Firoj Alam

LLMs | Artificial Intelligence | NLP | Speech Processing | Disinformation

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I am a Senior Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute. My research interest encompasses LLMs, multilingual, and multimodal representation learning.

Research Interests:

  • AI/Deep Learning/Machine Learning: Large Language Models, Multitask, Mulingual and Multimodal Learning,

  • Applicative Contexts: Natural Language Processing, Behavioral and Social Signal Processing (Emotion, Personality traits) from Speech and Text; Social Media Text Analysis.

Short Bio: Currently working for QCRI, Qatar, as a Senior Scientist. I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Trento, under the supervision of Prof. Giuseppe Riccardi, master’s from the same department, and undergrad from BRAC University.

Find me here: LinkedIn | Google-Scholar | Researchgate | Github | Bangla NLP

Affliated member: ACL, ACM, IEEE, AAAI, ISCA

news

Oct 23, 2024 Will present two papers at EMNLP 2024
Sep 18, 2024 Our summer interns won 2nd place among 25 projects for their project -- 'Native vs. Non-Native Language Prompting: A Comparative Analysis'
Aug 09, 2024 ArAIEval shared task at ArabicNLP 2024
Aug 01, 2024 Workshop on Detecting AI Generated Content at COLING 2025
May 23, 2024 Presented our paper titled “Can GPT-4 Identify Propaganda? Annotation and Detection of Propaganda Spans in News Articles” at LREC-COLING 2024

latest posts

selected publications

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    AraDiCE: Benchmarks for Dialectal and Cultural Capabilities in LLMs
    Basel Mousi, Nadir Durrani, Fatema Ahmad , and 6 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11404, 2024
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    LlamaLens: Specialized Multilingual LLM for Analyzing News and Social Media Content
    Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Maram Hasanain , and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15308, 2024
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    NativQA: Multilingual Culturally-Aligned Natural Query for LLMs
    Md. Arid Hasan, Maram Hasanain, Fatema Ahmad , and 6 more authors
    2024
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    LAraBench: Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models
    Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Chowdhury , and 14 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) , Mar 2024
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    LLMeBench: A Flexible Framework for Accelerating LLMs Benchmarking
    Fahim Dalvi, Maram Hasanain, Sabri Boughorbel , and 10 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations , Mar 2024
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    Large Language Models for Propaganda Span Annotation
    Maram Hasanain, Fatema Ahmad, and Firoj Alam
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 , Nov 2024
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    Discovering Latent Concepts Learned in BERT
    Fahim Dalvi, Abdul Rafae Khan, Firoj Alam , and 3 more authors
    In International Conference on Learning Representations , Nov 2022