@inproceedings{abdelfattah-etal-2026-saqr,
title = "Ṣaqr at {AISA}-{A}rabic{FC}: What Actually Influences {A}rabic Function Calling?",
author = "Abdelfattah, Toka Khaled and
Elrefai, Eman and
Soliman, Ahmed",
editor = "Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad and
Elsayed, Tamer and
Bouamor, Houda and
El-Beltagy, Samhaa and
Al-Khalifa, Hend and
Abdelali, Ahmed and
Elmadany, AbdelRahim and
El Mekki, Abdellah and
Darwish, Kareem and
Alkhereyf, Sakhar and
Luqman, Hamzah and
Khalifa, Salam and
Magdy, Samar and
Alyafeai, Zaid and
Hamed, Injy and
Zaghouani, Wajdi and
Zitouni, Imed",
booktitle = "Proceedings of The Fourth {A}rabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks",
month = oct,
year = "2026",
address = "Budapest, Hungary",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-sharedtasks.209/",
pages = "1614--1620",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-497-2",
abstract = "We describe Ṣaqr, ranked first on both scored tracks of the AISA-ArabicFC shared task on Arabic function calling, scoring 0.9279 on Track A and 0.9400 on Track B over a 1,125- instance blind test set. The system is deliber- ately plain: one Qwen3-4B model with LoRA, two epochs, provided data only. Our contri- bution is not the system but an accounting of where score comes from. We find that scale helped only up to a point in our single-run, cross-family comparison, and that the remain- ing gains came instead from inference-time de- cisions worth +0.0063 Overall A and +0.0223 Overall B (Appendix A) with no retraining. prefilling the reasoning trace so the model can- not skip it, and parsing arguments against the declared schema . We also report two proper- ties of the data that bound any system{'}s score: abstention is decidable from prompt structure without reading the query, and the gold anno- tation is self-inconsistent on precisely the slots that separate strong systems."
}<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<modsCollection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods ID="abdelfattah-etal-2026-saqr">
<titleInfo>
<title>Ṣaqr at AISA-ArabicFC: What Actually Influences Arabic Function Calling?</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Toka</namePart>
<namePart type="given">Khaled</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Abdelfattah</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Eman</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Elrefai</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Ahmed</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Soliman</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<dateIssued>2026-10</dateIssued>
</originInfo>
<typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
<relatedItem type="host">
<titleInfo>
<title>Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Muhammad</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Abdul-Mageed</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Tamer</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Elsayed</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Houda</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Bouamor</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Samhaa</namePart>
<namePart type="family">El-Beltagy</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Hend</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Al-Khalifa</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Ahmed</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Abdelali</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">AbdelRahim</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Elmadany</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Abdellah</namePart>
<namePart type="family">El Mekki</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Kareem</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Darwish</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Sakhar</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Alkhereyf</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Hamzah</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Luqman</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Salam</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Khalifa</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Samar</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Magdy</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Zaid</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Alyafeai</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Injy</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Hamed</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Wajdi</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Zaghouani</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Imed</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Zitouni</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<publisher>Association for Computational Linguistics</publisher>
<place>
<placeTerm type="text">Budapest, Hungary</placeTerm>
</place>
</originInfo>
<genre authority="marcgt">conference publication</genre>
<identifier type="isbn">979-8-89176-497-2</identifier>
</relatedItem>
<abstract>We describe Ṣaqr, ranked first on both scored tracks of the AISA-ArabicFC shared task on Arabic function calling, scoring 0.9279 on Track A and 0.9400 on Track B over a 1,125- instance blind test set. The system is deliber- ately plain: one Qwen3-4B model with LoRA, two epochs, provided data only. Our contri- bution is not the system but an accounting of where score comes from. We find that scale helped only up to a point in our single-run, cross-family comparison, and that the remain- ing gains came instead from inference-time de- cisions worth +0.0063 Overall A and +0.0223 Overall B (Appendix A) with no retraining. prefilling the reasoning trace so the model can- not skip it, and parsing arguments against the declared schema . We also report two proper- ties of the data that bound any system’s score: abstention is decidable from prompt structure without reading the query, and the gold anno- tation is self-inconsistent on precisely the slots that separate strong systems.</abstract>
<identifier type="citekey">abdelfattah-etal-2026-saqr</identifier>
<location>
<url>https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-sharedtasks.209/</url>
</location>
<part>
<date>2026-10</date>
<extent unit="page">
<start>1614</start>
<end>1620</end>
</extent>
</part>
</mods>
</modsCollection>
%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Ṣaqr at AISA-ArabicFC: What Actually Influences Arabic Function Calling?
%A Abdelfattah, Toka Khaled
%A Elrefai, Eman
%A Soliman, Ahmed
%Y Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad
%Y Elsayed, Tamer
%Y Bouamor, Houda
%Y El-Beltagy, Samhaa
%Y Al-Khalifa, Hend
%Y Abdelali, Ahmed
%Y Elmadany, AbdelRahim
%Y El Mekki, Abdellah
%Y Darwish, Kareem
%Y Alkhereyf, Sakhar
%Y Luqman, Hamzah
%Y Khalifa, Salam
%Y Magdy, Samar
%Y Alyafeai, Zaid
%Y Hamed, Injy
%Y Zaghouani, Wajdi
%Y Zitouni, Imed
%S Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks
%D 2026
%8 October
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Budapest, Hungary
%@ 979-8-89176-497-2
%F abdelfattah-etal-2026-saqr
%X We describe Ṣaqr, ranked first on both scored tracks of the AISA-ArabicFC shared task on Arabic function calling, scoring 0.9279 on Track A and 0.9400 on Track B over a 1,125- instance blind test set. The system is deliber- ately plain: one Qwen3-4B model with LoRA, two epochs, provided data only. Our contri- bution is not the system but an accounting of where score comes from. We find that scale helped only up to a point in our single-run, cross-family comparison, and that the remain- ing gains came instead from inference-time de- cisions worth +0.0063 Overall A and +0.0223 Overall B (Appendix A) with no retraining. prefilling the reasoning trace so the model can- not skip it, and parsing arguments against the declared schema . We also report two proper- ties of the data that bound any system’s score: abstention is decidable from prompt structure without reading the query, and the gold anno- tation is self-inconsistent on precisely the slots that separate strong systems.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-sharedtasks.209/
%P 1614-1620
Markdown (Informal)
[Ṣaqr at AISA-ArabicFC: What Actually Influences Arabic Function Calling?](https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-sharedtasks.209/) (Abdelfattah et al., ArabicNLP 2026)
ACL