Alexandria - Human Dialectness Rating (Yemeni Arabic): leaderboard

Human evaluation of English to Yemeni 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 Yemeni 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)4.49#141 (Gemini 3 Flash (Preview))
2Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) (Minimal)4.28#141 (Gemini 3 Flash (Preview))
3Gemma 3 27B (IT)3.86#1306
4GPT-OSS-120B3.67#699
5c4ai-command-a-03-20253.66#1096
6aya-expanse-32B2.25#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-yemeni-arabic · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.