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most citedCasablanca: Data and Models for Multidialectal Arabic Speech Recognition

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cs.AI2026

LeGo-Code: Can Modular Curriculum Learning Advance Complex Code Generation? Insights from Text-to-SQL

Salmane Chafik, Saad Ezzini, Ismail Berrada

Recently, code-oriented large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in translating natural language into executable code. Text-to-SQL is a significant applic…

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…

cs.CL2025

GemMaroc: Unlocking Darija Proficiency in LLMs with Minimal Data

Abderrahman Skiredj, Ferdaous Azhari, Houdaifa Atou +2

Open-source large language models (LLMs) still marginalise Moroccan Arabic (Darija), forcing practitioners either to bolt on heavyweight Arabic adapters or to sacrifice the very re…

cs.CL2025

Pearl: A Multimodal Culturally-Aware Arabic Instruction Dataset

Fakhraddin Alwajih, Samar M. Magdy, Abdellah El Mekki +34

Mainstream large vision-language models (LVLMs) inherently encode cultural biases, highlighting the need for diverse multimodal datasets. To address this gap, we introduce PEARL, a…

cs.CL2025

Palm: A Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse Dataset for Arabic LLMs

Fakhraddin Alwajih, Abdellah El Mekki, Samar Mohamed Magdy +41

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into daily life, ensuring their cultural sensitivity and inclusivity is paramount. We introduce our dataset, a year-l…

cs.LG2025

KoopAGRU: A Koopman-based Anomaly Detection in Time-Series using Gated Recurrent Units

Issam Ait Yahia, Ismail Berrada

Anomaly detection in real-world time-series data is a challenging task due to the complex and nonlinear temporal dynamics involved. This paper introduces KoopAGRU, a new deep learn…

cs.SE2025

Dialect2SQL: A Novel Text-to-SQL Dataset for Arabic Dialects with a Focus on Moroccan Darija

Salmane Chafik, Saad Ezzini, Ismail Berrada

The task of converting natural language questions (NLQs) into executable SQL queries, known as text-to-SQL, has gained significant interest in recent years, as it enables non-techn…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

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…

cs.CL2024

AraFinNLP 2024: The First Arabic Financial NLP Shared Task

Sanad Malaysha, Mo El-Haj, Saad Ezzini +5

The expanding financial markets of the Arab world require sophisticated Arabic NLP tools. To address this need within the banking domain, the Arabic Financial NLP (AraFinNLP) share…

cs.CL2024

DarijaBanking: A New Resource for Overcoming Language Barriers in Banking Intent Detection for Moroccan Arabic Speakers

Abderrahman Skiredj, Ferdaous Azhari, Ismail Berrada +1

Navigating the complexities of language diversity is a central challenge in developing robust natural language processing systems, especially in specialized domains like banking. T…

cs.CL2024

Arabic Text Diacritization In The Age Of Transfer Learning: Token Classification Is All You Need

Abderrahman Skiredj, Ismail Berrada

Automatic diacritization of Arabic text involves adding diacritical marks (diacritics) to the text. This task poses a significant challenge with noteworthy implications for computa…