Younes Samih

The development of large-scale Visual Question Answering (VQA) datasets has traditionally relied on resource-intensive manual annotation. In addition, most of the existing Arabic VQA datasets focus on culturally-specific and dialect-aware domains. To address these limitations, we propose a new pi...

There is a significant gap in evaluating cultural reasoning in LLMs using conversational datasets that capture culturally rich and dialectal contexts. Most Arabic benchmarks focus on short text snippets in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), overlooking the cultural nuances that naturally arise in dial...

Semantic segmentation is a core component of discourse analysis, yet existing models are primarily developed and evaluated on high-resource written text, limiting their effectiveness on low-resource conversational varieties. In particular, dialectal Arabic exhibits informal syntax, code-switching...