6 papers
Linear Semantic Segmentation for Low-Resource Spoken Dialects
Kirill Chirkunov, Younes Samih, Abed Alhakim Freihat +1
Semantic segmentation is a core component of discourse analysis, yet existing models are primarily developed and evaluated on high-resource written text, limiting their effectivene…
SemEval-2026 Task 7: Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages and Cultures
Nedjma Ousidhoum, Junho Myung, Carla Perez-Almendros +27
We present our shared task on evaluating the adaptability of LLMs and NLP systems across multiple languages and cultures. The task data consist of an extended version of our manual…
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…
DialectalArabicMMLU: Benchmarking Dialectal Capabilities in Arabic and Multilingual Language Models
Malik H. Altakrori, Nizar Habash, Abed Alhakim Freihat +7
We present DialectalArabicMMLU, a new benchmark for evaluating the performance of large language models (LLMs) across Arabic dialects. While recently developed Arabic and multiling…
From Multiple-Choice to Extractive QA: A Case Study for English and Arabic
Teresa Lynn, Malik H. Altakrori, Samar Mohamed Magdy +11
The rapid evolution of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has favoured major languages such as English, leaving a significant gap for many others due to limited resources. This is e…
Large Language Models as Code Executors: An Exploratory Study
Chenyang Lyu, Lecheng Yan, Rui Xing +4
The capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly evolved, extending from natural language processing to complex tasks like code understanding and generation. We…