Publications
Silencing & Surging: A Layered Ecology of Algorithmic Repression and Resistance in the Gaza Escalations
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2026
"God says we are right!": The Interplay between Religion and Propaganda on Arabic Social Media
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2026
Fabricating Holiness: Characterizing Religious Misinformation Circulators on Arabic Social Media
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'26) · 2026
Validating Automatic Evaluation of Controllable Counterspeech Generation: Rankings Matter More Than Scores
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2026
The NakbaEcho Dataset: From Oral Testimonies to a Transcribed Arabic History Corpus
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources (NakbaNLP 2026) · 2026
The Attachment Index: Auditing Attachment Language Cues and Relational Safety Risks in Human-LLM Dialogue
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2026) · 2026
SMASH at SemEval-2026 Task 9: Detecting Multilingual Polarisation with Encoder Ensembles and Calibrated Decision Thresholds
Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2026) · 2026
Le$bean or lesbian? A survey of marginalised users' motivations for obfuscation on TikTok
Behaviour & Information Technology · 2026
Grievance Politics vs. Policy Debates: A Cross-Platform Analysis of Conservative Discourse on Truth Social and Reddit
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2026) · 2026
Generative AI in child sexual exploitation and abuse: views from UK law enforcement
AI & Society · 2026
Gendered Communication Patterns of Political Elites on Truth Social
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Web Science Conference 2026 · 2026
From Cairo to Cape Town: How African Twitter Shapes the Global Palestine-Israel Narrative
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences (PoliticalNLP 2026) · 2026
Farsi Natural Language Processing: A Survey
Information Processing & Management · 2026
Evaluating Image Forgery Detection and Propaganda in Manipulated Images of the Russian Trolls Campaign
IEEE Internet Computing · 2026
Beyond the Game: Comparing Political News Coverage and Twitter Discussions during the 2022 FIFA World Cup
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media · 2026
Benchmarking Offensive Language Detection in Persian and Pashto
Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and LLMs for the Iranian Language Family (SilkRoadNLP 2026) · 2026
An Optimistic Outlook on Teaching, Learning and Assessment for Coding With the Emergence of Generative AI
Teaching Programming Across Disciplines · 2026
State & Geopolitical Censorship on Twitter (X): Detection & Impact Analysis of Withheld Content
Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'25) · 2025
IslamicEval 2025: The First Shared Task of Capturing LLMs Hallucination in Islamic Content
Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference · 2025
Cross-Partisan Interactions on Twitter
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM'25) · 2025
'The Prophet said so!': On Exploring Hadith Presence on Arabic Social Media
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW'25) · 2025
The Insight-Inference Loop: Efficient Text Classification via Natural Language Inference and Threshold-Tuning
Sociological Methods & Research · 2025
Who Should Set the Standards? Analysing Censored Arabic Content on Facebook during the Palestine-Israel Conflict
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2025
The Only Way is Ethics: A Guide to Ethical Research with Large Language Models
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2025
Revisiting Common Assumptions about Arabic Dialects in NLP
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2025
MisCC: Misinformation Detection on Counterfactual Claims
Learning and Reasoning: 4th International Joint Conference, IJCLR 2024 · 2025
Lexpansion: Evaluating Dictionary Based Lexicon Expansion for Social Media Analysis
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI 2025) · 2025
Large Engagement Networks for Classifying Coordinated Campaigns and Organic Twitter Trends
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2025) · 2025
Experiences of Censorship on TikTok Across Marginalised Identities
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2025) · 2025
Density-aware Walks for Coordinated Campaign Detection
European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2025) · 2025
Culture Matters in Toxic Language Detection in Persian
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2025
Coordinated Reply Attacks in Influence Operations: Characterization and Detection
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2025) · 2025
Compositional Generalisation for Explainable Hate Speech Detection
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2025
"Till I can get my satisfaction": Open Questions in the Public Desire to Punish AI
Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2025
TwiXplorer: An Interactive Tool for Narrative Detection and Analysis in Historic Twitter Data
Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing · 2024
"Pinocchio had a Nose, You have a Network!": On Characterizing Fake News Spreaders on Arabic Social Media
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW'24) · 2024
Shorts vs. Regular Videos on YouTube: A Comparative Analysis of User Engagement and Content Creation Trends
Toxic Synergy Between Hate Speech and Fake News Exposure
International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc 2024) · 2024
NADI 2024: The Fifth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task
Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference · 2024
Explainability and Hate Speech: Structured Explanations Make Social Media Moderators Faster
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2024
Estimating the Level of Dialectness Predicts Inter-annotator Agreement in Multi-dialect Arabic Datasets
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · 2024
Detecting statements in text: a domain-agnostic few-shot solution
Workshop Proceedings of the 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (NOCAPS 2024) · 2024
Temporal Generalizability in Multimodal Misinformation Detection
Proceedings - The first workshop on (benchmarking) generalisation in NLP · 2023
Rumour Detection in the Wild: A Browser Extension for Twitter
3rd Workshop for Natural Language Processing Open Source Software · 2023
Cross-lingual Transfer Can Worsen Bias in Sentiment Analysis
The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2023
ALDi: Quantifying the Arabic Level of Dialectness of Text
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2023
What Makes Good Counterspeech? A Comparison of Generation Approaches and Evaluation Metrics
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on CounterSpeech for Online Abuse (CS4OA) · 2023
Stereotypes and Smut: The (Mis)representation of Non-cisgender Identities by Text-to-Image Models
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 · 2023
DLAMA: A Framework for Curating Culturally Diverse Facts for Probing the Knowledge of Pretrained Language Models
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 · 2023
Development of a smartphone virtual reality game to support the radiation therapy of children and adolescents in proton centers
Frontiers in Pediatrics · 2023
Biases in Large Language Models: Origins, Inventory and Discussion
Journal of Data and Information Quality · 2023
A Web-based Tool for Detecting Argument Validity and Novelty
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems · 2023
The Impact of Data Persistence Bias on Social Media Studies
Proceedings of the 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 · 2023
The Effect of Arabic Dialect Familiarity on Data Annotation
Proceedings of the The Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP) · 2023
Sarcasm Detection is Way Too Easy! An Empirical Comparison of Human and Machine Sarcasm Detection
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022 · 2023
Potential Pitfalls with Automatic Sentiment Analysis: The Example of Queerphobic Bias
Social science computer review · 2023
A robust bias mitigation procedure based on the Stereotype Content model
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science · 2023
Emoji are Effective Predictors of User's Demographics
Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining · 2023
Arabic Dialect Identification under Scrutiny: Limitations of Single-label Classification
Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023 · 2023
Explainable Abuse Detection as Intent Classification and Slot Filling
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2022
Benchmarking Crisis in Social Media Analytics: A Solution for the Data Sharing Problem
Social science computer review · 2022
Twitter has a Binary Privacy Setting, are Users Aware of How It Works?
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW'23) · 2022
Hiding opinions from machine learning
PNAS Nexus · 2022
KEViN: A Knowledge Enhanced Validity and Novelty Classifier for Arguments
Proceedings of 9th Workshop on Argument Mining · 2022
SemEval-2022 Task 6: iSarcasmEval, Intended Sarcasm Detection in English and Arabic
Proceedings of The 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2022 · 2022
SMASH at Qur’an QA 2022: Creating Better Faithful Data Splits for Low-resourced Question Answering Scenarios
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks on Qur’an QA and Fine-Grained Hate Speech Detection · 2022
The Impact of Social Media on Social Cohesion: A Double‐Edged Sword
Media and Communication · 2022
Should a Chatbot be Sarcastic? Understanding User Preferences Towards Sarcasm Generation
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers): Proceedings of the Conference, Vol. 1 (Long Papers) · 2022
Understanding Privacy Switching Behaviour on Twitter
Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2022
Design principles for conversational agents to support Emergency Management Agencies
International Journal of Information Management · 2022
Robert Elliott Smith: Rage Inside the Machine—the prejudice of algorithms, and how to stop the internet making bigots of us all
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines · 2022
LIWC-UD: Classifying Online Slang Terms into LIWC Categories
Proceedings of WebSci'22 · 2022
Understanding fillers may facilitate automatic sarcasm comprehension: A structural analysis of Twitter data and a participant study
Proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2022) · 2022
From an Authentication Question to a Public Social Event: Characterizing Birthday Sharing on Twitter
arXiv:2201.10655 [cs] · 2022
Don't Take it Personally: Analyzing Gender and Age Differences in Ratings of Online Humor
Social Informatics: 13th International Conference, SocInfo 2022 · 2022
Characterizing the role of bots’ in polarized stance on social media
Social Network Analysis and Mining · 2022
Caught in a networked collusion? Homogeneity in conspiracy-related discussion networks on YouTube
Information Systems · 2022
AX-MABSA: A Framework for Extremely Weakly Supervised Multi-label Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2022
Chandler: An Explainable Sarcastic Response Generator
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations · 2021
The Influence of Community Structure on Opinion Expression: An Agent-Based Model
Journal of Business Economics · 2021
Robert Elliott Smith: Rage Inside the Machine—the prejudice of algorithms, and how to stop the internet making bigots of us all
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines · 2021
Black or White but Never Neutral: How Readers Perceive Identity from Yellow or Skin-toned Emoji
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 2021
Atheists versus Theists: Religious Polarisation in Arab Online Communities
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 2021
SemEval 2021 Task 7: HaHackathon, Detecting and Rating Humor and Offense
Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2021) · 2021
Recommendations for Managing AI-Driven Change Processes: When Expectations Meet Reality
International Journal of Management Practice · 2021
Intrinsic Bias Metrics Do Not Correlate with Application Bias
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2021
Caught in a networked collusion? Homogeneity in conspiracy-related discussion networks on YouTube
Information Systems · 2021
Stance detection on social media: State of the art and trends
Information Processing and Management · 2021
Identity Signals in Emoji do not Influence Perception of Factual Truth on Twitter
Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 2021
SemEval-2022 Task 6: iSarcasmEval, Intended Sarcasm Detection in English and Arabic
Proceedings of The 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2022 · 2021
Overview of the WANLP 2021 Shared Task on Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic
Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop · 2021
Benchmarking Transformer-based Language Models for Arabic Sentiment and Sarcasm Detection
Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop · 2021
Ephemeral Astroturfing Attacks: The Case of Fake Twitter Trends
arXiv · 2021
A Comparative Study of Effective Approaches for Arabic Sentiment Analysis
Information Processing and Management · 2021
Understanding Collaboration with Virtual Assistants – The Role of Social Identity and the Extended Self
Business and Information Systems Engineering · 2021
The perceived surveillance of conversations through smart devices
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications · 2021
Comparison of disclosure/concealment of medical information given to conversational agents or to physicians
Health Informatics Journal · 2021
Benchmarking Crisis in Social Media Analytics: A Solution for the Data-Sharing Problem
Social Science Computer Review · 2021
AAA: Fair Evaluation for Abuse Detection Systems Wanted
WebSci ‘21: 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021 · 2021
Smash at SemEval-2020 Task 7: Optimizing the Hyperparameters of ERNIE 2.0 for Humor Ranking and Rating
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation · 2020
Scaling Systematic Literature Reviews with Machine Learning Pipelines
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing · 2020
Emoji and Self-Identity in Twitter Bios
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science · 2020
Embedding Structured Dictionary Definitions
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP · 2020
Content Planning for Neural Story Generation with Aristotelian Rescoring
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2020
It's Not Just About Sad Songs: The Effect of Depression on Posting Lyrics and Quotes
SocInfo 2020: Social Informatics · 2020
Holy Tweets: Exploring the Sharing of the Quran on Twitter
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 2020
iSarcasm: A Dataset of Intended Sarcasm
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2020
Examining the Role of Mood Patterns in Predicting Self-reported Depressive Symptoms
WebSci ‘20: 12th ACM Conference on Web Science · 2020
Analyzing Temporal Relationships between Trending Terms on Twitter and Urban Dictionary Activity
WebSci ‘20: 12th ACM Conference on Web Science · 2020
Analysing Privacy Leakage of Life Events on Twitter
WebSci ‘20: 12th ACM Conference on Web Science · 2020
Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications
Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020) · 2020
Towards Using Word Embedding Vector Space for Better Cohort Analysis
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 2020
The Effect of Sociocultural Variables on Sarcasm Communication Online
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 2020
Overview of OSACT4 Arabic Offensive Language Detection Shared Task
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools · 2020
Multitask Learning for Arabic Offensive Language and Hate-Speech Detection
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools · 2020
From Arabic Sentiment Analysis to Sarcasm Detection: The ArSarcasm Dataset
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools · 2020
Diachronic Embeddings for People in the News, NLP+CSS @ EMNLP 2020
NLP+CSS @ EMNLP 2020 · 2020
The Effect of User Psychology on the Content of Social Media Posts: Originality and Transitions Matter
Frontiers in Psychology · 2020
Emoji Skin Tone Modifiers: Analyzing Variation in Usage on Social Media
ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC) · 2020
Towards a Better Understanding of Online Influence: Differences in Twitter Communication Between Companies and Influencers
Proceedings of the 31st Australasian Conference on Information Systems · 2020
Design Requirements for AI-based Services Enriching Legacy Information Systems in Enterprises: A Managerial Perspective
Proceedings of the 31st Australasian Conference on Information Systems · 2020
Caution: Rumors ahead—A case study on the debunking of false information on Twitter
Big Data & Society · 2020
A Practical Guide for the Effective Evaluation of Twitter User Geolocation
ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC) · 2019
Your Stance is Exposed! Analysing Possible Factors for Stance Detection on Social Media
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 2019
Assessing Sentiment of the Expressed Stance on Social Media
Social Informatics: 11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019 · 2019
Arabs and Atheism: Religious Discussions in the Arab Twittersphere
Social Informatics: 11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019 · 2019
Exploring Author Context for Detecting Intended vs Perceived Sarcasm
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2019
Arabic Tweet-Act: Speech Act Recognition for Arabic Asynchronous Conversations
Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop · 2019
Online Community Engagement when Talking About Infidelity: The Case of Reddit
It is more than what you Say!: Leveraging User Online Activity for Improved Stance Detection
Plan, Write, and Revise: an Interactive System for Open-Domain Story Generation
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Demonstrations) · 2019
Understanding Referential Aspects of Skin-toned Emoji on Social Media, IC2S2-2019
IC2S2 2019 · 2019
Mazajak: An Online Arabic Sentiment Analyser
Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop · 2019
Similar Minds Post Alike: Assessment of Suicide Risk by Hybrid Language and Behavioral Model, NAACL2019
CLPsych-NAACL2019 · 2019
Preserving Privacy as Social Responsibility in Online Social Networks
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology · 2018
How Well Did You Locate Me? Effective Evaluation of Twitter User Geolocation
2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) · 2018
ClassStrength v2: An Adaptive Multilingual Tool for Tweet Classification
2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) · 2018
Self-Representation on Twitter Using Emoji Skin Color Modifiers
Proceedings of the Twelfth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2018) · 2018
Part-of-Speech Tagging for Arabic Gulf Dialect Using Bi-LSTM
11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · 2018
Multi-Dialect Arabic POS Tagging: A CRF Approach
11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · 2018
An Arabic Speech-Act and Sentiment Corpus of Tweets
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018) · 2018
BroDyn’18: Workshop on analysis of broad dynamic topics over social media
CEUR Workshop Proceedings BroDyn 2018: Analysis of Broad Dynamic Topics over Social Media: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Analysis of Broad Dynamic Topics over Social Media (BroDyn 2018) co-located with the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018) · 2018
Predicting Online Islamophobic Behavior after #ParisAttack
Journal of Web Science · 2017
Trump vs. Hillary: What went Viral during the 2016 US Presidential Election
9th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2017) · 2017
Abusive Language Detection on Arabic Social Media
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Abusive Language Online · 2017
Improved Stance Prediction in a User Similarity Feature Space
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017 · 2017
Fake it till you make it: Fishing for Catfishes
ASONAM 2017 Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017 · 2017
ClassStrength: A Multilingual Tool for Tweets Classification
ASONAM 2017 Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017 · 2017
Word-Based Correction for Retrieval of Arabic OCR Degraded Documents
String Processing and Information Retrieval: 13th International Conference, SPIRE 2006, Glasgow, UK, October 11-13, 2006, Proceedings · 2006