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Maged Saeed Al-shaibani

SDAIA-KFUPM JRC for Artificial Intelligence

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Preprint Aug 2026

Character Iconicity vs. Arbitrariness: An Arabic NLP Perspective

Compared with standard dotted and dotless Arabic with arbitrary character remappings constrained to the same 19 undotted rasms, these findings suggest that, from an NLP perspective, Arabic character form-function relationships are largely arbitrary: models rely more on stable distributional structure than on the visual...

Dorieh M. Alomari, Irfan Ahmad, Maged Saeed Al-shaibani · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Bulbul: A Dataset for Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition

BUL, a multi-dialect Arabic ASR dataset collected from 275 speakers in 11 Arab countries, includes structured dialect and sub-dialect coverage, as well as recordings of classical Arabic and modern standard Arabic spoken by participants in their native dialectal accents to support accent-aware modeling.

Ahmed Ashraf, Aisha Alansari, Fadel Al Abbas et al. · 1 citation
Aug 2026

STAR: instruction tuning for Arabic across tasks, datasets, and models

An in-depth evaluation of instruction tuning for Arabic NLP tasks using three prominent LLMs: LLaMA 3.1-8B, AceGPT-v2-8B, and Qwen3-8B shows that instruction tuning consistently improves performance across most tasks, with notable variations in effectiveness across different tasks and prompts.

Maged Saeed Al-shaibani, Zaid Alyafeai, Irfan Ahmad · 0 citations

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