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most citedCritical Survey of the Freely Available Arabic Corpora

86 citations · 166 across the 44 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2026

ArGuard Shared Task: Harmful Content Detection in Arabic Memes and LLM Prompts

Firoj Alam, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi +5

ArGuard is a shared task on harmful content detection in Arabic memes and LLM prompts. It includes two tracks: Track A focuses on multimodal hate detection in Arabic memes, while T…

cs.CL2026

ArabicDialectSafety: A Dialect-Aware Benchmark for Arabic Content Safety Classification

Wajdi Zaghouani, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Kholoud Khalil Aldous +1

We present ArabicDialectSafety, a human-curated Arabic safety dataset of 25,071 prompts covering six Arabic varieties: Modern Standard Arabic, Syrian, Egyptian, Algerian, Palestini…

cs.CV2026

When Do VLMs Help Arabic Manuscript OCR? A Cross-Dataset Study

Moshiur Farazi, Firoj Alam, Abderrahmane Maaradji +3

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly being used for document understanding, yet their role in Arabic and Islamic manuscript recognition remains underexplored. To address…

cs.CL2026

AHA-Memes: A Fine-Grained Multimodal Benchmark for Understanding Hate in Arabic Memes

Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Abul Hasnat +3

Hateful memes are a growing form of multimodal online harm, where hostile intent is often conveyed through the joint interpretation of images, text, cultural references, and implic…

cs.CL2026

StanceNakba Shared Task: Actor and Topic-Aware Stance Detection in Public Discourse

Kholoud K. Aldous, Md Rafiul Biswas, Mabrouka Bessghaier +3

We present StanceNakba 2026, a shared task on stance detection in polarized social media discourse related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, organized as part of Nakba-NLP 2026…

cs.CL2026

The Generator-Eraser Paradox: Community Guidelines for Responsible LLM-Assisted Dialect Resource Creation

Wajdi Zaghouani

Dialect resources occupy a unique position at the intersection of scientific description, cultural preservation, and computational infrastructure. Large language models offer power…