---
license: mit
language:
- ar
tags:
- sentence-segmentation
---

# AraSeg: Arabic Sentence Segmentation

> **Looking for AraSeg?** This page is a pointer. The dataset and models live in the repositories below.

👉 **Collection:** [Arabic Sentence Segmentation](https://huggingface.co/collections/MBZUAI/arabic-sentence-segmentation-6ad88b20f292ee0299a6cc46)

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).

## Dataset

| 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` |

## Models

CAMeLBERT-MSA fine-tuned for sentence segmentation, one model per task variant:

| 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) | ✗ | ✗ |

## Citation

```
@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"
}
```