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| license: mit |
| language: |
| - ar |
| tags: |
| - sentence-segmentation |
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| # AraSeg: Arabic Sentence Segmentation |
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| > **Looking for AraSeg?** This page is a pointer. The dataset and models live in the repositories below. |
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| 👉 **Collection:** [Arabic Sentence Segmentation](https://huggingface.co/collections/MBZUAI/arabic-sentence-segmentation-6ad88b20f292ee0299a6cc46) |
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| AraSeg is a manually annotated, genre-diverse benchmark for Arabic sentence segmentation, introduced in |
| *Arabic Sentence Segmentation Across Genres and Punctuation Conditions* (Findings of EMNLP 2026). |
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| ## Dataset |
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| | Dataset | Description | |
| |---|---| |
| | [**MBZUAI/AraSEG**](https://huggingface.co/datasets/MBZUAI/AraSEG) | 2,187 documents, 121,623 sentences, 8 genres; four subsets: `PA`, `NP`, `NoPnx-PA`, `NoPnx-NP` | |
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| ## Models |
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| CAMeLBERT-MSA fine-tuned for sentence segmentation, one model per task variant: |
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| | Model | Paragraph boundaries | Punctuation | |
| |---|---|---| |
| | [**MBZUAI/sentseg-camelbert-PA**](https://huggingface.co/MBZUAI/sentseg-camelbert-PA) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| | [**MBZUAI/sentseg-camelbert-NP**](https://huggingface.co/MBZUAI/sentseg-camelbert-NP) | ✗ | ✓ | |
| | [**MBZUAI/sentseg-camelbert-NoPnx-PA**](https://huggingface.co/MBZUAI/sentseg-camelbert-NoPnx-PA) | ✓ | ✗ | |
| | [**MBZUAI/sentseg-camelbert-NoPnx-NP**](https://huggingface.co/MBZUAI/sentseg-camelbert-NoPnx-NP) | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| ## Citation |
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| ``` |
| @inproceedings{elkholy-etal-2026-arabic-sentence-segmentation, |
| title = "{A}rabic Sentence Segmentation Across Genres and Punctuation Conditions", |
| author = "Elkholy, Mohammed and |
| Elmadani, Khalid N. and |
| Habash, Nizar and |
| Alhafni, Bashar", |
| booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026", |
| month = oct, |
| year = "2026", |
| address = "Budapest, Hungary", |
| publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics" |
| } |
| ``` |
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