MuDRiC: Multi-Dialect Reasoning for Arabic Commonsense Validation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13130v1
• Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:42:53 GMT
• Title: MuDRiC: Multi-Dialect Reasoning for Arabic Commonsense Validation
• Authors: Kareem Elozeiri, Mervat Abassy, Preslav Nakov, Yuxia Wang,
• Abstract summary: We introduce MuDRiC, an extended Arabic commonsense dataset incorporating multiple dialects, and (ii) a novel method adapting Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) to Arabic commonsense reasoning.<n>Our work enhances Arabic natural language understanding by providing both a foundational dataset and a novel method for handling its complex variations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Commonsense validation evaluates whether a sentence aligns with everyday human understanding, a critical capability for developing robust natural language understanding systems. While substantial progress has been made in English, the task remains underexplored in Arabic, particularly given its rich linguistic diversity. Existing Arabic resources have primarily focused on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), leaving regional dialects underrepresented despite their prevalence in spoken contexts. To bridge this gap, we present two key contributions: (i) we introduce MuDRiC, an extended Arabic commonsense dataset incorporating multiple dialects, and (ii) a novel method adapting Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) to Arabic commonsense reasoning, which enhances semantic relationship modeling for improved commonsense validation. Our experimental results demonstrate that this approach achieves superior performance in Arabic commonsense validation. Our work enhances Arabic natural language understanding by providing both a foundational dataset and a novel method for handling its complex variations. To the best of our knowledge, we release the first Arabic multi-dialect commonsense reasoning dataset.

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