ARWI : A rabic Write and Improve (2025)

Abstract: Although Arabic is spoken by over 400 million people, advanced Arabic writing assistance tools remain limited. To address this gap, we present ARWI, a new writing assistant that helps learners improve essay writing in Modern Standard Arabic. ARWI is the first publicly available Arabic writing assistant to include a prompt database for different proficiency levels, an Arabic text editor, state-of-the-art grammatical error detection and correction, and automated essay scoring aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference standards for language attainment (https://arwi.mbzuai.ac.ae/). Moreover, ARWI can be used to gather a growing auto-annotated corpus, facilitating further research on Arabic grammar correction and essay scoring, as well as profiling patterns of errors made by native speakers and non-native learners. A preliminary user study shows that ARWI provides actionable feedback, helping learners identify grammatical gaps, assess language proficiency, and guide improvement.

## introduction arabic is the national language of over 400 million people and one of the un's six official languages @xcite . yet, arabic writing assistance tools remain severely underdeveloped. unlike english, which has numerous competitive writing assistants and cefr-benchmarked grading systems @xcite , arabic tools are limited to a few commercial error-correction systems with no objective public evaluation. enhanced writing assistants could benefit millions of arabic writers and aid corpus collection, advancing arabic nlp. the development of arabic writing assistants faces major challenges, with one of the most significant being the lack of a diverse arabic corpus that captures the wide range of writing variations, 1 https://arwi.mbzuai.ac.ae/ including grammatical errors made by both native speakers and second language learners. having such a comprehensive corpus would enable the creation of writing assistants that not only provide accurate error detection and correction suggestions but also motivate learners to continuously enhance their arabic writing skills. additionally, these assistants would contribute to ongoing data collection while actively supporting users in refining their writing abilities. in response to these challenges, we introduce arwi, a writing assistant tool specifically designed to help msa writers improve their essay-writing skills. arwi features an intuitive interface and user experience based on the following core components: section 2 presents related work; and section 3 presents a description of the arwi system. we discuss a preliminary user experiment in section 4, and our conclusions and outlook in section 5. ## preliminary user experiment our goal is to determine if arwi's feedback leads to measurable improvements in text quality such as reduction in grammatical errors or increased cefr scores, and whether users find the ui/ux intuitive. ## conclusions and outlook by integrating a collection of essay prompts, a text editor, grammar error detection, correction suggestions, and automated essay scoring modules, arwi provides targeted, iterative, actionable feedback that allows users to improve their writing and see improvements in their writing quality over time. we make arwi publicly available at: https://arwi.mbzuai.ac.ae/ . our preliminary experiment suggests the system is useful, but improvements are needed to the ui, a more fine-grained representation of progress would be useful, and more intuitive error correction hints are needed. we intend to incrementally improve the system based on further user experimentation, feedback, and analytics.