System Papers
System description papers should explain the submitted system clearly enough for readers to understand the approach, reproduce the main configuration, and interpret the official results.
Papers should be at most 4 pages, excluding references. References are unlimited.
All AlexandriaX-2026 system-description papers must cite the shared task overview paper. Authors must also include each additional citation below that applies to their participation or system.
@inproceedings{elmekki-etal-2026-alexandriax,
title = "{AlexandriaX 2026: The First Shared Task on Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation}",
author = "El Mekki, Abdellah and
Elmadany, AbdelRahim A. and
Magdy, Samar M. and
Ezzini, Saad and
El-Haj, Mo and
Jarrar, Mustafa and
Alyafeai, Zaid and
Ghanem, Bernard and
Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad",
booktitle = "Proceedings of The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks",
year = "2026",
address = "Budapest, Hungary",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
}Subtask 1 participants must cite the original work and source of the data.
@inproceedings{el-mekki-etal-2026-alexandria,
title = "Alexandria: A Multi-Domain Dialectal {A}rabic Machine Translation Dataset for Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse {LLM}s",
author = "EL Mekki, Abdellah and
Magdy, Samar M. and
Atou, Houdaifa and
AbuHweidi, Ruwa and
Qawasmeh, Baraah and
Nacar, Omer and
Al-hibiri, Thikra and
Saadie, Razan and
Alsayadi, Hamzah A. and
Hammouda, Nadia Ghezaiel and
Alkhazimi, Alshima Mohammed and
Hamod, Aya and
Al-Ghafri, Al-Yas Yaqoob and
El-Sayed, Wesam and
al Sharji, Asila Ismail and
Ballout, Mohamad and
Belfathi, Anas and
Ghaddar, Karim and
Sibaee, Serry and
Aoun, Alaa and
Aseri, Aeej Mohammed and
Abureesh, Lina and
Bashiti, Ahlam and
Yousef, Majdal and
Hafiz, Abdulaziz and
Mohamed, Yehdih and
Hamedtou, Emira and
Emehah, Brakehe and
Alhamouri, Rahaf and
Nafea, Youssef and
El Aatar, Aya and
Al-Dhabyani, Walid and
Hamed, Emhemed S. and
Shatnawi, Sara and
Alwajih, Fakhraddin and
Elkhidir, Khalid and
Alasmari, Ashwag and
Gerrio, Abdurrahman and
Alshahri, Omar Said and
Elmadany, AbdelRahim A. and
Berrada, Ismail and
Al-kathiri, Amir Azad Adli and
Zaraket, Fadi and
Jarrar, Mustafa and
EL Hadj, Yahya Mohamed and
Alhuzali, Hassan and
Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad",
editor = "Liakata, Maria and
Moreira, Viviane P. and
Zhang, Jiajun and
Jurgens, David",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, United States",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1503/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.acl-long.1503",
pages = "32567--32592",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6"
}Subtask 2 participants must cite the original AraFinNLP shared task paper.
@inproceedings{malaysha-etal-2024-arafinnlp,
title = "{A}ra{F}in{NLP} 2024: The First {A}rabic Financial {NLP} Shared Task",
author = "Malaysha, Sanad and
El-Haj, Mo and
Ezzini, Saad and
Khalilia, Mohammed and
Jarrar, Mustafa and
Almujaiwel, Sultan and
Berrada, Ismail and
Bouamor, Houda",
editor = "Habash, Nizar and
Bouamor, Houda and
Eskander, Ramy and
Tomeh, Nadi and
Abu Farha, Ibrahim and
Abdelali, Ahmed and
Touileb, Samia and
Hamed, Injy and
Onaizan, Yaser and
Alhafni, Bashar and
Antoun, Wissam and
Khalifa, Salam and
Haddad, Hatem and
Zitouni, Imed and
AlKhamissi, Badr and
Almatham, Rawan and
Mrini, Khalil",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.34/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.arabicnlp-1.34",
pages = "393--402"
}Subtask 3 participants must cite the original work and source of the data.
@inproceedings{magdy-etal-2026-lqm,
title = "{LQM}: Linguistically Motivated Multidimensional Quality Metrics for Machine Translation",
author = "Magdy, Samar M. and
Alwajih, Fakhraddin and
El Mekki, Abdellah and
El Sayed, Wesam and
Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad",
editor = "Liakata, Maria and
Moreira, Viviane P. and
Zhang, Jiajun and
Jurgens, David",
booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, United States",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2012/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.findings-acl.2012",
pages = "40470--40493",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1"
}Papers that use the NileChat baseline must cite the following work.
@inproceedings{el-mekki-etal-2025-nilechat,
title = "{N}ile{C}hat: Towards Linguistically Diverse and Culturally Aware {LLM}s for Local Communities",
author = "El Mekki, Abdellah and
Atou, Houdaifa and
Nacar, Omer and
Shehata, Shady and
Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad",
editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos and
Chakraborty, Tanmoy and
Rose, Carolyn and
Peng, Violet",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = nov,
year = "2025",
address = "Suzhou, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.556/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.556",
pages = "10967--10991",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6"
}