CAMMAR: Culture-Aware Matryoshka for Metaphorical Arabic Representations

arXiv:2607.15847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Metaphor in Arabic is a culturally grounded mechanism for constructing meaning, encoding cultural knowledge that shapes interpretation. Yet current Arabic language models typically collapse lexical, cultural, and metaphorical information into a single representational space, a phenomenon we term "semantic smearing". We introduce CAMMAR (Culture-Aware Matryoshka for Metaphorical Arabic Representations), a representation learning framework that organ...