6 papers
CARDAMOM: A Micro-Dialectal Arabic Speech Dataset for ASR
Bashar Talafha, Samar M. Magdy, Aisha Alansari +36
We present Cardamom, a micro-dialectal Arabic speech dataset designed to support fine-grained evaluation and adaptation of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Community-cur…
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…
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…
The FIGNEWS Shared Task on News Media Narratives
Wajdi Zaghouani, Mustafa Jarrar, Nizar Habash +5
We present an overview of the FIGNEWS shared task, organized as part of the ArabicNLP 2024 conference co-located with ACL 2024. The shared task addresses bias and propaganda annota…
Sina at FigNews 2024: Multilingual Datasets Annotated with Bias and Propaganda
Lina Duaibes, Areej Jaber, Mustafa Jarrar +2
The proliferation of bias and propaganda on social media is an increasingly significant concern, leading to the development of techniques for automatic detection. This article pres…