hasankh/sdnlp-llama3.1-syrian-lora

Syrian Arabic Dialect LoRA – AMIYA Submission

This repository contains a LoRA adapter for modeling Syrian Arabic dialect, submitted to the AMIYA (Arabic Modeling In Your Accent) Shared Task.

Base Model

• Meta-Llama-3.1-8B

Method

• Prompt-guided dialectal rewriting
• LoRA fine-tuning
• Post-generation filtering to ensure dialect fidelity
• No factual or QA guarantees (dialect fidelity only)

Training Data

• Task-provided data
• Prompt-engineered inference
• No off-limits datasets were used

Intended Use

• Dialectal Arabic generation (Syrian)
• Evaluation under the AL-QASIDA benchmark

Limitations

• This model is not designed for factual question answering.
• Semantic adequacy is out of scope; focus is on dialect fidelity.

Shared Task

• AMIYA – Arabic Modeling In Your Accent
• Dialect: Syrian Arabic