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20202026
most citedMulti-Dialect Arabic BERT for Country-Level Dialect Identification

46 citations · 49 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2026

CARDAMOM: A Micro-Dialectal Arabic Speech Dataset for ASR

Bashar Talafha, Samar M. Magdy, Aisha Alansari +36

We present Cardamom, a micro-dialectal Arabic speech dataset designed to support fine-grained evaluation and adaptation of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Community-cur…

cs.CL2026

NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task

Peter Sullivan, Bashar Talafha, Ahmed Ashraf +11

NADI 2026 is the seventh edition of the Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI) shared task series and the second dedicated to multidialectal Arabic speech processing. This ed…

cs.CL2025

Zero-Shot Context-Aware ASR for Diverse Arabic Varieties

Bashar Talafha, Amin Abu Alhassan, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Zero-shot ASR for Arabic remains challenging: while multilingual models perform well on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), error rates rise sharply on dialectal and accented speech due…

cs.CL2025

CS-FLEURS: A Massively Multilingual and Code-Switched Speech Dataset

Brian Yan, Injy Hamed, Shuichiro Shimizu +24

We present CS-FLEURS, a new dataset for developing and evaluating code-switched speech recognition and translation systems beyond high-resourced languages. CS-FLEURS consists of 4…

cs.CL2025

NADI 2025: The First Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task

Bashar Talafha, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Peter Sullivan +9

We present the findings of the sixth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI 2025) Shared Task, which focused on Arabic speech dialect processing across three subtasks: spoken…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Casablanca: Data and Models for Multidialectal Arabic Speech Recognition

Bashar Talafha, Karima Kadaoui, Samar Mohamed Magdy +24

In spite of the recent progress in speech processing, the majority of world languages and dialects remain uncovered. This situation only furthers an already wide technological divi…