Publications

2025

  1. ACL
    Enhancing Text Editing for Grammatical Error Correction: Arabic as a Case Study
    Alhafni, Bashar, and Habash, Nizar
    In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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  2. BEA
    Enhancing Arabic Automated Essay Scoring with Synthetic Data and Error Injection
    Qwaider, Chatrine, Alhafni, Bashar, Chirkunov, Kirill, Habash, Nizar, and Briscoe, Ted
    In Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025). ACL 2025
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  3. In2Writing
    ARWI: Arabic Write and Improve 🏆
    Chirkunov, Kirill, Alhafni, Bashar, Qwaider, Chatrine, Habash, Nizar, and Briscoe, Ted
    In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants. NAACL 2025
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2024

  1. ArabicNLP
    Exploiting Dialect Identification in Automatic Dialectal Text Normalization
    Alhafni, Bashar, Al-Towaity, Sarah, Fawzy, Ziyad, Nassar, Fatema, Eryani, Fadhl, Bouamor, Houda, and Habash, Nizar
    In Proceedings of the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference. ACL 2024
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  2. ArabicNLP
    Strategies for Arabic Readability Modelling
    Piñeros Liberato, Juan, Alhafni, Bashar, Al Khalil, Muhamed, and Habash, Nizar
    In Proceedings of the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference. ACL 2024
    PDF Code Talk
  3. LREC-COLING
    The SAMER Arabic Text Simplification Corpus
    Alhafni, Bashar, Hazim, Reem, Piñeros Liberato, Juan, Al Khalil, Muhamed, and Habash, Nizar
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
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  4. NAACL
    mEdIT: Multilingual Text Editing via Instruction Tuning
    Raheja, Vipul, Alikaniotis, Dimitris, Kulkarni, Vivek, Alhafni, Bashar, and Kumar, Dhruv
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
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  5. Personalize
    Personalized Text Generation with Fine-Grained Linguistic Control
    Alhafni, Bashar, Kulkarni, Vivek, Kumar, Dhruv, and Raheja, Vipul
    In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Personalization of Generative AI Systems. EACL 2024
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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
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  2. GITT
    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. EAMT 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
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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
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  3. WANLP
    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. EMNLP 2023
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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
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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
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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
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2021

  1. WANLP
    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. EACL 2021
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2020

  1. GeBNLP
    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. COLING 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
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2019

  1. WNU
    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. NAACL 2019
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