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Reham Marzouk

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YallaMorph: A Benchmark for Evaluating Arabic Morphological Generation in Large Language Models

Arabic morphology remains challenging for large language models, since fluent generation does not guarantee accurate morphosyntactic control. Existing Arabic evaluations mainly target downstream tasks and do not directly test controlled morphological generation from explicit lexical and feature-based input. We introduce YallaMorph, a large-scale benchmark for Arabic morphological generation covering verbs, nouns, adjectives, their cliticized forms, and invalid configurations. We evaluate multilingual and Arabic-oriented LLMs under diacritized and undiacritized settings over 600K benchmark entries. Results show that Arabic morphological generation remains difficult, especially for cliticized, unseen, and morphologically rare forms.

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EDRAC: Benchmarking Arabic Dialect Reading Comprehension

Dialectal Arabic (DA) remains under-resourced compared to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), particularly for machine reading comprehension (MRC) and question answering (QA). Existing Arabic QA benchmarks primarily focus on formal written MSA or multiple-choice QA, with limited coverage of naturally spoken dialects. Here, we aim to bridge this gap. We introduce EDRAC, the first large-scale benchmark for dialectal Arabic machine reading comprehension (MRC) and generative QA, covering five major dialects: Egyptian, Moroccan, Emirati, Syrian, and Saudi Arabic. EDRAC contains 499 passages derived from naturally occurring spoken interactions and 4,977 corresponding QA pairs generated through a human--LLM collaborative pipeline combining iterative generation, LLM-as-a-judge evaluation, and human verification. We benchmark Arabic-centric and multilingual LLMs on EDRAC using lexical and semantic metrics. Our results reveal substantial gaps between semantic answer quality and dialectal fidelity, highlighting the limitations of existing evaluation metrics for dialectal Arabic generation. EDRAC provides a realistic and challenging MRC benchmark for future research on dialectal Arabic NLP.

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A Derivational ChainBank for Modern Standard Arabic

We introduce the new concept of an Arabic Derivational Chain Bank CHAINBANK to leverage the relationship between form and meaning in modeling Arabic derivational morphology. We constructed a knowledge graph network of abstract patterns and their derivational relations and aligned it with the lemmas of the CAMELMORPH morphological analyzer database. This process produced chains of derived words' lemmas linked to their corresponding lemma bases through derivational relations, encompassing 23,333 derivational connections.

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Computational Morphology and Lexicography Modeling of Modern Standard Arabic Nominals

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) nominals present many morphological and lexical modeling challenges that have not been consistently addressed previously. This paper attempts to define the space of such challenges, and leverage a recently proposed morphological framework to build a comprehensive and extensible model for MSA nominals. Our model design addresses the nominals' intricate morphotactics, as well as their paradigmatic irregularities. Our implementation showcases enhanced accuracy and consistency compared to a commonly used MSA morphological analyzer and generator. We make our models publicly available.

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