Tahaqqaq, our real-time system for assisting Twitter users in Arabic claim verification has just been accepted at SIGIR 2023, the […]

A new short paper is accepted at The 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023). The paper is led […]

I’m pleased to announce that my full paper titled “Catch Me If You Can: Deceiving Stance Detection and Geotagging Models […]

I’m Proud of my MSc student Watheq Mansour who got his first *first-author* full paper titled “Did I see it […]

Pleased to see the first full paper of my PhD student Reem Suwaileh, titled “Are We Ready for this Disaster? […]

The paper of my PhD student Marwa Essam titled “Why is That a Background Article? A Qualitative Analysis of Relevance […]

Our full paper titled “Embeddings-Based Clustering for Target Specific Stances: The Case of a Polarized Turkey” has just been accepted […]

Our newly-curated dataset, ArCOV-19 has just been released here and associated ArXiv paper is online here. ArCOV-19 is an Arabic […]

The work of my PhD student Marwa Essam, who participated for the first time in TREC 2019, has been ranked […]

A twitter account for our research group bigIR has just been online! The account will share our group’s news and […]

Reem Suwaileh, a member of our research group, has just been awarded GSRA grant from QNRF to financially support her […]

Our group has two papers just accepted at CIKM 2018! A full paper with Mucahid, Maram, and Matt (17% acceptance […]

Our full paper titled “Mix and Match: Collaborative Expert-Crowd Judging for Building Test Collections Accurately and Affordably” led by Mucahid Kutlu […]

My student Reem Suwaileh has successfully defended her MSc thesis titled “On the Relevance Filtering for Real-time Summarization” and got […]

Received the Excellence in Services award from Computer Science and Engineering Dept. at Qatar University for the academic year 2017/2018.

Our full paper titled “What can Rationales behind Relevance Judgments Tell Us about Assessor Disagreement?” led by our group members […]

Our full paper titled “Your Behavior Signals Your Reliability: Modeling Crowd Behavioral Traces to Ensure Quality Relevance Annotations” led by […]

With about 20 attendees, BroDyn’18 workshop “the 1st International Workshop on Analysis of Broad Dynamic Topics over Social Media” was […]

Our full paper titled “LA3: A Scalable Linkand LocalityAware Linear AlgebraBased Graph Analytics System” has been accepted at VLDB 2018! […]

Our IRJ journal article “EveTAR: building a large-scale multi-task test collection over Arabic tweets” has been published online here. Download […]

A paper has been accepted at LREC 2018, titled “DART: A Large Dataset of Dialectal Arabic Tweets” with my senior […]

Our proposed workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT) was accepted at LREC 2018. The workshop is co-organized […]

Our proposed workshop on Analysis of Broad Dynamic Topics over Social Media (BroDyn) was accepted at ECIR 2018. The workshop […]

Our journal article titled “Intelligent Topic Selection for Low-Cost Information Retrieval Evaluation: A New Perspective on Deep vs. Shallow Judging” […]

Our lab proposal titled “Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Political Debates” has been accepted at CLEF 2018. The […]

Our journal article titled “Query Performance Prediction for Microblog Search” has been finally accepted for publication at Information Processing and Management (IP&M) […]

I have been elected as the coordinator of the Data Science research group at the Computer Science and Engineering Dept […]

My Ph.D student Maram Hasanain has been selected as SIGIR Student Liaison (for the Middle East region) among only 6 students worldwide. […]

I have given a “How to Give a (Research) Talk” talk at the CSE dept seminar series today at QU. […]

I’m proud to be the first to teach a “Data Science” course in Qatar this Fall at Qatar University! Starting […]

Our historic 1st rank at TREC 2016 was featured heavily in the local news today! Articles were written in Gulf […]

I have contributed an article that is featured in the first issue of CSE newsletter about our team’s success story […]

My perspective PhD student Maram Hasanain has been selected among 10 students from all over the world to represent ACM […]

A demo paper has been accepted at ECIR 2017, titled “QweetFinder: Real-time Finding and Filtering of Question Tweets” with Ameer Albahem […]

Our HComp 2016 best paper award has been featured in a news release: https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/news/professor-lease-wins-hcomp-2016-best-paper-award  

Our bigIR (representing QU) team has been ranked first at TREC (Text REtrieval Conference) 2016 international research competition in the […]

Our paper titled “Why Is That Relevant? Collecting Annotator Rationales for Relevance Judgments” has been awarded “Best Paper Award” at […]

Our full paper titled “Why Is That Relevant? Collecting Annotator Rationales for Relevance Judgments” co-authored with Tyler Mcdonnell and Matt Lease (University […]

Our test collection for Arabic event detection in Twitter has just been released. Please check it out here!

I have given a talk at Social Media in the Newsroom (SMNews) workshop held at ICWSM’16 conference in Cologne, Germany, […]

Hind Almerekhi, Maram Hasanain, and Tamer Elsayed. EveTAR: A New Test Collection for Event Detection in Arabic Tweets. Proceedings of […]

Reem Suwaileh (MSc student) and Maram Hasanain (PhD student) have been selected to get SIGIR travel grant to support their […]

Our group got 2 short papers accepted at ACM SIGIR conference (the top conference in our IR field) this year for […]

Our short paper “On the Evaluation of Tweet Timeline Generation Task” (with Walid Magdy (QCRI) and Maram Hasanain) has been accepted at ECIR 2016!

Gave a talk at AIRS 2015 at Brisbane, Australia on our accepted paper “Detecting Automatically-Generated Arabic Tweets”.

My journal article jointly authored with Walid Magdy and titled “Unsupervised Adaptive Microblog Filtering for Broad Dynamic Topics” has finally been accepted […]

QU team is ranked 2nd at TREC’15 microblog track, real-time filtering task (scenario A) among 14 participating international teams!! The team includes […]

My proposed “Big Data Analytics” PhD course has been approved and is offered in Fall 2015. It’s the first ever […]

Mucahid Kutlu has joined my research team as a PostDoc.