College of Engineering: Recent submissions
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Overview of the CLEF-2021 CheckThat! Lab Task 2 on detecting previously fact-checked claims in tweets and political debates
( CEUR-WS , 2021 , Conference)We describe the fourth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2021 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting three tasks related to factuality, and it covers Arabic, ... -
Qur'an QA 2022: Overview of The First Shared Task on Question Answering over the Holy Qur'an
( European Language Resources Association (ELRA) , 2022 , Conference)Motivated by the resurgence of the machine reading comprehension (MRC) research, we have organized the first Qur'an Question Answering shared task,"Qur'an QA 2022". The task in its first year aims to promote state-of-the-art ... -
Automated Fact-Checking for Assisting Human Fact-Checkers
( International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence , 2021 , Conference)The reporting and the analysis of current events around the globe has expanded from professional, editor-lead journalism all the way to citizen journalism. Nowadays, politicians and other key players enjoy direct access ... -
Who can verify this? Finding authorities for rumor verification in Twitter
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)A large body of research work has proposed verification techniques for rumors spreading in social media that mainly relied on subjective evidence, e.g., propagation networks or user interactions. Alternatively, in this ... -
Are authorities denying or supporting? Detecting stance of authorities towards rumors in Twitter
( Springer , 2024 , Article)Several studies examined the leverage of the stance in conversational threads or news articles as a signal for rumor verification. However, none of these studies leveraged the stance of trusted authorities. In this work, ... -
Improving conversational search with query reformulation using selective contextual history
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Automated responses to questions for conversational agents, known as conversation passage retrieval, is challenging due to omissions and implied context in user queries. To help address this challenge, queries can be ... -
Unsupervised query reduction for efficient yet effective news background linking
( PeerJ Inc. , 2023 , Article)In this article, we study efficient techniques to tackle the news background linking problem, in which an online reader seeks background knowledge about a given article to better understand its context. Recently, this ... -
IDRISI-D: Arabic and English Datasets and Benchmarks for Location Mention Disambiguation over Disaster Microblogs
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2023 , Conference)Extracting and disambiguating geolocation information from social media data enables effective disaster management, as it helps response authorities; for example, locating incidents for planning rescue activities and ... -
The CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab: Check-Worthiness, Subjectivity, Persuasion, Roles, Authorities, and Adversarial Robustness
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024 , Conference)The first five editions of the CheckThat! lab focused on the main tasks of the information verification pipeline: check-worthiness, evidence retrieval and pairing, and verification. Since the 2023 edition, it has been ... -
Improved pediatric ICU mortality prediction for respiratory diseases: machine learning and data subdivision insights
( BioMed Central Ltd , 2024 , Article)The growing concern of pediatric mortality demands heightened preparedness in clinical settings, especially within intensive care units (ICUs). As respiratory-related admissions account for a substantial portion of pediatric ... -
On Accommodating VR Traffic for mHealth Applications in Rural Areas with Limited Impact on IoT Traffic
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2020 , Conference)This paper investigates radio resource management for internet of things (IoT) networks with application to bandwidth constrained scenarios, e.g., in rural and under-privileged areas. An algorithm for efficient IoT resource ... -
Quantifying Empathy in Virtual Reality: An Outline
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2020 , Conference)The purpose of this paper is to provide an outline of the research undertaken hitherto on quantifying empathy in virtual reality (VR). In this paper we have discussed various methodologies used for testing the impact on ... -
Combating jamming attacks in multi-channel IoT networks using game theory
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2020 , Conference)Jamming attacks are among the most widely used techniques to block and disturb legitimate communications. Several techniques are used in the literature to combat these attacks. However, most of them either require the ... -
Physical Layer Anti-jamming Technique Using Massive Planar Antenna Arrays
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2020 , Conference)Wirelessly connected devices play a vital role in people's daily life, especially with the significant rise in the number of devices connected to the Internet and the huge data being generated everyday. However, the open ... -
IoT Anti-Jamming Strategy Using Game Theory and Neural Network
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2020 , Conference)The internet of things (IoT) is one of the most exposed networks to attackers due to its widespread and its heterogeneity. In such networks, jamming attacks are widely used by malicious users to compromise the private and ... -
On the Use of Quantum Communications for Securing IoT Devices in the 6G Era
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2021 , Conference)The Internet of Things (IoT) connects billions of machines that can interact with each other. IoT is one of the fastest-growing areas in the history of computing, and will continue in this direction in the 6G era. New ... -
6G Connectivity in Dense Indoor Environments using Beamforming and Frequency Allocation over IEEE 802.11ad
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2021 , Conference)The upcoming 6G network is expected to support high data rate services combining the requirements of the 5G enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) use cases, typically ... -
New Way to Generating and Simulation QKD
( Springer Nature , 2021 , Conference)Due to the necessity for using the security to the end-users, the conventional methods for security are not sufficient for the highly equipped attacker and new ways to violate security. Moreover, the quantum age is coming ... -
SRM power density improvement utilising rotor conducting screens and DC-link voltage boosting for EV applications
( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2021 , Article)The power density enhancement of a four-phase switched reluctance motor using rotor conducting screens and DC-link voltage boosting for electric vehicle applications is studied. The effect of conducting screen thickness ... -
A Comprehensive Review of Lithium-Ion Batteries Modeling, and State of Health and Remaining Useful Lifetime Prediction
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Article)According to the United States environmental protection agency (EPA), every burned gallon of gasoline generates 8.87 Kg of CO2. The pollution created by vehicles' fuel consumption has been one of the primary sources of ...
