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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
Does Machine "know" interpersonal pragmatics? Evidence from MARBERT's learning of emoji pragmatics in Arabic digital discourse
Aug 2, 2026Mohammed Q. ShormaniArabic NLP Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models
Ibb University · Ibb University, Ibb, Yemen
AHA-Memes: A Fine-Grained Multimodal Benchmark for Understanding Hate in Arabic Memes
Jul 29, 2026Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Abul Hasnat +3Arabic NLP Hate Speech Detection
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar · 2APAVI.AI, France · 3Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar +1
Evaluation of Adversarial Robustness in Arabic Language Models
Jul 28, 2026Anwar Alajmi, Ayed Salman, Imtiaz AhmadAdversarial Training Arabic NLP
Department of Computer Engineering, Kuwait University, Kuwait. · Department of Computer Science, College of Business Studies, Public Authority of Applied Education and Training, Kuwait.
HalluTruthQA: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Hallucination Detection, Localization, and Explanation in Arabic Question Answering
Jul 22, 2026Abdessalam Bouchekif, Mohammed-En-Nadhir Zighem, Salah Eddine Bekhouche +9Arabic NLP LLM Answer Verification
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar · University of the Basque Country, Spain · University of Biskra, Algeria +2
Language-Specific versus Cross-Lingual Knowledge Graphs for Implicit Aspect Identification in Arabic: A Comparative Study of Reasoning and Adaptation Strategies
Jul 22, 2026Lujain A. AlawwadArabic NLP Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Department of Computing and Informatics Saudi Electronic University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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
Higher School of Communication of Tunis (SUP’COM), Tunisia · Robotics and Internet of Things Laboratory, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Constrained CTC Decoding for Efficient Diacritic Restoration
Jul 21, 2026Rufael Marew, Amr Keleg, Hanan AldarmakiConstrained Decoding Arabic NLP
Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE
CAMMAR: Culture-Aware Matryoshka for Metaphorical Arabic Representations
Jul 17, 2026Suzan Awinat, Alfonso Ortega del PuenteFigurative Language Understanding Arabic NLP
Department of Computer Engineering Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) School of Science and Technology IE University Madrid, Spain · Department of Computer Science Oviedo University Asturias, Spain
PAST-TIDE: Prototype-Anchored Statement Tuning with Topic-Invariant Normalization for Stance Detection
Jul 6, 2026Md. Shakhoyat Rahman Shujon, MD Jahid Hasan Jim, Md. Milon Islam +2Stance Detection Arabic NLP
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering & Technology · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo · Department of Machine Learning, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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
Benchmarking Frontier LLMs on Arabic Cultural and Sociolinguistic Knowledge: A Cross-Evaluation Framework with Human SME Ground Truth
Jun 30, 2026Sajjad Abdoli, Ghassan Al-Sumaidaee, Ahmad ElShiekh +2Multilingual Language Model Evaluation LLM-as-a-Judge
1Perle AI
Bridging Scientific Heritage: An Arabic--Russian Parallel Corpus and LLM Benchmark for Sustainable Knowledge Transfer
Jun 29, 2026M. K. ArabovMultilingual Language Models Arabic NLP
Kazan Federal University, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Information Technologies, Department of Data Analysis, Kazan, Russia
Extracting Knowledge from an Arabic-English Machine-Readable Dictionary Using Information Extraction
Jun 26, 2026Diaa M. Fayed, Aly A. Fahmy, Mohsen A. Rashwan +1Arabic NLP Document Information Extraction
Department of Computer Science Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University Giza, Egypt · Department of EECE Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University Giza, Egypt · Department of Arabic Language and Literatures Faculty of Arts, Cairo University Giza, Egypt
Spam and Sentiment Detection in Arabic Tweets Using MARBERT Model
Jun 24, 2026Abrar Alotaibi, Atta-ur Rahman, Raheel Alhaza +6Social Media Analysis Arabic NLP
Department of Computer Science (CS), College of Computer Science and Information Technology (CCSIT), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU), P.O. Box 192, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia · Saudi Aramco Cybersecurity Chair, Department of Computer Science (CS), College of Computer Science and Information Technology (CCSIT), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU), P.O. Box 192, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
CANDLE: Character-level Arabic Noise Deduplication using Lightweight Encoder
Jun 23, 2026Faris Alasmary, Taif Nono, Orjuwan Zaafarani +5Arabic NLP
1Abjad Ltd. · 2SDAIA - NCAI
Automatic Part-of-Speech Tagging of Arabic-English Dictionary Senses through WordNet
Jun 23, 2026Diaa M. Fayed, Aly A. Fahmy, Mohsen A. Rashwan +1Arabic NLP Morphosyntactic Tagging
Computer Science, Faculty of Computers and Information, Giza, Egypt · EECE, Faculty of Engineering, Giza, Egypt · Arabic Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts, Giza, Egypt
Evaluation of Small Language Models for Arabic Language Processing
Jun 19, 2026Jumana Alsubhi, Ahmed Alhusayni, Abdulrahman Gharawi +5Arabic NLP Small Language Models
Naseej Innovation Lab, Naseej for Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
When Similar Means Different: Evaluating LLMs on Arabic--Hebrew Cognates
Jun 11, 2026Junhong Liang, Noor Abo Mokh, Bashar AlhafniMultilingual Language Model Evaluation Arabic NLP
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
MentalMARBERT: Domain-Adaptive Pre-training and Two-Stage Fine-Tuning for Arabic Mental Health Disorders Detection
Jun 10, 2026Fatimah Almalki, Areej Alhothali, Lulwah Alharigy +1Social Media Analysis Arabic NLP
Department of Computer Science Faculty of Computing and Information Technology King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia · Department of Psychology College of Arts and Humanities King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
StanceNakba Shared Task: Actor and Topic-Aware Stance Detection in Public Discourse
Jun 10, 2026Kholoud K. Aldous, Md Rafiul Biswas, Mabrouka Bessghaier +3Social Media Analysis Stance Detection
Northwestern University in Qatar · Hamad Bin Khalifa University
ArabiGEE: A Hierarchical Taxonomy for Arabic Grammatical Error Explanation
Jun 9, 2026Khaled Elhady, Omar Kallas, Nizar Habash +1Arabic NLP Grammatical Error Correction
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · New York University Abu Dhabi
Arabic Sentence Segmentation Across Genres and Punctuation Conditions
Jun 6, 2026Mohammed Elkholy, Khalid N. Elmadani, Nizar Habash +1LLM Evaluation Arabic NLP
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · New York University Abu Dhabi
Thaka at KSAA-2026 Task 2: Regularized Fine-Tuning for Arabic Speech Diacritization
May 25, 2026Meshal Alamr, Hassan Alqaeri, Abdullah AldahlawiFine-Tuning Arabic NLP
Thaka, Advanced AI and Information Technology Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
ArabDiscrim: A Decade-Long Arabic Facebook Corpus on Racism and Discrimination
May 21, 2026Wajdi Zaghouani, Shimaa Amer Ibrahim, Mabrouka Bessghaier +1Social Media Analysis Arabic NLP
Northwestern University in Qatar · Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Building Arabic NLP from the Ground Up: Twenty Years of Lessons, Failures, and Open Problems
May 20, 2026Wajdi ZaghouaniArabic NLP Low-Resource Language Processing
Communication Program Northwestern University in Qatar Doha, Qatar
HalluScore: Large Language Model Hallucination Question Answering Benchmark
May 16, 2026Aisha Alansari, Hamzah LuqmanMultilingual Language Model Evaluation LLM Evaluation
Department of Information and Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals · SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
WASIL: In-the-Wild Arabic Spoken Interactions with LLMs
May 9, 2026Zien Sheikh Ali, Hamdy Mubarak, Soon-Gyo Jung +3Voice Agent Evaluation Arabic NLP
Qatar Computing Research Institute, 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 +13Multilingual Language Model Evaluation Arabic NLP
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · IBM Research AI · American University in the Emirates

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

Wajdi Zaghouani, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Mabrouka Bessghaier

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

LLM Safety Benchmarks Arabic NLP Language Model Safety Evaluation Content Moderation

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We present ArabicDialectSafety, a human-curated Arabic safety dataset of 25,071 prompts covering six Arabic varieties: Modern Standard Arabic, Syrian, Egyptian, Algerian, Palestinian, and Moroccan. The dataset is annotated with dialect labels and seven fine-grained harm categories. We introduce a dual-task evaluation framework for binary safe/unsafe detection and granular harm classification across dialects. Benchmarking seven supervised and generative models, we find that fine-tuned MARBERTv2 achieves the strongest performance, with Macro-F1 scores of 0.95 for binary classification and 0.90 for granular classification, substantially outperforming prompted frontier LLMs, including Arabic-specialized models. Our analyses show that dialect conditioning is most effective when integrated at the representation level, while significant performance gaps remain for low-resource Maghrebi dialects. We further evaluate seven frontier LLMs as response generators on harmful dialectal Arabic prompts and observe unsafe generation rates below 5 percent across models. We release the dataset and code upon acceptance to support future research on dialect-aware Arabic safety evaluation. Warning: This paper contains examples of harmful and potentially offensive content included solely for research purposes.

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