Arabic Readability Assessment
The BAREC Shared Task 2025, part of the Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2025) @ EMNLP 2025.
Strict Track
For the strict track, models must be trained exclusively on the BAREC Corpus.
Task 1: Sentence-level Readability
Predict readability level of an Arabic sentence on a scale from 1 to 19.
Task 2: Document-level Readability
Predict a document's readability level (1-19) based on its most difficult sentence.
Constrained Track
Participants may use the BAREC Corpus, SAMER Corpus, and the SAMER Lexicon.
Task 1: Sentence-level Readability
Predict readability level of an Arabic sentence on a scale from 1 to 19.
Task 2: Document-level Readability
Predict a document's readability level (1-19) based on its most difficult sentence.
Open Track
No restrictions on external resources, allowing the use of any publicly available data.
Task 1: Sentence-level Readability
Predict readability level of an Arabic sentence on a scale from 1 to 19.
Task 2: Document-level Readability
Predict a document's readability level (1-19) based on its most difficult sentence.