Program
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ACLing 2025: 7th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics
6th-7th December 2025
https://ACLing.org
ACLing 2025 Conference Program
Day1 Physical – Day2 Online
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Day 1 — Saturday, 6 December 2025
Onsite Programme (UAE Time)
Venue: The British University in Dubai
Auditorium, Block 11, First Floor
Time |
Activity |
Details |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 – 09:30 | Registration & Continental Breakfast | |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Networking | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 |
Opening and Welcome Address, Conference Patrons Livestream link: [Youtube] |
Prof. Abdullah Al Shamsi, Vice Chancellor of the British University in Dubai |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Speech, Conference General Chairs | Prof. Khalid Almarri, Dean of Academic Research |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Speech | Prof. Sherief Abdallah, Dean of Faculty of Engineering & IT |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Speech, Conference Co-chair | Prof. Khaled Shaalan, Head of CS Department, British University in Dubai |
| 11:45 – 12:50 |
Keynote Speech Livestream link: [Youtube] |
Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, University of British Columbia, Canada Session Chair: Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Conference Co-chair, Newgiza University (NGU) |
| 12:50 – 13:00 | Group Pictures | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
Parallel Technical Sessions — Afternoon
Onsite · UAE Time
Each paper is allocated 20 minutes (including Q&A).
Track A — 14:00 – 16:00
Session 1 — LLM Reasoning, Prompting, and Evaluation
Session Chair:Dr. Hussain AlAqrabi, Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT)
- Paper 55 — ROAD-tv: Research Opportunity Discovery via Topological Data Analysis and Adversarial Multi-LLM Validation
Basma Mohamed Afifi, Mervat Abu-Elkheir and Slim Abdennadher - Paper 76— Evaluating LLMs on Arabic Reading Comprehension: Errors, Hallucinations, and Factual Inconsistencies
Najwa Alghamdi, Sadam Alazani, Kwabena Nuamah and Alan Bundy - Paper 87 — LogiCue: Targeted Prompting for Improved Modal and Conditional Reasoning in Large Language Models
Fatemeh Shahrokhshahi, Farzan Mohammadi and Ferdi Sonmez - Paper 121 — Zero-Shot Stance Detection using Contextual Data Generation with LLMs
Ghazaleh Mahmoudi, Babak Behkamkia and Sauleh Eetemadi - Paper 153 — A Comprehensive Assessment of OpenAI’s Large Language Models for Detecting Vulnerabilities in Source Code
Osama Hosam, Achraf Ghorbel and Ghazi Ben Ayed - Paper 157 — A Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Approach to Prompt Optimization in NLP
Muhammad Junaid Iqbal, Muhammad Asghar Khan, Tahir Alyas, Sagheer Abbas, Arif Jawaid and Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
Track B — 14:00 – 16:00
Session 2 — Trustworthy and Responsible AI for Misinformation and Legal Texts
Session Chair:Dr. Alavikunhu Panthakkan, University of Dubai
- Paper 9— Investigating Misleadingness in Fake News Datasets: A Computational Linguistic Approach
Omar Ahmed Attia - Paper 19— Gender-Debiasing Word Embeddings for Low-Resource Languages: A Case Study in Greek
Stefanos Tsimenidis, Theofanis Kalampokas, Myrto Charmpi, Eleni Vrochidou, Lefteris Moussiades, Stylianos Xanthopoulos and George Papakostas - Paper 74 — Constructing an Arabic Deepfake Detection Dataset from Government Sources and LLM-Generated Text
Najla Aljaloud, Amal Sunba and Tarek Helmy - Paper 89 — Automatic Detection of Contradictions in Legal Texts: A Computational Linguistic Analysis
Hoda Zaiton, Sameh Alansary, Nevine Sarwat and Inas Hussein - Paper 100 — Reinforcement-Learned Ethical Transformers for Socially Responsible Text Generation in Sensitive Domains
Afaf Abdullah Ali Alalawi, Yasmeen Alshehhi, Bidoor Noori Ishaq and Maen Qaddoura - Paper 122— Cross-Lingual and Multilingual Approaches to Fake News Detection in the Kazakh Language
Duman Telman, Aigerim Yerimbetova, Madina Sambetbayeva, Elmira Daiyrbayeva, Aisaule Bazarkulova, Almas Turganbayev and Bekbol Bolatov
Coffee Break
Track C — 16:20 – 18:20
Session 3 — Low-Resource and Multilingual NLP for Specialized Domains
Session Chair: Prof. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Newgiza University (NGU)
- Paper 67 — Sign Language Recognition based on Deep Learning via MediaPipe for People with Speech and Hearing Impairments
Aigerim Yerimbetova, Ulmeken Berzhanova, Ainur Bayekeyeva, Marek Milosz, Bakzhan Sakenov, Elmira Daiyrbayeva, Telman Duman and Orken Mamyrbayev - Paper 86 — SciMDIX: A Dataset for Aspect Extraction from Multi-Domain Scientific Documents in Kazakh and Russian
Nikita Shvarts, Tatiana Batura, Nurzhan Mukazhanov, Aigerim Yerimbetova, Bakzhan Sakenov and Mussa Turdalyuly - Paper 106 — Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for Question Answering in Arabic Medical Consultations
Lina Siyam, Nur Siyam and Omar Alqaryouti - Paper 138 — From General Doctor to Specialist: Enhancing Radiology Report Generation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Ghazal Zamaninejad and Sauleh Eetemadi
Track D — 16:20 – 18:20
Session 4 — User-Centred and Social Media NLP Applications
Session Chair: Dr. Azza Basiouni, Liwa University
- Paper 7 — Arabic X (formerly Twitter) Sentiment Analysis using Skipgrams Method
Rasha Aleidan - Paper 123 — AI-Based Automated Grading of Short Answer Responses with Interactive Feedback
Ali Heydari, Saeed Alkendi and Sauleh Eetemadi - Paper 129 — Personalized Emoji Prediction Framework Using Personality, Emotion, and User Preferences
Mariam Gaafar, Ahmed Rafea and Alia El Bolock - Paper 144 — Explainability in Emotion Detection in Social Media Text Using Distilled Transformer Models
Safa Abu Najm and Hamid Mukhtar
Day 2 — Sunday, 7 December 2025
Online Parallel Sessions (from 16:00, UAE Time)
All times are given in UAE Time. Sessions are held online in two parallel tracks (Session 1 and Session 2).
Online Sessions
Time Slots and Paper ID Groups
| Time | Session 1 — IDs | Session 2 — IDs |
|---|---|---|
| 16:00 – 17:00 | 1, 18, 21, 24, 52, 54, 56 | 108, 110, 112, 113, 114, 116, 118 |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | 57, 58, 61, 62, 65, 66, 68 | 124, 125, 128, 130, 131, 132, 134 |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | 69, 75, 77, 78, 79, 82, 83 | 136, 137, 141, 142, 143, 145, 146 |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | 84, 85, 88, 90, 95, 96, 97 | 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 154, 155 |
| 20:00 – 21:00 | 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 105, 107 | 158, 164, 111, 126 |
Detailed titles for the papers are listed below. Online room links for each session can be added to the corresponding time slot or session heading as needed.
| Session | Date & Time | Meeting Credentials | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session 1 | Sunday, December 7, 2025 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM |
Meeting ID: 398 792 127 582 Passcode: VA6Sp7 |
Join Session 1 |
| Session 2 | Sunday, December 7, 2025 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM |
Meeting ID: 355 577 991 318 Passcode: Y9fx6j |
Join Session 2 |
List of Papers — Online Sessions
Paper 1
RAG-Rec: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Robust Personalized Recommendation Systems
Paper 18
PAN-KK: A Language Resource for Plagiarism Detection in Low-Resource Kazakh
Paper 21
Concept-based Explanations for Neural Language Classifiers
Paper 24
AI-Assisted Contrastive Phonological Study of Arabic and Mandarin Consonants: Error Pattern Summary
Paper 52
Arabic Legal Information Retrieval: The Impact of Morphological Segmentation and Semantic Embeddings
Paper 54
User Profile Generation from Arabic Twitter Accounts
Paper 56
Confidence Gated Fusion: Dynamic Language Model Integration for Adapting Pretrained Multilingual ASR Models with Text-Only Data
Paper 57
ArabNED: A Novel Dataset and Evaluation of Fine-Tuned vs. Zero-Shot Models for Arabic Named Entity Disambiguation
Paper 58
Generating Arabic Jurisprudential Rulings on Islamic Inheritance Using Retrieval-Augmented and Fine-Tuned Language Models
Paper 61
CyberDTD: A Multimodal Benchmark Dataset for Cyberbullying Detection in Tunisian Dialect
Paper 62
TurkLink: A Morphologically-Aware and Syntactically Enriched Corpus for Entity Linking in Turkish
Paper 65
AI-based QA System for Clinical Decision Making
Paper 66
Domain-Specific Adaptation of Vision-Language Models for Arabic OCR
Paper 68
Querying Structured Objects via Alignment-Oriented Retrieval Method
Paper 69
Towards a Translation Framework for ‘rojak’ Language: Challenges and Early Findings
Paper 75
TurkColBERT: A Benchmark of Dense and Late-Interaction Models for Turkish Information Retrieval
Paper 77
From Clusters to Characters: USERPRINT for Cross-Dataset Transfer in LLM Personalization
Paper 78
Towards Better Machine Translation of Saudi Arabian Dialects: A Parallel Corpus and Comparative Evaluation of Different PLMs
Paper 79
Leveraging Large Language Models for Cyberbullying Prediction and Detection: A Multimodal Approach to Proactive Prevention and Policy Support
Paper 82
A Scalable Platform for Collaborative Manual and Automatic Annotation with Visual Analytics in Arabic NLP
Paper 83
From Word Pairs to Context: Interpretable Sarcasm Detection via Contextual Collocation Augmentation (C2A)
Paper 84
Modular Arabic VQA System Using Pre-Trained Models
Paper 85
Saudi Dialects to MSA Machine Translation: A Systematic Evaluation of LLMs
Paper 88
Raqim: A Hybrid Framework for Arabic OCR Correction Using Dictionary-Based Methods and Large Language Models
Paper 90
LLM as a Judge: Multi-Judge Benchmarking and Agentic Uncertainty-Aware Refinement
Paper 95
ML-Based Detection of ARP Spoofing Attacks in Internet-of-Things Environments: Comparative Study
Paper 96
Enhancing IoT Security Using Machine Learning for Port Scan Attack Detection
Paper 97
End-to-End Conformer Neural Networks for Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding
Paper 98
Self-Supervised Wav2Vec Representations Integrated with Recurrent Neural Networks for Speech-to-Text Applications
Paper 99
Federated Learning Models for Personalized Text Generation in Privacy-Sensitive User Settings
Paper 101
Biomedical Knowledge Graph Embeddings with Deep Learning Models for Clinical Question Answering Systems
Paper 102
Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks with Bayesian Dropout for Long-Sequence Language Modeling Tasks
Paper 103
Reinforcement-Learned Speech Enhancement Models for Real-Time Adaptive Human-Computer Interaction
Paper 105
A Modular Multi-Agentic Architecture for Automating Multiple-Choice Question Generation in Language Assessment
Paper 107
A Rule-Based Model with Fuzzy Matching for Disease Named Entity Recognition in Arabic Biomedical Texts
Paper 108
Bridging Quantitative Safety Analytics and Computational Linguistics: An LLM-Augmented Data-to-Text Framework
Paper 110
A Metaheuristic-Driven Intrusion Detection Model: Dragonfly Algorithm for Feature Selection and XGBoost Classification
Paper 111
Character Identification in Short Stories
Paper 112
XAI-Empowered Approaches to Enhance Urban Traffic Flow
Paper 113
LLM-based 3D Model Generation of Material Handling Equipment for OpenSCAD
Paper 114
Analyzing the Impact of Deep Learning and Machine Learning on Mental Disorders: A Bibliometric Study
Paper 116
ARAG: An Agent-Based Hybrid Semantic-Lexical Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipeline for Arabic Texts
Paper 118
Measuring Linguistic Bias in ASR: Whisper large-v3 on Non-Native Speech versus Human Perception
Paper 124
Collaborative Methodology by Integrating Students, AI and Teacher to Teach English Literature for Active and Reflective Learning
Paper 125
Evaluating the Educational and Cultural Risks of Generative AI Videos in Arabic Learning Contexts
Paper 126
Advances of Informal to Formal Persian Text Conversion: A Surve
Paper 128
Interpreting Quality Ratings in Consumer Products Using AI
Paper 130
Chatbot Integration for Customer Service Using Natural Language Processing
Paper 131
An Explainable Deep Learning Framework for Accurate and Transparent Cancer Prediction Using Medical Data
Paper 132
Data-centric Contemporary e-Government Designs
Paper 134
Trends Sentiment Unveiled Through Deep Dive into Social Media Data
Paper 136
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Enhancing Arabic Fake News Detection: A BERT-Based Transformer Approach
Paper 137
Multi-Label Emotion Recognition in Low-Resource Dialects: A Case Study on Algerian Arabic with Large Language Models
Paper 141
Cyberbullying and Harassment Pattern Recognition from Social Media Data Using BiLSTM-CNN Hybrid Model
Paper 142
Elevating Cybersecurity Strategies with the Insights of Explainable AI
Paper 143
Quantum-Resistant Blockchain Protocol for Secure Smart Contracts in Cross-Border Finance
Paper 145
Hand Gesture Recognition for Human-Computer Interaction Using Deep Learning Approach
Paper 146
Enhancing Disease Prediction in Healthcare through Explainable AI in Clinical Decision Support Systems
Paper 147
Revolutionizing Higher Education by Harnessing the Power of AI and Big Data for Sustainable Education
Paper 148
University Students’ Perceptions of AI-Powered Language Learning: Improving English Proficiency
Paper 149
Attention-Based LipNet Architectures for Robust Visual Speech Recognition in Multimodal Interfaces
Paper 150
Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Transformers for Efficient Scaling of Large Language Models
Paper 151
Revolutionizing Language Learning: The Role of AI Chatbots in Vocabulary Growth
Paper 154
Rooting and Rerouting Resistance: An LLM-Powered Framework for Analyzing Third-space and Beginnings in Palestinian Memoirs
Paper 155
Deep Metric Learning for Iris Recognition in Head-Mounted Displays
Paper 158
The Impact of Diacritization on Visual Word Recognition in Arabic: A Cognitive Approach
Paper 164
Student or AI? Automated Detection of AI-Generated Student Essays
ACLing2025 Contact:
- Khaled Shaalan: khaled.shaalan
@buid.ac.ae - Samhaa R. El-Beltagy: samhaa@computer.org
- Taher M. Ghazal: taher.ghazal@ieee.org
General Inquiries:
- General Contact: acling2025@gmail.com