# SinaTools: Open Source Toolkit for Arabic Natural Language Processing

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01523 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.01523/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
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- First posted on arXiv 3 Nov 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 29 of 29)

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## Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce SinaTools, an open-source Python package for Arabic natural language processing and understanding. SinaTools is a unified package allowing people to integrate it into their system workflow, offering solutions for various tasks such as flat and nested Named Entity Recognition (NER), fully-flagged Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), Semantic Relatedness, Synonymy Extractions and Evaluation, Lemmatization, Part-of-speech Tagging, Root Tagging, and additional helper utilities such as corpus processing, text stripping methods, and diacritic-aware word matching. This paper presents SinaTools and its benchmarking results, demonstrating that SinaTools outperforms all similar tools on the aforementioned tasks, such as Flat NER (87.33%), Nested NER (89.42%), WSD (82.63%), Semantic Relatedness (0.49 Spearman rank), Lemmatization (90.5%), POS tagging (97.5%), among others. SinaTools can be downloaded from (https://sina.birzeit.edu/sinatools).