@inproceedings{sayed-etal-2025-feature, title = "Feature Engineering is not Dead: A Step Towards State of the Art for {A}rabic Automated Essay Scoring", author = "Sayed, Marwan and Eltanbouly, Sohaila and Bashendy, May and Elsayed, Tamer", editor = "Darwish, Kareem and Ali, Ahmed and Abu Farha, Ibrahim and Touileb, Samia and Zitouni, Imed and Abdelali, Ahmed and Al-Ghamdi, Sharefah and Alkhereyf, Sakhar and Zaghouani, Wajdi and Khalifa, Salam and AlKhamissi, Badr and Almatham, Rawan and Hamed, Injy and Alyafeai, Zaid and Alowisheq, Areeb and Inoue, Go and Mrini, Khalil and Alshammari, Waad", booktitle = "Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference", month = nov, year = "2025", address = "Suzhou, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.arabicnlp-main.19/", pages = "231--245", ISBN = "979-8-89176-352-4" }