TypeError: 'ArabertPreprocessor' object is not callable

[kareemamrr]

I'm trying to run a piece of code from a Hugging Face project, the code is

from transformers import ElectraForQuestionAnswering, ElectraForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer, pipeline
from preprocess import ArabertPreprocessor
prep_object = ArabertPreprocessor("araelectra-base-discriminator")
question = prep_object('ما هي جامعة الدول العربية ؟')

However I'm always faced with the error ArabertPreProcessor object not callable. After checking the lib's README I tried prep_object.preprocess(text) and it runs but the resulting text is unchanged. Does anyone know what the problem might be?

[WissamAntoun]

Hey, yes because that sentence in particular doesn't require any changes. Try

جامِعَةُ سَلْجُوق تَدَرِّسُ مَوقع الجزيرة لتعلم العربية(https://learning.aljazeera.net/ar/node/19482)

The output should be:

جامعة سلجوق تدرس موقع الجزيرة لتعلم العربية ( [رابط] )

I also noticed that you are cloning the repository then importing it should be easier to just pip install arabert then from arabert import ArabertPreprocessor

[kareemamrr]

Thanks for your reply, so there is no directly calling the ArabertPreprocessor object, only using the .preprocess method.

[WissamAntoun]

@kareemamrr yes there is no other way. it's only the preprocess