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Arabic Language Processing Breakthrough: 75% Smaller Vocabularies

New AI method slashes Arabic language processing size by 75% while boosting performance. Splintering improves tokenization & reduces vocabulary size, preserving morphological info. Achieves 20% improvement in downstream tasks.

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Splintering improves tokenization for nonconcatenative languages like Arabic and Hebrew
Creates better word representations by separating roots from patterns
Reduces vocabulary size while maintaining linguistic meaning
Achieves 20% improvement in downstream tasks with 75% smaller vocabularies
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