5 papers
CultureTalk-ID: A Multi-Task Dialogue Benchmark for Cultural Commonsense in Indonesian Local Languages
Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Salsabila Pranida, Bilal Elbouardi +1
Culture is lived through conversation, yet existing Indonesian cultural commonsense benchmarks evaluate LLMs on short and isolated prompts, stripping away the dialogic context in w…
Multilingual Idioms in Sentences and Conversations Across High-, Medium-, and Low-Resource Languages
Saeed Almheiri, Bilal Elbouardi, Salsabila Zahirah Pranida +16
Idiomatic expressions pose a major challenge for multilingual NLP because their meanings shift between figurative and literal usage, often requiring context for accurate interpreta…
Beyond Memorization: Extending Reasoning Depth with Recurrence, Memory and Test-Time Compute Scaling
Ivan Rodkin, Daniil Orel, Konstantin Smirnov +9
Reasoning is a core capability of large language models, yet how multi-step reasoning is learned and executed remains unclear. We study this question in a controlled cellular-autom…
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…
ArabEmoNet: A Lightweight Hybrid 2D CNN-BiLSTM Model with Attention for Robust Arabic Speech Emotion Recognition
Ali Abouzeid, Bilal Elbouardi, Mohamed Maged +1
Speech emotion recognition is vital for human-computer interaction, particularly for low-resource languages like Arabic, which face challenges due to limited data and research. We…