Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference

Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference Muhammad Abdul-Mageed editor Tamer Elsayed editor Houda Bouamor editor Samhaa El-Beltagy editor Hend Al-Khalifa editor Ahmed Abdelali editor AbdelRahim Elmadany editor Abdellah El Mekki editor Kareem Darwish editor Sakhar Alkhereyf editor Hamzah Luqman editor Salam Khalifa editor Samar Magdy editor Zaid Alyafeai editor Injy Hamed editor Wajdi Zaghouani editor Imed Zitouni editor 2026-10 Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary text conference publication 979-8-89176-473-6 arabicnlp-2026-main https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-main.0/ Same Legal Facts, Different Verdicts: Evaluating Cross-Lingual and Dialectal Robustness in LLM Legal Reasoning Dana R Alsagheer author Mohammad Kamal author Abdulrahman Kamal author Yang Lu author Nour Diallo author Weidong Shi author Omar Kamal author 2026-10 text Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference Muhammad Abdul-Mageed editor Tamer Elsayed editor Houda Bouamor editor Samhaa El-Beltagy editor Hend Al-Khalifa editor Ahmed Abdelali editor AbdelRahim Elmadany editor Abdellah El Mekki editor Kareem Darwish editor Sakhar Alkhereyf editor Hamzah Luqman editor Salam Khalifa editor Samar Magdy editor Zaid Alyafeai editor Injy Hamed editor Wajdi Zaghouani editor Imed Zitouni editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-473-6 alsagheer-etal-2026-legal https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-main.1/ 2026-10 1 10 Fine-tuning Small Language Models for Cross-Prompt Arabic Essay Scoring: A Benchmarking Study Salam Albatarni author Fahim Dalvi author Sohaila Eltanbouly author Tamer Elsayed author 2026-10 text Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference Muhammad Abdul-Mageed editor Tamer Elsayed editor Houda Bouamor editor Samhaa El-Beltagy editor Hend Al-Khalifa editor Ahmed Abdelali editor AbdelRahim Elmadany editor Abdellah El Mekki editor Kareem Darwish editor Sakhar Alkhereyf editor Hamzah Luqman editor Salam Khalifa editor Samar Magdy editor Zaid Alyafeai editor Injy Hamed editor Wajdi Zaghouani editor Imed Zitouni editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-473-6 albatarni-etal-2026-fine https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-main.2/ 2026-10 11 21 Align-Extract-Score: Graded Relevance of Arabic Essays Marwan Sayed author Salam Albatarni author Reem Suwaileh author Tamer Elsayed author 2026-10 text Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference Muhammad Abdul-Mageed editor Tamer Elsayed editor Houda Bouamor editor Samhaa El-Beltagy editor Hend Al-Khalifa editor Ahmed Abdelali editor AbdelRahim Elmadany editor Abdellah El Mekki editor Kareem Darwish editor Sakhar Alkhereyf editor Hamzah Luqman editor Salam Khalifa editor Samar Magdy editor Zaid Alyafeai editor Injy Hamed editor Wajdi Zaghouani editor Imed Zitouni editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-473-6 sayed-etal-2026-align https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-main.3/ 2026-10 22 32 AraDetox: A Multi-Dialect Arabic Detoxification Dataset Mo El-Haj author 2026-10 text Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference Muhammad Abdul-Mageed editor Tamer Elsayed editor Houda Bouamor editor Samhaa El-Beltagy editor Hend Al-Khalifa editor Ahmed Abdelali editor AbdelRahim Elmadany editor Abdellah El Mekki editor Kareem Darwish editor Sakhar Alkhereyf editor Hamzah Luqman editor Salam Khalifa editor Samar Magdy editor Zaid Alyafeai editor Injy Hamed editor Wajdi Zaghouani editor Imed Zitouni editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-473-6 el-haj-2026-aradetox https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-main.4/ 2026-10 33 47 Some Dialects are More Equal than Others: Non-Prestigious Arabic Dialectal Bias in LLMs Mai Mohamed Eida author Ryan Dolan author Paul de Nijs author Jonathan Dunn author 2026-10 text Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference Muhammad Abdul-Mageed editor Tamer Elsayed editor Houda Bouamor editor Samhaa El-Beltagy editor Hend Al-Khalifa editor Ahmed Abdelali editor AbdelRahim Elmadany editor Abdellah El Mekki editor Kareem Darwish editor Sakhar Alkhereyf editor Hamzah Luqman editor Salam Khalifa editor Samar Magdy editor Zaid Alyafeai editor Injy Hamed editor Wajdi Zaghouani editor Imed Zitouni editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-473-6 eida-etal-2026-dialects https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-main.5/ 2026-10 48 64 DAASI: Arabic Text Simplification Corpus for Israeli Government Documents Natalia Vanetik author Maysa Mosa Abu Shareb author Hussein Abo Ismael author 2026-10 text Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference Muhammad Abdul-Mageed editor Tamer Elsayed editor Houda Bouamor editor Samhaa El-Beltagy editor Hend Al-Khalifa editor Ahmed Abdelali editor AbdelRahim Elmadany editor Abdellah El Mekki editor Kareem Darwish editor Sakhar Alkhereyf editor Hamzah Luqman editor Salam Khalifa editor Samar Magdy editor Zaid Alyafeai editor Injy Hamed editor Wajdi Zaghouani editor Imed Zitouni editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-473-6 vanetik-etal-2026-daasi https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-main.6/ 2026-10 65 76 Beyond Gender, Number, and Rationality: Modeling Extended Arabic Morpho-Syntactic Agreement with Aggregation Bielasan Zaina author Salam Khalifa author Nizar Habash author 2026-10 text Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference Muhammad Abdul-Mageed editor Tamer Elsayed editor Houda Bouamor editor Samhaa El-Beltagy editor Hend Al-Khalifa editor Ahmed Abdelali editor AbdelRahim Elmadany editor Abdellah El Mekki editor Kareem Darwish editor Sakhar Alkhereyf editor Hamzah Luqman editor Salam Khalifa editor Samar Magdy editor Zaid Alyafeai editor Injy Hamed editor Wajdi Zaghouani editor Imed Zitouni editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-473-6 zaina-etal-2026-beyond https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-main.7/ 2026-10 77 87 SHAMS: An Audio-Grounded Pronunciation Benchmark for Levantine Arabic Ben Sapirstein author Roy Mattar author Guy Mor-Lan author Ahlam Mohamed author Letizia Cerqueglini author Morris Alper author 2026-10 text Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference Muhammad Abdul-Mageed editor Tamer Elsayed editor Houda Bouamor editor Samhaa El-Beltagy editor Hend Al-Khalifa editor Ahmed Abdelali editor AbdelRahim Elmadany editor Abdellah El Mekki editor Kareem Darwish editor Sakhar Alkhereyf editor Hamzah Luqman editor Salam Khalifa editor Samar Magdy editor Zaid Alyafeai editor Injy Hamed editor Wajdi Zaghouani editor Imed Zitouni editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-473-6 sapirstein-etal-2026-shams https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-main.8/ 2026-10 88 114 BAREC-TB: A Dependency Treebank and Parsing Benchmark for Arabic Children’s Texts Khalid N Elmadani author Mohamed Adel author Muhammed AbuOdeh author Reem Faraj author Jamila El-Gizuli author Hanada Taha author Nizar Habash author 2026-10 text Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference Muhammad Abdul-Mageed editor Tamer Elsayed editor Houda Bouamor editor Samhaa El-Beltagy editor Hend Al-Khalifa editor Ahmed Abdelali editor AbdelRahim Elmadany editor Abdellah El Mekki editor Kareem Darwish editor Sakhar Alkhereyf editor Hamzah Luqman editor Salam Khalifa editor Samar Magdy editor Zaid Alyafeai editor Injy Hamed editor Wajdi Zaghouani editor Imed Zitouni editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-473-6 elmadani-etal-2026-barec https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-main.9/ 2026-10 115 129 HalluTruthQA: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Hallucination Detection, Localization, and Explanation in Arabic Question Answering Abdessalam Bouchekif author Mohammed-En-Nadhir Zighem author Salah Eddine Bekhouche author Hichem Telli author Somaya Eltanbouly author Shahd Gaben author Heba Sbahi author Samer Rashwani author Mutaz al-Khatib author Emad Soliman Ali Mohamed author Mohammed Ghaly author Abdenour Hadid author 2026-10 text Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference Muhammad Abdul-Mageed editor Tamer Elsayed editor Houda Bouamor editor Samhaa El-Beltagy editor Hend Al-Khalifa editor Ahmed Abdelali editor AbdelRahim Elmadany editor Abdellah El Mekki editor Kareem Darwish editor Sakhar Alkhereyf editor Hamzah Luqman editor Salam Khalifa editor Samar Magdy editor Zaid Alyafeai editor Injy Hamed editor Wajdi Zaghouani editor Imed Zitouni editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-473-6 bouchekif-etal-2026-hallutruthqa https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-main.10/ 2026-10 130 150 MAQAM: A Richly Annotated Corpus for Quranic Arabic Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation Mostafa Saeed author Mohammad Amjad author Mahmoud Kassem author Rawan Bondok author Mayar Nassar author Adel Mahmoud Wizani author Salman Elgamal author Mahmoud Reda author Nizar Habash author 2026-10 text Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference Muhammad Abdul-Mageed editor Tamer Elsayed editor Houda Bouamor editor Samhaa El-Beltagy editor Hend Al-Khalifa editor Ahmed Abdelali editor AbdelRahim Elmadany editor Abdellah El Mekki editor Kareem Darwish editor Sakhar Alkhereyf editor Hamzah Luqman editor Salam Khalifa editor Samar Magdy editor Zaid Alyafeai editor Injy Hamed editor Wajdi Zaghouani editor Imed Zitouni editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-473-6 saeed-etal-2026-maqam https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-main.11/ 2026-10 151 163 Using LALMs for Pronunciation Error Detection in Arabic Osama E Youssef author Ahmed Ali author Walid Magdy author 2026-10 text Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference Muhammad Abdul-Mageed editor Tamer Elsayed editor Houda Bouamor editor Samhaa El-Beltagy editor Hend Al-Khalifa editor Ahmed Abdelali editor AbdelRahim Elmadany editor Abdellah El Mekki editor Kareem Darwish editor Sakhar Alkhereyf editor Hamzah Luqman editor Salam Khalifa editor Samar Magdy editor Zaid Alyafeai editor Injy Hamed editor Wajdi Zaghouani editor Imed Zitouni editor Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, Hungary conference publication 979-8-89176-473-6 youssef-etal-2026-using https://aclanthology.org/2026.arabicnlp-main.12/ 2026-10 164 169 Optimizing Inference Cost for Arabic–English Mathematical Reasoning in 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