Faculty Contributions: Recent submissions
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ArCOV-19: The First Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with Propagation Networks
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2021 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we present ArCOV-19, an Arabic COVID-19 Twitter dataset that spans one year, covering the period from 27th of January 2020 till 31st of January 2021. ArCOV-19 is the first publicly-available Arabic Twitter ... -
Studying effectiveness of Web search for fact checking
( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2022 , Article)Web search is commonly used by fact checking systems as a source of evidence for claim verification. In this work, we demonstrate that the task of retrieving pages useful for fact checking, called evidential pages, is ... -
Automated Fact-Checking for Assisting Human Fact-Checkers
( International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence , 2021 , Conference Paper)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 ... -
Overview of the CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab Task 5 on Authority Finding in Twitter
( CEUR-WS , 2023 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of Task 5 of the sixth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, which is a part of the 2023 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). In this Authority Finding task, participating systems are required ... -
bigIR at TREC 2021: Adopting Transfer Learning for News Background Linking
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2021 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we present the participation of the bigIR team at Qatar University in the TREC 2021 news track. We participated in the background linking task. The task mainly aims to retrieve news articles that provide ... -
Preface : 5th Workshop Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks on Qur'an QA and Fine-Grained Hate Speech Detection, OSACT 2022 - Proceedings at Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
( European Language Resources Association (ELRA) , 2022 , Other)Given the success of the first, second, third, and fourth workshops on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools (OSACT) in LREC 2014, LREC 2016, LREC 2018, and LREC 2020, the fifth workshop comes to encourage ... -
The CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab: Check-Worthiness, Subjectivity, Persuasion, Roles, Authorities, and Adversarial Robustness
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024 , Conference Paper)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 ... -
IDRISI-D: Arabic and English Datasets and Benchmarks for Location Mention Disambiguation over Disaster Microblogs
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2023 , Conference Paper)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 ... -
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 ... -
Correction: Machine learning-based prognostic model for 30-day mortality prediction in Sepsis-3
( Springer Nature link , 2024 , Article)Background Sepsis poses a critical threat to hospitalized patients, particularly those in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Rapid identification of Sepsis is crucial for improving survival rates. Machine learning techniques ... -
Evaluating Nanoparticulate Vaccine Formulations for Effective Antigen Presentation and T-Cell Proliferation Using an In Vitro Overlay Assay
( PMC , 2024 , Article)Inducing T lymphocyte (T-cell) activation and proliferation with specificity against a pathogen is crucial in vaccine formulation. Assessing vaccine candidates’ ability to induce T-cell proliferation helps optimize formulation ... -
Digital tools and innovative healthcare solutions: Serious games and gamification in surgical training and patient care
( Elsevier , 2023 , Book chapter)The focus of this chapter is gamification and serious gaming in the medical field. The chapter outlines the key role of gamification in digital transformation and how it translates in healthcare settings, especially in ... -
Developing a Novel Health Interprofessional Education Curriculum: Strategies and Implementation
( Springer Singapore , 2023 , Book chapter)An interprofessional education (IPE) curriculum supports the development of collaborative competencies that will enable effective teamwork and collaboration. This chapter will apply Biggs’ 3P model of learning and teaching ... -
Senolytics in diseases: killing to survive
( Elsevier , 2023 , Book chapter)Since the discovery of cellular senescence in 1961, numerous studies have investigated the role of senescent cells in the pathogenesis of many chronic diseases. Cellular senescence, defined by irreversible cell cycle arrest, ... -
Aesthetic Full Coverage Restorations: Strip Crowns for Primary Incisors
( CRC Press , 2024 , Book chapter)Unsightly or discoloured primary incisor teeth will often be the reason that, for the first time, parents seek dental treatment for their children. Such teeth may be carious, discoloured due to a congenital defect or trauma, ... -
Plastic Restorations for Primary Teeth
( CRC Press , 2024 , Book chapter)Plastic restorative materials available for primary teeth range from the traditional amalgam through to the newest version of compomers. Despite the lack of strong scientific evidence of any medical problems to the use of ... -
Comprehensive Care: Examples of Treated Cases
( CRC Press , 2024 , Book chapter)The aim of this chapter is to illustrate some clinical cases requiring comprehensive paediatric dental treatment. It should never be forgotten when planning treatment that children are not ‘miniature adults’, and each child ...
