Aya Hamod
2026
Alexandria: A Multi-Domain Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation Dataset for Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse LLMs
Abdellah EL Mekki | Samar M. Magdy | Houdaifa Atou | Ruwa AbuHweidi | Baraah Qawasmeh | Omer Nacar | Thikra Al-hibiri | Razan Saadie | Hamzah A. Alsayadi | Nadia Ghezaiel Hammouda | Alshima Mohammed Alkhazimi | Aya Hamod | Al-Yas Yaqoob Al-Ghafri | Wesam El-Sayed | Asila Ismail al Sharji | Mohamad Ballout | Anas Belfathi | Karim Ghaddar | Serry Sibaee | Alaa Aoun | Aeej Mohammed Aseri | Lina Abureesh | Ahlam Bashiti | Majdal Yousef | Abdulaziz Hafiz | Yehdih Mohamed | Emira Hamedtou | Brakehe Emehah | Rahaf Alhamouri | Youssef Nafea | Aya El Aatar | Walid Al-Dhabyani | Emhemed S. Hamed | Sara Shatnawi | Fakhraddin Alwajih | Khalid Elkhidir | Ashwag Alasmari | Abdurrahman Gerrio | Omar Said Alshahri | AbdelRahim A. Elmadany | Ismail Berrada | Amir Azad Adli Al-kathiri | Fadi Zaraket | Mustafa Jarrar | Yahya Mohamed EL Hadj | Hassan Alhuzali | Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Abdellah EL Mekki | Samar M. Magdy | Houdaifa Atou | Ruwa AbuHweidi | Baraah Qawasmeh | Omer Nacar | Thikra Al-hibiri | Razan Saadie | Hamzah A. Alsayadi | Nadia Ghezaiel Hammouda | Alshima Mohammed Alkhazimi | Aya Hamod | Al-Yas Yaqoob Al-Ghafri | Wesam El-Sayed | Asila Ismail al Sharji | Mohamad Ballout | Anas Belfathi | Karim Ghaddar | Serry Sibaee | Alaa Aoun | Aeej Mohammed Aseri | Lina Abureesh | Ahlam Bashiti | Majdal Yousef | Abdulaziz Hafiz | Yehdih Mohamed | Emira Hamedtou | Brakehe Emehah | Rahaf Alhamouri | Youssef Nafea | Aya El Aatar | Walid Al-Dhabyani | Emhemed S. Hamed | Sara Shatnawi | Fakhraddin Alwajih | Khalid Elkhidir | Ashwag Alasmari | Abdurrahman Gerrio | Omar Said Alshahri | AbdelRahim A. Elmadany | Ismail Berrada | Amir Azad Adli Al-kathiri | Fadi Zaraket | Mustafa Jarrar | Yahya Mohamed EL Hadj | Hassan Alhuzali | Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Arabic is a highly diglossic language where most daily communication occurs in regional dialects rather than Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Despite this, machine translation (MT) systems often generalize poorly to dialectal input, limiting their utility for millions of speakers. We introduce Alexandria, a large-scale, community-driven, human-translated dataset designed to bridge this gap. Alexandria covers 13 Arab countries and 11 high-impact domains, including health, education, and agriculture. Unlike previous resources, Alexandria provides unprecedented granularity by associating contributions with city-of-origin metadata, capturing authentic local varieties beyond coarse regional labels. The dataset consists of parallel English-Dialectal Arabic multi-turn conversational scenarios annotated with speaker-addressee gender configurations, enabling the study of gender-conditioned variation in dialectal use. Comprising 107K total turns, Alexandria serves as both a training resource and as a rigorous benchmark for evaluating MT and Large Language Models (LLMs). Our automatic and human evaluation benchmarks the current capabilities of Arabic-aware LLMs in translating across diverse Arabic dialects and sub-dialects while exposing significant persistent challenges.The Alexandria dataset, the creation prompts, the translation and revision guidelines, and the evaluation code are publicly available in the following repository: https://github.com/UBC-NLP/Alexandria
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- Muhammad Abdul-Mageed 1
- Ruwa AbuHweidi 1
- Lina Abureesh 1
- Walid Al-Dhabyani 1
- Al-Yas Yaqoob Al-Ghafri 1
- Thikra Al-hibiri 1
- Amir Azad Adli Al-kathiri 1
- Ashwag Alasmari 1
- Rahaf Alhamouri 1
- Hassan Alhuzali 1
- Alshima Mohammed Alkhazimi 1
- Hamzah A. Alsayadi 1
- Omar Said Alshahri 1
- Fakhraddin Alwajih 1
- Alaa Aoun 1
- Aeej Mohammed Aseri 1
- Houdaifa Atou 1
- Mohamad Ballout 1
- Ahlam Bashiti 1
- Anas Belfathi 1
- Ismail Berrada 1
- Yahya Mohamed EL Hadj 1
- Abdellah El Mekki 1
- Aya El aatar 1
- Wesam El-Sayed 1
- Khalid Elkhidir 1
- AbdelRahim A. Elmadany 1
- Brakehe Emehah 1
- Abdurrahman Gerrio 1
- Karim Ghaddar 1
- Abdulaziz Hafiz 1
- Emhemed S. Hamed 1
- Emira Hamedtou 1
- Nadia Ghezaiel Hammouda 1
- Mustafa Jarrar 1
- Samar Mohamed Magdy 1
- Yehdih Mohamed 1
- Omer Nacar 1
- Youssef Nafea 1
- Baraah Qawasmeh 1
- Razan Saadie 1
- Sara Shatnawi 1
- Serry Sibaee 1
- Majdal Yousef 1
- Fadi A. Zaraket 1
- Asila Ismail al Sharji 1
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