ArabicNLP 2025 — winning PalmX system for Arabic cultural QA

Dual-expert and parameter-efficient LLM fine-tuning for Arabic Islamic inheritance reasoning (QIAS) and the winning PalmX system for Arabic cultural QA.

Shared-task publication · 2025 · Host: Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference · Suzhou, China

Why it mattered

Culturally grounded, competition-winning multilingual AI.

Scientific / professional contribution

Fine-tuning methods for culturally grounded Arabic question answering.

Connected records

• Research theme Multilingual & Culturally Aware AI
• Related publication ADAPT–MTU HAI at PalmX 2025: Leveraging Full and Parameter-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning for Arabic Cultural QA — Proceedings of the Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks, 2025
• Milestone ArabicNLP 2025 — winning PalmX system for Arabic cultural QA
• Collaborators Shehenaz Hossain

Related research

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• adaptNMT & adaptMLLM — open-source multilingual MT tooling — Research software
• PhD in Computer Science (NLP), Le Mans Université — milestone
• Multimodal comparable corpora for machine translation (Natural Language Engineering) — milestone
• Arabic dialect identification & emotion detection (WANLP, SemEval-2019) — milestone

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