@inproceedings{sakr-etal-2026-auxiliary, title = "When Does Auxiliary Classification Help Regression in Practice? A Case Study in {A}rabic Dialectness Modeling", author = "Sakr, Abdelrahman and Torki, Marwan and El-Makky, Nagwa", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.30/", pages = "639--649", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }