13 papers
Learning the Arabic Dialect Continuum as a Continuous Space: A Regression Approach to Speaker Origin Prediction
Mohamed Aziz Khadraoui, Adel Ammar, Bilel Benjdira +3
We present a regression-based approach to Arabic dialect geolocation that models dialectal variation as a continuous geographic space rather than discrete categories. Speaker origi…
Trust-SSL: Additive-Residual Selective Invariance for Robust Aerial Self-Supervised Learning
Wadii Boulila, Adel Ammar, Bilel Benjdira +1
Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a standard approach for representation learning in aerial imagery. Existing methods enforce invariance between augmented views, which works well w…
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…
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…
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…
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…