UBC-NLP/NADI_2026_ADI20_micro

ADI-20 Micro

This is a smaller version of the ADI-20/ADI-17 Arabic dialect identification dataset use for the NADI 2026 shared task (although participants are encouraged to use the full ADI-20 for their submissions). This dataset consists of 10 hours per each dialect taken from the original ADI-17 alongside 10 hours for each of the new dialects introduced in ADI-20.

Dataset Sources

• ADI-17: ArabicSpeech/ADI17

• ADI-20: ArabicSpeech/ADI20

• Papers: ADI-17, ADI-20

Uses

This dataset is designed for the training of Arabic dialect identification models and covers the following dialects:

'MSA', 'BAH', 'TUN', 'ALG', 'EGY', 'IRA', 'JOR', 'KSA', 'KUW', 'LEB', 'LIB', 'MAU', 'MOR', 'OMA', 'PAL', 'QAT', 'SUD', 'SYR', 'UAE', 'YEM'