PROGRAM
Monday, January 20, 2025 | |
| 9:00–9:10 | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 9:10–9:50 | 9:10 9:10 |
| Session 1 | |
| 9:50–10:10 | ArabicSense: A Benchmark for Evaluating Commonsense Reasoning in Arabic with Large Language Models salima lamsiyah, Kamyar Zeinalipour, Samir El amrany, Matthias Brust, Marco Maggini, Pascal Bouvry and Christoph Schommer |
| 10:10–10:30 | Lahjawi: Arabic Cross-Dialect Translator Mohamed Motasim Hamed, Muhammad Hreden, Khalil Hennara, Zeina Aldallal, Sara Chrouf and Safwan AlModhayan |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2 | |
| 11:00–11:20 | Lost in Variation: An Unsupervised Methodology for Mining Lexico-syntactic Patterns in Middle Arabic Texts Julien JB Bezançon, Rimane Karam and Gaël Lejeune |
| 11:20–11:40 | SADSLyC: A Corpus for Saudi Arabian Multi-dialect Identification through Song Lyrics Salwa Saad Alahmari |
| 11:40–12:00 | Enhancing Dialectal Arabic Intent Detection through Cross-Dialect Multilingual Input Augmentation Shehenaz Hossain, Fouad Shammary, Bahaulddin Shammary and Haithem Afli |
| 12:00–12:20 | Dial2MSA-Verified: A Multi-Dialect Arabic Social Media Dataset for Neural Machine Translation to Modern Standard Arabic Abdullah Salem Khered, Youcef Benkhedda and Riza Batista-Navarro |
| 12:20–13:20 | Lunch Break |
| Session 3 | |
| 13:20–13:40 | Web-Based Corpus Compilation of the Emirati Arabic Dialect Yousra A. El-Ghawi |
| 13:40–14:00 | Evaluating Calibration of Arabic Pre-trained Language Models on Dialectal Text Ali Al-Laith and RACHIDA KEBDANI |
| 14:00–14:20 | Empirical Evaluation of Pre-trained Language Models for Summarizing Moroccan Darija News Articles Azzedine Aftiss, Salima Lamsiyah, Christoph Schommer and Said Ouatik El Alaoui |
| 14:20–14:40 | Dialect2SQL: A Novel Text-to-SQL Dataset for Arabic Dialects with a Focus on Moroccan Darija salmane chafik, Saad Ezzini and Ismail Berrada |
| 14:40–15:00 | AraSim: Optimizing Arabic Dialect Translation in Children’s Literature with LLMs and Similarity Scores Alaa Hassan Bouomar and Noorhan Abbas |
| 15:00–15:20 | Navigating Dialectal Bias and Ethical Complexities in Levantine Arabic Hate Speech Detection Ahmed Haj Ahmed, Rui-Jie Yew, Xerxes Minocher and Suresh Venkatasubramanian |
| 15:20–16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00–16:30 | Best Paper Award, Closing Remarks, and Wrap-Up by Dr Saad Ezzini |