Gave a talk @ SDAIA Academy, Computational Social Science For NLP: Closer Look at Reliability through Feedback & Human-Centered Values, arranged by AI Center of Advanced Studies Thakaa
Paper accepted @NEATCLASS ICWSM, Toxicity Inspector: A Framework to Evaluate Ground Truth in Toxicity Detection Through Feedback
Our graduation project team selected for digital innovation award "Toxicity inspector: Multilingual toxic comments mitigation through feedback"
Our paper "Characterizing the role of bots’ in polarized stance on social media" got accepted at SNAM
Gave a talk @women_in_nlp "Social computing through the lens of NLP: a closer look at opportunities, reliability and beyond"
Starting new position as assistant professor at King Saud University
Received the Best Reviewer Award in ICWSM 2021
Passed my PhD viva , starting my job @ KSU as assistant professor soon
Our paper "Stance detection on social media: state-of-the-art and trends" got accepted at IP&M
Presented recent work on stance polarization on social media at IC2S2-2020.
Received the Best Reviewer Award in ICWSM 2020.
Our tutorial "Detection and Characterization of Stance on Social Media" Accepted @ICWSM 2020
Our paper "Assessing Sentiment of the Expressed Stance on Social Media" Accepted @SocInfo2019
IC2S2 submission has been accepted, It is more than what you Say! Leveraging User Online Activity for Improved Stance Detection
Our paper "Similar Minds Post Alike: Assessment of Suicide Risk by Hybrid Language and Behavioral Model" Accepted @CLPsych2019
Our paper "ARC-WMI" Accepted @OSACT3
Our paper "Readability of WMIs" published @ BMC health services research Journal
- About me and my research interest:
I am an assistant professor at the College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University. My research interests lie primarily in Computational Social Science and Natural Language Processing . Most generally, I am working on NLP models and computational methods to recognize social aspects of language and modeling the use of language in social contexts to understand different phenomena such as tackling biases, abusive language, and misinformation.
- Highlights of my research so far ( to be updated):
♦ Computational social science and Natural Language Processing
Hatespeech (Toxicity evaluation), Stance detection, Suicide level assessment.
♦ Natural Language Processing
Cross-lingual Paraphrasing techniques, Readability assessment, rumours veracity detection.
- More about my recent publication at this page.
I got my PhD in (August 2021) from the University of Edinburgh, the Institute for Language, Cognition and Communication (ILCC) at School of Informatics
, as a member of (SMASH) research group, my main supervisor was Walid Magdy . In my Ph.D. thesis, I worked on assessing the social factors of the stance in social media, where I worked in evaluating the effectiveness of
sentiment along with different interactions signals in detecting the stance in social media by using the SemEval 2016 stance dataset along with extended context-based stance dataset.
Also, the thesis proposed a framework for responsible stance detection and additional application of using stance detection for social computing applications.
Moreover, during my Ph.D. I had a chance to work on two side projects; in the first one, we developed a hybrid language model and behaviour model to assess suicide risk (CLPsych workshop@ NAACL2019 ). The second project focused on rumours veracity detection, where I worked on the conversation level (replies set) of a given rumour post. In general, I am not interested in monolingual or polyglossia (aka. Arabic NLP applications)!
Before starting my PhD, I earned a BSc and MSc in Computer and Information Sciences from King Saud University (KSU). In my Master thesis, I worked on developing query paraphrasing algorithm to enhance information retrieval system. Beside my job as lecturer at (KSU),
I worked as a research assistant in a readability identification project to predict the readability level of a given text. 📚 My personal interests include learning different languages, and reading [recommend me a book for my reading list here :) ]📚