Aladdin-FTI @ AMIYA Three Wishes for Arabic NLP: Fidelity, Diglossia, and Multidialectal Generation

Summary

The paper introduces Aladdin-FTI, a system designed for generating and translating dialectal Arabic (DA). Aladdin-FTI supports text generation in Moroccan, Egyptian, Palestinian, Syrian, and Saudi dialects. It also handles bidirectional translation between these dialects, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and English. Why it matters: This work contributes to addressing the under-representation of Arabic dialects in NLP research and enables more inclusive Arabic language models.