4 papers
VideoAtlas: Navigating Long-Form Video in Logarithmic Compute
Mohamed Eltahir, Ali Habibullah, Yazan Alshoibi +3
Extending language models to video introduces two challenges: representation, where existing methods rely on lossy approximations, and long-context, where caption- or agent-based p…
Vote-in-Context: Turning VLMs into Zero-Shot Rank Fusers
Mohamed Eltahir, Ali Habibullah, Lama Ayash +2
In the retrieval domain, candidates' fusion from heterogeneous retrievers is a long-standing challenge, particularly for complex, multi-modal data such as videos. While typical fus…
AraHealthQA 2025: The First Shared Task on Arabic Health Question Answering
Hassan Alhuzali, Walid Al-Eisawi, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed +9
We introduce AraHealthQA 2025, the Comprehensive Arabic Health Question Answering Shared Task, held in conjunction with ArabicNLP 2025 (co-located with EMNLP 2025). This shared tas…
SaudiCulture: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models Cultural Competence within Saudi Arabia
Lama Ayash, Hassan Alhuzali, Ashwag Alasmari +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language processing; however, they often struggle to accurately capture and reflect cultural nuanc…