Firoj Alam
6 papers in the PaperMetrix corpus
Papers by this author
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Sentiment Classification in Bangla Textual Content: A Comparative Study
2020
Sentiment analysis has been widely used to understand our views on social and political agendas or user experiences over a product. It is one of the cores and well-researched areas in NLP. However, for low-resource …
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Effect of Post-processing on Contextualized Word Representations
2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)
Post-processing of static embedding has beenshown to improve their performance on both lexical and sequence-level tasks. However, post-processing for contextualized embeddings is an under-studied problem. In this work, we question the usefulness of post-processing for …
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Detecting and Understanding Harmful Memes: A Survey
2022
The automatic identification of harmful content online is of major concern for social media platforms, policymakers, and society. Researchers have studied textual, visual, and audio content, but typically in isolation. Yet, harmful content often combines …
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AraDiCE: Benchmarks for Dialectal and Cultural Capabilities in LLMs
2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)
Arabic, with its rich diversity of dialects, remains significantly underrepresented in Large Language Models, particularly in dialectal variations. We address this gap by introducing seven synthetic datasets in dialects alongside Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), created …
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ThatiAR: Subjectivity Detection in Arabic News Sentences
2025 · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
In this study, we present the first large dataset, ThatiAR, for subjectivity detection in Arabic, consisting of ~3.6K manually annotated sentences, and GPT-4o based explanations. In addition, we include instructions (both in English and Arabic) …
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LLMs for Low Resource Languages in Multilingual, Multimodal and Dialectal Settings
2024
Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Sabri Boughorbel, Maram Hasanain. Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts. 2024.