UBC-NLP/palmx_2025_subtask2_islamic

🏷️ PalmX 2025 — Islamic Culture Evaluation (PalmX-IC)

Dataset Summary

PalmX-IC assesses a model’s knowledge of Islamic culture—rituals, Qurʾān verses, Ḥadīth, historic events, jurisprudence, and religious holidays—core elements of life across the Arab world.
All items are authored in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) . The dataset powers Subtask 2 of the PalmX 2025 shared task.

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Dataset Structure

Split	# MCQs	Release Date	Notes
Train	600	10 Jun 2025	With gold answers
Dev	300	10 Jun 2025	With gold answers
Test	1 000	Blind	Answers withheld

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Example Record

{
  "id": 57057,
  "question": "في أي شهر هجري فُرض صيام رمضان؟",
  "A": "شعبان",
  "B": "رمضان",
  "C": "محرم",
  "D": "ربيع الأول",
  "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_Islamic, 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}, 
}