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TalkFa: A Unified Benchmark for Farsi Dialogue Generation and Understanding

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Released as a preprint on arXiv.

The paper releases TalkFa, a Farsi dialogue benchmark with three human-reviewed datasets: 4.2K Wikipedia-grounded dialogues, 6.6K dialogues labeled for dialogue acts and emotions, and 2.1K theatrical dialogues with sentiment labels. Experiments with six LLaMA and Mistral models show that LoRA fine-tuning recovers over 90% of its gains with only 25 to 50% of the training data, and that automatic metrics and an LLM judge overrate dialogue quality compared with human evaluation.

Authors: Neda Jamshidi, Kamyar Zeinalipour, Fahimeh Akbari, Monica Bianchini, Marco Maggini, Marco Gori.

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