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EDRAC: Benchmarking Arabic Dialect Reading Comprehension

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 1, 2026 · UTC

Dialectal Arabic (DA) remains under-resourced compared to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), particularly for machine reading comprehension (MRC) and question answering (QA). Existing Arabic QA benchmarks primarily focus on formal written MSA or multiple-choice QA, with limited coverage of naturally spoken dialects. Here, we aim to bridge this gap. We introduce EDRAC, the first large-scale benchmark for dialectal Arabic machine reading comprehension (MRC) and generative QA, covering five major dialects: Egyptian, Moroccan, Emirati, Syrian, and Saudi Arabic. EDRAC contains 499 passages derived from

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