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license: cc-by-sa-4.0 |
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task_categories: |
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- text-classification |
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language: |
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- ar |
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tags: |
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- readability |
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size_categories: |
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- 1K<n<10K |
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pretty_name: 'BAREC 2025: Readability Assessment Shared Task' |
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--- |
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# BAREC Shared Task 2025 |
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## Dataset Summary |
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**BAREC** (the Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus) is a large-scale dataset developed for the **BAREC Shared Task 2025**, focused on **fine-grained Arabic readability assessment**. The dataset includes over **1M words**, annotated across **19 readability levels**, with additional mappings to coarser 7, 5, and 3 level schemes. |
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The dataset is **annotated at the sentence level**. Document-level readability scores are derived by assigning each document the readability level of its **most difficult sentence**, based on the 19-level scheme. This provides both **sentence-level** and **document-level** readability information. |
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## Supported Tasks and Leaderboards |
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The dataset supports **multi-class readability classification** in the following formats: |
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- **19 levels** (default) |
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- **7 levels** |
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- **5 levels** |
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- **3 levels** |
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For details on the shared task, evaluation setup, and leaderboards, visit the [Shared Task Website](https://barec.camel-lab.com/sharedtask2025). |
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### Languages |
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- **Arabic** (Modern Standard Arabic) |
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## Dataset Structure |
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### Data Instances |
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`{'ID': 1010219, 'Document': 'BAREC_Majed_1481_2007_038.txt', 'Sentences': '"موزة الحبوبة وشقيقها رشود\nآيس كريم بالكريمة..\nأم كريمة بالآيس كريم؟!"', 'Sentence_Count': 3, 'Word_Count': 15, 'Readability_Level': '8-Ha', 'Readability_Level_19': 8, 'Readability_Level_7': 3, 'Readability_Level_5': 2, 'Readability_Level_3': 1, 'Source': 'Majed', 'Book': 'Edition: 1481', 'Author': '#', 'Domain': 'Arts & Humanities', 'Text_Class': 'Foundational'}` |
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### Data Fields |
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- **ID**: Unique document identifier. |
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- **Document**: Document file name. |
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- **Sentences**: Full text of the document. |
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- **Sentence_Count**: Number of sentences. |
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- **Word_Count**: Total word count. |
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- **Readability_Level**: The readability level in `19-levels` scheme, ranging from `1-alif` to `19-qaf`. |
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- **Readability_Level_19**: The readability level in `19-levels` scheme, ranging from `1` to `19`. |
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- **Readability_Level_7**: The readability level in `7-levels` scheme, ranging from `1` to `7`. |
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- **Readability_Level_5**: The readability level in `5-levels` scheme, ranging from `1` to `5`. |
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- **Readability_Level_3**: The readability level in `3-levels` scheme, ranging from `1` to `3`. |
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- **Source**: Document source. |
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- **Book**: Book name. |
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- **Author**: Author name. |
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- **Domain**: Domain (`Arts & Humanities`, `STEM` or `Social Sciences`). |
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- **Text_Class**: Readership group (`Foundational`, `Advanced` or `Specialized`). |
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### Data Splits |
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- The BAREC dataset has three splits: *Train* (80%), *Dev* (10%), and *Test* (10%). |
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- The splits are in the document level. |
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- The splits are balanced accross *Readability Levels*, *Domains*, and *Text Classes*. |
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## Evaluation |
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We define the Readability Assessment task as an ordinal classification task. The following metrics are used for evaluation: |
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- **Accuracy (Acc<sup>19</sup>):** The percentage of cases where reference and prediction classes match in the 19-level scheme. |
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- **Accuracy (Acc<sup>7</sup>, Acc<sup>5</sup>, Acc<sup>3</sup>):** The percentage of cases where reference and prediction classes match after collapsing the 19 levels into 7, 5, or 3 levels, respectively. |
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- **Adjacent Accuracy (±1 Acc<sup>19</sup>):** Also known as off-by-1 accuracy. The proportion of predictions that are either exactly correct or off by at most one level in the 19-level scheme. |
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- **Average Distance (Dist):** Also known as Mean Absolute Error (MAE). Measures the average absolute difference between predicted and true labels. |
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- **Quadratic Weighted Kappa (QWK):** An extension of Cohen’s Kappa that measures the agreement between predicted and true labels, applying a quadratic penalty to larger misclassifications (i.e., predictions farther from the true label are penalized more heavily). |
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We provide evaluation scripts [here](https://github.com/CAMeL-Lab/barec-shared-task-2025). |
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## Citation |
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If you use BAREC in your work, please cite the following papers: |
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``` |
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@inproceedings{elmadani-etal-2025-readability, |
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title = "A Large and Balanced Corpus for Fine-grained Arabic Readability Assessment", |
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author = "Elmadani, Khalid N. and |
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Habash, Nizar and |
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Taha-Thomure, Hanada", |
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booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025", |
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year = "2025", |
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address = "Vienna, Austria", |
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publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics" |
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} |
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@inproceedings{habash-etal-2025-guidelines, |
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title = "Guidelines for Fine-grained Sentence-level Arabic Readability Annotation", |
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author = "Habash, Nizar and |
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Taha-Thomure, Hanada and |
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Elmadani, Khalid N. and |
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Zeino, Zeina and |
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Abushmaes, Abdallah", |
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booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX)", |
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year = "2025", |
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address = "Vienna, Austria", |
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publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics" |
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} |
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``` |
