International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources

PROGRAM

Opening Session: Welcome by Workshop Chairs

 Mustafa Jarrar and Camille Mansour

Talk 1: Integrating Argumentation Features for Enhanced Propaganda Detection in Arabic Narratives on the Israeli War on Gaza.

 Session 18: Sara Nabhani, Claudia Borg, Kurt Micallef and Khalid Al-Khatib

Talk 2: Multilingual Propaganda Detection: Exploring Transformer-Based Models mBERT, XLM-RoBERTa, and mT5.

 Session 12: Mohamed Ibrahim Ragab, Ensaf Hussein Mohamed and Walaa Medhat

Talk 3: Bias Detection in Media: Traditional Models vs. Transformers in Analyzing Social Media Coverage of the Israeli-Gaza Conflict.

 Session 16: Marryam Yahya Mohammed, Esraa Ismail Mohamed, Mariam Nabil Esmat, Yomna Ashraf Nagib, Nada Ahmed Radwan, Ziad Mohamed Elshaer and Ensaf Hussein Mohamed.

Talk 4: The Missing Cause: An Analysis of Causal Attributions in Reporting on Palestine.

 Session 15: Paulina Garcia Corral, Hannah Bechara, Krishnamoorthy Manohara and Slava Jankin

Talk 5: Deciphering Implicatures: On NLP and Oral Testimonies.

 Session 4: Zainab Sabra

Coffee Break

Co-organized Public Discussion Panel: Digital Archives and Cultural Heritage in the LLMs Era. Panel Chair: Mo El-Haj

 Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, The University of British Columbia, Canada; Antonio Moreno Sandoval, Autonomous University Madrid, Spain; Dawn Knight, Cardiff University, UK; Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine

Lunch Break

Co-organized Public Keynote: The Words Laundrette: Unmasking the Zionist Discourse on the Ongoing Nakba.

 Ilan Pappe

Talk 6: Sentiment Analysis of Nakba Oral Histories: A Critical Study of Large Language Models.

 Session 7: Huthaifa I. Ashqar

Talk 7: Arabic Topic Classification Corpus of the Nakba Short Stories

 Session 9: Osama Hamed and Nadeem Zaidkilani.

Talk 8: Exploring Author Style in Nakba Short Stories: A Comparative Study of Transformer-Based Models.

 Session 10: Osama Hamed and Nadeem Zaidkilani.

Coffee Break

Talk 9: NakbaTR: A Turkish NER Dataset for Nakba Narratives.

 Session 17: Esma Fatıma Bilgin Tasdemir and Şaziye Betül Özateş

Talk 10: The Nakba Lexicon: Building a Comprehensive Dataset from Palestinian Literature.

 Session 8: Izza AbuHaija, Salim Al Mandhari, Mo El-Haj, Jonas Sibony and Paul Rayson.

Talk 11: Cognitive Geographies of Catastrophe Narratives: Georeferenced Interview Transcriptions as Language Resource for Models of Forced Displacement.

 Session 6: Annie K. Lamar, Rick Castle, Carissa Chappell, Emmanouela Schoinoplokaki, Allene M. Seet, Amit Shilo and Chloe Nahas.

Talk 12: Collective Memory and Narrative Cohesion: A Computational Study of Palestinian Refugee Oral Histories in Lebanon.

 Session 13: Ghadir A. Awad, Tamara N. Rayan, Lavinia Dunagan and David Gamba.

Talk 13: A cultural shift in Western perceptions of Palestine.

 Session 5: Terry Regier and Muhammad Ali Khalidi.

Talk 14: Detecting Inconsistencies in Narrative Elements of Cross Lingual Nakba Texts.

 Session 11: Nada Hamarsheh, Zahia Elabour, Aya Murra and Adnan Yahya.

Closing Remarks and Wrap-Up

 Deciphering Implicatures: On NLP and Oral Testimonies
Zainab Sabra
 A cultural shift in Western perceptions of Palestine
Terry Regier and Muhammad Ali Khalidi
 Cognitive Geographies of Catastrophe Narratives: Georeferenced Interview Transcriptions as Language Resource for Models of Forced Displacement
Annie K. Lamar, Rick Castle, Carissa Chappell, Emmanouela Schoinoplokaki, Allene M. Seet, Amit Shilo and Chloe Nahas
 Sentiment Analysis of Nakba Oral Histories: A Critical Study of Large Language Models
Huthaifa I. Ashqar
 The Nakba Lexicon: Building a Comprehensive Dataset from Palestinian Literature
Izza AbuHaija, Salim Al Mandhari, Mo El-Haj, Jonas Sibony and Paul Rayson
 Arabic Topic Classification Corpus of the Nakba Short Stories
Osama Hamed and Nadeem Zaidkilani
 Exploring Author Style in Nakba Short Stories: A Comparative Study of Transformer-Based Models
Osama Hamed and Nadeem Zaidkilani
 Detecting Inconsistencies in Narrative Elements of Cross Lingual Nakba Texts
Nada Hamarsheh, Zahia Elabour, Aya Murra and Adnan Yahya
 Multilingual Propaganda Detection: Exploring Transformer-Based Models mBERT, XLM-RoBERTa, and mT5
Mohamed Ibrahim Ragab, Ensaf Hussein Mohamed and Walaa Medhat
 Collective Memory and Narrative Cohesion: A Computational Study of Palestinian Refugee Oral Histories in Lebanon
Ghadir A. Awad, Tamara N. Rayan, Lavinia Dunagan and David Gamba
 The Missing Cause: An Analysis of Causal Attributions in Reporting on Palestine
Paulina Garcia Corral, Hannah Bechara, Krishnamoorthy Manohara and Slava Jankin
 Bias Detection in Media: Traditional Models vs. Transformers in Analyzing Social Media Coverage of the Israeli-Gaza Conflict
Marryam Yahya Mohammed, Esraa Ismail Mohamed, Mariam Nabil Esmat, Yomna Ashraf Nagib, Nada Ahmed Radwan, Ziad Mohamed Elshaer and Ensaf Hussein Mohamed
 NakbaTR: A Turkish NER Dataset for Nakba Narratives
Esma Fatıma Bilgin Tasdemir and Şaziye Betül Özateş
 Integrating Argumentation Features for Enhanced Propaganda Detection in Arabic Narratives on the Israeli War on Gaza
Sara Nabhani, Claudia Borg, Khalid Al Khatib and Kurt Micallef