• ArabicWeb16: A new crawl for today's Arabic Web 

      Suwaileh, Reem; Kutlu, Mucahid; Fathima, Nihal; Elsayed, Tamer; Lease, Matthew ( Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Web crawls provide valuable snapshots of the Web which enable a wide variety of research, be it distributional analysis to characterize Web properties or use of language, content analysis in social science, or Information ...
    • EveTAR: A new test collection for event detection in Arabic tweets 

      Almerekhi, Hind; Hasanain, Maram; Elsayed, Tamer ( Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Research on event detection in Twitter is often obstructed by the lack of publicly-available evaluation mechanisms such as test collections; this problem is more severe when considering the scarcity of them in languages ...
    • EveTAR: building a large-scale multi-task test collection over Arabic tweets 

      Hasanain, M.; Suwaileh, R.; Elsayed, T.; Kutlu, M.; Almerekhi, H. ( Springer Netherlands , 2018 , Article)
      This article introduces a new language-independent approach for creating a large-scale high-quality test collection of tweets that supports multiple information retrieval (IR) tasks without running a shared-task campaign. ...