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Abeer Ibraheem Aldayel

CCIS, KSU
Research

Research Activities and Work Experience

My research focuses on socially aware NLP, computational social science, multilingual and cross-cultural evaluation, and responsible AI. I am not interested in monolingual or dialect-focused Arabic NLP applications.

Reviewer in Conferences

  • The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2019–2026.
  • Bidirectional Human↔AI alignment (CHI), 2026.
  • Reliable Evaluation of LLMs for Factual Information (REAL-Info), ICWSM, 2024.
  • Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2019, 2024.
  • NLP for Positive Impact Workshop, EMNLP, 2022, 2024.
  • Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems on Social Media (NEATCLasS), 2022, 2023.
  • LREC-COLING 2024 Social Processing Track, 2024.
  • Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP, EMNLP, 2021.
  • The Web Conference (WWW), 2021.
  • The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 2020, 2021.
  • The Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, ACL-WANLP, 2017, 2018.
  • ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci 2020.

Reviewer in Journals

  • Information Processing & Management (IP&M).

Awards and Recognitions

Outstanding Senior Program Committee member, ICWSM 2025.

Outstanding Reviewer, EMNLP 2024.

Received the Best Reviewer Award in ICWSM, 2020, 2021, and 2022.

Teaching and Advising Excellence Award, King Saud University, College of Computer and Information Sciences, IT Department, 2017.

Work Experience

Assistant Professor, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Aug 2021–Present.

Research Assistant, SMASH Group, working on rumor veracity in replies, a project with the Big IR group, Jul 2020–Dec 2020.

Demonstrator, INFR11145: Text Technologies for Data Science, Sep 2018–Dec 2020.

Research Assistant, IWAN Group, working on readability assessment, Nov 2014–Aug 2017.

Lecturer, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Nov 2013–May 2018.

Organizing Committee Membership

Co-chair, ICWSM Data Challenge: Temporal Data, ICWSM 2023.

Tutorial organizer, “Detection and Characterization of Stance on Social Media,” ICWSM 2020.

Talks, Seminars, and Tutorials

  • "Evaluation Blind Spots: What Do Socially Aware Language Models Require?" Lee Language Lab, OntarioTech University, Summer Research Talk Series, 16 June 2026.
  • “Beyond Accuracy: Robust Representations for Social Norms Alignment in Human–AI Modeling,” KSU-CCIS Research Talk, 5 Nov 2025.
  • “Efficacy of Social Aspect and Human-Centered Paradigm From Real-World Scenarios to LLM,” Saudi Digital Academy for Data Science, SDA Academy, 24 Apr 2023.
  • “Computational Social Science for NLP: Closer Look at Reliability through Feedback & Human-Centered Values,” SDAIA Academy, arranged by AI Center of Advanced Studies Thakaa, 29 May 2023.
  • “Social Computing through the Lens of NLP: A Closer Look at the Opportunities, Reliability and Beyond,” Women in NLP Meetup, 29 Oct 2021.
  • Tutorial: “Detection and Characterization of Stance on Social Media,” ICWSM 2020, 8 Jun 2020.
  • “MADAD: Arabic Annotation Tool,” IWAN Research Group, King Saud University, 23 Oct 2015. Slides.
  • “Developing Arabic Test Collection for IR Evaluation,” 15 Mar 2014. Slides.
  • “Arabic Information Retrieval using Enhanced Query Paraphrasing Method,” IWAN Research Group, King Saud University, 23 Aug 2013. Slides.