15 papers
Aslema at NADI 2026: Augmentation through Fewshot for SLU
Tajwaar Shafiq, Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Shammur Absar Chowdhury +1
We present Aslema, our system for NADI 2026 Shared Task 5, which consists of two subtasks: intent recognition and slot filling. We evaluate four omni LLMs in a zero-shot setting an…
Multi-Task Instruction Tuning via Data Scheduling for Low-Resource Arabic SpeechLLMs
Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury
Audio large language models (LLMs) enable unified speech understanding and generation, but adapting them to linguistically complex and dialect-rich settings such as Arabic-English…
WASIL: In-the-Wild Arabic Spoken Interactions with LLMs
Zien Sheikh Ali, Hamdy Mubarak, Soon-Gyo Jung +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) voice assistants are commonly built as cascaded Automatic Speech recognition (ASR) to LLM systems, where recognition errors can distort user intent. Di…
From RAG to Agentic RAG for Faithful Islamic Question Answering
Gagan Bhatia, Hamdy Mubarak, Mustafa Jarrar +8
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for Islamic question answering, where ungrounded responses may carry serious religious consequences. Yet standard MCQ/MRC-style e…
Fanar-Sadiq: A Multi-Agent Architecture for Grounded Islamic QA
Ummar Abbas, Mourad Ouzzani, Mohamed Y. Eltabakh +7
Large language models (LLMs) can answer religious knowledge queries fluently, yet they often hallucinate and misattribute sources, which is especially consequential in Islamic sett…
Multilingual and Multimodal LLMs in the Wild: Building for Low-Resource Languages
Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Enamul Hoque Prince
Multimodal LLMs are evolving from vision-language to tri-modality that see, hear, and read, yet pipelines and benchmarks remain English-centric and compute-heavy. The tutorial offe…