Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Classical Arabic (CA) have two types of vowels, namely long vowels, which are explicitly written, and short vowels, aka diacritics, which are typically omitted in writing but are reintroduced by readers to properly pronounce words. We show that our model achieves a case ending error rate (CEER) of 3.7% for MSA and 2.5% for CA. For MSA, this CEER is more than 60% lower than other state-of-the-art systems such as Farasa and the RDI diacritizer, which are trained on the same dataset and achieve CEERs of 10.7% and 14.4% respectively.  
 Question: what are the previous state of the art?
Output (English): Farasa RDI