TTLab at Daleel 2026: STAR-Ar, Sequence Tagging for Argument Recognition in Arabic

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arXiv:2609.39385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Argument Mining (AM) is a critical NLP task that remains significantly under-resourced in Arabic. This paper presents $\testtt{STAR-Ar}$, a BERT-BiLSTM-CRF architecture for argument discourse detection and classification, as our system for Daleel 2026, the inaugural Arabic argument mining shared task. The task requires the identification and classification of argumentative discourse units (ADUs) in debate and editorial texts.We jointly model thes