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Tahaqqaq, our real-time system for assisting Twitter users in Arabic claim verification has just been accepted at SIGIR 2023, the TOP/most prestigious IR conference, as a demo paper!

The paper is a team work of four of my group members (Zien Sheikh Ali, Watheq Mansour, Fatima Haouari, and Maram Hasanain) in collaboration with Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Ali.

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  Category: Conference Paper Accepted

7 posts
April 1st, 2023

Tahaqqaq demo paper accepted at SIGIR!

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

December 13th, 2022

Short paper (led by Fatima) accepted at ECIR 2023!

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

July 26th, 2022

Full paper accepted at ICWSM 2023!

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

November 19th, 2021

Full paper accepted at ECIR 2022!

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

September 30th, 2020

Full paper accepted at COLING 2020!

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

July 16th, 2020

Short paper accepted at CIKM 2020!

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

July 16th, 2020

Full paper accepted at ICWSM 2021!

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

April 14th, 2020

ArCOV-19 dataset released & paper online!

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

November 13th, 2019

Ranked 2nd at TREC News 2019!

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

January 18th, 2019

bigIR Twitter account is up!

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

August 15th, 2018

Reem awarded GSRA grant!

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

August 7th, 2018

2 papers accepted at CIKM 2018 !!

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

July 25th, 2018

Full paper accepted at DESIRES’18 !

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

June 5th, 2018

Reem defended her MSc thesis with distinction!

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

May 22nd, 2018

Received “Excellence in Services” award from our CSE dept.!

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

April 12th, 2018

Full paper accepted at SIGIR 2018 !!!

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

March 29th, 2018

Full paper accepted at HComp 2018!

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

March 26th, 2018

BroDyn’18 workshop @ ECIR was a success!

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

March 16th, 2018

Full paper accepted at VLDB!

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

December 21st, 2017

Our IRJ article is now online!

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

December 13th, 2017

Paper accepted at LREC 2018!

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

October 17th, 2017

Arabic Processing Workshop accepted at LREC 2018!

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

October 12th, 2017

BroDyn workshop accepted at ECIR’18!

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

September 14th, 2017

Another journal article accepted at IP&M!

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

September 12th, 2017

Fact-Checking Lab accepted at CLEF 2018!

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

August 15th, 2017

Journal article accepted at IP&M!

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

June 20th, 2017

Elected as coordinator of Data Science group at CSE dept!

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

June 6th, 2017

Maram Hasanain: SIGIR Student Liaison!

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

May 18th, 2017

Gave a “How to Give a (Research) Talk” talk at QU!

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

February 13th, 2017

Teaching Data Science course this fall!

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

January 9th, 2017

In the news: Our historic TREC success!

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

January 8th, 2017

“QU at TREC .. A Success Story”: an article at CSE newsletter!

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

December 31st, 2016

Maram Hasanain: SIGIR Ambassador at ACM Turing Award 50-Years Celebration

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

December 2nd, 2016

Demo accepted at ECIR 2017!

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

November 30th, 2016

In the news: our HComp best paper!

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  

November 16th, 2016

Our team achieved a historic 1st rank at TREC 2016 !!!

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

November 1st, 2016

Best paper award at HCOMP 2016!

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

August 3rd, 2016

Full paper accepted @ HComp 2016 !

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

July 18th, 2016

EveTAR is released!

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

May 17th, 2016

Gave a talk at SMNews Workshop, ICWSM’16

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

May 14th, 2016

Our papers @ SIGIR 2016

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

April 27th, 2016

2 students got SIGIR travel grants!

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

March 30th, 2016

2 short papers accepted at SIGIR 2016 !!!

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

December 5th, 2015

Short paper accepted at ECIR 2016!

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

December 3rd, 2015

Talk at AIRS 2015

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

November 24th, 2015

Journal article accepted at IP&M!

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

November 18th, 2015

Ranked 2nd at TREC-2015 real-time filtering track!

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

September 2nd, 2015

“Big Data” course approved!

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

September 1st, 2015

New postdoc joining the team!

Mucahid Kutlu has joined my research team as a PostDoc.