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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…