@inproceedings{hammoud-etal-2026-hala, title = "Hala Technical Report Building {A}rabic-Centric Instruction {\&} Translation Models at Scale", author = "Hammoud, Hasan Abed Al Kader and Zbib, Mohamad Bilal and Ghanem, Bernard", editor = "El-Haj, Mo and Rayson, Paul and Jarrar, Mustafa and Ezeani, Ignatius and Ezzini, Saad and Ahmadi, Sina and Haddad, Amal Haddad and Amol, Cynthia and Abdelali, Ahmad and Abudalfa, Shadi", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on {NLP} for Languages Using {A}rabic Script", month = mar, year = "2026", address = "Rabat, Morocco", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/eacl-dois/2026.abjadnlp-1.32/", doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.abjadnlp-1.32", pages = "236--244" }