arXiv Computation and Language
1d ago

REGLAT at ArGuard Shared Tasks: An Ensemble-Based Model Integrating NER for Harmful Content Detection in Arabic

The paper introduces REGLAT, an ensemble-based model that integrates named entity recognition (GLiNER) with a fine‑tuned MARBERT classifier to detect harmful content in Arabic. It classifies user prompts into seven harm categories, achieving a macro‑F1 of 0.886 and accuracy of 0.897 on the ArGuard 2026 development set, with slightly lower scores on blind test sets. The study highlights that combining explicit entity extraction with contextual language modeling improves fine‑grained harmful content detection, though distinguishing closely related categories remains difficult.

By Ahmed M. Fetouh, Mariam Labib, Nsrin Ashraf, Omer Dawood, Hamada Nayel
arXiv AI
Oct 15

XL-SafetyBench: A Country-Grounded Cross-Cultural Benchmark for LLM Safety and Cultural Sensitivity

arXiv:2605.05662v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current LLM safety benchmarks are predominantly English-centric and often rely on translation, failing to capture country-specific harms. Mor...

By Dasol Choi, Eugenia Kim, Jaewon Noh, Sang Seo, Eunmi Kim, Myunggyo Oh, Yunjin Park, Brigitta Jesica Kartono, Josef Pichlmeier, Helena Berndt, Sai Krishna Mendu, Glenn Johannes Tungka, \"Ozlem G\"ok\c{c}e, Suresh Gehlot, Katherine Pratt, Amanda Minnich, Haon Park
arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago

AfriGuard: Safety and Robust Refusal For African Languages

arXiv:2610.26474v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) designed to interact with users are typically trained to respond appropriately to harmful or toxic content. However, e...

By Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Iffat Maab, Alexander D. Cai, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Jonas Kgomo, Folasade Alabi, Salomey Osei, Saminu Muhammad Aliyu, Nkechinyere Faith Aguobi, Bontu Fufa Balcha, Blessing Sibanda, Davis David, Mouhamadane Mboup, Daud Abolade, Neo Putini, Louis Powell, Kiant'e Brantley, Philipp Slusallek, Dietrich Klakow, Julia Kreutzer