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AlexandriaX 2026: The First Shared Task on Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 19, 2026 · UTC

Dialectal Arabic machine translation (MT) remains challenging despite recent progress in Arabic language technologies, particularly because effective translation requires modeling not only semantic content but also dialectal variation, conversational context, speaker and addressee characteristics, and sociolinguistic appropriateness. Moreover, conventional MT metrics provide limited insight into the linguistic errors produced by dialectal systems. We present the AlexandriaX 2026 Shared Task on Dialectal Arabic MT, which addresses these challenges through three complementary subtasks: (1) conte

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