# AraFinNLP 2024: The First Arabic Financial NLP Shared Task

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09818 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.09818/

## Key facts

- Cited by 12 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 18 of its 46 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 13 Jul 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 18 of 18)

- [Efficient Intent Detection with Dual Sentence Encoders](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.04807/) (2020)
- [Seamless: Multilingual Expressive and Streaming Speech Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.05187/) (2023)
- [ARBERT & MARBERT: Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Arabic](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.01785/) (2020)
- [The Interplay of Variant, Size, and Task Type in Arabic Pre-trained Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.06678/) (2021)
- [A Panoramic Survey of Natural Language Processing in the Arab World](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.12631/) (2020)
- [Wojood: Nested Arabic Named Entity Corpus and Recognition using BERT](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.09651/) (2022)
- [NADI 2023: The Fourth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.16117/) (2023)
- [Curras + Baladi: Towards a Levantine Corpus](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.09692/) (2022)
- [The Arabic Ontology -- An Arabic Wordnet with Ontologically Clean Content](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.09664/) (2022)
- [ArabGlossBERT: Fine-Tuning BERT on Context-Gloss Pairs for WSD](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.09685/) (2022)
- [Are Large Language Models the New Interface for Data Pipelines?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.06596/) (2024)
- [SALMA: Arabic Sense-Annotated Corpus and WSD Benchmarks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.19029/) (2023)
- [ArBanking77: Intent Detection Neural Model and a New Dataset in Modern and Dialectical Arabic](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.19034/) (2023)
- [Arabic Fine-Grained Entity Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.17333/) (2023)
- [Context-Gloss Augmentation for Improving Arabic Target Sense Verification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.03126/) (2023)
- [WojoodNER 2023: The First Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.16153/) (2023)
- [In Search of Meaning: Lessons, Resources and Next Steps for Computational Analysis of Financial Discourse](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.12271/) (2019)
- [NLU-STR at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Generative-based Augmentation and Encoder-based Scoring for Semantic Textual Relatedness](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.00659/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 12 of 12)

- [Interpretable LLMs for Credit Risk: A Systematic Review and Taxonomy](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.04290/) (2025)
- [Improving Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection with Auxiliary Tasks: A Multi-Dialectal Bavarian Case Study](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.03863/) (2025)
- [ArabicNLU 2024: The First Arabic Natural Language Understanding Shared Task](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.20663/) (2024)
- [Add Noise, Tasks, or Layers? MaiNLP at the VarDial 2025 Shared Task on Norwegian Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.03870/) (2025)
- [Standard-to-Dialect Transfer Trends Differ across Text and Speech: A Case Study on Intent and Topic Classification in German Dialects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.07890/) (2025)
- [The CLEF-2026 FinMMEval Lab: Multilingual and Multimodal Evaluation of Financial AI Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.10886/) (2026)
- [ALKAFI-LLAMA3: Fine-Tuning LLMs for Precise Legal Understanding in Palestine](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.14771/) (2024)
- [Alexandria: A Multi-Domain Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation Dataset for Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse LLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.13099/) (2026)
- [Rosetta at AlexandriaX-2026: LoRA-Adapted NileChat for Context-Aware Dialectal Arabic Dialogue Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.10395/) (2026)
- [AlexandriaX 2026: The First Shared Task on Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.22796/) (2026)
- [dzFinNlp at AraFinNLP: Improving Intent Detection in Financial Conversational Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.13565/) (2024)
- [SinaTools: Open Source Toolkit for Arabic Natural Language Processing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.01523/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The expanding financial markets of the Arab world require sophisticated Arabic NLP tools. To address this need within the banking domain, the Arabic Financial NLP (AraFinNLP) shared task proposes two subtasks: (i) Multi-dialect Intent Detection and (ii) Cross-dialect Translation and Intent Preservation. This shared task uses the updated ArBanking77 dataset, which includes about 39k parallel queries in MSA and four dialects. Each query is labeled with one or more of a common 77 intents in the banking domain. These resources aim to foster the development of robust financial Arabic NLP, particularly in the areas of machine translation and banking chat-bots. A total of 45 unique teams registered for this shared task, with 11 of them actively participated in the test phase. Specifically, 11 teams participated in Subtask 1, while only 1 team participated in Subtask 2. The winning team of Subtask 1 achieved F1 score of 0.8773, and the only team submitted in Subtask 2 achieved a 1.667 BLEU score.