Mohammad Khader


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2025

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Toward Culturally-Aware Arabic Debate Platforms with NLP Support
Khalid Al Khatib | Mohammad Khader
Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference

Despite the growing importance of online discourse, Arabic-speaking communities lack platforms that support structured, culturally grounded debate. Mainstream social media rarely fosters constructive engagement, often leading to polarization and superficial exchanges. This paper proposes the development of a culturally aware debate platform tailored to the values and traditions of Arabic-speaking users, with a focus on leveraging advances in natural language processing (NLP). We present findings from a user survey that explores experiences with existing debate tools and expectations for future platforms. Besides, we analyze 30,000 English-language debate topics using large language models (LLMs) to assess their cultural relevance and appropriateness for Arab audiences. We further examine the ability of LLMs to generate new culturally resonant debate topics, contributing to the emerging tasks of culture-aware topic assessment and generation. Finally, we propose a theoretical and technical framework for building an NLP-supported Arabic debate platform. Our work highlights the urgent need for culturally sensitive NLP resources that foster critical thinking, digital literacy, and meaningful deliberation in Arabic.