---
title: "EgyHellaSwag"
source: EleutherAI LM Evaluation Harness
source_url: https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness
licence: MIT
domain: agentic-ai
subdomain: eleutherai-lm-eval
date_added: 2026-04-25
---

# EgyHellaSwag

### Paper

Title: NileChat: Towards Linguistically Diverse and Culturally Aware LLMs for Local Communities

Abstract: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18383](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18383)

**EgyHellaSwag** is a benchmark for evaluating commonsense reasoning in Egyptian Arabic. It is a translated version of the HellaSwag benchmark, consisting of multiple-choice sentence completion tasks. The dataset was translated using the `google/gemma-3-27b-it` model.


Homepage: [https://huggingface.co/datasets/UBC-NLP/EgyHellaSwag](https://huggingface.co/datasets/UBC-NLP/EgyHellaSwag)


### Citation

```
@article{mekki2025nilechatlinguisticallydiverseculturally,
  title={NileChat: Towards Linguistically Diverse and Culturally Aware LLMs for Local Communities},
  author={Abdellah El Mekki and Houdaifa Atou and Omer Nacar and Shady Shehata and Muhammad Abdul-Mageed},
  year={2025},
  eprint={2505.18383},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.CL},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18383},
}
```

### Groups and Tasks

#### Groups

* Not part of a group.

#### Tags

* `egyhellaswag`

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