Program
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Friday August 16

(9:00 - 9:15) Welcome Speech

(9:15 - 10:30) Session 1: Core Technologies

Session Chair:  Mustafa Jarrar

• (09:15 - 09:30) - AREEj: Arabic Relation Extraction with Evidence
  Osama Rakan Al Mraikhat, Hadi Khaled Hamoud, Fadi Zaraket

• (09:30 - 09:45) - A Context-Contrastive Inference Approach To Partial Diacritization
  Muhammad ElNokrashy, Badr AlKhamissi

• (09:45 - 10:00) - Picking Up Where the Linguist Left Off:
  Mapping Morphology to Phonology through Learning the Residuals
  Salam Khalifa, Abdelrahim Qaddoumi, Ellen Broselow, Owen Rambow

• (10:00 - 10:15) - Event-Arguments Extraction Corpus and Modeling using BERT for Arabic
  Alaa Aljabari, Lina Duaibes, Mustafa Jarrar, Mohammed Khalilia

• (10:15 - 10:30) - Exploiting Dialect Identification in Automatic Dialectal Text Normalization
  Bashar Alhafni, Sarah Al-Towaity, Ziyad Fawzy, Fatema Nassar, Fadhl Eryani, Houda Bouamor, Nizar Habash

(10:30 - 11:00) Coffee Break

(11:00 - 11:45) Session 2: Downstream Applications I

Session Chair:  Hamdy Mubarak

• (11:00 - 11:15) - Strategies for Arabic Readability Modeling
  Juan Pineros Liberato, Bashar Alhafni, Muhamed Osman Al Khalil, Nizar Habash

• (11:15 - 11:30) - Large Language Models as Legal Translators of Arabic Legislation:
    Do ChatGPT and Gemini Care for Context and Terminology?
  Khadija Ait ElFqih, Johanna Monti

• (11:30 - 11:45) - Arabic Automatic Story Generation with Large Language Models
  Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti, Fakhraddin Alwajih, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

(11:45 - 12:30) Session 3: Multimodality

Session Chair:  Salima Mdhaffar

• (11:45 - 12:00) - AraCLIP: Cross-Lingual Learning for Effective Arabic Image Retrieval
  Muhammad Al-Barham, Imad Afyouni, Khalid Almubarak, Ashraf Elnagar, Ayad Turky

• (12:00 - 12:15) - Towards Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech for Arabic Dialects
  Khai Duy Doan, Abdul Waheed, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

• (12:15 - 12:30) - Qalam: A Multimodal LLM for Arabic Optical Character and Handwriting Recognition
  Gagan Bhatia, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Fakhraddin Alwajih, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

(12:30 - 14:00) - Lunch Break + SIGARAB Business Meeting

(14:00 - 14:45) Session 4: Downstream Applications II

Session Chair:  Ramy Eskander

• (14:00 - 14:15) - ArabLegalEval: A Multitask Benchmark for Assessing Arabic Legal Knowledge in Large Language Models
  Faris Hijazi, Somayah S Alharbi, Abdulaziz A. AlHussein, Harethah Abu Shairah, Reem Alzahrani, Hebah A. Alshamlan, George Turkiyyah, Omar Knio

• (14:15 - 14:30) - Benchmarking LLaMA-3 on Arabic Language Generation Tasks
  Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Numaan Naeem, Fatimah Lyba Khan, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

• (14:30 - 14:45) - From Nile Sands to Digital Hands: Machine Translation of Coptic Texts
  Muhammed Saeed, Asim Mohamed, Mukhtar Mohamed, Shady Shehata, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

(14:45 - 15:15) Invited Talk: BALSAM: Community-Driven Arabic LLM Evaluation

(15:15 - 15:30) Shared Task Overview Boasters

(15:30 - 16:00) - Coffee Break

(16:00 - 17:30) Poster Session

Session Chair:  Bashar Alhafni

(In-Person)

• Wikidata as a Source of Demographic Information
  Samir Abdaljalil, Hamdy Mubarak

• Improving Language Models Trained with Translated Data via Continual Pre-Training and Dictionary Learning Analysis
  Sabri Boughorbel, Md Rizwan Parvez, Majd Hawasly

• Performance Analysis of Speech Encoders for Low-Resource SLU and ASR in Tunisian Dialect
  Salima Mdhaffar, Haroun Elleuch, Fethi Bougares, Yannick Estève

• AlclaM: Arabic Dialect Language Model
  Murtadha Ahmed, Saghir Alfasly, Bo Wen, Jamal Addeen, MOHAMMED ABDELMAJEED M. AHMED, Yunfeng Liu

• John vs. Ahmed: Debate-Induced Bias in Multilingual LLMs
  Anastasiia Demidova, Hanin atwany, Nour Rabih, Sanad Sha'ban, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

• On the Utility of Pretraining Language Models on Synthetic Data
  Alcides Alcoba Inciarte, Sang Yun Kwon, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

• Dallah: A Dialect-Aware Multimodal Large Language Model for Arabic
  Fakhraddin Alwajih, Gagan Bhatia, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

• CATT: Character-based Arabic Tashkeel Transformer
  Faris Alasmary, Orjuwan Zaafarani, Ahmad Ghannam

(Virtual)

• Synthetic Arabic Medical Dialogues Using Advanced Multi-Agent LLM Techniques
  Mariam ALMutairi, Lulwah AlKulaib, Melike Yildiz Aktas, Sara A. Alsalamah, Chang-Tien Lu

• AuRED: Enabling Arabic Rumor Verification using Evidence from Authorities over Twitter
  Fatima Haouari, Tamer Elsayed, Reem Suwaileh

• Data Augmentation for Speech-Based Diacritic Restoration
  Sara Shatnawi, Sawsan Alqahtani, Shady Shehata, Hanan Aldarmaki

• Out-of-Domain Dependency Parsing for Dialects of Arabic: A Case Study
  Noor Abo Mokh, Daniel Dakota, Sandra Kübler

• Investigating Linguistic Features for Arabic NLI
  Yasmeen Bassas, Sandra Kübler

• QAES: First Publicly-Available Trait-Specific Annotations for Automated Scoring of Arabic Essays
  May Bashendy, Salam Albatarni, Sohaila Eltanbouly, EMAN Zahran, Hamdo Elhuseyin, Tamer Elsayed, Walid Massoud, Houda Bouamor

• Functional Text Dimensions for Arabic Text Classification
  Zeyd Ferhat, Abir Betka, Riyadh Barka, Zineddine Sarhani Kahhoul, Selma Boutiba, Mohamed Lakhdar Tiar, Habiba Dahmani, Ahmed Abdelali

(16:00 - 17:30) - Shared Task Papers (Posters)

(In-Person)

• Upaya at ArabicNLU Shared-Task: Arabic Lexical Disambiguation using Large Language Models

• ASOS at ArAIEval Shared Task: Integrating Text and Image Embeddings for Multimodal Propaganda Detection in Arabic Memes

• Sina at FigNews 2024: Multilingual Datasets Annotated with Bias and Propaganda.

• SQUad at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Unmasking Bias in Social Media Through Data Analysis and Annotation

• Eagles at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: A Context-informed Prescriptive Approach to Bias Detection in Contentious News Narratives

• ASOS at KSAA-CAD 2024: One Embedding is All You Need for Your Dictionary

• ASOS at NADI 2024 shared task: Bridging Dialectness Estimation and MSA Machine Translation for Arabic Language Enhancement

• StanceCrafters at StanceEval2024: Multi-task Stance Detection using BERT Ensemble with Attention Based Aggregation

• muNERa at WojoodNER 2024: Multi-tasking NER Approach

(Virtual)

• Pirates at ArabicNLU2024: Enhancing Arabic Word Sense Disambiguation using Transformer-Based Approaches

• rematchka at ArabicNLU2024: Evaluating Large Language Models for Arabic Word Sense and Location Sense Disambiguation

• SMASH at AraFinNLP2024: Benchmarking Arabic BERT Models on the Intent Detection

• Fired_from_NLP at AraFinNLP 2024: Dual-Phase-BERT - A Fine-Tuned Transformer-Based Model for Multi-Dialect Intent Detection in The Financial Domain for The Arabic Language

• AlexuNLP24 at AraFinNLP2024: Multi-Dialect Arabic Intent Detection with Contrastive Learning in Banking Domain

• SemanticCuetSync at AraFinNLP2024: Classification of Cross-Dialect Intent in the Banking Domain using Transformers

• SENIT at AraFinNLP2024: trust your model or combine two

• BabelBot at AraFinNLP2024: Fine-tuning T5 for Multi-dialect Intent Detection with Synthetic Data and Model Ensembling

• MA at AraFinNLP2024: BERT-based Ensemble for Cross-dialectal Arabic Intent Detection

• BFCI at AraFinNLP2024: Support Vector Machines for Arabic Financial Text Classification

• dzFinNlp at AraFinNLP: Improving Intent Detection in Financial Conversational Agents

• MemeMind at ArAIEval Shared Task: Generative Augmentation and Feature Fusion for Multimodal Propaganda Detection in Arabic Memes through Advanced Language and Vision Models

• Mela at ArAIEval Shared Task: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Arabic with a Multilingual Approach

• MODOS at ArAIEval Shared Task: Multimodal Propagandistic Memes Classification Using Weighted SAM, CLIP and ArabianGPT

• Nullpointer at ArAIEval Shared Task: Arabic Propagandist Technique Detection with Token-to-Word Mapping in Sequence Tagging

• MemeMind at ArAIEval Shared Task: Spotting Persuasive Spans in Arabic Text with Persuasion Techniques Identification

• CLTL at ArAIEval Shared Task: Multimodal Propagandistic Memes Classification Using Transformer Models

• CUET_sstm at ArAIEval Shared Task: Unimodal (Text) Propagandistic Technique Detection Using Transformer-Based Model

• AlexUNLP-MZ at ArAIEval Shared Task: Contrastive Learning, LLM Features Extraction and Multi-Objective Optimization for Arabic Multi-Modal Meme Propaganda Detection

• SemanticCuetSync at ArAIEval Shared Task: Detecting Propagandistic Spans with Persuasion Techniques Identification using Pre-trained Transformers

• SussexAI at ArAIEval Shared Task: Mitigating Class Imbalance in Arabic Propaganda Detection

• Narrative Navigators at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: New Frontiers in Bias and Propaganda Annotation Techniques

• DRAGON at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: a Dedicated RAG for October 7th conflict News

• LexiconLadies at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Identifying Keywords for Bias Annotation Guidelines of Facebook News Headlines on the Israel-Palestine 2023 War

• Uot1 at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Labeling News Bias

• NLPColab at FigNews 2024 Shared Task: Challenges in Bias and Propaganda Annotation for News Media

• Bias Bluff Busters at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Developing Guidelines to Make Bias Conscious

• Ceasefire at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Automated Detection and Annotation of Media Bias Using Large Language Models

• Sahara Pioneers at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Data Annotation Guidelines for Propaganda Detection in News Items

• BiasGanda at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: A Quest to Uncover Biased Views in News Coverage

• The CyberEquity Lab at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Annotating a Corpus of Facebook Posts to Label Bias and Propaganda in Gaza-Israel War Coverage in Five Languages

• BSC-LANGTECH at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Exploring Semi-Automatic Bias Annotation using Frame Analysis

• GroningenAnnotatesGaza at the FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Analyzing Bias in Conflict Narratives

• JusticeLeague at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: Innovations in Bias Annotation

• The Guidelines Specialists at FIGNEWS 2024 Shared Task: An annotation guideline to Unravel Bias in News Media Narratives Using a Linguistic Approach

• Cher at KSAA-CAD 2024: Compressing Words and Definitions into the Same Space for Arabic Reverse Dictionary

• MISSION at KSAA-CAD 2024: AraT5 with Arabic Reverse Dictionary

• Baleegh at KSAA-CAD 2024: Towards Enhancing Arabic Reverse Dictionaries

• Arabic Train at NADI 2024 shared task: LLMs’ Ability to Translate Arabic Dialects into Modern Standard Arabic

• AlexUNLP-STM at NADI 2024 shared task: Quantifying the Arabic Dialect Spectrum with Contrastive Learning, Weighted Sampling, and BERT-based Regression Ensemble

• NLP_DI at NADI 2024 shared task: Multi-label Arabic Dialect Classifications with an Unsupervised Cross-Encoder

• dzNLP at NADI 2024 Shared Task: Multi-Classifier Ensemble with Weighted Voting and TF-IDF Features

• ELYADATA at NADI 2024 shared task: Arabic Dialect Identification with Similarity-Induced Mono-to-Multi Label Transformation.

• Alson at NADI 2024 shared task: Alson - A fine-tuned model for Arabic Dialect Translation

• CUFE at NADI 2024 shared task: Fine-Tuning Llama-3 To Translate From Arabic Dialects To Modern Standard Arabic

• Team_Zero at StanceEval2024: Frozen PLMs for Arabic Stance Detection

• ANLP RG at StanceEval2024: Comparative Evaluation of Stance, Sentiment and Sarcasm Detection

• dzStance at StanceEval2024: Arabic Stance Detection based on Sentence Transformers

• SMASH at StanceEval 2024: Prompt Engineering LLMs for Arabic Stance Detection

• CUFE at StanceEval2024: Arabic Stance Detection with Fine-Tuned Llama-3 Model

• MGKM at StanceEval2024 Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Arabic Stance Detection

• AlexUNLP-BH at StanceEval2024: Multiple Contrastive Losses Ensemble Strategy with Multi-Task Learning For Stance Detection in Arabic

• Rasid at StanceEval: Fine-tuning MARBERT for Arabic Stance Detection

• ISHFMG_TUN at StanceEval: Ensemble Method for Arabic Stance Evaluation System

• PICT at StanceEval2024: Stance Detection in Arabic using Ensemble of Large Language Models

• TAO at StanceEval2024 Shared Task: Arabic Stance Detection using AraBERT

• Addax at WojoodNER 2024: Attention-Based Dual-Channel Neural Network for Arabic Named Entity Recognition

• DRU at WojoodNER 2024: A Multi-level Method Approach

• Bangor University at WojoodNER 2024: Advancing Arabic Named Entity Recognition with CAMeLBERT-Mix

• DRU at WojoodNER 2024: ICL LLM for Arabic NER

• mucAI at WojoodNER 2024: Arabic Named Entity Recognition with Nearest Neighbor Search

Invited Talk: BALSAM: Community-Driven Arabic LLM Evaluation

Speaker: Dr. Kareem Darwish, aiXplain