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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 Translation Context-Aware MT
Sakarya University, Türkiye · Altınbaş University, Türkiye · Imperial College London +1
Does Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Dominate Arabic Dialects in LLMs? A Representation-Level Analysis
Oct 8, 2026Abdu Sallouh, Nicholas Popovič, Michael FärberArabic NLP Dialect Bias in Language Models
Technical University of Dresden · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · ScaDS.AI, TU Dresden
DialectSentEval 2026: Arabic Dialect Sentiment Analysis and Swapping Shared Task
Oct 5, 2026Saad Ezzini, Shadi Abudalfa, Maram Alharbi +6Arabic NLP Sentiment Analysis
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA · Onaizah Colleges, KSA · University College of Applied Sciences, Palestine +5
SHAMS: An Audio-Grounded Pronunciation Benchmark for Levantine Arabic
Oct 1, 2026Ben Sapirstein, Roy Mattar, Guy Mor-Lan +3ASR Evaluation Arabic NLP
Reichman University · Independent Researcher · The Hebrew University of Jerusalem +2
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 NLP Sentiment Analysis
University of New South Wales, Australia · MBZUAI, UAE
Almieyar: A Culturally Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Dialect Arabic Speech Recognition
Sep 28, 2026Omid Ghahroodi, Anas Madkoor, Dima Faris Al Saudi +37ASR Evaluation Arabic NLP
QCRI, HBKU · Qatar University · UDST +15
CARDAMOM: A Micro-Dialectal Arabic Speech Dataset for ASR
Sep 28, 2026Bashar Talafha, Samar M. Magdy, Aisha Alansari +36ASR Evaluation Arabic NLP
The University of British Columbia · King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals · Al al-Bayt University +13
NADI 2026: The Second Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task
Sep 22, 2026Peter Sullivan, Bashar Talafha, Ahmed Ashraf +11ASR Evaluation Spoken Language Understanding
The University of British Columbia · King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals · Avignon Université +4
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 NLP Social Bias in Language Models
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
AlexandriaX 2026: The First Shared Task on Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation
Sep 19, 2026Abdellah El Mekki, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Samar M. Magdy +6Context-Aware MT Machine Translation
The University of British Columbia · King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals · Lancaster University +4
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 Evaluation Arabic NLP
University of Misan, Amarah, Iraq · Missan Oil Company, Amarah, Iraq
Rosetta at AlexandriaX-2026: LoRA-Adapted NileChat for Context-Aware Dialectal Arabic Dialogue Translation
Sep 9, 2026Nada Esmaeil, Fathima Rena, Sibi Subhash +4Arabic NLP Low-Resource MT
Tanta University, Egypt · Alliance University, India · Robusta Studio, Egypt +2
EDRAC: Benchmarking Arabic Dialect Reading Comprehension
Sep 1, 2026Noor Abo Mokh, Kirill Chirkunov, Teresa Lynn +15LLM Evaluation Arabic NLP
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · New York University Abu Dhabi · IBM Research AI +1
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 Evaluation LLM Evaluation
1Perle
Bulbul: A Dataset for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
Aug 22, 2026Ahmed Ashraf, Aisha Alansari, Fadel Al Abbas +30Automatic Speech Recognition Arabic Dialects
KFUPM · Taibah University · UBC +9
Romanized Arabic Across Dialects: Views, Usage Patterns, and Linguistic Variation
Aug 3, 2026Amr Keleg, Ahmed Amine Ben Abdallah, Taha Yassine +3Arabic NLP Arabic Dialects
MBZUAI · Cedar Rose · Independent Researcher +3
ArabicDialectSafety: A Dialect-Aware Benchmark for Arabic Content Safety Classification
Aug 2, 2026Wajdi Zaghouani, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Kholoud Khalil Aldous +1LLM Safety Benchmarks Arabic NLP
Northwestern University in Qatar, Qatar · Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
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 NLP Arabic Dialects
Higher School of Communication of Tunis (SUP’COM), Tunisia · Robotics and Internet of Things Laboratory, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Can Dialects Be Steered Like Languages? Sparse Neurons and Distributed Directions in Arabic LLMs
Jul 4, 2026Kareem Elozeiri, Mervat Abassy, Omar Kallas +4Arabic NLP LLM Interpretability
1Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · 2Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University · 3Tohoku University +1
The Generator-Eraser Paradox: Community Guidelines for Responsible LLM-Assisted Dialect Resource Creation
Jun 4, 2026Wajdi ZaghouaniCultural Bias in Language Models Low-Resource Language Processing
Northwestern University in Qatar
Linear Semantic Segmentation for Low-Resource Spoken Dialects
May 7, 2026Kirill Chirkunov, Younes Samih, Abed Alhakim Freihat +1Arabic NLP Speech Processing
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · IBM Research AI
Cultural Benchmarking of LLMs in Standard and Dialectal Arabic Dialogues
Apr 30, 2026Muhammad Dehan Al Kautsar, Saeed Almheiri, Momina Ahsan +13Low-Resource Language Processing Arabic NLP
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · IBM Research AI · American University in the Emirates
Context-Aware Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation with Interactive Region and Register Selection
Apr 7, 2026Afroza Nowshin, Prithweeraj Acharjee Porag, Haziq Jeelani +1Machine Translation Arabic NLP
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio · Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
Ara-Best-RQ: Multi Dialectal Arabic SSL
Mar 23, 2026Haroun Elleuch, Ryan Whetten, Salima Mdhaffar +2Arabic Dialects Speech Processing
ELYADATA, Paris, France · Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon, Avignon Université, Avignon, France
Tarab: A Multi-Dialect Corpus of Arabic Lyrics and Poetry
Mar 17, 2026Mo El-HajArabic Dialects Arabic NLP
College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity
Ramsa: A Large Sociolinguistically Rich Emirati Arabic Speech Corpus for ASR and TTS
Mar 9, 2026Rania Al-SabbaghSpeech Corpus Construction Arabic NLP
Department of Foreign Languages, University of Sharjah, UAE
Aladdin-FTI @ AMIYA Three Wishes for Arabic NLP: Fidelity, Diglossia, and Multidialectal Generation
Feb 18, 2026Jonathan Mutal, Perla Al Almaoui, Simon Hengchen +1Arabic NLP Arabic Dialects
Faculté de traduction et d’interprétation, Université de Genève
LLM-to-Speech: A Synthetic Data Pipeline for Training Dialectal Text-to-Speech Models
Feb 17, 2026Ahmed Khaled Khamis, Hesham AliTTS Synthesis Low-Resource TTS Synthesis
Georgia Institute of Technology · Nile University
SalamahBench: Dialect and Category Level Safety Evaluation of Arabic Language Models
Feb 3, 2026Omar Abdelnasser, Fatemah Alharbi, Khaled Khasawneh +2LLM Safety Benchmarks Multilingual 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

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

Hasan Alkhder, Maher Pasa, Maria Hanini, Amro Najjar+1

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

Machine Translation Context-Aware MT Arabic Dialects

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This paper describes team Alkhder's submission to Subtask 1 of the AlexandriaX-2026 shared task, which asks systems to translate English dialogue turns into thirteen Arabic dialects. We fine-tune NileChat-3B-Base with QLoRA on the Alexandria parallel dialogue corpus, training one set of adapter weights for all dialects. Each turn is translated conditioned on the target country and dialect, the domain, the participant roles, the speaker-addressee gender direction, and the preceding dialogue context. At inference, conversations are translated autoregressively and the model is fed its own previous outputs back as context without using any gold target-side test information. Under the constrained track, using only Alexandria data, it trains in about one hour and translates the private test set in under two hours. The system reaches a country-macro-averaged spBLEU of 20.36 and chrF++ of 36.64 on both tracks.