Arabic Dialects

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  1. alkhder at AlexandriaX-2026: Context-Aware English-to-Dialectal Arabic Dialogue Translation with QLoRA-Fine-Tuned NileChat-3B

    Oct 15, 2026Hasan Alkhder, Maher Pasa, Maria Hanini +2Machine TranslationContext-Aware MT

    Sakarya University, Türkiye · Altınbaş University, Türkiye · Imperial College London +1

  2. Does Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Dominate Arabic Dialects in LLMs? A Representation-Level Analysis

    Oct 8, 2026Abdu Sallouh, Nicholas Popovič, Michael FärberArabic NLPDialect Bias in Language Models

    Technical University of Dresden · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · ScaDS.AI, TU Dresden

  3. DialectSentEval 2026: Arabic Dialect Sentiment Analysis and Swapping Shared Task

    Oct 5, 2026Saad Ezzini, Shadi Abudalfa, Maram Alharbi +6Arabic NLPSentiment Analysis

    King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA · Onaizah Colleges, KSA · University College of Applied Sciences, Palestine +5

  4. SHAMS: An Audio-Grounded Pronunciation Benchmark for Levantine Arabic

    Oct 1, 2026Ben Sapirstein, Roy Mattar, Guy Mor-Lan +3ASR EvaluationArabic NLP

    Reichman University · Independent Researcher · The Hebrew University of Jerusalem +2

  5. BARRAC: Adaptation of an English Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Approach for Classification Tasks in Arabic Dialects

    Sep 30, 2026Ali Almutairi, Gelareh Mohammadi, Imran Razzak +1Arabic NLPSentiment Analysis

    University of New South Wales, Australia · MBZUAI, UAE

  6. Almieyar: A Culturally Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Dialect Arabic Speech Recognition

    Sep 28, 2026Omid Ghahroodi, Anas Madkoor, Dima Faris Al Saudi +37ASR EvaluationArabic NLP

    QCRI, HBKU · Qatar University · UDST +15

  7. CARDAMOM: A Micro-Dialectal Arabic Speech Dataset for ASR

    Sep 28, 2026Bashar Talafha, Samar M. Magdy, Aisha Alansari +36ASR EvaluationArabic NLP

    The University of British Columbia · King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals · Al al-Bayt University +13

  8. NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task

    Sep 22, 2026Peter Sullivan, Bashar Talafha, Ahmed Ashraf +11ASR EvaluationSpoken Language Understanding

    The University of British Columbia · King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals · Avignon Université +4

  9. Some Dialects Are More Equal Than Others: Non-Prestigious Arabic Dialectal Bias in LLMs

    Sep 21, 2026Mai Mohamed Eida, Ryan Dolan, Paul de Nijs +1Arabic NLPSocial Bias in Language Models

    University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  10. AlexandriaX 2026: The First Shared Task on Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation

    Sep 19, 2026Abdellah El Mekki, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Samar M. Magdy +6Context-Aware MTMachine Translation

    The University of British Columbia · King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals · Lancaster University +4

  11. Mizan: A National Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on Iraqi Arabic and the Iraqi Civic Context

    Sep 12, 2026Nawar S. Alseelawi, Mustafa S. AljumailyLLM EvaluationArabic NLP

    University of Misan, Amarah, Iraq · Missan Oil Company, Amarah, Iraq

  12. Rosetta at AlexandriaX-2026: LoRA-Adapted NileChat for Context-Aware Dialectal Arabic Dialogue Translation

    Sep 9, 2026Nada Esmaeil, Fathima Rena, Sibi Subhash +4Arabic NLPLow-Resource MT

    Tanta University, Egypt · Alliance University, India · Robusta Studio, Egypt +2

  13. EDRAC: Benchmarking Arabic Dialect Reading Comprehension

    Sep 1, 2026Noor Abo Mokh, Kirill Chirkunov, Teresa Lynn +15LLM EvaluationArabic NLP

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · New York University Abu Dhabi · IBM Research AI +1

  14. Beyond Fluency: A Rubric-Based Benchmark for Evaluating Saudi Dialect and Cultural Competence in Large Language Models

    Aug 30, 2026Ghassan Al-Sumaidaee, Sajjad Abdoli, Ahmed Rashad +1Multilingual Language Model EvaluationLLM Evaluation

    1Perle

  15. Bulbul: A Dataset for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition

    Aug 22, 2026Ahmed Ashraf, Aisha Alansari, Fadel Al Abbas +30Automatic Speech RecognitionArabic Dialects

    KFUPM · Taibah University · UBC +9

  16. Romanized Arabic Across Dialects: Views, Usage Patterns, and Linguistic Variation

    Aug 3, 2026Amr Keleg, Ahmed Amine Ben Abdallah, Taha Yassine +3Arabic NLPArabic Dialects

    MBZUAI · Cedar Rose · Independent Researcher +3

  17. ArabicDialectSafety: A Dialect-Aware Benchmark for Arabic Content Safety Classification

    Aug 2, 2026Wajdi Zaghouani, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Kholoud Khalil Aldous +1LLM Safety BenchmarksArabic NLP

    Northwestern University in Qatar, Qatar · Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar

  18. Learning the Arabic Dialect Continuum as a Continuous Space: A Regression Approach to Speaker Origin Prediction

    Jul 22, 2026Mohamed Aziz Khadraoui, Adel Ammar, Bilel Benjdira +3Arabic NLPArabic Dialects

    Higher School of Communication of Tunis (SUP’COM), Tunisia · Robotics and Internet of Things Laboratory, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  19. Can Dialects Be Steered Like Languages? Sparse Neurons and Distributed Directions in Arabic LLMs

    Jul 4, 2026Kareem Elozeiri, Mervat Abassy, Omar Kallas +4Arabic NLPLLM Interpretability

    1Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · 2Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University · 3Tohoku University +1

  20. The Generator-Eraser Paradox: Community Guidelines for Responsible LLM-Assisted Dialect Resource Creation

    Jun 4, 2026Wajdi ZaghouaniCultural Bias in Language ModelsLow-Resource Language Processing

    Northwestern University in Qatar

  21. Linear Semantic Segmentation for Low-Resource Spoken Dialects

    May 7, 2026Kirill Chirkunov, Younes Samih, Abed Alhakim Freihat +1Arabic NLPSpeech Processing

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · IBM Research AI

  22. Cultural Benchmarking of LLMs in Standard and Dialectal Arabic Dialogues

    Apr 30, 2026Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Saeed Almheiri, Momina Ahsan +13Low-Resource Language ProcessingArabic NLP

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · IBM Research AI · American University in the Emirates

  23. Context-Aware Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation with Interactive Region and Register Selection

    Apr 7, 2026Afroza Nowshin, Prithweeraj Acharjee Porag, Haziq Jeelani +1Machine TranslationArabic NLP

    University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio · Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

  24. Ara-Best-RQ: Multi Dialectal Arabic SSL

    Mar 23, 2026Haroun Elleuch, Ryan Whetten, Salima Mdhaffar +2Arabic DialectsSpeech Processing

    ELYADATA, Paris, France · Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon, Avignon Université, Avignon, France

  25. Tarab: A Multi-Dialect Corpus of Arabic Lyrics and Poetry

    Mar 17, 2026Mo El-HajArabic DialectsArabic NLP

    College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity

  26. Ramsa: A Large Sociolinguistically Rich Emirati Arabic Speech Corpus for ASR and TTS

    Mar 9, 2026Rania Al-SabbaghSpeech Corpus ConstructionArabic NLP

    Department of Foreign Languages, University of Sharjah, UAE

  27. Aladdin-FTI @ AMIYA Three Wishes for Arabic NLP: Fidelity, Diglossia, and Multidialectal Generation

    Feb 18, 2026Jonathan Mutal, Perla Al Almaoui, Simon Hengchen +1Arabic NLPArabic Dialects

    Faculté de traduction et d’interprétation, Université de Genève

  28. LLM-to-Speech: A Synthetic Data Pipeline for Training Dialectal Text-to-Speech Models

    Feb 17, 2026Ahmed Khaled Khamis, Hesham AliTTS SynthesisLow-Resource TTS Synthesis

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Nile University

  29. SalamahBench: Dialect and Category Level Safety Evaluation of Arabic Language Models

    Feb 3, 2026Omar Abdelnasser, Fatemah Alharbi, Khaled Khasawneh +2LLM Safety BenchmarksMultilingual Language Model Evaluation

    Compumacy for Artificial Intelligence Solutions, Cairo, Egypt · Computer Science Department, College of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah University, Yanbu 46522, KSA · Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, George Mason University, VA, USA +2