6 papers
Multilingual Idioms in Sentences and Conversations Across High-, Medium-, and Low-Resource Languages
Saeed Almheiri, Bilal Elbouardi, Salsabila Zahirah Pranida +16
Idiomatic expressions pose a major challenge for multilingual NLP because their meanings shift between figurative and literal usage, often requiring context for accurate interpreta…
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…
Same Claim, Different Judgment: Benchmarking Scenario-Induced Bias in Multilingual Financial Misinformation Detection
Zhiwei Liu, Yupen Cao, Yuechen Jiang +22
Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied across various domains of finance. Since their training data are largely derived from human-authored corpora, LLMs may inherit…
Role-Aware Language Models for Secure and Contextualized Access Control in Organizations
Saeed Almheiri, Yerulan Kongrat, Adrian Santosh +4
As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in enterprise settings, controlling model behavior based on user roles becomes an essential requirement. Existing safety m…
Cross-Cultural Transfer of Commonsense Reasoning in LLMs: Evidence from the Arab World
Saeed Almheiri, Rania Hossam, Mena Attia +4
Large language models (LLMs) often reflect Western-centric biases, limiting their effectiveness in diverse cultural contexts. Although some work has explored cultural alignment, th…
Commonsense Reasoning in Arab Culture
Abdelrahman Sadallah, Junior Cedric Tonga, Khalid Almubarak +7
Despite progress in Arabic large language models, such as Jais and AceGPT, their evaluation on commonsense reasoning has largely relied on machine-translated datasets, which lack c…