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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…
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…
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…
SHAMI-MT: A Syrian Arabic Dialect to Modern Standard Arabic Bidirectional Machine Translation System
Serry Sibaee, Omer Nacar, Yasser Al-Habashi +2
The rich linguistic landscape of the Arab world is characterized by a significant gap between Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the language of formal communication, and the diverse re…
From Guidelines to Practice: A New Paradigm for Arabic Language Model Evaluation
Serry Sibaee, Omer Nacar, Adel Ammar +3
This paper addresses critical gaps in Arabic language model evaluation by establishing comprehensive theoretical guidelines and introducing a novel evaluation framework. We first a…