Samar M. Magdy

Postdoc, Linguistics, University of British Columbia

Joined

September 2023

Names

Samar M. Magdy (Preferred)

Samar Mohamed Magdy

Emails

****@mbzuai.ac.ae (Confirmed)

****@ubc.ca (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Postdoc

Linguistics, University of British Columbia (ubc.ca)

2025 – 2026

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Fakhraddin Alwajih

2023 – Present

Postdoc Advisor

Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

2022 – Present

Coworker

AbdelRahim A. Elmadany

2022 – Present

Expertise

Linguistics

Present

Publications

From Multiple-Choice to Extractive QA: A Case Study for English and Arabic
Teresa Lynn, Malik H. Altakrori, Samar M. Magdy, Rocktim Jyoti Das, Chenyang Lyu, Mohamed Nasr, Younes Samih, Kirill Chirkunov, Alham Fikri Aji, Preslav Nakov, Shantanu Godbole, Salim Roukos, Radu Florian, Nizar Habash
- Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Readers: Everyone
Palm: A Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse Dataset for Arabic LLMs
Fakhraddin Alwajih, Abdellah El Mekki, Samar Mohamed Magdy, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Omer Nacar, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Reem Abdel-Salam, Hanin Atwany, Youssef Nafea, Abdulfattah Mohammed Yahya, Rahaf Alhamouri, Hamzah A. Alsayadi, Hiba Zayed, Sara Shatnawi, Serry Sibaee, Yasir Ech-Chammakhy, Walid Al-Dhabyani, Marwa Mohamed Ali, Imen Jarraya, Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti et al. (24 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Jawaher: A Multidialectal Dataset of Arabic Proverbs for LLM Benchmarking
Samar Mohamed Magdy, Sang Yun Kwon, Fakhraddin Alwajih, Safaa Abdelfadil, Shady Shehata, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
From Multiple-Choice to Extractive QA: A Case Study for English and Arabic
Teresa Lynn, Malik H. Altakrori, Samar Mohamed Magdy, Rocktim Jyoti Das, Chenyang Lyu, Mohamed Nasr, Younes Samih, Kirill Chirkunov, Alham Fikri Aji, Preslav Nakov, Shantanu Godbole, Salim Roukos, Radu Florian, Nizar Habash
- COLING 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Casablanca: Data and Models for Multidialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
Bashar Talafha, Karima Kadaoui, Samar Mohamed Magdy, Mariem Habiboullah, Chafei Mohamed Chafei, Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti, Hiba Zayed, Mohamedou Cheikh Tourad, Rahaf Alhamouri, Rwaa Assi, Aisha Alraeesi, Hour Mohamed, Fakhraddin Alwajih, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Abdellah El Mekki, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Benelhadj Saadia, Hamzah A. Alsayadi, Walid Al-Dhabyani, Sara Shatnawi et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- EMNLP 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Gazelle: An Instruction Dataset for Arabic Writing Assistance
Samar Mohamed Magdy, Fakhraddin Alwajih, Sang Yun Kwon, Reem Abdel-Salam, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Casablanca: Data and Models for Multidialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
Bashar Talafha, Karima Kadaoui, Samar Mohamed Magdy, Mariem Habiboullah, Chafei Mohamed Chafei, Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti, Hiba Zayed, Mohamedou Cheikh Tourad, Rahaf Alhamouri, Rwaa Assi, Aisha Alraeesi, Hour Mohamed, Fakhraddin Alwajih, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Abdellah El Mekki, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Benelhadj Djelloul Mama Saadia, Hamzah A. Alsayadi, Walid Al-Dhabyani, Sara Shatnawi et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Can a Multichoice Dataset be Repurposed for Extractive Question Answering?
Teresa Lynn, Malik H. Altakrori, Samar Mohamed Magdy, Rocktim Jyoti Das, Chenyang Lyu, Mohamed Nasr, Younes Samih, Alham Fikri Aji, Preslav Nakov, Shantanu Godbole, Salim Roukos, Radu Florian, Nizar Habash
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
TARJAMAT: Evaluation of Bard and ChatGPT on Machine Translation of Ten Arabic Varieties
Karima Kadaoui, Samar Mohamed Magdy, Abdul Waheed, Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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