6 papers
ArFake: A Robust Framework for Multi-Dialect Arabic Speech Spoofing Detection Benchmark
Mohamed Elsetohy, Alhassan Ehab, Ali Mekky +2
With the rise of generative text-to-speech models, distinguishing between real and synthetic speech has become challenging, especially for Arabic that have received limited researc…
Multilingual Idioms in Sentences and Conversations Across High-, Medium-, and Low-Resource Languages
Saeed Almheiri, Bilal Elbouardi, Salsabila Zahirah Pranida +16
Idiomatic expressions pose a major challenge for multilingual NLP because their meanings shift between figurative and literal usage, often requiring context for accurate interpreta…
Beyond Memorization: Extending Reasoning Depth with Recurrence, Memory and Test-Time Compute Scaling
Ivan Rodkin, Daniil Orel, Konstantin Smirnov +9
Reasoning is a core capability of large language models, yet how multi-step reasoning is learned and executed remains unclear. We study this question in a controlled cellular-autom…
EmoAra: Emotion-Preserving English Speech Transcription and Cross-Lingual Translation with Arabic Text-to-Speech
Besher Hassan, Ibrahim Alsarraj, Musaab Hasan +3
This work presents EmoAra, an end-to-end emotion-preserving pipeline for cross-lingual spoken communication, motivated by banking customer service where emotional context affects s…
PedagoSense: A Pedology Grounded LLM System for Pedagogical Strategy Detection and Contextual Response Generation in Learning Dialogues
Shahem Sultan, Shahem Fadi, Yousef Melhim +2
This paper addresses the challenge of improving interaction quality in dialogue based learning by detecting and recommending effective pedagogical strategies in tutor student conve…
GRASP LoRA: GRPO Guided Adapter Sparsity Policy for Cross Lingual Transfer
Besher Hassan, Xiuying Chen
Parameter efficient fine tuning is a way to adapt LLMs to new languages when compute or data are limited, yet adapter pipelines usually choose a global prune ratio by grid search.…