3 papers
cs.CL2026
Fanar 2.0: Arabic Generative AI Stack
FANAR TEAM, Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad +34
We present Fanar 2.0, the second generation of Qatar's Arabic-centric Generative AI platform. Sovereignty is a first-class design principle: every component, from data pipelines to…
cs.IR2026
HCT-QA: A Benchmark for Question Answering on Human-Centric Tables
Mohammad S. Ahmad, Zan A. Naeem, Michaël Aupetit +6
Tabular data embedded in PDF files, web pages, and other types of documents is prevalent in various domains. These tables, which we call human-centric tables (HCTs for short), are…
cs.CL2025
Fanar: An Arabic-Centric Multimodal Generative AI Platform
Fanar Team, Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad +39
We present Fanar, a platform for Arabic-centric multimodal generative AI systems, that supports language, speech and image generation tasks. At the heart of Fanar are Fanar Star an…