Publications

2023

  1. EMNLP
    Advancements in Arabic Grammatical Error Detection and Correction: An Empirical Investigation
    Alhafni, Bashar, Inoue, Go, Khairallah, Christian, and Habash, Nizar
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2023
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  2. EAMT
    The User-Aware Arabic Gender Rewriter
    Alhafni, Bashar, Obeid, Ossama, and Habash, Nizar
    In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies, 2023
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2022

  1. EMNLP
    CrisisLTLSum: A Benchmark for Local Crisis Event Timeline Extraction and Summarization
    Faghihi, Hossein Rajaby, Alhafni, Bashar, Zhang, Ke, Ran, Shihao, Tetreault, Joel, and Jaimes, Alejandro
    In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Findings, 2022
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  2. EMNLP
    Arabic Word-level Readability Visualization for Assisted Text Simplification
    Hazim, Reem, Saddiki, Hind, Alhafni, Bashar, Al Khalil, Muhamed, and Habash, Nizar
    In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, 2022
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  3. EMNLP
    The Shared Task on Gender Rewriting
    Alhafni, Bashar, Habash, Nizar, Bouamor, Houda, Obeid, Ossama, Alrowili, Sultan, Alzeer, Daliyah, Alshanqiti, Khawlah, ElBakry, Ahmed, ElNokrashy, Muhammad, Gabr, Mohamed, Issam, Abderrahmane, Qaddoumi, Abdelrahim, Vijay-Shanker, K., and Zyate, Mahmoud
    In Proceedings of the Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, 2022
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  4. NAACL
    User-Centric Gender Rewriting
    Alhafni, Bashar, Habash, Nizar, and Bouamor, Houda
    In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022
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  5. LREC
    The Arabic Parallel Gender Corpus 2.0: Extensions and Analyses
    Alhafni, Bashar, Habash, Nizar, and Bouamor, Houda
    In Proceedings of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022
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  6. INLG
    Zero-shot Cross-Linguistic Learning of Event Semantics
    Alikhani, Malihe, Kober, Thomas, Alhafni, Bashar, Chen, Yue, Inan, Mert, Nielsen, Elizabeth, Raji, Shahab, Steedman, Mark, and Stone, Matthew
    In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2022
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2021

  1. EACL
    The Interplay of Variant, Size, and Task Type in Arabic Pre-trained Language Models
    Inoue, Go, Alhafni, Bashar, Baimukan, Nurpeiis, Bouamor, Houda, and Habash, Nizar
    In In Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, 2021
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2020

  1. COLING
    Gender-Aware Reinflection using Linguistically Enhanced Neural Models
    Alhafni, Bashar, Habash, Nizar, and Bouamor, Houda
    In In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing, 2020
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  2. LREC
    CAMeL Tools: An Open Source Python Toolkit for Arabic Natural Language Processing
    Obeid, Ossama, Zalmout, Nasser, Khalifa, Salam, Taji, Dima, Oudah, Mai, Alhafni, Bashar, Inoue, Go, Eryani, Fadhl, Erdmann, Alexander, and Habash, Nizar
    In In Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020
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2019

  1. NAACL
    Contextualized Word Embeddings Enhanced Event Temporal Relation Extraction for Story Understanding
    Han, Rujun, Liang, Mengyue, Alhafni, Bashar, and Peng, Nanyun
    In In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Narrative Understanding, 2019
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