25 papers
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
Surfacing Subtle Stereotypes: A Multilingual, Debate-Oriented Evaluation of Modern LLMs
Muhammed Saeed, Muhammad Abdul-mageed, Shady Shehata
Large language models (LLMs) are widely deployed for open-ended communication, yet most bias evaluations still rely on English, classification-style tasks. We introduce \corpusname…
Beyond Content: How Grammatical Gender Shapes Visual Representation in Text-to-Image Models
Muhammed Saeed, Shaina Raza, Ashmal Vayani +3
Research on bias in Text-to-Image (T2I) models has primarily focused on demographic representation and stereotypical attributes, overlooking a fundamental question: how does gramma…