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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…
AHA-Memes: A Fine-Grained Multimodal Benchmark for Understanding Hate in Arabic Memes
Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Abul Hasnat +3
The paper presents AHA-Memes, a large-scale Arabic hateful meme dataset with fine-grained, multi‑label annotations, and provides baseline evaluations of text, image, and multimodal…
SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual, Multicultural and Multievent Online Polarization
Usman Naseem, Robert Geislinger, Juan Ren +31
We present SemEval-2026 Task 9, a shared task on online polarization detection, covering 22 languages and comprising over 110K annotated instances. Each data instance is multi-labe…
MARSAD: A Multi-Functional Tool for Real-Time Social Media Analysis
Md. Rafiul Biswas, Firoj Alam, Wajdi Zaghouani
MARSAD is a multifunctional natural language processing (NLP) platform designed for real-time social media monitoring and analysis, with a particular focus on the Arabic-speaking w…