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most citedNADI 2024: The Fifth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task

2 citations · 4 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2026

Romanized Arabic Across Dialects: Views, Usage Patterns, and Linguistic Variation

Amr Keleg, Ahmed Amine Ben Abdallah, Taha Yassine +3

Arabizi refers to Arabic written in Latin script. Although previous studies have shown that the prevalence and usage of Arabizi vary by factors such as region and age group, most N…

cs.CL2026

Constrained CTC Decoding for Efficient Diacritic Restoration

Rufael Marew, Amr Keleg, Hanan Aldarmaki

In this work, we address diacritic restoration for Arabic speech transcripts. Most speech data are undiacritized, limiting the ability of modeling fine-grained phonological distinc…

cs.CL2026

Curriculum Learning and Pseudo-Labeling Improve the Generalization of Multi-Label Arabic Dialect Identification Models

Ali Mekky, Mohamed El Zeftawy, Lara Hassan +2

Being modeled as a single-label classification task for a long time, recent work has argued that Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI) should be framed as a multi-label classificatio…

cs.CL2026

CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data

Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Laurie Burchell, Catherine Arnett +94

Language identification (LID) is a fundamental step in curating multilingual corpora. However, LID models still perform poorly for many languages, especially on the noisy and heter…

cs.CL2025

Revisiting Common Assumptions about Arabic Dialects in NLP

Amr Keleg, Sharon Goldwater, Walid Magdy

Arabic has diverse dialects, where one dialect can be substantially different from the others. In the NLP literature, some assumptions about these dialects are widely adopted (e.g.…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

LLM Alignment for the Arabs: A Homogenous Culture or Diverse Ones?

Amr Keleg

Large language models (LLMs) have the potential of being useful tools that can automate tasks and assist humans. However, these models are more fluent in English and more aligned w…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

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…

cs.CL2024

Estimating the Level of Dialectness Predicts Interannotator Agreement in Multi-dialect Arabic Datasets

Amr Keleg, Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater

On annotating multi-dialect Arabic datasets, it is common to randomly assign the samples across a pool of native Arabic speakers. Recent analyses recommended routing dialectal samp…

cs.CL2023

ALDi: Quantifying the Arabic Level of Dialectness of Text

Amr Keleg, Sharon Goldwater, Walid Magdy

Transcribed speech and user-generated text in Arabic typically contain a mixture of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the standardized language taught in schools, and Dialectal Arabic…

cs.CL2023

Arabic Dialect Identification under Scrutiny: Limitations of Single-label Classification

Amr Keleg, Walid Magdy

Automatic Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI) of text has gained great popularity since it was introduced in the early 2010s. Multiple datasets were developed, and yearly shared ta…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

DLAMA: A Framework for Curating Culturally Diverse Facts for Probing the Knowledge of Pretrained Language Models

Amr Keleg, Walid Magdy

A few benchmarking datasets have been released to evaluate the factual knowledge of pretrained language models. These benchmarks (e.g., LAMA, and ParaRel) are mainly developed in E…