Amr Keleg
amr-keleg.bsky.social
Amr Keleg
@amr-keleg.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Edinburgh.
Co-creator of AlWird (Arabic Wordle).

Research interests: Diversity of Arabic Dialects, Arabic NLP, Multilinguality.

https://amr-keleg.github.io/
According to openreview, our paper got accepted to #ACL2025NLP 🥳🥳🥳
Further details to be shared soon!
May 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
My position paper “LLM Alignment for the Arabs: A Homogenous Culture or Diverse Ones?” got accepted to the @c3nlp.bsky.social workshop co-located with @naaclmeeting.bsky.social

I share concerns about the missed opportunities with the rise of Arabic-specific LLMs.

📄 arxiv.org/abs/2503.15003
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LLM Alignment for the Arabs: A Homogenous Culture or Diverse Ones?
Large language models (LLMs) have the potential of being useful tools that can automate tasks and assist humans. However, these models are more fluent in English and more aligned with Western cultures, norms, and values. Arabic-specific LLMs are being developed to better capture the nuances of the Arabic language, as well as the views of the Arabs. Yet, Arabs are sometimes assumed to share the same culture. In this position paper, I discuss the limitations of this assumption and provide preliminary thoughts for how to build systems that can better represent the cultural diversity within the Arab world. The invalidity of the cultural homogeneity assumption might seem obvious, yet, it is widely adopted in developing multilingual and Arabic-specific LLMs. I hope that this paper will encourage the NLP community to be considerate of the cultural diversity within various communities speaking the same language.
arxiv.org
March 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM