3 papers
cs.CL2026
Romanized Arabic Across Dialects: Views, Usage Patterns, and Linguistic Variation
Amr Keleg, Ahmed Amine Ben Abdallah, Taha Yassine +3
Arabizi refers to Arabic written in Latin script. Although previous studies have shown that the prevalence and usage of Arabizi vary by factors such as region and age group, most N…
cs.CL2026
Global PIQA: Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures
Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abdelrahman Sadallah +377
To date, there exist almost no culturally-specific evaluation benchmarks for large language models (LLMs) that cover a large number of languages and cultures. In this paper, we pre…
cs.CL2025
SmolKalam: Ensemble Quality-Filtered Translation at Scale for High Quality Arabic Post-Training Data
Sultan Alrashed, Chadi Helwe, Francesco Orabona
Although the community has tackled the acquisition of high-quality Arabic pretraining data, we still lack large-scale, multi-turn Arabic datasets that include reasoning and tool ca…