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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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
NADI 2025: The First Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task
Bashar Talafha, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Peter Sullivan +9
We present the findings of the sixth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI 2025) Shared Task, which focused on Arabic speech dialect processing across three subtasks: spoken…
Voice of a Continent: Mapping Africa's Speech Technology Frontier
AbdelRahim Elmadany, Sang Yun Kwon, Hawau Olamide Toyin +3
Africa's rich linguistic diversity remains significantly underrepresented in speech technologies, creating barriers to digital inclusion. To alleviate this challenge, we systematic…
Where Are We? Evaluating LLM Performance on African Languages
Ife Adebara, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Nahom Tesfu Ghebremichael +2
Africa's rich linguistic heritage remains underrepresented in NLP, largely due to historical policies that favor foreign languages and create significant data inequities. In this p…
Toucan: Many-to-Many Translation for 150 African Language Pairs
AbdelRahim Elmadany, Ife Adebara, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
We address a notable gap in Natural Language Processing (NLP) by introducing a collection of resources designed to improve Machine Translation (MT) for low-resource languages, with…
NADI 2024: The Fifth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Amr Keleg, AbdelRahim Elmadany +5
We describe the findings of the fifth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task (NADI 2024). NADI's objective is to help advance SoTA Arabic NLP by providing guidance, data…
Synthetic Data Generation and Joint Learning for Robust Code-Mixed Translation
Kartik Kartik, Sanjana Soni, Anoop Kunchukuttan +2
The widespread online communication in a modern multilingual world has provided opportunities to blend more than one language (aka code-mixed language) in a single utterance. This…
Cheetah: Natural Language Generation for 517 African Languages
Ife Adebara, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Low-resource African languages pose unique challenges for natural language processing (NLP) tasks, including natural language generation (NLG). In this paper, we develop Cheetah, a…
NADI 2023: The Fourth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task
Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Chiyu Zhang +3
We describe the findings of the fourth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task (NADI 2023). The objective of NADI is to help advance state-of-the-art Arabic NLP by creati…