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Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures
Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Sadallah +377
To date, there exist almost no culturally-specific evaluation benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) that cover a large number of languages and cultures. In this paper, we pre…
Data Augmentation for Maltese NLP using Transliterated and Machine Translated Arabic Data
Kurt Micallef, Nizar Habash, Claudia Borg
Maltese is a unique Semitic language that has evolved under extensive influence from Romance and Germanic languages, particularly Italian and English. Despite its Semitic roots, it…
AraHealthQA 2025: The First Shared Task on Arabic Health Question Answering
Hassan Alhuzali, Walid Al-Eisawi, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed +9
We introduce AraHealthQA 2025, the Comprehensive Arabic Health Question Answering Shared Task, held in conjunction with ArabicNLP 2025 (co-located with EMNLP 2025). This shared tas…
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…
The Arabic Generality Score: Another Dimension of Modeling Arabic Dialectness
Sanad Shaban, Nizar Habash
Arabic dialects form a diverse continuum, yet NLP models often treat them as discrete categories. Recent work addresses this issue by modeling dialectness as a continuous variable,…
A Tale of Two Scripts: Transliteration and Post-Correction for Judeo-Arabic
Juan Moreno Gonzalez, Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash
Judeo-Arabic refers to Arabic variants historically spoken by Jewish communities across the Arab world, primarily during the Middle Ages. Unlike standard Arabic, it is written in H…
Lemmatization as a Classification Task: Results from Arabic across Multiple Genres
Mostafa Saeed, Nizar Habash
Lemmatization is crucial for NLP tasks in morphologically rich languages with ambiguous orthography like Arabic, but existing tools face challenges due to inconsistent standards an…
Proper Noun Diacritization for Arabic Wikipedia: A Benchmark Dataset
Rawan Bondok, Mayar Nassar, Salam Khalifa +2
Proper nouns in Arabic Wikipedia are frequently undiacritized, creating ambiguity in pronunciation and interpretation, especially for transliterated named entities of foreign origi…
MedArabiQ: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Arabic Medical Tasks
Mouath Abu Daoud, Chaimae Abouzahir, Leen Kharouf +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant promise for various applications in healthcare. However, their efficacy in the Arabic medical domain remains unexplored d…
ARWI: Arabic Write and Improve
Kirill Chirkunov, Bashar Alhafni, Chatrine Qwaider +2
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 he…
The Impact of Code-switched Synthetic Data Quality is Task Dependent: Insights from MT and ASR
Injy Hamed, Ngoc Thang Vu, Nizar Habash
Code-switching, the act of alternating between languages, emerged as a prevalent global phenomenon that needs to be addressed for building user-friendly language technologies. A ma…
Enhancing Arabic Automated Essay Scoring with Synthetic Data and Error Injection
Chatrine Qwaider, Bashar Alhafni, Kirill Chirkunov +2
Automated Essay Scoring (AES) plays a crucial role in assessing language learners' writing quality, reducing grading workload, and providing real-time feedback. The lack of annotat…
Enhancing Text Editing for Grammatical Error Correction: Arabic as a Case Study
Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash
Text editing frames grammatical error correction (GEC) as a sequence tagging problem, where edit tags are assigned to input tokens, and applying these edits results in the correcte…
A Survey of Code-switched Arabic NLP: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions
Injy Hamed, Caroline Sabty, Slim Abdennadher +3
Language in the Arab world presents a complex diglossic and multilingual setting, involving the use of Modern Standard Arabic, various dialects and sub-dialects, as well as multipl…