UBC-NLP/palmx_2025_subtask1_culture

🏷️ PalmX 2025 — General Culture Evaluation (PalmX-GC)

Dataset Summary

PalmX-GC evaluates a model’s grasp of general Arab culture—customs, history, geography, arts, cuisine, notable figures, and everyday life across the 22 Arab League countries. Every item is written in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The dataset powers Subtask 1 of the PalmX 2025 shared task.

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Dataset Structure

Split	# MCQs	Release Date	Notes
Train	2000	10 Jun 2025	With gold answers
Dev	500	10 Jun 2025	With gold answers
Test	2 000	Blind	Answers withheld

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Example Record

{
  "id": 42042,
  "question": "ما هو أعلى جبل في اليمن؟",
  "A": "جبل النبي شعيب",
  "B": "جبل شمسان",
  "C": "جبل صبر",
  "D": "جبل حدة",
  "answer": "A"
}

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License

PalmX Data License — non-commercial research use.

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Access

You will gain access after registering for the shared task.

• Register here → https://forms.gle/cpmYGkAhM3YLXBsQ7
• Website → https://palmx.dlnlp.ai/

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Contact & Links

•	🌐 Website: https://palmx.dlnlp.ai/
•	📝 Registration Form: https://forms.gle/cpmYGkAhM3YLXBsQ7
•	📣 Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/palmx2025

Evaluation

If you are willing to evaluate your model performance on Palmx_2025_Culture, please use the following evaluation code from this GitHub repository:
https://github.com/UBC-NLP/palmx_2025

Citation

If you used this data in your work, please make sure to cite the original paper:

@misc{alwajih2025palmx2025sharedtask,
      title={PalmX 2025: The First Shared Task on Benchmarking LLMs on Arabic and Islamic Culture}, 
      author={Fakhraddin Alwajih and Abdellah El Mekki and Hamdy Mubarak and Majd Hawasly and Abubakr Mohamed and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2509.02550},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02550}, 
}