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SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT - AraGPT2
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* NAME:  AraGPT2: Pre-Training Text Discriminatorsfor Arabic Language Understanding

* ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This [software] was generated by [American
University of Beirut] (“Owners”). The statements
made herein are solely the responsibility of the author[s].

 The following software programs and programs have been used in the
 generation of [AraGPT2]:

	+ gpt-2-simple
	   - Max Woolf, 2020.
	   - License and link : https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple

	+ GPT2-ML
	   - Zhibo Zhang, GPT2-ML: GPT-2 for Multiple Languages, 2019
	   - License and link : https://github.com/imcaspar/gpt2-ml

	+ PyArabic
	   - T. Zerrouki, Pyarabic, An Arabic language library for Python,
	        https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyarabic/, 2010
	   - License and link: https://github.com/linuxscout/pyarabic/

* LICENSE

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The use of AraGPT2 should be cited as follows:

@inproceedings{antoun-etal-2021-aragpt2,
    title = "{A}ra{GPT}2: Pre-Trained Transformer for {A}rabic Language Generation",
    author = "Antoun, Wissam  and
      Baly, Fady  and
      Hajj, Hazem",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop",
    month = apr,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Kyiv, Ukraine (Virtual)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.wanlp-1.21",
    pages = "196--207",
}

[AraGPT2] Copyright 2020 by [American University of Beirut].
All rights reserved.
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