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12 papers

cs.CL2026

Alexandria: A Multi-Domain Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation Dataset for Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse LLMs

Abdellah El Mekki, Samar M. Magdy, Houdaifa Atou +44

Arabic is a highly diglossic language where most daily communication occurs in regional dialects rather than Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Despite this, machine translation (MT) sy…

cs.CL2026

ASCAT: An Arabic Scientific Corpus and Benchmark for Advanced Translation Evaluation

Serry Sibaee, Khloud Al Jallad, Zineb Yousfi +4

We present ASCAT (Arabic Scientific Corpus for Advanced Translation), a high-quality English-Arabic parallel benchmark corpus designed for scientific translation evaluation constru…

cs.CL2026

MURAD: A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Unified Reverse Arabic Dictionary Dataset

Serry Sibaee, Yasser Alhabashi, Nadia Sibai +4

Arabic is a linguistically and culturally rich language with a vast vocabulary that spans scientific, religious, and literary domains. Yet, large-scale lexical datasets linking Ara…

cs.AI2026

The Path Ahead for Agentic AI: Challenges and Opportunities

Nadia Sibai, Yara Ahmed, Serry Sibaee +3

The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) from passive text generators to autonomous, goal-driven systems represents a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence. This chapte…

cs.CL2026

ARCADE: A City-Scale Corpus for Fine-Grained Arabic Dialect Tagging

Omer Nacar, Serry Sibaee, Adel Ammar +12

The Arabic language is characterized by a rich tapestry of regional dialects that differ substantially in phonetics and lexicon, reflecting the geographic and cultural diversity of…

cs.CL2025

Pearl: A Multimodal Culturally-Aware Arabic Instruction Dataset

Fakhraddin Alwajih, Samar M. Magdy, Abdellah El Mekki +34

Mainstream large vision-language models (LVLMs) inherently encode cultural biases, highlighting the need for diverse multimodal datasets. To address this gap, we introduce PEARL, a…