@inproceedings{rosensweig-etal-2026-new,
    title = "A New State-of-the-Art {BERT} Model for {J}udeo-{A}rabic",
    author = "Rosensweig, Elisha  and
      Lindenbaum, Yitzchak  and
      Gershuni, Hillel  and
      Raziel-Kretzmer, Vered  and
      Caine, Daniel  and
      Shmidman, Avi",
    editor = "Sprugnoli, Rachele  and
      Passarotti, Marco",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages ({LT}4{HALA} 2026) @ {LREC} 2026",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma, Mallorca (Spain)",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/revision-workflow/2026.lt4hala-1.6/",
    doi = "10.63317/52qpsk7c5bfc",
    pages = "58--71",
    abstract = "We present JABERT, the first BERT model pretrained specifically for historical Judeo-Arabic texts. We demonstrate that JABERT outperforms Arabic and multilingual models on the downstream task of Judeo-Arabic homograph disambiguation. Furthermore, in order to test the latter, we have curated and annotated the first Judeo-Arabic homograph test set. We release both JABERT and the Judeo-Arabic homograph test to the public for unrestricted use."
}