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most citedMuAViC: A Multilingual Audio-Visual Corpus for Robust Speech Recognition and Robust Speech-to-Text Translation

4 citations · 4 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2026

EDRAC: Benchmarking Arabic Dialect Reading Comprehension

Noor Abo Mokh, Kirill Chirkunov, Teresa Lynn +15

Dialectal Arabic (DA) remains under-resourced compared to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), particularly for machine reading comprehension (MRC) and question answering (QA). Existing A…

cs.CL2026

Jais 2: A Family of Arabic-Centric Open Large Language Models

Mohamed Anwar, Abed Alhakim Freihat, George Ibrahim +57

Jais 2 is a family of Arabic-centric large language models developed jointly by MBZUAI, Cerebras, and Inception, designed to advance Arabic-centric language modeling, with strong p…

cs.CL2026

Cultural Benchmarking of LLMs in Standard and Dialectal Arabic Dialogues

Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Saeed Almheiri, Momina Ahsan +13

There is a significant gap in evaluating cultural reasoning in LLMs using conversational datasets that capture culturally rich and dialectal contexts. Most Arabic benchmarks focus…

cs.CL2026

Instruction-Guided Poetry Generation in Arabic and Its Dialects

Abdelrahman Sadallah, Kareem Elozeiri, Mervat Abassy +5

Poetry has long been a central art form for Arabic speakers, serving as a powerful medium of expression and cultural identity. While modern Arabic speakers continue to value poetry…

cs.CL2025

BALSAM: A Platform for Benchmarking Arabic Large Language Models

Rawan Al-Matham, Kareem Darwish, Raghad Al-Rasheed +40

The impressive advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) in English has not been matched across all languages. In particular, LLM performance in Arabic lags behind, due to data s…

cs.CL2025

Nile-Chat: Egyptian Language Models for Arabic and Latin Scripts

Guokan Shang, Hadi Abdine, Ahmad Chamma +7

We introduce Nile-Chat-4B, 3x4B-A6B, and 12B, a collection of LLMs for Egyptian dialect, uniquely designed to understand and generate texts written in both Arabic and Latin scripts…

cs.SD2024

XLAVS-R: Cross-Lingual Audio-Visual Speech Representation Learning for Noise-Robust Speech Perception

HyoJung Han, Mohamed Anwar, Juan Pino +4

Speech recognition and translation systems perform poorly on noisy inputs, which are frequent in realistic environments. Augmenting these systems with visual signals has the potent…

cs.CL2023

The Effect of Alignment Objectives on Code-Switching Translation

Mohamed Anwar

One of the things that need to change when it comes to machine translation is the models' ability to translate code-switching content, especially with the rise of social media and…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

MuAViC: A Multilingual Audio-Visual Corpus for Robust Speech Recognition and Robust Speech-to-Text Translation

Mohamed Anwar, Bowen Shi, Vedanuj Goswami +3

We introduce MuAViC, a multilingual audio-visual corpus for robust speech recognition and robust speech-to-text translation providing 1200 hours of audio-visual speech in 9 languag…