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Firoj Alam

59 papers · 2016–2025 · 11 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🌍 Conference Polyglot (10) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (9) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (13) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (9) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (71) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer πŸ‘₯ Mega-Team (43) πŸ† Keyword Champion (9) 🀝 Dynamic Duo (23) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (22) 🧬 Topic Evolution πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (173) πŸ’Ž Century Club (58) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (6) ❓ The Questioner (3) ⚑ Prolific Year (13)

Conferences

EMNLP (19) ACL (10) COLING (9) NAACL (6) EACL (3) IJCNLP (3) SEMEVAL (3) AAAI (2) IJCAI (2) AACL (1) ICLR (1)

Top co-authors

Preslav Nakov (23) Maram Hasanain (19) Giovanni Da San Martino (18) Shaden Shaar (11) Fabrizio Silvestri (9) Nadir Durrani (9) Fahim Dalvi (9) Dimitar Dimitrov (8) Wajdi Zaghouani (8) Shammur Absar Chowdhury (8)

Keywords

text classification (19) large language model (16) multimodal learning (13) propaganda detection (12) meme classification (9) few-shot learning (7) zero-shot learning (6) social media (6) low-resource language (6) transformer model (6) hate speech detection (5) multilingual nlp (5) persuasion detection (5) persuasion technique detection (5) multilingual model (4) sentiment analysis (4) persuasion technique (4) meme analysis (4) multimodal classification (4) arabic language (4)

Papers

AraDiCE: Benchmarks for Dialectal and Cultural Capabilities in LLMs COLING 2025
GenAI Content Detection Task 2: AI vs. Human – Academic Essay Authenticity Challenge COLING 2025
GenAI Content Detection Task 3: Cross-Domain Machine Generated Text Detection Challenge COLING 2025
MAHED Shared Task: Multimodal Detection of Hope and Hate Emotions in Arabic Content EMNLP 2025
CultranAI at PalmX 2025: Data Augmentation for Cultural Knowledge Representation EMNLP 2025
MarsadLab at PalmX Shared Task: An LLM Benchmark for Arabic Culture and Islamic Civilization EMNLP 2025
BnTTS: Few-Shot Speaker Adaptation in Low-Resource Setting NAACL 2025
AYA at PalmX 2025: Modeling Cultural and Islamic Knowledge in LLMs EMNLP 2025
NativQA: Multilingual Culturally-Aligned Natural Query for LLMs ACL 2025
Overview of BLP-2025 Task 1: Bangla Hate Speech Identification IJCNLP 2025
Annotating the Annotators: Analysis, Insights and Modelling from an Annotation Campaign on Persuasion Techniques Detection ACL 2025
TituLLMs: A Family of Bangla LLMs with Comprehensive Benchmarking ACL 2025
LlamaLens: Specialized Multilingual LLM for Analyzing News and Social Media Content NAACL 2025
PropXplain: Can LLMs Enable Explainable Propaganda Detection? EMNLP 2025
MemeIntel: Explainable Detection of Propagandistic and Hateful Memes EMNLP 2025
Overview of BLP-2025 Task 1: Bangla Hate Speech Identification AACL 2025
BALSAM: A Platform for Benchmarking Arabic Large Language Models EMNLP 2025
MarsadLab at AraGenEval Shared Task: LLM-Based Approaches to Arabic Authorship Style Transfer and Identification EMNLP 2025
Large Language Models for Propaganda Span Annotation EMNLP 2024
SemEval-2024 Task 4: Multilingual Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Memes SEMEVAL 2024
Can GPT-4 Identify Propaganda? Annotation and Detection of Propaganda Spans in News Articles COLING 2024
Zero- and Few-Shot Prompting with LLMs: A Comparative Study with Fine-tuned Models for Bangla Sentiment Analysis COLING 2024
LAraBench: Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models EACL 2024
LLMeBench: A Flexible Framework for Accelerating LLMs Benchmarking EACL 2024
LLMs for Low Resource Languages in Multilingual, Multimodal and Dialectal Settings EACL 2024
SemEval-2024 Task 4: Multilingual Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Memes NAACL 2024
ArAIEval Shared Task: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Unimodal and Multimodal Arabic Content ACL 2024
ArMeme: Propagandistic Content in Arabic Memes EMNLP 2024
QCRI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: News Genre, Framing and Persuasion Techniques Detection Using Multilingual Models SEMEVAL 2023
ArAIEval Shared Task: Persuasion Techniques and Disinformation Detection in Arabic Text EMNLP 2023
Nexus at ArAIEval Shared Task: Fine-Tuning Arabic Language Models for Propaganda and Disinformation Detection EMNLP 2023
Pseudo-Labeling for Domain-Agnostic Bangla Automatic Speech Recognition EMNLP 2023
BLP-2023 Task 2: Sentiment Analysis EMNLP 2023
ConceptX: A Framework for Latent Concept Analysis AAAI 2023
QCRI at SemEval-2023 Task 3: News Genre, Framing and Persuasion Techniques Detection Using Multilingual Models ACL 2023
The Role of Context in Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims NAACL 2022
Detecting the Role of an Entity in Harmful Memes: Techniques and their Limitations ACL 2022
TeamX@DravidianLangTech-ACL2022: A Comparative Analysis for Troll-Based Meme Classification ACL 2022
Effect of Post-processing on Contextualized Word Representations COLING 2022
A Survey on Multimodal Disinformation Detection COLING 2022
ArabGend: Gender Analysis and Inference on Arabic Twitter COLING 2022
On the Transformation of Latent Space in Fine-Tuned NLP Models EMNLP 2022
Assisting the Human Fact-Checkers: Detecting All Previously Fact-Checked Claims in a Document EMNLP 2022
Overview of the WANLP 2022 Shared Task on Propaganda Detection in Arabic EMNLP 2022
Discovering Latent Concepts Learned in BERT ICLR 2022
Detecting and Understanding Harmful Memes: A Survey IJCAI 2022
Analyzing Encoded Concepts in Transformer Language Models NAACL 2022
AI for Disaster Rapid Damage Assessment from Microblogs AAAI 2022
Automated Fact-Checking for Assisting Human Fact-Checkers IJCAI 2021
Findings of the NLP4IF-2021 Shared Tasks on Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic and Censorship Detection NAACL 2021
Detecting Propaganda Techniques in Memes ACL 2021
SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images ACL 2021
Detecting Propaganda Techniques in Memes IJCNLP 2021
SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images IJCNLP 2021
Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic: Modeling the Perspective of Journalists, Fact-Checkers, Social Media Platforms, Policy Makers, and the Society EMNLP 2021
SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images SEMEVAL 2021
Punctuation Restoration using Transformer Models for High-and Low-Resource Languages EMNLP 2020
Domain Adaptation with Adversarial Training and Graph Embeddings ACL 2018
How Interlocutors Coordinate with each other within Emotional Segments? COLING 2016