Alexandria - Human Dialectness Rating (Libyan Arabic): leaderboard

Human evaluation of English to Libyan Arabic translation on the Alexandria (El Mekki et al., ACL 2026) test set: native speakers rate on a 1-5 scale whether each translation sounds like a native speaker of the target dialect rather than Modern Standard Arabic or a mix, independently of meaning. Mean rating, higher is better.

Metric: Dialectness and fluency (1-5; native Libyan speakers rate whether the English-to-dialect translation sounds like a native speaker of the target dialect). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 6 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) (Medium)4.05#141 (Gemini 3 Flash (Preview))
2Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) (Minimal)3.95#141 (Gemini 3 Flash (Preview))
3c4ai-command-a-03-20253.3#1096
4Gemma 3 27B (IT)3.07#1306
5GPT-OSS-120B2.83#699
6aya-expanse-32B2.78#1950

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=alexandria-human-dialectness-rating-libyan-arabic · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.