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most citedNavigating Dialectal Bias and Ethical Complexities in Levantine Arabic Hate Speech Detection

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cs.CL2026

ADAGE: A Language-Agnostic Pipeline for Analogical Reasoning Evaluation

Ahmed Haj Ahmed, Alvin Grissom

Multilingual reasoning evaluation overwhelmingly relies on translating English benchmarks, a practice that introduces linguistic artifacts and fails to test culturally-grounded rea…

cs.CL2026

Disentangling Linguistic Relatedness from Task Alignment in Cross-Lingual Transfer

Ahmed Haj Ahmed, Ruochen Zhang, Alvin Grissom

We study cross-lingual transfer by fine-tuning seven large language models (4B--671B parameters) on Arabic and evaluating zero-shot reading comprehension on Semitic languages and n…

cs.CL2026

AUDITA: A New Dataset to Audit Humans vs. AI Skill at Audio QA

Tasnim Kabir, Dmytro Kurdydyk, Aadi Palnitkar +3

Existing audio question answering benchmarks largely emphasize sound event classification or caption-grounded queries, often enabling models to succeed through shortcut strategies,…

cs.AI2026

DW-Bench: Benchmarking LLMs on Data Warehouse Graph Topology Reasoning

Ahmed G. A. H Ahmed, C. Okan Sakar

This paper introduces DW-Bench, a new benchmark that evaluates large language models (LLMs) on graph-topology reasoning over data warehouse schemas, explicitly integrating both for…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

CULEMO: Cultural Lenses on Emotion -- Benchmarking LLMs for Cross-Cultural Emotion Understanding

Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ahmed Haj Ahmed, Alvin Grissom +4

NLP research has increasingly focused on subjective tasks such as emotion analysis. However, existing emotion benchmarks suffer from two major shortcomings: (1) they largely rely o…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Navigating Dialectal Bias and Ethical Complexities in Levantine Arabic Hate Speech Detection

Ahmed Haj Ahmed, Rui-Jie Yew, Xerxes Minocher +1

Social media platforms have become central to global communication, yet they also facilitate the spread of hate speech. For underrepresented dialects like Levantine Arabic, detecti…