Affiliation:
1. Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 145111, Riyadh 4545, Saudi Arabia
Abstract
Authorship attribution (AA) is a field of natural language processing that aims to attribute text to its author. Although the literature includes several studies on Arabic AA in general, applying AA to classical Arabic texts has not gained similar attention. This study focuses on investigating recent Arabic pretrained transformer-based models in a rarely studied domain with limited research contributions: the domain of Islamic law. We adopt an experimental approach to investigate AA. Because no dataset has been designed specifically for this task, we design and build our own dataset using Islamic law digital resources. We conduct several experiments on fine-tuning four Arabic pretrained transformer-based models: AraBERT, AraELECTRA, ARBERT, and MARBERT. Results of the experiments indicate that for the task of attributing a given text to its author, ARBERT and AraELECTRA outperform the other models with an accuracy of 96%. We conclude that pretrained transformer models, specifically ARBERT and AraELECTRA, fine-tuned using the Islamic legal dataset, show significant results in applying AA to Islamic legal texts.
Funder
Research Center of the Female Scientific and Medical Colleges
Subject
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Computer Science Applications,Process Chemistry and Technology,General Engineering,Instrumentation,General Materials Science
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