Abdu Sallouh

Does Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Dominate Arabic Dialects in LLMs? A Representation-Level Analysis

Large language models (LLMs) often default to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) when generating Arabic, even when prompted with dialectal Arabic. A natural explanation is that their internal representations are dominated by MSA. We test this hypothesis by adapting the language-dominance framework of Shani and Basirat (2025)...