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Bulbul: A Dataset for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
Ahmed Ashraf, Aisha Alansari, Fadel Al Abbas +30
Arabic automatic speech recognition (ASR) faces unique challenges due to diglossia, extensive regional dialect variation, and limited speech resources. Existing speech datasets oft…
LëtzCross: A Cross-Lingual Page-Level Benchmark for Multimodal Retrieval over Luxembourgish Documents
Omar El Bachyr, Fred Philippy, Laura Maria Bernardy +3
Recent page-image retrievers such as ColPali have improved retrieval over visually rich documents, yet little is known about how they behave in cross-lingual, low-resource settings…
Mawqif-XT: An Arabic Benchmark Dataset for Cross-Target Stance Detection
Rasha Albalawi, Nuha Albadi, Hamzah Luqman +4
Publicly available Arabic datasets for target-specific stance detection remain limited, particularly for evaluating cross-target generalization. This paper presents the Mawqif-XT,…
Empirical Evaluation of PDF Parsing and Chunking for Financial Question Answering with RAG
Omar El Bachyr, Yewei Song, Saad Ezzini +5
PDF files are primarily intended for human reading rather than automated processing. In addition, the heterogeneous content of PDFs, such as text, tables, and images, poses signifi…
AraReasoner: Evaluating Reasoning-Based LLMs for Arabic NLP
Ahmed Hasanaath, Aisha Alansari, Ahmed Ashraf +3
Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress in reasoning abilities and general natural language processing (NLP) tasks, yet their performance on Arabic data, charac…
AHaSIS: Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Dialects
Maram Alharbi, Salmane Chafik, Saad Ezzini +3
The hospitality industry in the Arab world increasingly relies on customer feedback to shape services, driving the need for advanced Arabic sentiment analysis tools. To address thi…