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Samar M. Magdy

2 accepted papers

2025

From Multiple-Choice to Extractive QA: A Case Study for English and Arabic

COLING 2025main

The rapid evolution of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has favoured major languages such as English, leaving a significant gap for many others due to limited resources. This is especially evident in the context of data annotation, a task whose importance cannot be underestimated, but which is time…

2025

Pearl: A Multimodal Culturally-Aware Arabic Instruction Dataset

EMNLP 2025

Mainstream large vision-language models (LVLMs) inherently encode cultural biases, highlighting the need for diverse multimodal datasets. To address this gap, we introduce PEARL, a large-scale Arabic multimodal dataset and benchmark explicitly designed for cultural understanding. Constructed through