Kinda Altarbouch


2025

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BAREC Demo: Resources and Tools for Sentence-level Arabic Readability Assessment
Kinda Altarbouch | Khalid N. Elmadani | Ossama Obeid | Hanada Taha | Nizar Habash
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations

We present BAREC Demo, a web-based system for fine-grained, sentence-level Arabic readability assessment. The demo is part of the Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus (BAREC) project, which manually annotated 69,000 sentences (over one million words) from diverse genres and domains using a 19-level readability scale inspired by the Taha/Arabi21 framework, covering reading abilities from kindergarten to postgraduate levels. The project also developed models for automatic readability assessment.The demo provides two main functionalities for educators, content creators, language learners, and researchers: (1) a Search interface to explore the annotated dataset for text selection and resource development, and (2) an Analyze interface, which uses trained models to assign detailed readability labels to Arabic texts at the sentence level.The system and all of its resources are accessible at https://barec.camel-lab.com.