3 papers
cs.CL2026
A Parallel Multi-Dialect Arabic Dependency Treebank
Noor Abo Mokh, Mohamed Adel, Jamila El-Gizuli +3
Dependency parsing resource development for Arabic has largely focused on Modern Standard Arabic, leaving dialectal Arabic comparatively under-resourced. We introduce MADARTB, the…
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
When Similar Means Different: Evaluating LLMs on Arabic--Hebrew Cognates
Junhong Liang, Noor Abo Mokh, Bashar Alhafni
Arabic and Hebrew, as closely related Semitic languages, share many words with similar surface forms, including true cognates, false friends, and modern loanwords. These lexical re…