Publications

2026

1. 

   MENASpeechBank: A Reference Voice Bank with Persona-Conditioned Multi-Turn Conversations for AudioLLMs

   Zien Sheikh Ali, Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Rabindra Nath Nandi , and 2 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.07036, 2026

   Bib

   @article{ali2026menaspeechbankreferencevoicebank,
     title = {{MENASpeechBank:} A Reference Voice Bank with Persona-Conditioned Multi-Turn Conversations for AudioLLMs},
     author = {Ali, Zien Sheikh and Bhatti, Hunzalah Hassan and Nandi, Rabindra Nath and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Alam, Firoj},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.07036},
     year = {2026},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07036},
   }

2. 

   Beyond MCQ: An Open-Ended Arabic Cultural QA Benchmark with Dialect Variants

   Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, and Firoj Alam

   In The 15th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) , 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{bhatti2025beyond,
     title = {{Beyond MCQ:} An Open-Ended Arabic Cultural QA Benchmark with Dialect Variants},
     author = {Bhatti, Hunzalah Hassan and Alam, Firoj},
     booktitle = {The 15th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026)},
     year = {2026},
   }

2025

1. 

   OASIS: A Multilingual and Multimodal Framework for Culturally Grounded Spoken Visual QA

   Firoj Alam, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Md. Arid Hasan , and 8 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.06371, 2025

   Bib

   @article{alam2025everydaymmqa,
     title = {{OASIS:} A Multilingual and Multimodal Framework for Culturally Grounded Spoken Visual QA},
     author = {Alam, Firoj and Shahroor, Ali Ezzat and Hasan, Md. Arid and Ali, Zien Sheikh and Bhatti, Hunzalah Hassan and Kmainasi, Mohamed Bayan and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Mousi, Basel and Dalvi, Fahim and Durrani, Nadir and Milic-Frayling, Natasa},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.06371},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. 

   NativQA Framework: Enabling llms with native, local, and everyday knowledge

   Firoj Alam, Md Arid Hasan, Sahinur Rahman Laskar , and 3 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.05995, 2025

   Bib

   @article{alam2025nativqa,
     title = {{NativQA Framework:} Enabling llms with native, local, and everyday knowledge},
     author = {Alam, Firoj and Hasan, Md Arid and Laskar, Sahinur Rahman and Kutlu, Mucahid and Darwish, Kareem and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.05995},
     year = {2025},
   }

3. 

   NativQA: Multilingual Culturally-Aligned Natural Query for LLMs

   Md. Arid Hasan, Maram Hasanain, Fatema Ahmad , and 6 more authors

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2025 , Jul 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{hasan-etal-2025-nativqa,
     title = {{NativQA:} Multilingual Culturally-Aligned Natural Query for {LLM}s},
     author = {Hasan, Md. Arid and Hasanain, Maram and Ahmad, Fatema and Laskar, Sahinur Rahman and Upadhyay, Sunaya and Sukhadia, Vrunda N and Kutlu, Mucahid and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Alam, Firoj},
     booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2025},
     month = jul,
     year = {2025},
     address = {Vienna, Austria},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.770/},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.770},
     pages = {14886--14909},
     isbn = {979-8-89176-256-5},
   }

4. 

   SpokenNativQA: Multilingual Everyday Spoken Queries for LLMs

   Firoj Alam, Md Arid Hasan, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

   In Proceedings of the 26th Interspeech Conference (Interspeech 2025) , Aug 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{alam2025spokennativqa,
     title = {{SpokenNativQA:} Multilingual Everyday Spoken Queries for LLMs},
     author = {Alam, Firoj and Hasan, Md Arid and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th Interspeech Conference (Interspeech 2025)},
     year = {2025},
     address = {Rotterdam, The Netherlands},
     month = aug,
     organization = {ISCA},
   }

5. 

   AraDiCE: Benchmarks for Dialectal and Cultural Capabilities in LLMs

   Basel Mousi, Nadir Durrani, Fatema Ahmad , and 6 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics , Jan 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{mousi-etal-2025-aradice,
     title = {{AraDiCE:} Benchmarks for Dialectal and Cultural Capabilities in LLMs},
     author = {Mousi, Basel and Durrani, Nadir and Ahmad, Fatema and Hasan, Md. Arid and Hasanain, Maram and Kabbani, Tameem and Dalvi, Fahim and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Alam, Firoj},
     editor = {Rambow, Owen and Wanner, Leo and Apidianaki, Marianna and Al-Khalifa, Hend and Eugenio, Barbara Di and Schockaert, Steven},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
     month = jan,
     year = {2025},
     address = {Abu Dhabi, UAE},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.283/},
     pages = {4186--4218},
   }