PROGRAM
Sunday, January 19, 2025 | |
| 9:00–9:05 Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
| 09:05–09:25 | The Best of Both Worlds: Exploring Wolofal in the Context of NLP Ngoc Tan Le, Ali Mijiyawa, Abdoulahat Leye and Fatiha Sadat |
| 09:25–09:45 | MultiProp Framework: Ensemble Models for Enhanced Cross-Lingual Propaganda Detection in Social Media and News using Data Augmentation, Text Segmentation, and Meta-Learning Farizeh Aldabbas, Shaina Ashraf, Rafet Sifa and Lucie Flek |
| 09:45–10:05 | Towards Unified Processing of Perso-Arabic Scripts for ASR Srihari Bandarupalli, Bhavana Akkiraju, Sri Charan Devarakonda, Harinie Sivaramasethu, Vamshiraghusimha Narasinga and Anil Vuppala |
| 10:05–10:25 | In-Depth Analysis of Arabic-Origin Words in the Turkish Morpholex Mounes Zaval, Abdullah İhsanoğlu, Asım Ersoy and Olcay Taner Yıldız |
Coffee Break | |
| 11:00–11:20 | DadmaTools V2: an Adapter-Based Natural Language Processing Toolkit for the Persian Language sadegh jafari, Farhan Farsi, Navid Ebrahimi, Mohamad Bagher Sajadi and Sauleh Eetemadi |
| 11:20–11:40 | Developing an Informal-Formal Persian Corpus: Highlighting the Differences between Two Writing Styles Vahide Tajalli, Mehrnoush Shamsfard and Fateme Kalantari |
| 11:40–12:00 | Boosting Sentiment Analysis in Persian through a GAN-Based Synthetic Data Augmentation Method Masoumeh Mohammadi, Mohammad Ruhul Amin and Shadi Tavakoli |
| 12:00–12:20 | Psychological Health Chatbot, Detecting and Assisting Patients in their Path to Recovery sadegh jafari, Mohammad Erfan Zare, Amireza Vishte, Mirzae Melike, Zahra Amiri, Sima Mohammadparast and Sauleh Eetemadi |
Lunch Break | |
| 13:20–13:40 | A Derivational ChainBank for Modern Standard Arabic Reham Marzouk, sondos krouna and Nizar Habash |
| 13:40–14:00 | Sentiment Analysis of Arabic Tweets Using Large Language Models Pankaj Dadure, Ananya Dixit, Kunal Tewatia, Nandini Paliwal and Anshika Malla |
| 14:00–14:20 | Evaluating Large Language Models on Health-Related Claims Across Arabic Dialects Abdulsalam obaid Alharbi, Abdullah Alsuhaibani, Abdulrahman Abdullah Alalawi, Usman Naseem, Shoaib Jameel, salil kanhere and Imran Razzak |
| 14:20–14:40 | Can LLMs Verify Arabic Claims? Evaluating the Arabic Fact-Checking Abilities of Multilingual LLMs Ayushman Gupta, Aryan Singhal, Thomas Law, Veekshith Rao, Evan Duan and Ryan Luo Li |
| 14:40–15:00 | Can LLMs Translate Cultural Nuance in Dialects? A Case Study on Lebanese Arabic silvana yakhni and Ali Chehab |
| 15:00–15:20 | Automated Generation of Arabic Verb Conjugations with Multilingual Urdu Translation: An NLP Approach Haq Nawaz, Manal Elobaid, Ali Al-Laith and Saif Ullah |
Coffee Break | |
| 16:00–16:20 | Evaluation of Large Language Models on Arabic Punctuation Prediction Asma Ali Al Wazrah, Afrah Altamimi, Hawra Aljasim, Waad Alshammari, Rawan Al-Matham, Omar Elnashar, Mohamed Amin and Abdulrahman AlOsaimy |
| 16:20–16:40 | Evaluating RAG Pipelines for Arabic Lexical Information Retrieval: A Comparative Study of Embedding and Generation Models Raghad Al-Rasheed, Abdullah Al Muaddi, Hawra Aljasim, Rawan Al-Matham, Muneera Alhoshan, Asma Al Wazrah and Abdulrahman AlOsaimy |
| 16:40–16:45 | Closing Remarks and Wrap-Up Dr Mo El-Haj |