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New Arabic Anxiety Discourse Benchmark Released

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Researchers have developed a new benchmark dataset for analyzing Arabic anxiety-related discourse on social media. The dataset, comprising 1,000 annotated X posts, aims to improve upon keyword-based retrieval methods that often include irrelevant content. A model named Fanar-C-2-27B achieved 79.8% accuracy on this benchmark, with errors primarily concentrated in a residual category that may be influenced by prompt inconsistencies. AI

IMPACT Provides a new benchmark for evaluating NLP models on nuanced Arabic discourse, potentially improving sentiment analysis and social monitoring tools.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new academic paper introducing a benchmark dataset and evaluation results. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New Arabic Anxiety Discourse Benchmark Released

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Shimaa Ibrahim, Mabrouka Bessghaier, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Insaf Elouard, Wajdi Zaghouani ·

    Beyond the Keyword: A Human-Annotated Benchmark for Arabic Anxiety-Related Discourse

    arXiv:2611.07949v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Keyword retrieval returns expressions of personal anxiety together with many other uses of anxiety-related language. We present a benchmark of 1,000 Arabic Twitter/X posts retrieved with the keyword qalaq ("anxiety/worry") and annot…

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