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https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.968.bib
@inproceedings{yue-etal-2024-fragrel, title = "{F}rag{R}el: Exploiting Fragment-level Relations in the External Memory of Large Language Models", author = "Yue, Xihang and Zhu, Linchao and Yang, Yi", editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei and Martins, Andre and Srikumar, Vivek", booktitle = "...
To process contexts with unlimited length using Large Language Models (LLMs), recent studies explore hierarchically managing the long text. Only several text fragments are taken from the external memory and passed into the temporary working memory, i.e., LLM{'}s context window. However, existing approaches isolatedly h...
[ "Yue, Xihang", "Zhu, Linchao", "Yang, Yi" ]
{F}rag{R}el: Exploiting Fragment-level Relations in the External Memory of Large Language Models
findings-acl.968
Poster
2406.03092v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.969.bib
@inproceedings{meng-etal-2024-robustness, title = "On the Robustness of Document-Level Relation Extraction Models to Entity Name Variations", author = "Meng, Shiao and Hu, Xuming and Liu, Aiwei and Ma, Fukun and Yang, Yawen and Li, Shuang and Wen, Lijie", editor = "...
Driven by the demand for cross-sentence and large-scale relation extraction, document-level relation extraction (DocRE) has attracted increasing research interest. Despite the continuous improvement in performance, we find that existing DocRE models which initially perform well may make more mistakes when merely changi...
[ "Meng, Shiao", "Hu, Xuming", "Liu, Aiwei", "Ma, Fukun", "Yang, Yawen", "Li, Shuang", "Wen, Lijie" ]
On the Robustness of Document-Level Relation Extraction Models to Entity Name Variations
findings-acl.969
Poster
2406.07444v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.970.bib
@inproceedings{hu-etal-2024-resemo, title = "{RESEMO}: A Benchmark {C}hinese Dataset for Studying Responsive Emotion from Social Media Content", author = "Hu, Bo and Zhang, Meng and Xie, Chenfei and Tian, Yuanhe and Song, Yan and Mao, Zhendong", editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei and ...
On social media platforms, users{'} emotions are triggered when they encounter particular content from other users,where such emotions are different from those that spontaneously emerged, owing to the {``}responsive{''} nature. Analyzing the aforementioned responsive emotions from user interactions is a task of signifi...
[ "Hu, Bo", "Zhang, Meng", "Xie, Chenfei", "Tian, Yuanhe", "Song, Yan", "Mao, Zhendong" ]
{RESEMO}: A Benchmark {C}hinese Dataset for Studying Responsive Emotion from Social Media Content
findings-acl.970
Poster
1506.06021v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.971.bib
@inproceedings{ryu-etal-2024-ehr, title = "{EHR}-{S}eq{SQL} : A Sequential Text-to-{SQL} Dataset For Interactively Exploring Electronic Health Records", author = "Ryu, Jaehee and Cho, Seonhee and Lee, Gyubok and Choi, Edward", editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei and Martins, Andre and S...
In this paper, we introduce EHR-SeqSQL, a novel sequential text-to-SQL dataset for Electronic Health Record (EHR) databases. EHR-SeqSQL is designed to address critical yet underexplored aspects in text-to-SQL parsing: interactivity, compositionality, and efficiency. To the best of our knowledge, EHR-SeqSQL is not only ...
[ "Ryu, Jaehee", "Cho, Seonhee", "Lee, Gyubok", "Choi, Edward" ]
{EHR}-{S}eq{SQL} : A Sequential Text-to-{SQL} Dataset For Interactively Exploring Electronic Health Records
findings-acl.971
Poster
2406.00019v3
https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.972.bib
@inproceedings{wang-etal-2024-keep, title = "{KEEP} {CHATTING}! An Attractive Dataset for Continuous Conversation Agents", author = "Wang, Yihe and Liu, Jin and Wan, Yao and Li, Yitong and Liu, Zifeng and Chen, Weipeng", editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei and Martins, Andre and...
Ongoing chatting is an important step for conversational agents to build long-term connections with people. However, people tend to quickly lose interest in chatting if the conversational agent{'}s words are not engaging enough. In this paper, we present a novel task of increasing users{'} willingness to continue talki...
[ "Wang, Yihe", "Liu, Jin", "Wan, Yao", "Li, Yitong", "Liu, Zifeng", "Chen, Weipeng" ]
{KEEP} {CHATTING}! An Attractive Dataset for Continuous Conversation Agents
findings-acl.972
Poster
2401.02978v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.973.bib
@inproceedings{zhao-etal-2024-repair, title = "{R}e{P}air: Automated Program Repair with Process-based Feedback", author = "Zhao, Yuze and Huang, Zhenya and Ma, Yixiao and Li, Rui and Zhang, Kai and Jiang, Hao and Liu, Qi and Zhu, Linbo and Su, Yu", ed...
The gap between the trepidation of program reliability and the expense of repairs underscore the indispensability for Automated Program Repair (APR). APR is instrumental in transforming vulnerable programs into more robust ones, bolstering program reliability while simultaneously diminishing the financial burden of man...
[ "Zhao, Yuze", "Huang, Zhenya", "Ma, Yixiao", "Li, Rui", "Zhang, Kai", "Jiang, Hao", "Liu, Qi", "Zhu, Linbo", "Su, Yu" ]
{R}e{P}air: Automated Program Repair with Process-based Feedback
findings-acl.973
Poster
2208.08235v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.974.bib
@inproceedings{xu-etal-2024-concise, title = "Concise and Precise Context Compression for Tool-Using Language Models", author = "Xu, Yang and Feng, Yunlong and Mu, Honglin and Hou, Yutai and Li, Yitong and Wang, Xinghao and Zhong, Wanjun and Li, Zhongyang and ...
Through reading the documentation in the context, tool-using language models can dynamically extend their capability using external tools. The cost is that we have to input lengthy documentation every time the model needs to use the tool, occupying the input window as well as slowing down the decoding process.Given the...
[ "Xu, Yang", "Feng, Yunlong", "Mu, Honglin", "Hou, Yutai", "Li, Yitong", "Wang, Xinghao", "Zhong, Wanjun", "Li, Zhongyang", "Tu, D", "an", "Zhu, Qingfu", "Zhang, Min", "Che, Wanxiang" ]
Concise and Precise Context Compression for Tool-Using Language Models
findings-acl.974
Poster
2407.02043v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.975.bib
@inproceedings{elgaar-etal-2024-meddec, title = "{M}ed{D}ec: A Dataset for Extracting Medical Decisions from Discharge Summaries", author = "Elgaar, Mohamed and Cheng, Jiali and Vakil, Nidhi and Amiri, Hadi and Celi, Leo Anthony", editor = "Ku, Lun-Wei and Martins, Andre ...
Medical decisions directly impact individuals{'} health and well-being. Extracting decision spans from clinical notes plays a crucial role in understanding medical decision-making processes. In this paper, we develop a new dataset called {``}MedDec,{''} which contains clinical notes of eleven different phenotypes (dise...
[ "Elgaar, Mohamed", "Cheng, Jiali", "Vakil, Nidhi", "Amiri, Hadi", "Celi, Leo Anthony" ]
{M}ed{D}ec: A Dataset for Extracting Medical Decisions from Discharge Summaries
findings-acl.975
Poster
2305.15222v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.1.bib
@inproceedings{schneider-biemann-2024-wismir3, title = "{WISMIR}3: A Multi-Modal Dataset to Challenge Text-Image Retrieval Approaches", author = "Schneider, Florian and Biemann, Chris", editor = "Gu, Jing and Fu, Tsu-Jui (Ray) and Hudson, Drew and Celikyilmaz, Asli and Wan...
This paper presents WISMIR3, a multi-modal dataset comprising roughly 300K text-image pairs from Wikipedia. With a sophisticated automatic ETL pipeline, we scraped, filtered, and transformed the data so that WISMIR3 intrinsically differs from other popular text-image datasets like COCO and Flickr30k. We prove this diff...
[ "Schneider, Florian", "Biemann, Chris" ]
{WISMIR}3: A Multi-Modal Dataset to Challenge Text-Image Retrieval Approaches
alvr-1.1
Poster
1712.09550v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.2.bib
@inproceedings{geigle-etal-2024-mblip, title = "m{BLIP}: Efficient Bootstrapping of Multilingual Vision-{LLM}s", author = "Geigle, Gregor and Jain, Abhay and Timofte, Radu and Glava{\v{s}}, Goran", editor = "Gu, Jing and Fu, Tsu-Jui (Ray) and Hudson, Drew and Celiky...
Modular vision-language models (Vision-LLMs) align pretrained image encoders with (frozen) large language models (LLMs) and post-hoc condition LLMs to {`}understand{'} the image input. With the abundance of readily available high-quality English image-text data as well as strong monolingual English LLMs, the research f...
[ "Geigle, Gregor", "Jain, Abhay", "Timofte, Radu", "Glava{\\v{s}}, Goran" ]
m{BLIP}: Efficient Bootstrapping of Multilingual Vision-{LLM}s
alvr-1.2
Poster
2106.03469v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.3.bib
@inproceedings{xia-etal-2024-lmpt, title = "{LMPT}: Prompt Tuning with Class-Specific Embedding Loss for Long-Tailed Multi-Label Visual Recognition", author = "Xia, Peng and Xu, Di and Hu, Ming and Ju, Lie and Ge, Zongyuan", editor = "Gu, Jing and Fu, Tsu-Jui (Ray) and ...
Long-tailed multi-label visual recognition (LTML) task is a highly challenging task due to the label co-occurrence and imbalanced data distribution. In this work, we propose a unified framework for LTML, namely prompt tuning with class-specific embedding loss (LMPT), capturing the semantic feature interactions between ...
[ "Xia, Peng", "Xu, Di", "Hu, Ming", "Ju, Lie", "Ge, Zongyuan" ]
{LMPT}: Prompt Tuning with Class-Specific Embedding Loss for Long-Tailed Multi-Label Visual Recognition
alvr-1.3
Poster
2305.04536v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.4.bib
@inproceedings{lovenia-etal-2024-negative, title = "Negative Object Presence Evaluation ({NOPE}) to Measure Object Hallucination in Vision-Language Models", author = "Lovenia, Holy and Dai, Wenliang and Cahyawijaya, Samuel and Ji, Ziwei and Fung, Pascale", editor = "Gu, Jing and...
Object hallucination poses a significant challenge in vision-language (VL) models, often leading to the generation of nonsensical or unfaithful responses with non-existent objects. However, the absence of a general measurement for evaluating object hallucination in VL models has hindered our understanding and ability t...
[ "Lovenia, Holy", "Dai, Wenliang", "Cahyawijaya, Samuel", "Ji, Ziwei", "Fung, Pascale" ]
Negative Object Presence Evaluation ({NOPE}) to Measure Object Hallucination in Vision-Language Models
alvr-1.4
Poster
2310.05338v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.5.bib
@inproceedings{quantmeyer-etal-2024-clip, title = "How and where does {CLIP} process negation?", author = "Quantmeyer, Vincent and Mosteiro, Pablo and Gatt, Albert", editor = "Gu, Jing and Fu, Tsu-Jui (Ray) and Hudson, Drew and Celikyilmaz, Asli and Wang, William", ...
Various benchmarks have been proposed to test linguistic understanding in pre-trained vision {\&} language (VL) models. Here we build on the existence task from the VALSE benchmark (Parcalabescu et al., 2022) which we use to test models{'} understanding of negation, a particularly interesting issue for multimodal model...
[ "Quantmeyer, Vincent", "Mosteiro, Pablo", "Gatt, Albert" ]
How and where does {CLIP} process negation?
alvr-1.5
Poster
2407.10488v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.6.bib
@inproceedings{nikandrou-etal-2024-enhancing, title = "Enhancing Continual Learning in Visual Question Answering with Modality-Aware Feature Distillation", author = "Nikandrou, Malvina and Pantazopoulos, Georgios and Konstas, Ioannis and Suglia, Alessandro", editor = "Gu, Jing and ...
Continual learning focuses on incrementally training a model on a sequence of tasks with the aim of learning new tasks while minimizing performance drop on previous tasks. Existing approaches at the intersection of Continual Learning and Visual Question Answering (VQA) do not study how the multimodal nature of the inpu...
[ "Nik", "rou, Malvina", "Pantazopoulos, Georgios", "Konstas, Ioannis", "Suglia, Aless", "ro" ]
Enhancing Continual Learning in Visual Question Answering with Modality-Aware Feature Distillation
alvr-1.6
Poster
2406.19297v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.7.bib
@inproceedings{teramen-etal-2024-english, title = "{E}nglish-to-{J}apanese Multimodal Machine Translation Based on Image-Text Matching of Lecture Videos", author = "Teramen, Ayu and Ohtsuka, Takumi and Kondo, Risa and Kajiwara, Tomoyuki and Ninomiya, Takashi", editor = "Gu, Jing ...
We work on a multimodal machine translation of the audio contained in English lecture videos to generate Japanese subtitles. Image-guided multimodal machine translation is promising for error correction in speech recognition and for text disambiguation. In our situation, lecture videos provide a variety of images. Imag...
[ "Teramen, Ayu", "Ohtsuka, Takumi", "Kondo, Risa", "Kajiwara, Tomoyuki", "Ninomiya, Takashi" ]
{E}nglish-to-{J}apanese Multimodal Machine Translation Based on Image-Text Matching of Lecture Videos
alvr-1.7
Poster
2006.12799v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.8.bib
@inproceedings{wang-etal-2024-videocot, title = "{V}ideo{C}o{T}: A Video Chain-of-Thought Dataset with Active Annotation Tool", author = "Wang, Yan and Zeng, Yawen and Zheng, Jingsheng and Xing, Xiaofen and Xu, Jin and Xu, Xiangmin", editor = "Gu, Jing and Fu, Tsu-J...
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are flourishing, but mainly focus on images with less attention than videos, especially in sub-fields such as prompt engineering, video chain-of-though (CoT), and instruction tuning on videos. Therefore, we try to explore the collection of CoT datasets in videos to lead to video...
[ "Wang, Yan", "Zeng, Yawen", "Zheng, Jingsheng", "Xing, Xiaofen", "Xu, Jin", "Xu, Xiangmin" ]
{V}ideo{C}o{T}: A Video Chain-of-Thought Dataset with Active Annotation Tool
alvr-1.8
Poster
2407.05355v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.9.bib
@inproceedings{rosch-etal-2024-enhancing, title = "Enhancing Conceptual Understanding in Multimodal Contrastive Learning through Hard Negative Samples", author = {R{\"o}sch, Philipp J. and Oswald, Norbert and Geierhos, Michaela and Libovick{\'y}, Jind{\v{r}}ich}, editor = "Gu, Jing and...
Current vision-language models leveraging contrastive learning often face limitations in developing fine-grained conceptual understanding. This is due to random negative samples during pretraining, causing almost exclusively very dissimilar concepts to be compared in the loss function. Consequently, the models struggle...
[ "R{\\\"o}sch, Philipp J.", "Oswald, Norbert", "Geierhos, Michaela", "Libovick{\\'y}, Jind{\\v{r}}ich" ]
Enhancing Conceptual Understanding in Multimodal Contrastive Learning through Hard Negative Samples
alvr-1.9
Poster
2403.02875v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.10.bib
@inproceedings{xia-etal-2024-vision, title = "Vision Language Models for Spreadsheet Understanding: Challenges and Opportunities", author = "Xia, Shiyu and Xiong, Junyu and Dong, Haoyu and Zhao, Jianbo and Tian, Yuzhang and Zhou, Mengyu and He, Yeye and Han, Shi ...
This paper explores capabilities of Vision Language Models on spreadsheet comprehension. We propose three self-supervised challenges with corresponding evaluation metrics to comprehensively evaluate VLMs on Optical Character Recognition (OCR), spatial perception, and visual format recognition. Additionally, we utilize ...
[ "Xia, Shiyu", "Xiong, Junyu", "Dong, Haoyu", "Zhao, Jianbo", "Tian, Yuzhang", "Zhou, Mengyu", "He, Yeye", "Han, Shi", "Zhang, Dongmei" ]
Vision Language Models for Spreadsheet Understanding: Challenges and Opportunities
alvr-1.10
Poster
2405.16234v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.11.bib
@inproceedings{wang-etal-2024-slideavsr, title = "{S}lide{AVSR}: A Dataset of Paper Explanation Videos for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition", author = "Wang, Hao and Kurita, Shuhei and Shimizu, Shuichiro and Kawahara, Daisuke", editor = "Gu, Jing and Fu, Tsu-Jui (Ray) and H...
Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) is a multimodal extension of automatic speech recognition (ASR), using video as a complement to audio. In AVSR, considerable efforts have been directed at datasets for facial features such as lip-readings, while they often fall short in evaluating the image comprehension capabilit...
[ "Wang, Hao", "Kurita, Shuhei", "Shimizu, Shuichiro", "Kawahara, Daisuke" ]
{S}lide{AVSR}: A Dataset of Paper Explanation Videos for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition
alvr-1.11
Poster
2401.09759v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.12.bib
@inproceedings{hu-keller-2024-causal, title = "Causal and Temporal Inference in Visual Question Generation by Utilizing Pre-trained Models", author = "Hu, Zhanghao and Keller, Frank", editor = "Gu, Jing and Fu, Tsu-Jui (Ray) and Hudson, Drew and Celikyilmaz, Asli and Wang,...
Visual Question Generation is a task at the crossroads of visual and language learning, impacting broad domains like education, medicine, and social media. While existing pre-trained models excel in fact-based queries with image pairs, they fall short of capturing human-like inference, particularly in understanding cau...
[ "Hu, Zhanghao", "Keller, Frank" ]
Causal and Temporal Inference in Visual Question Generation by Utilizing Pre-trained Models
alvr-1.12
Poster
2304.08083v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.13.bib
@inproceedings{reinhardt-etal-2024-improving, title = "Improving Vision-Language Cross-Lingual Transfer with Scheduled Unfreezing", author = "Reinhardt, Max and Geigle, Gregor and Timofte, Radu and Glava{\v{s}}, Goran", editor = "Gu, Jing and Fu, Tsu-Jui (Ray) and Hudson, ...
Large-scale pretraining of vision-language (VL) models brought dramatic improvements across numerous tasks, from visual question-answering to cross-modal retrieval but these gains are mostly limited to English. Massively multilingual VL encoder models (mVLMs) hold promise for other languages: after fine-tuning on only ...
[ "Reinhardt, Max", "Geigle, Gregor", "Timofte, Radu", "Glava{\\v{s}}, Goran" ]
Improving Vision-Language Cross-Lingual Transfer with Scheduled Unfreezing
alvr-1.13
Poster
2301.05487v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.14.bib
@inproceedings{zhu-etal-2024-automatic, title = "Automatic Layout Planning for Visually-Rich Documents with Instruction-Following Models", author = "Zhu, Wanrong and Zhang, Ruiyi and Healey, Jennifer and Wang, William Yang and Sun, Tong", editor = "Gu, Jing and Fu, Tsu-Jui...
Recent advancements in instruction-following models have made user interactions with models more user-friendly and efficient, broadening their applicability. In graphic design, non-professional users often struggle to create visually appealing layouts due to limited skills and resources. In this work, we introduce a no...
[ "Zhu, Wanrong", "Zhang, Ruiyi", "Healey, Jennifer", "Wang, William Yang", "Sun, Tong" ]
Automatic Layout Planning for Visually-Rich Documents with Instruction-Following Models
alvr-1.14
Poster
2404.15271v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.15.bib
@inproceedings{urailertprasert-etal-2024-sea, title = "{SEA}-{VQA}: {S}outheast {A}sian Cultural Context Dataset For Visual Question Answering", author = "Urailertprasert, Norawit and Limkonchotiwat, Peerat and Suwajanakorn, Supasorn and Nutanong, Sarana", editor = "Gu, Jing and ...
Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a critical task that requires the simultaneous understanding of visual and textual information. While significant advancements have been made with multilingual datasets, these often lack cultural specificity, especially in the context of Southeast Asia (SEA). In this paper, we introdu...
[ "Urailertprasert, Norawit", "Limkonchotiwat, Peerat", "Suwajanakorn, Supasorn", "Nutanong, Sarana" ]
{SEA}-{VQA}: {S}outheast {A}sian Cultural Context Dataset For Visual Question Answering
alvr-1.15
Poster
2402.05374v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.16.bib
@inproceedings{bielefeld-etal-2024-wiki, title = "{W}iki-{VEL}: Visual Entity Linking for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons", author = {Bielefeld, Philipp and Geppert, Jasmin and G{\"u}ven, Necdet and John, Melna and Ziupka, Adrian and Kaffee, Lucie-Aim{\'e}e and Bis...
Describing Wikimedia Commons images using Wikidata{'}s structured data enables a wide range of automation tasks, such as search and organization, as well as downstream tasks, such as labeling images or training machine learning models. However, there is currently a lack of structured data-labelled images on Wikimedia C...
[ "Bielefeld, Philipp", "Geppert, Jasmin", "G{\\\"u}ven, Necdet", "John, Melna", "Ziupka, Adrian", "Kaffee, Lucie-Aim{\\'e}e", "Biswas, Russa", "De Melo, Gerard" ]
{W}iki-{VEL}: Visual Entity Linking for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons
alvr-1.16
Poster
1507.04180v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.17.bib
@inproceedings{wazni-etal-2024-verbclip, title = "{V}erb{CLIP}: Improving Verb Understanding in Vision-Language Models with Compositional Structures", author = "Wazni, Hadi and Lo, Kin and Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh", editor = "Gu, Jing and Fu, Tsu-Jui (Ray) and Hudson, Drew and ...
Verbs describe the dynamics of interactions between people, objects, and their environments. They play a crucial role in language formation and understanding. Nonetheless, recent vision-language models like CLIP predominantly rely on nouns and have a limited account of verbs. This limitation affects their performance i...
[ "Wazni, Hadi", "Lo, Kin", "Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh" ]
{V}erb{CLIP}: Improving Verb Understanding in Vision-Language Models with Compositional Structures
alvr-1.17
Poster
2304.06708v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.alvr-1.18.bib
@inproceedings{narin-2024-evolutionary, title = "Evolutionary Reward Design and Optimization with Multimodal Large Language Models", author = "Narin, Ali", editor = "Gu, Jing and Fu, Tsu-Jui (Ray) and Hudson, Drew and Celikyilmaz, Asli and Wang, William", booktitle = "Proceed...
Designing reward functions is a pivotal yet challenging task for Reinforcement Learning (RL) practices, often demanding domain expertise and substantial effort. Recent studies have explored the utilization of Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate reward functions via evolutionary search techniques. However, these ap...
[ "Narin, Ali" ]
Evolutionary Reward Design and Optimization with Multimodal Large Language Models
alvr-1.18
Poster
2406.10540v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.1.bib
@inproceedings{abdaljalil-mubarak-2024-wikidata, title = "{W}ikidata as a Source of Demographic Information", author = "Abdaljalil, Samir and Mubarak, Hamdy", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Nadi and Abu Farha, Ibrahim and Ab...
Names carry important information about our identities and demographics such as gender, nationality, ethnicity, etc. We investigate the use of individual{'}s name, in both Arabic and English, to predict important attributes, namely country, region, gender, and language. We extract data from Wikidata, and normalize it, ...
[ "Abdaljalil, Samir", "Mubarak, Hamdy" ]
{W}ikidata as a Source of Demographic Information
arabicnlp-1.1
Poster
1908.11153v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.2.bib
@inproceedings{almutairi-etal-2024-synthetic, title = "Synthetic {A}rabic Medical Dialogues Using Advanced Multi-Agent {LLM} Techniques", author = "ALMutairi, Mariam and AlKulaib, Lulwah and Aktas, Melike and Alsalamah, Sara and Lu, Chang-Tien", editor = "Habash, Nizar and ...
The increasing use of artificial intelligence in healthcare requires robust datasets for training and validation, particularly in the domain of medical conversations. However, the creation and accessibility of such datasets in Arabic face significant challenges, especially due to the sensitivity and privacy concerns th...
[ "ALMutairi, Mariam", "AlKulaib, Lulwah", "Aktas, Melike", "Alsalamah, Sara", "Lu, Chang-Tien" ]
Synthetic {A}rabic Medical Dialogues Using Advanced Multi-Agent {LLM} Techniques
arabicnlp-1.2
Poster
2403.06611v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.3.bib
@inproceedings{haouari-etal-2024-aured, title = "{A}u{RED}: Enabling {A}rabic Rumor Verification using Evidence from Authorities over {T}witter", author = "Haouari, Fatima and Elsayed, Tamer and Suwaileh, Reem", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and ...
Diverging from the trend of the previous rumor verification studies, we introduce the new task of rumor verification using evidence that are exclusively captured from authorities, i.e., entities holding the right and knowledge to verify corresponding information. To enable research on this task for Arabic low-resourced...
[ "Haouari, Fatima", "Elsayed, Tamer", "Suwaileh, Reem" ]
{A}u{RED}: Enabling {A}rabic Rumor Verification using Evidence from Authorities over {T}witter
arabicnlp-1.3
Poster
2301.05863v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.4.bib
@inproceedings{alhafni-etal-2024-exploiting, title = "Exploiting Dialect Identification in Automatic Dialectal Text Normalization", author = "Alhafni, Bashar and Al-Towaity, Sarah and Fawzy, Ziyad and Nassar, Fatema and Eryani, Fadhl and Bouamor, Houda and Habash, Nizar...
Dialectal Arabic is the primary spoken language used by native Arabic speakers in daily communication. The rise of social media platforms has notably expanded its use as a written language. However, Arabic dialects do not have standard orthographies. This, combined with the inherent noise in user-generated content on s...
[ "Alhafni, Bashar", "Al-Towaity, Sarah", "Fawzy, Ziyad", "Nassar, Fatema", "Eryani, Fadhl", "Bouamor, Houda", "Habash, Nizar" ]
Exploiting Dialect Identification in Automatic Dialectal Text Normalization
arabicnlp-1.4
Poster
2407.03020v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.5.bib
@inproceedings{liberato-etal-2024-strategies, title = "Strategies for {A}rabic Readability Modeling", author = "Liberato, Juan and Alhafni, Bashar and Khalil, Muhamed and Habash, Nizar", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Nadi ...
Automatic readability assessment is relevant to building NLP applications for education, content analysis, and accessibility. However, Arabic readability assessment is a challenging task due to Arabic{'}s morphological richness and limited readability resources. In this paper, we present a set of experimental results o...
[ "Liberato, Juan", "Alhafni, Bashar", "Khalil, Muhamed", "Habash, Nizar" ]
Strategies for {A}rabic Readability Modeling
arabicnlp-1.5
Poster
2407.03032v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.6.bib
@inproceedings{mraikhat-etal-2024-areej, title = "{AREE}j: {A}rabic Relation Extraction with Evidence", author = "Mraikhat, Osama and Hamoud, Hadi and Zaraket, Fadi", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Nadi and Abu Farha, Ibrahi...
Relational entity extraction is key in building knowledge graphs. A relational entity has a source, a tail and atype. In this paper, we consider Arabic text and introduce evidence enrichment which intuitivelyinforms models for better predictions. Relational evidence is an expression in the textthat explains how sources...
[ "Mraikhat, Osama", "Hamoud, Hadi", "Zaraket, Fadi" ]
{AREE}j: {A}rabic Relation Extraction with Evidence
arabicnlp-1.6
Poster
2106.08657v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.7.bib
@inproceedings{boughorbel-etal-2024-improving, title = "Improving Language Models Trained on Translated Data with Continual Pre-Training and Dictionary Learning Analysis", author = "Boughorbel, Sabri and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Hawasly, Majd", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda a...
Training LLMs in low resources languages usually utilizes machine translation (MT) data augmentation from English language. However, translation brings a number of challenges: there are large costs attached to translating and curating huge amounts of content with high-end machine translation solutions; the translated c...
[ "Boughorbel, Sabri", "Parvez, Md Rizwan", "Hawasly, Majd" ]
Improving Language Models Trained on Translated Data with Continual Pre-Training and Dictionary Learning Analysis
arabicnlp-1.7
Poster
2405.14277v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.8.bib
@inproceedings{elnokrashy-alkhamissi-2024-context, title = "A Context-Contrastive Inference Approach To Partial Diacritization", author = "ElNokrashy, Muhammad and AlKhamissi, Badr", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Nadi and Abu Farh...
Diacritization plays a pivotal role for meaning disambiguation and improving readability in Arabic texts. Efforts have long focused on marking every eligible character (Full Diacritization). Overlooked in comparison, Partial Diacritzation ({`}PD{`}) is the selection of a subset of characters to be annotated to aid comp...
[ "ElNokrashy, Muhammad", "AlKhamissi, Badr" ]
A Context-Contrastive Inference Approach To Partial Diacritization
arabicnlp-1.8
Poster
2401.08919v3
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.9.bib
@inproceedings{al-barham-etal-2024-araclip, title = "{A}ra{CLIP}: Cross-Lingual Learning for Effective {A}rabic Image Retrieval", author = "Al-Barham, Muhammad and Afyouni, Imad and Almubarak, Khalid and Elnagar, Ashraf and Turky, Ayad and Hashem, Ibrahim", editor = "Habas...
This paper introduces Arabic Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (AraCLIP), a model designed for Arabic image retrieval tasks, building upon the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) architecture. AraCLIP leverages Knowledge Distillation to transfer cross-modal knowledge from English to Arabic, enhancing i...
[ "Al-Barham, Muhammad", "Afyouni, Imad", "Almubarak, Khalid", "Elnagar, Ashraf", "Turky, Ayad", "Hashem, Ibrahim" ]
{A}ra{CLIP}: Cross-Lingual Learning for Effective {A}rabic Image Retrieval
arabicnlp-1.9
Poster
2006.11586v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.10.bib
@inproceedings{elfqih-monti-2024-large, title = "Large Language Models as Legal Translators of {A}rabic Legislatives: Does {C}hat{GPT} and Gemini Care for Context and Terminology?", author = "ElFqih, Khadija and Monti, Johanna", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, R...
Accurate translation of terminology and adaptation to in-context information is a pillar to high quality translation. Recently, there is a remarkable interest towards the use and the evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) particularly for Machine Translation tasks. Nevertheless, despite their recent advancement and...
[ "ElFqih, Khadija", "Monti, Johanna" ]
Large Language Models as Legal Translators of {A}rabic Legislatives: Does {C}hat{GPT} and Gemini Care for Context and Terminology?
arabicnlp-1.10
Poster
2308.03051v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.11.bib
@inproceedings{doan-etal-2024-towards, title = "Towards Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech for {A}rabic Dialects", author = "Doan, Khai and Waheed, Abdul and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Nadi and Abu Farha, ...
Zero-shot multi-speaker text-to-speech (ZS-TTS) systems have advanced for English, however, it still lags behind due to insufficient resources. We address this gap for Arabic, a language of more than 450 million native speakers, by first adapting a sizeable existing dataset to suit the needs of speech synthesis. Additi...
[ "Doan, Khai", "Waheed, Abdul", "Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad" ]
Towards Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech for {A}rabic Dialects
arabicnlp-1.11
Poster
2105.14779v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.12.bib
@inproceedings{mdhaffar-etal-2024-performance, title = "Performance Analysis of Speech Encoders for Low-Resource {SLU} and {ASR} in {T}unisian Dialect", author = "Mdhaffar, Salima and Elleuch, Haroun and Bougares, Fethi and Est{\`e}ve, Yannick", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamo...
Speech encoders pretrained through self-supervised learning (SSL) have demonstrated remarkable performance in various downstream tasks, including Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). For instance, fine-tuning SSL models for such tasks has shown significant potential, leading to im...
[ "Mdhaffar, Salima", "Elleuch, Haroun", "Bougares, Fethi", "Est{\\`e}ve, Yannick" ]
Performance Analysis of Speech Encoders for Low-Resource {SLU} and {ASR} in {T}unisian Dialect
arabicnlp-1.12
Poster
2407.04533v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.13.bib
@inproceedings{el-shangiti-etal-2024-arabic, title = "{A}rabic Automatic Story Generation with Large Language Models", author = "El-Shangiti, Ahmed and Alwajih, Fakhraddin and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh,...
Large language models (LLMs) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for a wide range of language generation tasks. Nevertheless, this progress has been slower in Arabic. In this work, we focus on the task of generating stories from LLMs. For our training, we use stories acquired through machine translation (MT) as we...
[ "El-Shangiti, Ahmed", "Alwajih, Fakhraddin", "Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad" ]
{A}rabic Automatic Story Generation with Large Language Models
arabicnlp-1.13
Poster
2407.07551v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.14.bib
@inproceedings{ahmed-etal-2024-alclam, title = "{A}lcla{M}: {A}rabic Dialect Language Model", author = "Ahmed, Murtadha and Alfasly, Saghir and Wen, Bo and Addeen, Jamal and Ahmed, Mohammed and Liu, Yunfeng", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Esk...
Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) are integral to many modern natural language processing (NLP) systems. Although multilingual models cover a wide range of languages, they often grapple with challenges like high inference costs and a lack of diverse non-English training data. Arabic-specific PLMs are trained predomina...
[ "Ahmed, Murtadha", "Alfasly, Saghir", "Wen, Bo", "Addeen, Jamal", "Ahmed, Mohammed", "Liu, Yunfeng" ]
{A}lcla{M}: {A}rabic Dialect Language Model
arabicnlp-1.14
Poster
2305.16651v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.15.bib
@inproceedings{shatnawi-etal-2024-data, title = "Data Augmentation for Speech-Based Diacritic Restoration", author = "Shatnawi, Sara and Alqahtani, Sawsan and Shehata, Shady and Aldarmaki, Hanan", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tom...
This paper describes a data augmentation technique for boosting the performance of speech-based diacritic restoration. Our experiments demonstrate the utility of this appraoch, resulting in improved generalization of all models across different test sets. In addition, we describe the first multi-modal diacritic restora...
[ "Shatnawi, Sara", "Alqahtani, Sawsan", "Shehata, Shady", "Aldarmaki, Hanan" ]
Data Augmentation for Speech-Based Diacritic Restoration
arabicnlp-1.15
Poster
2311.10771v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.16.bib
@inproceedings{mokh-etal-2024-domain, title = "Out-of-Domain Dependency Parsing for Dialects of {A}rabic: A Case Study", author = {Mokh, Noor and Dakota, Daniel and K{\"u}bler, Sandra}, editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Nadi and ...
We study dependency parsing for four Arabic dialects (Gulf, Levantine, Egyptian, and Maghrebi). Since no syntactically annotated data exist for Arabic dialects, we train the parser on a Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) corpus, which creates an out-of-domain setting.We investigate methods to close the gap between the source...
[ "Mokh, Noor", "Dakota, Daniel", "K{\\\"u}bler, S", "ra" ]
Out-of-Domain Dependency Parsing for Dialects of {A}rabic: A Case Study
arabicnlp-1.16
Poster
2005.00318v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.17.bib
@inproceedings{bassas-kubler-2024-investigating, title = "Investigating Linguistic Features for {A}rabic {NLI}", author = {Bassas, Yasmeen and K{\"u}bler, Sandra}, editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Nadi and Abu Farha, Ibrahim and ...
Native Language Identification (NLI) is concerned with predicting the native language of an author writing in a second language. We investigate NLI for Arabic, with a focus on the types of linguistic information given that Arabic is morphologically rich. We use the Arabic Learner Corpus (ALC) foro training and testing ...
[ "Bassas, Yasmeen", "K{\\\"u}bler, S", "ra" ]
Investigating Linguistic Features for {A}rabic {NLI}
arabicnlp-1.17
Poster
2309.06923v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.18.bib
@inproceedings{demidova-etal-2024-john, title = "John vs. Ahmed: Debate-Induced Bias in Multilingual {LLM}s", author = "Demidova, Anastasiia and Atwany, Hanin and Rabih, Nour and Sha{'}ban, Sanad and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and ...
Large language models (LLMs) play a crucial role in a wide range of real world applications. However, concerns about their safety and ethical implications are growing. While research on LLM safety is expanding, there is a noticeable gap in evaluating safety across multiple languages, especially in Arabic and Russian. W...
[ "Demidova, Anastasiia", "Atwany, Hanin", "Rabih, Nour", "Sha{'}ban, Sanad", "Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad" ]
John vs. Ahmed: Debate-Induced Bias in Multilingual {LLM}s
arabicnlp-1.18
Poster
2402.18045v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.19.bib
@inproceedings{bhatia-etal-2024-qalam, title = "Qalam: A Multimodal {LLM} for {A}rabic Optical Character and Handwriting Recognition", author = "Bhatia, Gagan and Nagoudi, El Moatez Billah and Alwajih, Fakhraddin and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, H...
Arabic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Handwriting Recognition (HWR) pose unique challenges due to the cursive and context-sensitive nature of the Arabic script. This study introduces ***Qalam***, a novel foundation model designed for Arabic OCR and HWR, built on a SwinV2 encoder and RoBERTa decoder architectur...
[ "Bhatia, Gagan", "Nagoudi, El Moatez Billah", "Alwajih, Fakhraddin", "Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad" ]
Qalam: A Multimodal {LLM} for {A}rabic Optical Character and Handwriting Recognition
arabicnlp-1.19
Poster
2407.13559v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.20.bib
@inproceedings{hijazi-etal-2024-arablegaleval, title = "{A}rab{L}egal{E}val: A Multitask Benchmark for Assessing {A}rabic Legal Knowledge in Large Language Models", author = "Hijazi, Faris and Alharbi, Somayah and AlHussein, Abdulaziz and Shairah, Harethah and Alzahrani, Reem and ...
The rapid advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to significant improvements in various natural language processing tasks. However, the evaluation of LLMs{'} legal knowledge, particularly in non English languages such as Arabic, remains under-explored. To address this gap, we introduce ArabLegalEval, a m...
[ "Hijazi, Faris", "Alharbi, Somayah", "AlHussein, Abdulaziz", "Shairah, Harethah", "Alzahrani, Reem", "Alshamlan, Hebah", "Turkiyyah, George", "Knio, Omar" ]
{A}rab{L}egal{E}val: A Multitask Benchmark for Assessing {A}rabic Legal Knowledge in Large Language Models
arabicnlp-1.20
Poster
2402.12840v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.21.bib
@inproceedings{alasmary-etal-2024-catt, title = "{CATT}: Character-based {A}rabic Tashkeel Transformer", author = "Alasmary, Faris and Zaafarani, Orjuwan and Ghannam, Ahmad", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Nadi and Abu Farha...
Tashkeel, or Arabic Text Diacritization (ATD), greatly enhances the comprehension of Arabic text by removing ambiguity and minimizing the risk of misinterpretations caused by its absence.It plays a crucial role in improving Arabic text processing, particularly in applications such as text-to-speech and machine translat...
[ "Alasmary, Faris", "Zaafarani, Orjuwan", "Ghannam, Ahmad" ]
{CATT}: Character-based {A}rabic Tashkeel Transformer
arabicnlp-1.21
Poster
2407.03236v3
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.22.bib
@inproceedings{khalifa-etal-2024-picking, title = "Picking Up Where the Linguist Left Off: Mapping Morphology to Phonology through Learning the Residuals", author = "Khalifa, Salam and Qaddoumi, Abdelrahim and Broselow, Ellen and Rambow, Owen", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor...
Learning morphophonological mappings between the spoken form of a language and its underlying morphological structures is crucial for enriching resources for morphologically rich languages like Arabic. In this work, we focus on Egyptian Arabic as our case study and explore the integration of linguistic knowledge with a...
[ "Khalifa, Salam", "Qaddoumi, Abdelrahim", "Broselow, Ellen", "Rambow, Owen" ]
Picking Up Where the Linguist Left Off: Mapping Morphology to Phonology through Learning the Residuals
arabicnlp-1.22
Poster
9607013v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.23.bib
@inproceedings{alcoba-inciarte-etal-2024-utility, title = "On the Utility of Pretraining Language Models on Synthetic Data", author = "Alcoba Inciarte, Alcides and Kwon, Sang Yun and Nagoudi, El Moatez Billah and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda...
Development of pre-trained language models has predominantly relied on large amounts of datasets. However, this dependence on abundant data has limited the applicability of these models in low-resource settings. In this work, we investigate the utility of exploiting synthetic datasets acquired from different sources to...
[ "Alcoba Inciarte, Alcides", "Kwon, Sang Yun", "Nagoudi, El Moatez Billah", "Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad" ]
On the Utility of Pretraining Language Models on Synthetic Data
arabicnlp-1.23
Poster
2403.13638v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.24.bib
@inproceedings{khondaker-etal-2024-benchmarking, title = "Benchmarking {LL}a{MA}-3 on {A}rabic Language Generation Tasks", author = "Khondaker, Md Tawkat Islam and Naeem, Numaan and Khan, Fatimah and Elmadany, AbdelRahim and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad", editor = "Habash, Nizar and ...
Open-sourced large language models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable performance in a variety of NLP tasks, often catching up with the closed-sourced LLMs like ChatGPT. Among these open LLMs, LLaMA-3-70B has emerged as the most recent and the most prominent one. However, how LLaMA-3-70B would situate itself in multiling...
[ "Khondaker, Md Tawkat Islam", "Naeem, Numaan", "Khan, Fatimah", "Elmadany, AbdelRahim", "Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad" ]
Benchmarking {LL}a{MA}-3 on {A}rabic Language Generation Tasks
arabicnlp-1.24
Poster
2205.10687v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.25.bib
@inproceedings{saeed-etal-2024-nile, title = "From Nile Sands to Digital Hands: Machine Translation of {C}optic Texts", author = "Saeed, Muhammed and Mohamed, Asim and Mohamed, Mukhtar and Shehata, Shady and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Hou...
The Coptic language, rooted in the historical landscapes of Egypt, continues to serve as a vital liturgical medium for the Coptic Orthodox and Catholic Churches across Egypt, North Sudan, Libya, and the United States, with approximately ten million speakers worldwide. However, the scarcity of digital resources in Copti...
[ "Saeed, Muhammed", "Mohamed, Asim", "Mohamed, Mukhtar", "Shehata, Shady", "Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad" ]
From Nile Sands to Digital Hands: Machine Translation of {C}optic Texts
arabicnlp-1.25
Poster
1912.05082v3
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.26.bib
@inproceedings{aljabari-etal-2024-event, title = "Event-Arguments Extraction Corpus and Modeling using {BERT} for {A}rabic", author = "Aljabari, Alaa and Duaibes, Lina and Jarrar, Mustafa and Khalilia, Mohammed", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ram...
Event-argument extraction is a challenging task, particularly in Arabic due to sparse linguistic resources. To fill this gap, we introduce the corpus (550k tokens) as an extension of Wojood, enriched with event-argument annotations. We used three types of event arguments: $agent$, $location$, and $date$, which we annot...
[ "Aljabari, Alaa", "Duaibes, Lina", "Jarrar, Mustafa", "Khalilia, Mohammed" ]
Event-Arguments Extraction Corpus and Modeling using {BERT} for {A}rabic
arabicnlp-1.26
Poster
2004.14135v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.27.bib
@inproceedings{alwajih-etal-2024-dallah, title = "Dallah: A Dialect-Aware Multimodal Large Language Model for {A}rabic", author = "Alwajih, Fakhraddin and Bhatia, Gagan and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Na...
Recent advancements have significantly enhanced the capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in generating and understanding image-to-text content. Despite these successes, progress is predominantly limited to English due to the scarcity of high-quality multimodal resources in other languages. This limi...
[ "Alwajih, Fakhraddin", "Bhatia, Gagan", "Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad" ]
Dallah: A Dialect-Aware Multimodal Large Language Model for {A}rabic
arabicnlp-1.27
Poster
2407.18129v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.28.bib
@inproceedings{bashendy-etal-2024-qaes, title = "{QAES}: First Publicly-Available Trait-Specific Annotations for Automated Scoring of {A}rabic Essays", author = "Bashendy, May and Albatarni, Salam and Eltanbouly, Sohaila and Zahran, Eman and Elhuseyin, Hamdo and Elsayed, Tamer...
Automated Essay Scoring (AES) has emerged as a significant research problem within natural language processing, providing valuable support for educators in assessing student writing skills. In this paper, we introduce QAES, the first publicly available trait-specific annotations for Arabic AES, built on the Qatari Corp...
[ "Bashendy, May", "Albatarni, Salam", "Eltanbouly, Sohaila", "Zahran, Eman", "Elhuseyin, Hamdo", "Elsayed, Tamer", "Massoud, Walid", "Bouamor, Houda" ]
{QAES}: First Publicly-Available Trait-Specific Annotations for Automated Scoring of {A}rabic Essays
arabicnlp-1.28
Poster
2407.11212v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.29.bib
@inproceedings{ferhat-etal-2024-functional, title = "Functional Text Dimensions for {A}rabic Text Classification", author = "Ferhat, Zeyd and Betka, Abir and Barka, Riyadh and Kahhoul, Zineddine and Boutiba, Selma and Tiar, Mohamed and Dahmani, Habiba and Abdelal...
Text classification is of paramount importance in a wide range of applications, including information retrieval, extraction and sentiment analysis. The challenge of classifying and labelling text genres, especially in web-based corpora, has received considerable attention. The frequent absence of unambiguous genre info...
[ "Ferhat, Zeyd", "Betka, Abir", "Barka, Riyadh", "Kahhoul, Zineddine", "Boutiba, Selma", "Tiar, Mohamed", "Dahmani, Habiba", "Abdelali, Ahmed" ]
Functional Text Dimensions for {A}rabic Text Classification
arabicnlp-1.29
Poster
2006.11586v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.30.bib
@inproceedings{khalilia-etal-2024-arabicnlu, title = "{A}rabic{NLU} 2024: The First {A}rabic Natural Language Understanding Shared Task", author = "Khalilia, Mohammed and Malaysha, Sanad and Suwaileh, Reem and Jarrar, Mustafa and Aljabari, Alaa and Elsayed, Tamer and Zi...
This paper presents an overview of the Arabic Natural Language Understanding (ArabicNLU 2024) shared task, focusing on two subtasks: Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) and Location Mention Disambiguation (LMD). The task aimed to evaluate the ability of automated systems to resolve word ambiguity and identify locations men...
[ "Khalilia, Mohammed", "Malaysha, Sanad", "Suwaileh, Reem", "Jarrar, Mustafa", "Aljabari, Alaa", "Elsayed, Tamer", "Zitouni, Imed" ]
{A}rabic{NLU} 2024: The First {A}rabic Natural Language Understanding Shared Task
arabicnlp-1.30
Poster
2407.20663v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.31.bib
@inproceedings{wael-etal-2024-pirates, title = "Pirates at {A}rabic{NLU}2024: Enhancing {A}rabic Word Sense Disambiguation using Transformer-Based Approaches", author = "Wael, Tasneem and Elrefai, Eman and Makram, Mohamed and Selim, Sahar and Khoriba, Ghada", editor = "Habash, Ni...
This paper presents a novel approach to Ara-bic Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) lever-aging transformer-based models to tackle thecomplexities of the Arabic language. Utiliz-ing the SALMA dataset, we applied severaltechniques, including Sentence Transformerswith Siamese networks and the SetFit frame-work optimized for ...
[ "Wael, Tasneem", "Elrefai, Eman", "Makram, Mohamed", "Selim, Sahar", "Khoriba, Ghada" ]
Pirates at {A}rabic{NLU}2024: Enhancing {A}rabic Word Sense Disambiguation using Transformer-Based Approaches
arabicnlp-1.31
Poster
2104.08110v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.32.bib
@inproceedings{rajpoot-etal-2024-upaya, title = "Upaya at {A}rabic{NLU} Shared-Task: {A}rabic Lexical Disambiguation using Large Language Models", author = "Rajpoot, Pawan and Jindal, Ashvini and Parikh, Ankur", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and ...
Disambiguating a word{'}s intended meaning(sense) in a given context is important in Nat-ural Language Understanding (NLU). WSDaims to determine the correct sense of ambigu-ous words in context. At the same time, LMD(a WSD variation) focuses on disambiguatinglocation mention. Both tasks are vital in Nat-ural Language P...
[ "Rajpoot, Pawan", "Jindal, Ashvini", "Parikh, Ankur" ]
Upaya at {A}rabic{NLU} Shared-Task: {A}rabic Lexical Disambiguation using Large Language Models
arabicnlp-1.32
Poster
9410029v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.33.bib
@inproceedings{abdel-salam-2024-rematchka, title = "rematchka at {A}rabic{NLU}2024: Evaluating Large Language Models for {A}rabic Word Sense and Location Sense Disambiguation", author = "Abdel-Salam, Reem", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Nadi a...
Natural Language Understanding (NLU) plays a vital role in Natural Language Processing (NLP) by facilitating semantic interactions. Arabic, with its diverse morphology, poses a challenge as it allows multiple interpretations of words, leading to potential misunderstandings and errors in NLP applications. In this paper,...
[ "Abdel-Salam, Reem" ]
rematchka at {A}rabic{NLU}2024: Evaluating Large Language Models for {A}rabic Word Sense and Location Sense Disambiguation
arabicnlp-1.33
Poster
2104.08110v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.34.bib
@inproceedings{malaysha-etal-2024-arafinnlp, title = "{A}ra{F}in{NLP} 2024: The First {A}rabic Financial {NLP} Shared Task", author = "Malaysha, Sanad and El-Haj, Mo and Ezzini, Saad and Khalilia, Mohammed and Jarrar, Mustafa and Almujaiwel, Sultan and Berrada, Ismail ...
The expanding financial markets of the Arab world require sophisticated Arabic NLP tools. To address this need within the banking domain, the Arabic Financial NLP (AraFinNLP) shared task proposes two subtasks: (i) Multi-dialect Intent Detection and (ii) Cross-dialect Translation and Intent Preservation. This shared tas...
[ "Malaysha, Sanad", "El-Haj, Mo", "Ezzini, Saad", "Khalilia, Mohammed", "Jarrar, Mustafa", "Almujaiwel, Sultan", "Berrada, Ismail", "Bouamor, Houda" ]
{A}ra{F}in{NLP} 2024: The First {A}rabic Financial {NLP} Shared Task
arabicnlp-1.34
Poster
2407.09818v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.35.bib
@inproceedings{hariri-abu-farha-2024-smash, title = "{SMASH} at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}2024: Benchmarking {A}rabic {BERT} Models on the Intent Detection", author = "Hariri, Youssef and Abu Farha, Ibrahim", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Nadi and...
The recent growth in Middle Eastern stock markets has intensified the demand for specialized financial Arabic NLP models to serve this sector. This article presents the participation of Team SMASH of The University of Edinburgh in the Multi-dialect Intent Detection task (Subtask 1) of the Arabic Financial NLP (AraFinNL...
[ "Hariri, Youssef", "Abu Farha, Ibrahim" ]
{SMASH} at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}2024: Benchmarking {A}rabic {BERT} Models on the Intent Detection
arabicnlp-1.35
Poster
2405.16482v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.36.bib
@inproceedings{chowdhury-etal-2024-fired, title = "{F}ired{\_}from{\_}{NLP} at {A}ra{F}in{NLP} 2024: Dual-Phase-{BERT} - A Fine-Tuned Transformer-Based Model for Multi-Dialect Intent Detection in The Financial Domain for The {A}rabic Language", author = "Chowdhury, Md. and Chowdhury, Mostak and Sh...
In the financial industry, identifying user intent from text inputs is crucial for various tasks such as automated trading, sentiment analysis, and customer support. One important component of natural language processing (NLP) is intent detection, which is significant to the finance sector. Limited studies have been co...
[ "Chowdhury, Md.", "Chowdhury, Mostak", "Shanto, Anik", "Murad, Hasan", "Das, Udoy" ]
{F}ired{\_}from{\_}{NLP} at {A}ra{F}in{NLP} 2024: Dual-Phase-{BERT} - A Fine-Tuned Transformer-Based Model for Multi-Dialect Intent Detection in The Financial Domain for The {A}rabic Language
arabicnlp-1.36
Poster
2402.07448v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.37.bib
@inproceedings{elkordi-etal-2024-alexunlp24, title = "{A}lexu{NLP}24 at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}2024: Multi-Dialect {A}rabic Intent Detection with Contrastive Learning in Banking Domain", author = "Elkordi, Hossam and Sakr, Ahmed and Torki, Marwan and El-Makky, Nagwa", editor = "Habash, Nizar a...
Arabic banking intent detection represents a challenging problem across multiple dialects. It imposes generalization difficulties due to the scarcity of Arabic language and its dialects resources compared to English. We propose a methodology that leverages contrastive training to overcome this limitation. We also augme...
[ "Elkordi, Hossam", "Sakr, Ahmed", "Torki, Marwan", "El-Makky, Nagwa" ]
{A}lexu{NLP}24 at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}2024: Multi-Dialect {A}rabic Intent Detection with Contrastive Learning in Banking Domain
arabicnlp-1.37
Poster
2405.16482v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.38.bib
@inproceedings{paran-etal-2024-semanticcuetsync, title = "{S}emantic{C}uet{S}ync at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}2024: Classification of Cross-Dialect Intent in the Banking Domain using Transformers", author = "Paran, Ashraful and Shohan, Symom and Hossain, Md. and Hossain, Jawad and Ahsan, Shawly...
Intention detection is a crucial aspect of natural language understanding (NLU), focusing on identifying the primary objective underlying user input. In this work, we present a transformer-based method that excels in determining the intent of Arabic text within the banking domain. We explored several machine learning (...
[ "Paran, Ashraful", "Shohan, Symom", "Hossain, Md.", "Hossain, Jawad", "Ahsan, Shawly", "Hoque, Mohammed Moshiul" ]
{S}emantic{C}uet{S}ync at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}2024: Classification of Cross-Dialect Intent in the Banking Domain using Transformers
arabicnlp-1.38
Poster
2212.13015v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.39.bib
@inproceedings{nasr-ben-hajhmida-2024-senit, title = "{SENIT} at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}2024: trust your model or combine two", author = "Nasr, Abdelmomen and Ben HajHmida, Moez", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Nadi and Abu Farha, Ibrahim ...
We describe our submitted system to the 2024 Shared Task on The Arabic Financial NLP (Malaysha et al., 2024). We tackled Subtask 1, namely Multi-dialect Intent Detection. We used state-of-the-art pretrained contextualized text representation models and fine-tuned them according to the downstream task at hand. We starte...
[ "Nasr, Abdelmomen", "Ben HajHmida, Moez" ]
{SENIT} at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}2024: trust your model or combine two
arabicnlp-1.39
Poster
1809.00052v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.40.bib
@inproceedings{fares-touileb-2024-babelbot, title = "{B}abel{B}ot at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}2024: Fine-tuning T5 for Multi-dialect Intent Detection with Synthetic Data and Model Ensembling", author = "Fares, Murhaf and Touileb, Samia", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ra...
This paper presents our results for the Arabic Financial NLP (AraFinNLP) shared task at the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2024). We participated in the first sub-task, Multi-dialect Intent Detection, which focused on cross-dialect intent detection in the banking domain. Our approach in...
[ "Fares, Murhaf", "Touileb, Samia" ]
{B}abel{B}ot at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}2024: Fine-tuning T5 for Multi-dialect Intent Detection with Synthetic Data and Model Ensembling
arabicnlp-1.40
Poster
2012.01721v2
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.41.bib
@inproceedings{ramadan-etal-2024-ma, title = "{MA} at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}2024: {BERT}-based Ensemble for Cross-dialectal {A}rabic Intent Detection", author = "Ramadan, Asmaa and Amr, Manar and Torki, Marwan and El-Makky, Nagwa", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and E...
Intent detection, also called intent classification or recognition, is an NLP technique to comprehend the purpose behind user utterances. This paper focuses on Multi-dialect Arabic intent detection in banking, utilizing the ArBanking77 dataset. Our method employs an ensemble of fine-tuned BERT-based models, integrating...
[ "Ramadan, Asmaa", "Amr, Manar", "Torki, Marwan", "El-Makky, Nagwa" ]
{MA} at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}2024: {BERT}-based Ensemble for Cross-dialectal {A}rabic Intent Detection
arabicnlp-1.41
Poster
2310.19034v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.42.bib
@inproceedings{ashraf-etal-2024-bfci, title = "{BFCI} at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}2024: Support Vector Machines for {A}rabic Financial Text Classification", author = "Ashraf, Nsrin and Nayel, Hamada and Aldawsari, Mohammed and Shashirekha, Hosahalli and Elshishtawy, Tarek", editor = "Habas...
In this paper, a description of the system submitted by BFCAI team to the AraFinNLP2024 shared task has been introduced. Our team participated in the first subtask, which aims at detecting the customer intents of cross-dialectal Arabic queries in the banking domain. Our system follows the common pipeline of text classi...
[ "Ashraf, Nsrin", "Nayel, Hamada", "Aldawsari, Mohammed", "Shashirekha, Hosahalli", "Elshishtawy, Tarek" ]
{BFCI} at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}2024: Support Vector Machines for {A}rabic Financial Text Classification
arabicnlp-1.42
Poster
1410.4863v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.43.bib
@inproceedings{lichouri-etal-2024-dzfinnlp, title = "dz{F}in{N}lp at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}: Improving Intent Detection in Financial Conversational Agents", author = "Lichouri, Mohamed and Lounnas, Khaled and Zakaria, Amziane", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ra...
In this paper, we present our dzFinNlp team{'}s contribution for intent detection in financial conversational agents, as part of the AraFinNLP shared task. We experimented with various models and feature configurations, including traditional machine learning methods like LinearSVC with TF-IDF, as well as deep learning ...
[ "Lichouri, Mohamed", "Lounnas, Khaled", "Zakaria, Amziane" ]
dz{F}in{N}lp at {A}ra{F}in{NLP}: Improving Intent Detection in Financial Conversational Agents
arabicnlp-1.43
Poster
2407.13565v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.44.bib
@inproceedings{hasanain-etal-2024-araieval, title = "{A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Unimodal and Multimodal {A}rabic Content", author = "Hasanain, Maram and Hasan, Md. Arid and Ahmad, Fatema and Suwaileh, Reem and Biswas, Md. Rafiul and Zaghou...
We present an overview of the second edition of the ArAIEval shared task, organized as part of the ArabicNLP 2024 conference co-located with ACL 2024. In this edition, ArAIEval offers two tasks: (i) detection of propagandistic textual spans with persuasion techniques identification in tweets and news articles, and (ii)...
[ "Hasanain, Maram", "Hasan, Md. Arid", "Ahmad, Fatema", "Suwaileh, Reem", "Biswas, Md. Rafiul", "Zaghouani, Wajdi", "Alam, Firoj" ]
{A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Unimodal and Multimodal {A}rabic Content
arabicnlp-1.44
Poster
2407.04247v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.45.bib
@inproceedings{shah-etal-2024-mememind, title = "{M}eme{M}ind at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Generative Augmentation and Feature Fusion for Multimodal Propaganda Detection in {A}rabic Memes through Advanced Language and Vision Models", author = "Shah, Uzair and Biswas, Md. Rafiul and Agus, Marco an...
Detecting propaganda in multimodal content, such as memes, is crucial for combating disinformation on social media. This paper presents a novel approach for the ArAIEval 2024 shared Task 2 on Multimodal Propagandistic Memes Classification, involving text, image, and multimodal classification of Arabic memes. For text c...
[ "Shah, Uzair", "Biswas, Md. Rafiul", "Agus, Marco", "Househ, Mowafa", "Zaghouani, Wajdi" ]
{M}eme{M}ind at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Generative Augmentation and Feature Fusion for Multimodal Propaganda Detection in {A}rabic Memes through Advanced Language and Vision Models
arabicnlp-1.45
Poster
2408.04540v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.46.bib
@inproceedings{alhabashi-etal-2024-asos, title = "{ASOS} at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Integrating Text and Image Embeddings for Multimodal Propaganda Detection in {A}rabic Memes", author = "Alhabashi, Yasser and Alharbi, Abdullah and Ahmad, Samar and Sibaee, Serry and Nacar, Omer an...
This paper describes our participation in the ArAIEval Shared Task 2024, focusing on Task 2C, which challenges participants to detect propagandistic elements in multimodal Arabic memes. The challenge involves analyzing both the textual and visual components of memes to identify underlying propagandistic messages. Our a...
[ "Alhabashi, Yasser", "Alharbi, Abdullah", "Ahmad, Samar", "Sibaee, Serry", "Nacar, Omer", "Ghouti, Lahouari", "Koubaa, Anis" ]
{ASOS} at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Integrating Text and Image Embeddings for Multimodal Propaganda Detection in {A}rabic Memes
arabicnlp-1.46
Poster
2407.01360v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.47.bib
@inproceedings{riyadh-nabhani-2024-mela, title = "Mela at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in {A}rabic with a Multilingual Approach", author = "Riyadh, Md and Nabhani, Sara", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Nad...
This paper presents our system submitted for Task 1 of the ArAIEval Shared Task on Unimodal (Text) Propagandistic Technique Detection in Arabic. Task 1 involves identifying all employed propaganda techniques in a given text from a set of possible techniques or detecting that no propaganda technique is present. Addition...
[ "Riyadh, Md", "Nabhani, Sara" ]
Mela at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in {A}rabic with a Multilingual Approach
arabicnlp-1.47
Poster
2407.01360v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.48.bib
@inproceedings{haouhat-etal-2024-modos, title = "{MODOS} at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Multimodal Propagandistic Memes Classification Using Weighted {SAM}, {CLIP} and {A}rabian{GPT}", author = "Haouhat, Abdelhamid and Cherroun, Hadda and Bellaouar, Slimane and Nehar, Attia", editor = "Ha...
Arabic social media platforms are increasingly using propaganda to deceive or influence people. This propaganda is often spread through multimodal content, such as memes. While substantial research has addressed the automatic detection of propaganda in English content, this paper presents the MODOS team{'}s participati...
[ "Haouhat, Abdelhamid", "Cherroun, Hadda", "Bellaouar, Slimane", "Nehar, Attia" ]
{MODOS} at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Multimodal Propagandistic Memes Classification Using Weighted {SAM}, {CLIP} and {A}rabian{GPT}
arabicnlp-1.48
Poster
2407.04247v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.49.bib
@inproceedings{abir-oflazer-2024-nullpointer, title = "Nullpointer at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: {A}rabic Propagandist Technique Detection with Token-to-Word Mapping in Sequence Tagging", author = "Abir, Abrar and Oflazer, Kemal", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, ...
This paper investigates the optimization of propaganda technique detection in Arabic text, including tweets {\&} news paragraphs, from ArAIEval shared task 1. Our approach involves fine-tuning the AraBERT v2 model with a neural network classifier for sequence tagging.Experimental results show relying on the first token...
[ "Abir, Abrar", "Oflazer, Kemal" ]
Nullpointer at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: {A}rabic Propagandist Technique Detection with Token-to-Word Mapping in Sequence Tagging
arabicnlp-1.49
Poster
2407.01360v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.50.bib
@inproceedings{biswas-etal-2024-mememind, title = "{M}eme{M}ind at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Spotting Persuasive Spans in {A}rabic Text with Persuasion Techniques Identification", author = "Biswas, Md. Rafiul and Shah, Zubair and Zaghouani, Wajdi", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, H...
This paper focuses on detecting propagandistic spans and persuasion techniques in Arabic text from tweets and news paragraphs. Each entry in the dataset contains a text sample and corresponding labels that indicate the start and end positions of propaganda techniques within the text. Tokens falling within a labeled spa...
[ "Biswas, Md. Rafiul", "Shah, Zubair", "Zaghouani, Wajdi" ]
{M}eme{M}ind at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Spotting Persuasive Spans in {A}rabic Text with Persuasion Techniques Identification
arabicnlp-1.50
Poster
2408.04540v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.51.bib
@inproceedings{wang-markov-2024-cltl-araieval, title = "{CLTL} at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Multimodal Propagandistic Memes Classification Using Transformer Models", author = "Wang, Yeshan and Markov, Ilia", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh,...
We present the CLTL system designed for the ArAIEval Shared Task 2024 on multimodal propagandistic memes classification in Arabic. The challenge was divided into three subtasks: identifying propagandistic content from textual modality of memes (subtask 2A), from visual modality of memes (subtask 2B), and in a multimoda...
[ "Wang, Yeshan", "Markov, Ilia" ]
{CLTL} at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Multimodal Propagandistic Memes Classification Using Transformer Models
arabicnlp-1.51
Poster
2407.04247v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.52.bib
@inproceedings{labib-etal-2024-cuet, title = "{CUET}{\_}sstm at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Unimodal (Text) Propagandistic Technique Detection Using Transformer-Based Model", author = "Labib, Momtazul and Rahman, Samia and Murad, Hasan and Das, Udoy", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bo...
In recent days, propaganda has started to influence public opinion increasingly as social media usage continues to grow. Our research has been part of the first challenge, Unimodal (Text) Propagandistic Technique Detection of ArAIEval shared task at the ArabicNLP 2024 conference, co-located with ACL 2024, identifying s...
[ "Labib, Momtazul", "Rahman, Samia", "Murad, Hasan", "Das, Udoy" ]
{CUET}{\_}sstm at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Unimodal (Text) Propagandistic Technique Detection Using Transformer-Based Model
arabicnlp-1.52
Poster
2407.01360v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.53.bib
@inproceedings{zaytoon-etal-2024-alexunlp, title = "{A}lex{UNLP}-{MZ} at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Contrastive Learning, {LLM} Features Extraction and Multi-Objective Optimization for {A}rabic Multi-Modal Meme Propaganda Detection", author = "Zaytoon, Mohamed and El-Makky, Nagwa and Torki, Marwan"...
The rise of memes as a tool for spreading propaganda presents a significant challenge in the current digital environment. In this paper, we outline our work for the ArAIEval Shared Task2 in ArabicNLP 2024. This study introduces a method for identifying propaganda in Arabic memes using a multimodal system that combines ...
[ "Zaytoon, Mohamed", "El-Makky, Nagwa", "Torki, Marwan" ]
{A}lex{UNLP}-{MZ} at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Contrastive Learning, {LLM} Features Extraction and Multi-Objective Optimization for {A}rabic Multi-Modal Meme Propaganda Detection
arabicnlp-1.53
Poster
2407.01360v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.54.bib
@inproceedings{shohan-etal-2024-semanticcuetsync, title = "{S}emantic{C}uet{S}ync at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Detecting Propagandistic Spans with Persuasion Techniques Identification using Pre-trained Transformers", author = "Shohan, Symom and Hossain, Md. and Paran, Ashraful and Ahsan, Sh...
Detecting propagandistic spans and identifying persuasion techniques are crucial for promoting informed decision-making, safeguarding democratic processes, and fostering a media environment characterized by integrity and transparency. Various machine learning (Logistic Regression, Random Forest, and Multinomial Naive B...
[ "Shohan, Symom", "Hossain, Md.", "Paran, Ashraful", "Ahsan, Shawly", "Hossain, Jawad", "Hoque, Mohammed Moshiul" ]
{S}emantic{C}uet{S}ync at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Detecting Propagandistic Spans with Persuasion Techniques Identification using Pre-trained Transformers
arabicnlp-1.54
Poster
2407.04247v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.55.bib
@inproceedings{fouad-weeds-2024-sussexai, title = "{S}ussex{AI} at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Mitigating Class Imbalance in {A}rabic Propaganda Detection", author = "Fouad, Mary and Weeds, Julie", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Nadi and ...
In this paper, we are exploring mitigating class imbalancein Arabic propaganda detection. Given amultigenre text which could be a news paragraphor a tweet, the objective is to identify the propagandatechnique employed in the text along withthe exact span(s) where each technique occurs. Weapproach this task as a sequenc...
[ "Fouad, Mary", "Weeds, Julie" ]
{S}ussex{AI} at {A}r{AIE}val Shared Task: Mitigating Class Imbalance in {A}rabic Propaganda Detection
arabicnlp-1.55
Poster
2407.01360v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.56.bib
@inproceedings{zaghouani-etal-2024-fignews, title = "The {FIGNEWS} Shared Task on News Media Narratives", author = "Zaghouani, Wajdi and Jarrar, Mustafa and Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Zitouni, Imed and Diab, Mona and El-Beltagy, Samhaa and AbuOdeh, Muha...
We present an overview of the FIGNEWSshared task, organized as part of the Arabic-NLP 2024 conference co-located with ACL2024. The shared task addresses bias and pro-paganda annotation in multilingual news posts.We focus on the early days of the Israel War onGaza as a case study. The task aims to fostercollaboration in...
[ "Zaghouani, Wajdi", "Jarrar, Mustafa", "Habash, Nizar", "Bouamor, Houda", "Zitouni, Imed", "Diab, Mona", "El-Beltagy, Samhaa", "AbuOdeh, Muhammed" ]
The {FIGNEWS} Shared Task on News Media Narratives
arabicnlp-1.56
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.57.bib
@inproceedings{alemadi-etal-2024-narrative, title = "Narrative Navigators at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: New Frontiers in Bias and Propaganda Annotation Techniques", author = "AlEmadi, Maryam and ElMesselmani, Jana and Bermak, Lyna and Abdullah, Goumana and Sharqawi, Esra{'}a and ...
This paper presents our team{'}s contribution to the FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task, which involved annotating bias and propaganda in news coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict. We developed comprehensive guidelines and employed a rigorous methodology to analyze 2,200 news posts from several official Facebook accounts of...
[ "AlEmadi, Maryam", "ElMesselmani, Jana", "Bermak, Lyna", "Abdullah, Goumana", "Sharqawi, Esra{'}a", "Jrad, Anissa", "Zouabi, Zied", "Zaghouani, Wajdi" ]
Narrative Navigators at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: New Frontiers in Bias and Propaganda Annotation Techniques
arabicnlp-1.57
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.58.bib
@inproceedings{jafari-etal-2024-dragon, title = "{DRAGON} at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: a Dedicated {RAG} for {O}ctober 7th conflict News", author = "Jafari, Sadegh and Mahmoodzadeh, Mohsen and Nazari, Vanooshe and Bahmanyar, Razieh and Burrows, Kathryn", editor = "Habash, Nizar...
In this study, we present a novel approach to annotating bias and propaganda in social media data by leveraging topic modeling techniques. Utilizing the BERTopic tool, we performed topic modeling on the FIGNEWS Shared-task dataset, which initially comprised 13,500 samples. From this dataset, we identified 35 distinct t...
[ "Jafari, Sadegh", "Mahmoodzadeh, Mohsen", "Nazari, Vanooshe", "Bahmanyar, Razieh", "Burrows, Kathryn" ]
{DRAGON} at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: a Dedicated {RAG} for {O}ctober 7th conflict News
arabicnlp-1.58
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.59.bib
@inproceedings{el-ghawi-etal-2024-lexiconladies, title = "{L}exicon{L}adies at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Identifying Keywords for Bias Annotation Guidelines of {F}acebook News Headlines on the {I}srael-{P}alestine 2023 War", author = "El-Ghawi, Yousra and Marzouk, Abeer and Khamis, Aya", edi...
News bias is difficult for humans to identify, but even more so for machines. This is largely due to the lack of linguistically appropriate annotated datasets suitable for use by classifier algorithms. The FIGNEWS Subtask 1: Bias Annotation involved classifying bias through manually annotated 1800 headlines from social...
[ "El-Ghawi, Yousra", "Marzouk, Abeer", "Khamis, Aya" ]
{L}exicon{L}adies at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Identifying Keywords for Bias Annotation Guidelines of {F}acebook News Headlines on the {I}srael-{P}alestine 2023 War
arabicnlp-1.59
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.60.bib
@inproceedings{nwesri-etal-2024-uot1, title = "Uot1 at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Labeling News Bias", author = "Nwesri, Abdusalam and Elbaabaa, Mai and Lashihar, Fatima and Alalos, Fatma", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Na...
This paper outlines the University of Tripoli{'}s initiative in creating annotation guidelines to detect bias in news articles concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Our team participated in the Framing of Israeli Gaza News Media Narrative (FIGNEWS 2024) shared task. We developed annotation guidelines to label bi...
[ "Nwesri, Abdusalam", "Elbaabaa, Mai", "Lashihar, Fatima", "Alalos, Fatma" ]
Uot1 at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Labeling News Bias
arabicnlp-1.60
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.61.bib
@inproceedings{abdul-rauf-etal-2024-nlpcolab, title = "{NLPC}olab at {F}ig{N}ews 2024 Shared Task: Challenges in Bias and Propaganda Annotation for News Media", author = "Abdul Rauf, Sadaf and Sarfraz, Huda and Nauman, Saadia and Fatima, Arooj and SadafZiafat, SadafZiafat and ...
In this paper, we present our methodology and findings from participating in the FIGNEWS 2024 shared task on annotating news fragments on the Gaza-Israel war for bias and propaganda detection. The task aimed to refine the FIGNEWS 2024 annotation guidelines and to contribute to the creation of a comprehensive dataset to...
[ "Abdul Rauf, Sadaf", "Sarfraz, Huda", "Nauman, Saadia", "Fatima, Arooj", "SadafZiafat, SadafZiafat", "Ishfaq, Momina", "Suboor, Alishba", "Afzal, Hammad", "Latif, Seemab" ]
{NLPC}olab at {F}ig{N}ews 2024 Shared Task: Challenges in Bias and Propaganda Annotation for News Media
arabicnlp-1.61
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.62.bib
@inproceedings{heierli-etal-2024-bias, title = "Bias Bluff Busters at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Developing Guidelines to Make Bias Conscious", author = "Heierli, Jasmin and Pareti, Silvia and Pareti, Serena and Lando, Tatiana", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and ...
This paper details our participation in the FIGNEWS-2024 shared task on bias and propaganda annotation in Gaza conflict news. Our objectives were to develop robust guidelines and annotate a substantial dataset to enhance bias detection. We iteratively refined our guidelines and used examples for clarity. Key findings i...
[ "Heierli, Jasmin", "Pareti, Silvia", "Pareti, Serena", "L", "o, Tatiana" ]
Bias Bluff Busters at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Developing Guidelines to Make Bias Conscious
arabicnlp-1.62
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.63.bib
@inproceedings{sadiah-etal-2024-ceasefire, title = "Ceasefire at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Automated Detection and Annotation of Media Bias Using Large Language Models", author = "Sadiah, Noor and Al-Emadi, Sara and Rahman, Sumaya", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and ...
In this paper, we present our approach for FIGNEWS Subtask 1, which focuses on detecting bias in news media narratives about the Israel war on Gaza. We used a Large Language Model (LLM) and prompt engineering, using GPT-3.5 Turbo API, to create a model that automatically flags biased news media content with 99{\%} accu...
[ "Sadiah, Noor", "Al-Emadi, Sara", "Rahman, Sumaya" ]
Ceasefire at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Automated Detection and Annotation of Media Bias Using Large Language Models
arabicnlp-1.63
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.64.bib
@inproceedings{solla-etal-2024-sahara, title = "{S}ahara Pioneers at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Data Annotation Guidelines for Propaganda Detection in News Items", author = "Solla, Marwa and Ebrahem, Hassan and Issa, Alya and Harmain, Harmain and Nwesri, Abdusalam", editor = "Ha...
In today{'}s digital age, the spread of propaganda through news channels has become a pressing concern. To address this issue, the research community has organized a shared task on detecting propaganda in news posts. This paper aims to present the work carried out at the University of Tripoli for the development and im...
[ "Solla, Marwa", "Ebrahem, Hassan", "Issa, Alya", "Harmain, Harmain", "Nwesri, Abdusalam" ]
{S}ahara Pioneers at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Data Annotation Guidelines for Propaganda Detection in News Items
arabicnlp-1.64
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.65.bib
@inproceedings{blqees-etal-2024-biasganda, title = "{B}ias{G}anda at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: A Quest to Uncover Biased Views in News Coverage", author = "Blqees, Blqees and Wardi, Al and Al-Sibani, Malath and Al-Siyabi, Hiba and Zidjaly, Najma", editor = "Habash, Nizar and ...
In this study, we aimed to identify biased language in a dataset provided by the FIGNEWS 2024 committee on the Gaza-Israel war. We classified entries into seven categories: Unbiased, Biased against Palestine, Biased against Israel, Biased against Others, Biased against both Palestine and Israel, Unclear, and Not Applic...
[ "Blqees, Blqees", "Wardi, Al", "Al-Sibani, Malath", "Al-Siyabi, Hiba", "Zidjaly, Najma" ]
{B}ias{G}anda at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: A Quest to Uncover Biased Views in News Coverage
arabicnlp-1.65
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.66.bib
@inproceedings{helal-etal-2024-cyberequity, title = "The {C}yber{E}quity Lab at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Annotating a Corpus of {F}acebook Posts to Label Bias and Propaganda in {G}aza-{I}srael War Coverage in Five Languages", author = "Helal, Mohammed and Jarrar, Radi and Alkhanafseh, Mohammed ...
This paper presents The{\_}CyberEquity{\_}Lab team{'}s participation in the FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task (Zaghouani, et al., 2024). The task is to annotate a corpus of Facebook posts into bias and propaganda in covering the Gaza-Israel war. The posts represent news articles written in five different languages. The paper pr...
[ "Helal, Mohammed", "Jarrar, Radi", "Alkhanafseh, Mohammed", "Karakra, Abdallah", "Awadallah, Ruba" ]
The {C}yber{E}quity Lab at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Annotating a Corpus of {F}acebook Posts to Label Bias and Propaganda in {G}aza-{I}srael War Coverage in Five Languages
arabicnlp-1.66
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.67.bib
@inproceedings{ruiz-fernandez-etal-2024-bsc, title = "{BSC}-{LANGTECH} at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Exploring Semi-Automatic Bias Annotation using Frame Analysis", author = "Ruiz-Fern{\'a}ndez, Valle and Saiz, Jos{\'e} and Gonzalez-Agirre, Aitor", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, ...
This paper introduces the methodology of BSC-LANGTECH team for the FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task on News Media Narratives. Following the bias annotation subtask, we apply the theory and methods of framing analysis to develop guidelines to annotate bias in the corpus provided by the task organizators. The manual annotation o...
[ "Ruiz-Fern{\\'a}ndez, Valle", "Saiz, Jos{\\'e}", "Gonzalez-Agirre, Aitor" ]
{BSC}-{LANGTECH} at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Exploring Semi-Automatic Bias Annotation using Frame Analysis
arabicnlp-1.67
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.68.bib
@inproceedings{khatib-etal-2024-groningenannotatesgaza, title = "{G}roningen{A}nnotates{G}aza at the {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Analyzing Bias in Conflict Narratives", author = "Khatib, Khalid and Gemelli, Sara and Heisterborg, Saskia and Majumdar, Pritha and Minnema, Gosse and ...
In this paper we report the development of our annotation methodology for the shared task FIGNEWS 2024. The objective of the shared task is to look into the layers of bias in how the war on Gaza is represented in media narrative. Our methodology follows the prescriptive paradigm, in which guidelines are detailed and re...
[ "Khatib, Khalid", "Gemelli, Sara", "Heisterborg, Saskia", "Majumdar, Pritha", "Minnema, Gosse", "Muti, Arianna", "Solissa, Noa" ]
{G}roningen{A}nnotates{G}aza at the {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Analyzing Bias in Conflict Narratives
arabicnlp-1.68
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.69.bib
@inproceedings{duaibes-etal-2024-sina, title = "Sina at {F}ig{N}ews 2024: Multilingual Datasets Annotated with Bias and Propaganda.", author = "Duaibes, Lina and Jaber, Areej and Jarrar, Mustafa and Qadi, Ahmad and Qandeel, Mais", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda...
The proliferation of bias and propaganda onsocial media is an increasingly significant concern,leading to the development of techniquesfor automatic detection. This article presents amultilingual corpus of 12, 000 Facebook postsfully annotated for bias and propaganda. Thecorpus was created as part of the FigNews2024 Sh...
[ "Duaibes, Lina", "Jaber, Areej", "Jarrar, Mustafa", "Qadi, Ahmad", "Q", "eel, Mais" ]
Sina at {F}ig{N}ews 2024: Multilingual Datasets Annotated with Bias and Propaganda.
arabicnlp-1.69
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.70.bib
@inproceedings{al-mamari-etal-2024-squad, title = "{SQU}ad at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Unmasking Bias in Social Media Through Data Analysis and Annotation", author = "Al-Mamari, Asmahan and Al-Farsi, Fatma and Zidjaly, Najma", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Esk...
This paper is a part of the FIGNEWS 2024 Datathon Shared Task and it aims to investigate bias and double standards in media coverage of the Gaza-Israel 2023-2024 conflict through a comprehensive analysis of news articles. The methodology integrated both manual labeling as well as the application of a natural language p...
[ "Al-Mamari, Asmahan", "Al-Farsi, Fatma", "Zidjaly, Najma" ]
{SQU}ad at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Unmasking Bias in Social Media Through Data Analysis and Annotation
arabicnlp-1.70
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.71.bib
@inproceedings{saleh-etal-2024-justiceleague, title = "{J}ustice{L}eague at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Innovations in Bias Annotation", author = "Saleh, Amr and Mohamed, Huda and Sayed, Hager", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda and Eskander, Ramy and Tomeh, Nadi ...
In response to the evolving media representation of the Gaza-Israel conflict, this study aims to categorize news articles based on their bias towards specific entities. Our primary objective is to annotate news articles with labels that indicate their bias: {``}Unbiased{''}, {``}Biased against Palestine{''}, {``}Biased...
[ "Saleh, Amr", "Mohamed, Huda", "Sayed, Hager" ]
{J}ustice{L}eague at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: Innovations in Bias Annotation
arabicnlp-1.71
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.72.bib
@inproceedings{chan-etal-2024-eagles, title = "Eagles at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: A Context-informed Prescriptive Approach to Bias Detection in Contentious News Narratives", author = "Chan, Amanda and A.Baddar, Mai and Baazaoui, Sofien", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor, Houda an...
This research paper presents an in-depth examination of bias identification in media content related to the Israel-Palestine war. Focusing on the annotation guidelines and process developed by our team of researchers, the document outlines a systematic approach to discerning bias in articles. Through meticulous analysi...
[ "Chan, Am", "a", "A.Baddar, Mai", "Baazaoui, Sofien" ]
Eagles at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: A Context-informed Prescriptive Approach to Bias Detection in Contentious News Narratives
arabicnlp-1.72
Poster
2407.09327v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.73.bib
@inproceedings{bourahouat-amer-2024-guidelines, title = "The Guidelines Specialists at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: An annotation guideline to Unravel Bias in News Media Narratives Using a Linguistic Approach", author = "Bourahouat, Ghizlane and Amer, Samar", editor = "Habash, Nizar and Bouamor...
This article presents the participation of {``}The Guideline Specialists{''} in the FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task, which aims to unravel bias and propaganda in news media narratives surrounding the Gaza-Israel 2023-2024 war. Leveraging innovative annotation methodologies and drawing on a diverse team of annotators, our appr...
[ "Bourahouat, Ghizlane", "Amer, Samar" ]
The Guidelines Specialists at {FIGNEWS} 2024 Shared Task: An annotation guideline to Unravel Bias in News Media Narratives Using a Linguistic Approach
arabicnlp-1.73
Poster
2407.18147v1
https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.74.bib
@inproceedings{alshammari-etal-2024-ksaa, title = "{KSAA}-{CAD} Shared Task: Contemporary {A}rabic Dictionary for Reverse Dictionary and Word Sense Disambiguation", author = "Alshammari, Waad and Almazrua, Amal and Al Wazrah, Asma and Almatham, Rawan and Alhoshan, Muneera and ...
This paper outlines the KSAA-CAD shared task, highlighting the Contemporary Arabic Language Dictionary within the scenario of developing a Reverse Dictionary (RD) system and enhancing Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) capabilities. The first KSAA-RD (Al-Matham et al., 2023) highlighted significant gaps in the domain of R...
[ "Alshammari, Waad", "Almazrua, Amal", "Al Wazrah, Asma", "Almatham, Rawan", "Alhoshan, Muneera", "Alosaimy, Abdulrahman" ]
{KSAA}-{CAD} Shared Task: Contemporary {A}rabic Dictionary for Reverse Dictionary and Word Sense Disambiguation
arabicnlp-1.74
Poster
0806.2581v1