Program

Day 1: Saturday day 21-09-2024‎ 
 08:30 – 9:30 AM  Registration   

Opening and Welcome Messages 9:30 – 10:00 AM

Professor Dr. Abdullah Alshamsi, Vice Chancellor, The British University in Dubai, UAE

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Professor Dr. Khalid Al Marri, Dean of Research, The British University in Dubai, UAE

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Professor Dr. Khaled Shaalan, ACLing2021 Conference Co-Chair, The British University in Dubai, UAE
  Professor Dr. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, ACLing2021 Conference Co-Chair, Newgiza University, Egypt 

Presentations will be 20 mins including questions

11:40 – 12:00  PM Break

Parallel Sessions 1 and 2

Parallel Session (1): 12:00 – 1:20 PM     
 Topic:  Transformer based models ‎       

Location: Hall 1
 Chair:  Professor Dr.  Khaled Shaalan  

• #30: Fused Transformers: Fused Information of Arabic long Article for Summarization
  Zeyad Ezzat, Ayman Khalafallah and Ghada Khoriba (Remote) 
• #34: Semantic-Driven Topic Modeling Using Transformer-Based Embeddings and Clustering Algorithms
  Melkamu Abay Mersha, Mesay Gemeda Yigezu and Jugal Kalita (Remote)
• #70: Leveraging Transformer Summarizer to Extract Sentences for Arabic Text Summarization
  Hoda Zaiton, Amany Fashwan and Sameh Alansary (In Person)
• #20: Arabic Idioms Detection by Utilizing Deep Learning and Transformer-based Models
  Hanen Himdi (In Person)

Parallel Session (2): 12:00 – 1:20 PM     
 Topic:  Applying LLMs on Arabic

Location: Hall 2
 Chair: Professor Dr. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy

• #28: Mathematical Problem Solving in Arabic: Assessing Large Language Models
  Abeer Mahgoub, Ghada Khoriba and Elhassan Elsabry (Remote)
• #33: ArzEn-LLM: Code-Switched Egyptian Arabic-English Translation and Speech Recognition Using LLMs
  Ahmed Heakl, Youssef Zaghloul, Mennatullah Ali, Rania Hossam and Walid Gomaa (Remote)
• #26: Multi-Hop Arabic LLM Reasoning in Complex QA
  Hazem Abdelazim (Remote)
• ‎#58: Exploring Retrieval Augmented Generation in Arabic
  Samhaa R. El-Beltagy and Mohamed A. Abdallah (Remote)

1:20 – 1:45 PM Break

Parallel Sessions 3 and 4

Parallel Session (3): 1:45 – 3:05 PM       
 Topic:  Applications of LLMs in Diverse Domains

Location Professor: Hall 1
 Chair:  Professor Dr. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy

• Invited talk: ALECSO SCIENCE GATE 
  Amine Dahmani (In Person)
• #39: ResuméAtlas: Revisiting Resume Classification with Large-Scale Datasets and Large Language Models
  Ahmed Heakl, Youssef Mohamed, Noran Mohamed, Aly Elsharkawy and Ahmed Zaky (Remote)
• ‎#60: Empathetic Language in LLMs under Prompt Engineering: A Comparative Study in the Legal ‎Field
  Yifan Zhang, Christopher Rashidian, Sabine Brunswicker, Dan Whitenack and Daniel Linna (Remote)
• ‎#83: Using LLMs and ontologies to extract causal relationships from medical abstracts
  Alexandru Lecu, Adrian Groza and Lezan Hawizy (In Person)

Parallel Session (4): 1:45 – 3:05 PM 
 Topic:  Technical Issues in LLMS and their applications 

Location: Hall 2
 Chair: Professor Dr.  Khaled Shaalan

• ‎#80: Context-biased vs. structure-biased disambiguation of relative clauses in large language models
  Elsayed Issa and Noureddine Atouf (Remote)
• #65: Up To Date: Automatic Updating Knowledge Graphs Using LLMs
  Shahenda Hatem, Ghada ‎Khoriba, Mohamed H. Gad-Elrab and Mohamed Elhelw (Remote)
• #48: Arabic NER Evaluation: Pre-Trained Models via Contrastive Learning vs. LLM Few-Shot Prompting
  Passant Elchafei and Amany Fashwan (In Person)
• ‎# 49: Utilizing GPT to Enhance Text Summarization: A Strategy to Minimize Hallucinations
  Hassan ‎Shakil, Zeydy Ortiz, Grant C. Forbes and Jugal Kalita (Remote)

3:05 – 4:10 PM Lunch Break

Parallel Sessions 5 and 6

Parallel Session (5): 4:10 – 5:30 PM       
 Topic:   Spam and Hate Speech Detection ‎

Location: Hall 1
 Chair: Professor Dr. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy

• #54:  Deep Learning Approaches for Detecting Arabic Cyberbullying Social Media 
  Manar Alkhatib, Ashwaq Faisal, Khaled Shaalan, Azza Abdel Monem and Faris Alfalasi (Remote)
• #40: Hate Speech Detection in Arabic Text: Survey
  Rehab Ghaly, Abeer Elkorany and Cherry A. Ezzat (Remote)
• # 51: A Novel Approach for Arabic SMS Spam Detection Using Hybrid Deep Learning Techniques
  Mohammed Rasol Al Saidat, Khaled Shaalan and Suleiman Yerima (Remote)
• #50: Advancements of SMS Spam Detection: A Comprehensive Survey of NLP and ML Techniques
  Mohammed Rasol Al Saidat, Khaled Shaalan and Suleiman Yerima (Remote)

Parallel Session (6): 4:10 – 5:30 PM 
 Topic:   Fake news and Fraud detection 

Location: Hall 2
 Chair: Professor Dr.  Khaled Shaalan

• ‎# 35:‎ Ethio-Fake: Cutting-Edge Approaches to Combat Fake News in Under-Resourced Languages ‎Using Explainable AI
  Mesay Gemeda Yigezu, Melkamu Abay Mersha, Girma Yohannis Bade, Jugal ‎Kalita, Olga Kolesnikova and Alexander Gelbukh (Remote)
• ‎#14 Fraud Detection in Medical Insurance Claims Using Majority Voting of Multiple Unsupervised ‎Algorithms
   Mohamed Abo El-Enen, Dina Tbaishat, Ahmed Sahlol, Amril Nazir, Khalid ‎Almaymuni, Mustafa Abdulrazek, Reem Muhammad, Fatima Adlan and Ravi Sharma (Remote)
• ‎#77: FASSILA: A Corpus for Algerian Dialect Fake News Detection and Sentiment Analysis
  Mohamed Amine Cheragui, Abdelhalim Hafedh Dahou, Amin Abdedaiem and Brigitte ‎Mathiak (Remote)
• ‎# 68: Enhancing Model Performance through Translation-based Data Augmentation in the context ‎of Fake News Detection
   Mohamed Amine Cheragui, Abdelhalim Hafedh Dahou, Amin ‎Abdedaiem and Brigitte Mathiak (Remote)

5:30 – 6:00 PM

Networking

Day 2: Sunday ‎22-09-2024‎

Parallel Sessions 1 and 2

Parallel Session (1): 10:00 AM – 11:20 AM      
 Topic:  Arabic Text Recognition and Sentiment Analysis 

Location: Hall 1
 Chair: Professor Dr.  Khaled Shaalan

• ‎‎#25: Deep Learning for Accurate Recognition of Arabic Handwritten Words in Historical Documents
  Hakim Bouchal and Ahror Belaid (Remote)
• ‎#27: Expression of Depression Among Arab Twitter Users Using Arabic Corpus Analysis
  Ahd ‎Mohamed and Wajdi Zaghouani (Remote)
• ‎#36: Empirical Analysis for Detecting Arabic Online Suicidal Ideation
  Hind Alatawi, Shadi Abudalfa ‎and Hamzah Luqman
• ‎#45: A-MASA: Arabic Multidomain Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Datasets
  Yomna Eid, ‎Walaa Medhat and Hala Zayed (Remote)

Parallel Session (2):  10:00 AM – 11:20 AM

Topic:   Arabic Natural Language Processing ‎Tools 

Location: Hall 2         
 Chair: Professor  Dr. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy

• Invited talk: Alkhalil platform for Arabic NLP tools 
• Azzeddine Mazroui
• #76: SinaTools: Open Source Toolkit for Arabic Natural Language Processing
  Tymaa Hammouda, Mustafa Jarrar and Mohammed Khalilia (Remote)
• ‎#42: Takween: A Comprehensive Arabic Collection and Annotation Tool
  Iyad Elwy and Caroline ‎Sabty (In Person)
• ‎#41: A morphological word embedding for Arabic language 
  Abdelouahab Masbah, Nabil Ababou ‎and Azzeddine Mazroui (Remote)

11:20 – 11:40 AM break

Parallel Sessions 3 and  4

Parallel Session (3): 11:40 – 1:00 PM     
 Topic:   Language-Specific LLM Issues and Applications

Location: Hall 1

Chair: Professor Dr.  Khaled Shaalan

• #46: Exploring Explainability in Arabic Language Models: An Empirical Analysis of Techniques
  Yousra Chahinez Hadj Azzem, Fouzi Harrag and Ladjel Bellatreche (Remote)
• # 57:  Normalizing Swiss German Dialects with the Power of Large Language Models
  Mihael Kresic and Noorhan Abbas (Remote)
• #44: Co-reference Resolution in Prompt Engineering
  Mridusmita Das and Apurbalal Senapati (Remote)
• #71: Evaluating Large Language Models for Arabic Sentiment Analysis: A Comparative Study Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  Salma Khaled, Ensaf Hussein and Walaa Medhat (Remote)

Parallel Session (4): 11:40 – 12:40 PM   
 Topic:   Arabic Natural Language Processing ‎(I)

Location: Hall 2
 Chair:  Professor Dr. Samhaa El-Beltagy

• # 67: Enhancing Visual Question Answering for Arabic Language Using LLaVa and Reinforcement Learning
  Asmaa Elmaghraby, Samaa Maged, Ghada Khoriba, Rawan Elfaramawy, Mohamed Essawey and Esraa Negm (Remote)
• #73: Text correction for modern standard Arabic
  Ahmad Abdelaal, Abdelrahman Ahmed Medhat, Mohamed Elsayad, Muhammed Fouad, Salma Khaled, Ahmed Tamer and Walaa Medhat (Remote)
• # 75: Alma: Fast Lemmatizer and POS Tagger for Arabic
  Mustafa Jarrar, Diyam Akra and Tymaa Hammouda (Remote)

1:00 – 1:20 PM break

Parallel Sessions 5 and 6

Parallel Session (5): 1:20 –3:00 PM        
 Topic:   Arabic Natural Language Processing ‎(II)

Location: Hall 1

Chair: Professor Dr.     Khaled Shaalan

• ‎#79: A novel perspective using Chaotic-Grey Wolf Optimization Algorithm for Arabic Feature ‎Selection Problem
  Hadni Meryeme, Hjiaj Hassane, Gouiouez Mounir and Meryem Amane (Remote)
• ‎# 82‎: Poems, Pulses and Polygons: How Classical Arabic Poetry Resonates with Music and ‎Geometry
  Mohamad Elzohbi and Richard Zhao (Remote)
• ‎# 84‎: Arabic Historical Documents Layout Analysis using Mask RCNN
  Latifa Al-Jiffry, ‎Hassanin Al-Barhamtoshy, Felwa Abukhodair and Amani Jamal (Remote)
• ‎#85‎: Deep Learning Techniques for Identifying Poets in Arabic Poetry: A Focus on LSTM and Bi-‎LSTM
  Hamza Shoubaki‎, Sherief Abdallah, Khaled Shaalan‎ (Remote)
• ‎#62: English to Arabic Braille Neural Machine Translation Through Corpus Augmentation
  Nisheeth Joshi, Pragya Katyayan and Syed Afroz Ahmed (Remote)

Parallel Session (6): 1:20 – 3:00 PM       
 Topic:   Natural Language analysis and linguistic resources 

Location: Hall 2
 Chair:  Professor Dr. Samhaa El-Beltagy

• ‎#21: Oxymoron: An Automatic Detection from the Corpus
   Apurbalal Senapati (In Person)
• ‎#31: Word Level Language Identification in Indonesian-Javanese-English Code-Mixed Text
  Ahmad ‎Fathan Hidayatullah, Rosyzie Anna Apong, Daphne Teck Ching Lai and Atika Qazi (Remote)
• ‎#38‎ Paraphrasing identification Using ACV-tree kernel
  Marwah Alian (In Person)
• ‎#52‎ Lexicon-based Language Relatedness Analysis
  Girma Yohannis Bade, Olga ‎Kolesnikova and José Luis Oropeza  (Remote)
• ‎# 78 Automatic Abstracting For Bibliographic Record Semantic Enrichment
   Nassreddine ‎Znaidi, Amel Fraisse and Fadoua Ouamani  (In Person)

3:00 – 4:00 PM Lunch Break

Session (7): 4:00 PM – 5:20 PM    
 Topic: Sentiment Analysis

Location: Main Hall                       
 Chair:  Professor Dr.  Khaled Shaalan

• #9: Improving sentiment analysis of financial news headlines using hybrid Word2Vec-TFIDF feature extraction technique
  Meera George and R Murugesan (In Person)
• # 47 Sentiment Analysis of Custom Speech Corpus: A proof of concept for NLP       
  Suja Panickar, Rimjhim Sinha, Omkar Londhe, Vidhi Chawla and Omkar Singh (Remote)
• #16: Disease Discourse through Sentiment and Network Analysis     
  Said Salloum, Khadija Alhumaid, Ayham Salloum and Khaled Shaalan (Remote)
• #17: K-means Clustering of Tweet Emotions: A 2D PCA Visualization Approach 
  Said Salloum, Khadija Alhumaid, Ayham Salloum and Khaled Shaalan      (Remote)

Awards and closing ceremony 5:20 – 5:30 PM