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

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arXiv:2609.22796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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.