🏷️ 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.

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

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"
}

License

PalmX Data License — non-commercial research use.

Access

You will gain access after registering for the shared task.

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

Contact & Links

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

Datasets:

UBC-NLP
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palmx_2025_subtask1_culture