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Ansari is a retrieval‑grounded Islamic AI assistant that has handled over 140,000 conversations in more than 25 languages since June 2023. It uses an agentic retrieval loop where a language model searches authenticated Islamic corpora—including the Qur’an, hadith collections, fiqh encyclopedias, and tafsir sources—and answers only based on retrieved content, providing citations for verification. The paper details Ansari’s architecture, multi‑platform deployment, evaluation results (including top performance on the IslamicMMLU leaderboard and strong resistance to false premises), and lessons for faith‑sensitive LLM deployments.
arXiv:2609.14967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quranic text is distributed in two orthographic forms that are byte-level distinct: the Uthmani script used in every printed mushaf, and the Standard (...
Large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent Arabic answers, yet factual errors remain difficult to detect, localize, explain, and verify. Existing hallucination benchmarks often provide response-level labels, with limited support for identifying the exact erroneous content, explaining why it is incorrect, or selecting the correct factual answer.
The paper surveys the state of Explainable AI (XAI) in Arabic NLP, highlighting three gaps: a method gap where Arabic XAI relies mainly on limited post‑hoc techniques; a task gap with most work focused on classification tasks and little on generation, retrieval, or dialogue; and a linguistic gap where explanations rarely address Arabic‑specific phenomena such as morphology, dialects, and diglossia. It proposes a taxonomy of tasks, methods, linguistic units, and evaluation practices, and outlines a research agenda for linguistically grounded Arabic XAI.
HalluScoring 2026 is a shared task that evaluates hallucination detection and factual verification in Arabic question answering, focusing on generalization to unseen questions and LLMs. It comprises two main tasks with four subtasks: binary hallucination detection (Subtasks 1.1 and 1.2) and answer verification against six candidates in Islamic and general knowledge domains (Subtasks 2.1 and 2.2). Thirteen teams participated, with the top system achieving AUC‑ROC scores of 0.772 and 0.767 for detection, and 0.882 and 0.857 for verification.
The paper presents an automated pipeline that generates high‑quality Quranic datasets, including 848 hours of audio and 286,000 annotated utterances, by collecting recitations, segmenting at pause points with a fine‑tuned wav2vec2‑BERT model, transcribing segments, and verifying transcripts using a novel Tasmeea algorithm. It introduces qdat_bench, a benchmark covering phonemes, diacritization, and Tajweed rules, and a custom Quran Phonetic Script (QPS) for encoding Tajweed. A multi‑level CTC model trained on this data achieves a 0.21% phoneme error rate on the test set and 1.94% on qdat_bench, with a 75.8% Tajweed F1 score.