Papers by Adel Youssef
Pearl: A Multimodal Culturally-Aware Arabic Instruction Dataset (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Fakhraddin Alwajih, Samar M. Magdy, Abdellah El Mekki, Omer Nacar, Youssef Nafea, Safaa Taher Abdelfadil, Abdulfattah Mohammed Yahya, Hamzah Luqman, Nada Almarwani, Samah Aloufi, Baraah Qawasmeh, Houdaifa Atou, Serry Sibaee, Hamzah A. Alsayadi, Walid Al-Dhabyani, Maged S. Al-shaibani, Aya El aatar, Nour Qandos, Rahaf Alhamouri, Samar Ahmad, Mohammed Anwar AL-Ghrawi, Aminetou Yacoub, Ruwa AbuHweidi, Vatimetou Mohamed Lemin, Reem Abdel-Salam, Ahlam Bashiti, Adel Ammar, Aisha Alansari, Ahmed Ashraf, Nora Alturayeif, Alcides Alcoba Inciarte, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Mohamedou Cheikh Tourad, Ismail Berrada, Mustafa Jarrar, Shady Shehata, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
| Challenge: | Mainstream large vision-language models (LVLMs) inherently encode cultural biases, highlighting the need for diverse multimodal datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose to construct a large-scale Arabic multimodal dataset and benchmark explicitly designed for cultural understanding. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset covers ten culturally significant domains covering all Arab countries and includes two evaluation benchmarks (PEARL and PEARL-LITE) and a specialized subset (PearL-X). |
Multi-Domain Goal-Oriented Dialogues (MultiDoGO): Strategies toward Curating and Annotating Large Scale Dialogue Data (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | a large number of goal-oriented dialogue datasets are limited in their size, linguistic diversity, domain coverage, or annotation granularity. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-domain goal-oriented dialogue dataset that uses a crowd-sourced worker and a trained annotator to curate and annotate large scale data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset is 8 times the size of the largest comparable dialogue dataset available to the public. |