Proper Noun Diacritization for Arabic Wikipedia: A Benchmark Dataset

Summary

A new dataset for Arabic proper noun diacritization was introduced, addressing the ambiguity caused by undiacritized proper nouns in Arabic Wikipedia. The dataset includes manually diacritized Arabic proper nouns of various origins along with their English Wikipedia glosses. GPT-4o was benchmarked on the task of recovering full diacritization from undiacritized Arabic and English forms, achieving 73% accuracy. Why it matters: The release of this dataset should facilitate further research on Arabic Wikipedia proper noun diacritization, improving the accessibility and accuracy of Arabic NLP resources.