- In “Syllable Structures Across Arabic Varieties” (ACL Anthology), Abdelrahim Qaddoumi (NYU Abu Dhabi) and others investigate “the syllable structures of nine Arabic varieties from Wiktionary, using a computational syllabifier….A cross-variety analysis using Jensen-Shannon divergence reveals three principal groupings: Egyptian, Hejazi, and Modern Standard Arabic are closely related; Levantine and Gulf varieties constitute a second cluster; and Juba Arabic, Maltese, and Moroccan emerge as outliers. A cleaned dataset encompassing all nine varieties is also provided.”