11 papers
LatentMT: Machine Translation with Latent Reasoning
Wei-Rui Chen, Samar M. Magdy, Chiyu Zhang +3
Latent-reasoning looped language models (LoopLMs) offer a different scaling path for machine translation (MT): instead of increasing parameter count or emitting explicit chain-of-t…
LQM: Linguistically Motivated Multidimensional Quality Metrics for Machine Translation
Samar M. Magdy, Fakhraddin Alwajih, Abdellah El Mekki +2
Existing MT evaluation frameworks, including automatic metrics and human evaluation schemes such as Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM), are largely language-agnostic. However,…
Alexandria: A Multi-Domain Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation Dataset for Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse LLMs
Abdellah El Mekki, Samar M. Magdy, Houdaifa Atou +44
Arabic is a highly diglossic language where most daily communication occurs in regional dialects rather than Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Despite this, machine translation (MT) sy…
Are LLMs Good Text Diacritizers? An Arabic and Yoruba Case Study
Hawau Olamide Toyin, Samar Mohamed Magdy, Hanan Aldarmaki
We investigate the effectiveness of large language models (LLMs) for text diacritization in two typologically distinct languages: Arabic and Yoruba. To enable a rigorous evaluation…
Pearl: A Multimodal Culturally-Aware Arabic Instruction Dataset
Fakhraddin Alwajih, Samar M. Magdy, Abdellah El Mekki +34
Mainstream large vision-language models (LVLMs) inherently encode cultural biases, highlighting the need for diverse multimodal datasets. To address this gap, we introduce PEARL, a…
Palm: A Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse Dataset for Arabic LLMs
Fakhraddin Alwajih, Abdellah El Mekki, Samar Mohamed Magdy +41
As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into daily life, ensuring their cultural sensitivity and inclusivity is paramount. We introduce our dataset, a year-l…