
      Khalifa, Salam  and
      Haddad, Hatem  and
      Zitouni, Imed  and
      AlKhamissi, Badr  and
      Almatham, Rawan  and
      Mrini, Khalil",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference",
    month = aug,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2024.arabicnlp-1.5/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.arabicnlp-1.5",
    pages = "55--66",
    abstract = "Automatic readability assessment is relevant to building NLP applications for education, content analysis, and accessibility. However, Arabic readability assessment is a challenging task due to Arabic{'}s morphological richness and limited readability resources. In this paper, we present a set of experimental results on Arabic readability assessment using a diverse range of approaches, from rule-based methods to Arabic pretrained language models. We report our results on a newly created corpus at different textual granularity levels (words and sentence fragments). Our results show that combining different techniques yields the best results, achieving an overall macro F1 score of 86.7 at the word level and 87.9 at the fragment level on a blind test set. We make our code, data, and pretrained models publicly available."
}