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Halluscoring 2026: The first shared task on llms hallucination detection and answer verification

Aisha Alansari, Abdessalam Bouchekif, Ahmed Hasanaath +9

We present HalluScoring 2026, a shared task for evaluating hallucination detection and factual verification in Arabic question answering under challenging generalization settings.…

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…

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AlexandriaX 2026: The First Shared Task on Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation

Abdellah El Mekki, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Samar M. Magdy +6

Dialectal Arabic machine translation (MT) remains challenging despite recent progress in Arabic language technologies, particularly because effective translation requires modeling…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.AI2026

MoCA-Agent: A Market-of-Claims Code Agent for Financial and Numerical Reasoning

Abdelrahman Abdallah, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Sameh Al Natour +3

Financial and tabular question answering requires more than fluent reasoning: answers must be grounded in the exact facts, formulas, units, signs, and scales that support them. A s…

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LQM: Linguistically Motivated Multidimensional Quality Metrics for Machine Translation

Samar M. Magdy, Fakhraddin Alwajih, Abdellah El Mekki +2

Existing MT evaluation frameworks, including automatic metrics and human evaluation schemes such as Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM), are largely language-agnostic. However,…

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Arab Voices: Mapping Standard and Dialectal Arabic Speech Technology

Peter Sullivan, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Alcides Alcoba Inciarte +1

Dialectal Arabic (DA) speech data vary widely in domain coverage, dialect labeling practices, and recording conditions, complicating cross-dataset comparison and model evaluation.…

cs.IR2026

TEMPO: A Realistic Multi-Domain Benchmark for Temporal Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval

Abdelrahman Abdallah, Mohammed Ali, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed +1

Existing temporal QA benchmarks focus on simple fact-seeking queries from news corpora, while reasoning-intensive retrieval benchmarks lack temporal grounding. However, real-world…

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AfroScope: A Framework for Studying the Linguistic Landscape of Africa

Sang Yun Kwon, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Language Identification (LID), the task of determining the language of a given text, is a fundamental preprocessing step that shapes the reliability of downstream NLP applications.…

cs.CL2026

Alexandria: A Multi-Domain Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation Dataset for Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse LLMs

Abdellah El Mekki, Samar M. Magdy, Houdaifa Atou +44

Arabic is a highly diglossic language where most daily communication occurs in regional dialects rather than Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Despite this, machine translation (MT) sy…