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EduAdapt: A Question Answer Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating Grade-Level Adaptability in LLMs
Numaan Naeem, Abdellah El Mekki, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Large language models (LLMs) are transforming education by answering questions, explaining complex concepts, and generating content across a wide range of subjects. Despite strong…
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…
A Benchmark Study of Contrastive Learning for Arabic Social Meaning
Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, AbdelRahim Elmadany +2
Contrastive learning (CL) brought significant progress to various NLP tasks. Despite this progress, CL has not been applied to Arabic NLP to date. Nor is it clear how much benefits…
AfroLID: A Neural Language Identification Tool for African Languages
Ife Adebara, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed +1
Language identification (LID) is a crucial precursor for NLP, especially for mining web data. Problematically, most of the world's 7000+ languages today are not covered by LID tech…
Improving Neural Machine Translation of Indigenous Languages with Multilingual Transfer Learning
Wei-Rui Chen, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Machine translation (MT) involving Indigenous languages, including those possibly endangered, is challenging due to lack of sufficient parallel data. We describe an approach exploi…
Improving Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-Native English with Transfer Learning and Language Model Decoding
Peter Sullivan, Toshiko Shibano, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
ASR systems designed for native English (L1) usually underperform on non-native English (L2). To address this performance gap, \textbf{(i)} we extend our previous work to investiga…