AraNet: New Deep Learning Toolkit for Arabic Social Media

Arabic is the 4th most-used language on the Internet, and its growing presence on social media is providing ample resources for the study of Arabic-language online communities at scale. There are however few tools currently available that can derive valuable insights from this data for decision making, guiding policies, aiding in responses, etc. Is that about to change? The performance of natural language processing (NLP) systems has dramatically improved on tasks such as reading comprehension and natural language inference, and with these advances have come many new application scenarios for the tech. Unsurprisingly, English is where most NLP R&D has been focused.