MorphoArabia at BAREC Shared Task 2025: A Hybrid Architecture with Morphological Analysis for Arabic Readability Assessment
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper presents MorphoArabia, a system developed for the BAREC Shared Task 2025 on Arabic Readability Assessment.The approach is centered on the hypothesis that deep morphological analysis is fundamental for modeling the complexity of the Arabic language.A regression model was fine-tuned on AraBERTv2 with morphologically-aware tokenization via CAMeL Tools.Various configurations were explored for the strict, constrained, and open tracks, including a hybrid model with seven engineered lexical features.The system demonstrated highly competitive performance, securing top-10 rankings in all six subtasks and achieving a peak Quadratic Weighted Kappa (QWK) of 84.2% on the strict sentencelevel task.All code and models are publicly available to facilitate future research.
Author: Fatimah Mohamed Emad Elden
Institution: Cairo University
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4416037812