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Dr Mo El-Haj

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  1. 2025
  2. Published

    LENS: Learning Entities from Narratives of Skin Cancer

    Lal, D. M., Rayson, P., Peter, C., Ezeani, I., El-Haj, M., Zhu, Y. & Liu, Y., 22/01/2025, Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations. Rambow, O., Wanner, L., Apidianaki, M., Al-Khalifa, H., Eugenio, B. D., Schockaert, S., Mather, B. & Dras, M. (eds.). Abu Dhabi, UAE: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 20-27 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  3. Published

    Hindi Reading Comprehension: Do Large Language Models Exhibit Semantic Understanding?

    Lal, D. M., Rayson, P. & El-Haj, M., 20/01/2025, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages. Weerasinghe, R., Anuradha, I. & Sumanathilaka, D. (eds.). Abu Dhabi: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 1-10 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  4. Published

    Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4)

    Ezzini, S. (Editor), Alami, H. (Editor), Berrada, I. (Editor), Benlahbib, A. (Editor), El Mahdaouy, A. (Editor), Lamsiyah, S. (Editor), Derrouz, H. (Editor), Haddad Haddad, A. (Editor), Jarrar, M. (Editor), El-Haj, M. (Editor), Mitkov, R. (Editor) & Rayson, P. (Editor), 20/01/2025, Abu Dhabi, UAE: Association for Computational Linguistics. 10 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsAnthology

  5. Published

    The Nakba Lexicon: Building a Comprehensive Dataset from Palestinian Literature

    AbuHaija, I., Al Mandhari, S., El-Haj, M., Sibony, J. & Rayson, P., 20/01/2025, Proceedings of the first International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources. Jarrar, M., Habash, H. & El-Haj, M. (eds.). Abu Dhabi: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 37-47 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  6. 2024
  7. Published

    FreeTxt: A corpus-based bilingual free-text survey and questionnaire data analysis toolkit

    Knight, D., Khallaf, N., Rayson, P., El-Haj, M., Ezeani, I. & Morris, S., 31/12/2024, In: Applied Corpus Linguistics. 4, 3, 100103.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    AraFinNLP 2024: The First Arabic Financial NLP Shared Task

    Malaysha, S., El-Haj, M., Ezzini, S., Khalilia, M., Jarrar, M., Almujaiwel, S., Berrada, I. & Bouamor, H., 16/08/2024, Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference. Habash, N. (ed.). Kerrville, Texas: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology), p. 393-402 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  9. Published

    Metric-Oriented Pretraining of Neural Source Code Summarisation Transformers to Enable more Secure Software Development

    Phillips, J., El-Haj, M. & Hall, T., 30/07/2024, p. 17-31. 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  10. Published

    Is it Offensive or Abusive? An Empirical Study of Hateful Language Detection of Arabic Social Media Texts?

    Al Mandhari, S., El-Haj, M. & Rayson, P., 29/07/2024, The First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS). Mitkov, R. (ed.). Lancaster : Lancaster University

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  11. Published

    The Multilingual Corpus of World’s Constitutions (MCWC)

    El-Haj, M. & Ezzini, S., 25/05/2024, 6th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, OSACT 2024 with Shared Tasks on Arabic LLMs Hallucination and Dialect to MSA Machine Translation at LREC-COLING 2024 - Workshop Proceedings. Al-Khalifa, H., Darwish, K., Mubarak, H., Ali, M. & Elsayed, T. (eds.). Turin: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 57-66 10 p. (6th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, OSACT 2024 with Shared Tasks on Arabic LLMs Hallucination and Dialect to MSA Machine Translation at LREC-COLING 2024 - Workshop Proceedings).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  12. Forthcoming

    The Multilingual Corpus of World’s Constitutions (MCWC): MCWC

    El-Haj, M. & Ezzini, S., 25/03/2024, (Accepted/In press). 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  13. Published

    The Financial Document Causality Detection Shared Task (FinCausal 2023)

    Moreno-Sandoval, A., Porta-Zamorano, J., Carbajo-Coronado, B., Samy, D., Mariko, D. & El-Haj, M., 1/02/2024, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data. He, J., Palpanas, T., Hu, X., Cuzzocrea, A., Dou, D., Slezak, D., Wang, W., Gruca, A., Lin, J. C.-W. & Agrawal, R. (eds.). Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press, p. 2855-2860 6 p. (Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2023).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  14. Published

    The Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task (FNS 2023)

    Zavitsanos, E., Kosmopoulos, A., Giannakopoulos, G., Litvak, M., Carbajo-Coronado, B., Moreno-Sandoval, A. & El-Haj, M., 1/02/2024, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData). He, J., Palpanas, T., Hu, X., Cuzzocrea, A., Dou, D., Slezak, D., Wang, W., Gruca, A., Lin, J. C.-W. & Agrawal, R. (eds.). IEEE Computer Society Press, p. 2890-2896 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  15. Published

    Advancements in Financial Document Structure Extraction: Insights from Five Years of FinTOC (2019-2023)

    Kang, J., Patel, M., Agrawal, A., Sevitha, S., Srinivasa, R., Bellato, S., Kumar, M. A., Tsang, N. & El-Haj, M., 22/01/2024, Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2023. He, J., Palpanas, T., Hu, X., Cuzzocrea, A., Dou, D., Slezak, D., Wang, W., Gruca, A., Lin, J. C.-W. & Agrawal, R. (eds.). Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press, p. 2839-2844 6 p. (Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2023).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  16. 2023
  17. Published

    #Menopause: Examining the frequency of communications about menopause on twitter between 2014 and 2022

    Hunter, M. S., El-Haj, M., Thorne, E., Griffiths, A. & Hardy, C., 30/11/2023, In: Maturitas. 177, 107806.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Open-Source Thesaurus Development for Under-Resourced Languages: a Welsh Case Study

    Khallaf, N., Arfon, E., El-Haj, M., Morris, J., Knight, D., Rayson, P., Hammouda, T. & Jarrar, M., 14/09/2023.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  19. Published

    Exploring Abstractive Text Summarisation for Podcasts: A Comparative Study of BART and T5 Models

    Saxena, P. & El-Haj, M., 6/09/2023. 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  20. Published

    FinAraT5: A text to text model for financial Arabic text understanding and generation

    Zmandar, N., El-Haj, M. & Rayson, P., 1/09/2023, Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge. Carvalho, S., Khan, A. F., Anić, A. O., Spahiu, B., Gracia, J., McCrae, J. P., Gromann, D., Heinisch, B. & Salgado, A. (eds.). Vienna, Austria: NOVA CLUNL, Portugal, p. 262-273 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  21. Published

    Analysing and visualising free-text comments: a corpus-based toolkit

    Knight, D., Rayson, P., Khallaf, N., Morris, S., El-Haj, M. & Ezeani, I., 5/07/2023.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  22. Published

    A Comparative Study of Evaluation Metrics for Long-Document Financial Narrative Summarization with Transformers

    Zmandar, N., El-Haj, M. & Rayson, P., 21/06/2023, Natural Language Processing and Information Systems - 28th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2023, Proceedings. Métais, E., Meziane, F., Manning, W., Reiff-Marganiec, S. & Sugumaran, V. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 391-403 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 13913 LNCS).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  23. Forthcoming

    IgboNER 2.0: Expanding Named Entity Recognition Datasets via Projection

    Chukwuneke, C., Rayson, P., Ezeani, I., El-Haj, M., Asogwa, D., Okpalla, C. & Mbonu, C., 3/03/2023, (Accepted/In press).

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  24. Published

    A Data-driven Latent Semantic Analysis for Automatic Text Summarization using LDA Topic Modelling

    Onah, D. F. O., Pang, E. L. L. & El-Haj, M., 26/01/2023, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). IEEE, p. 2771-2780 10 p. (2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  25. 2022
  26. Published

    Semantic domains across topics, genders and languages

    Khallaf, N., de Souza, E., El-Haj, M. & Rayson, P., 23/12/2022, Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis. Palfreyman, D. M. & Habash, N. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 96-120 25 p. (Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  27. Published

    Improved Evaluation of Automatic Source Code Summarisation

    Phillips, J., Bowes, D., El-Haj, M. & Hall, T., 7/12/2022, 2nd Wokshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation and Metrics: Proceedings of the Workshop. Stroudsberg, PA.: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology), p. 326-335 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  28. Published

    A Domain Based Approach to Semantic Lexicon Expansion

    Prentice, S., Rayson, P., Knight, J., El-Haj, M. & Elstein, S., 30/09/2022, In: International Journal of Lexicography. 35, 3, p. 364-377 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

    CoFiF Plus: A French Financial Narrative Summarisation Corpus

    Zmandar, N., Daudert, T., Ahmadi, S., El-Haj, M. & Rayson, P., 23/06/2022, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022). Calzolari, N. (ed.). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 1622-1639 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  30. Published

    IgboBERT Models: Building and Training Transformer Models for the Igbo Language

    Chukwuneke, C., Rayson, P., Ezeani, I. & El-Haj, M., 20/06/2022, LREC 2022 Conference Proceedings. Calzolari, N. (ed.). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 5114–5122 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  31. Published

    Introducing the Welsh Text Summarisation Dataset and Baseline Systems

    Ezeani, I., El-Haj, M., Morris, J. & Knight, D., 20/06/2022, LREC 2022 Conference Proceedings. Calzolari, N. (ed.). Paris: European Languages Resources Association, p. 5097-5106 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  32. Published

    AraSAS: The Open Source Arabic Semantic Tagger

    El-Haj, M., Rayson, P., de Souza, E., Khallaf, N. & Habash, N., 15/06/2022, p. 23-31. 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  33. Published

    Creation of an Evaluation Corpus and Baseline Evaluation Scores for Welsh Text Summarisation

    El-Haj, M., Ezeani, I., Morris, J. & Knight, D., 15/06/2022, p. 14-21. 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  34. Published

    Financial Narrative Summarisation Using a Hybrid TF-IDF and Clustering Summariser: AO-Lancs System at FNS 2022

    El-Haj, M. & Ogden, A., 15/06/2022, p. 88-91. 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  35. Published

    Proceedings of the 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2022)

    El-Haj, M., Rayson, P. & Zmandar, N., 15/06/2022, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 161 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsProceedings

  36. Published

    The Financial Causality Extraction Shared Task (FinCausal 2022)

    Mariko, D., Trottier, K. & El-Haj, M., 15/06/2022, p. 114-116. 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  37. Published

    The Financial Document Structure Extraction Shared Task (FinTOC 2022)

    El-Haj, M., Kang, J., Azzi, A. A., Bellato, S., El Maarouf, I., Gan, M., Gisbert, A. & Sandoval, A., 15/06/2022, p. 92-97. 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  38. Published

    The Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task (FNS 2022)

    El-Haj, M., Zmandar, N., Rayson, P., AbuRa'ed, A., Litvak, M., Pittaras, N., Giannakopoulos, G., Kosmopoulos, A., Carbajo-Coronado, B. & Sandoval, A., 15/06/2022, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022). Calzolari, N. (ed.). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 52-61 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  39. Published

    MULDASA: Multifactor Lexical Sentiment Analysis of Social-Media Content in Nonstandard Arabic Social Media

    Alwakid, G., Osman, T., El-Haj, M., Alanazi, S., Humayun, M. & Us Sama, N., 9/04/2022, In: Applied Sciences. 12, 8, 18 p., 3806.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  40. Published

    Multilingual Financial Word Embeddings for Arabic, English and French

    Zmandar, N., El-Haj, M. & Rayson, P., 13/01/2022, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). IEEE, p. 4584-4589 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  41. Published

    The Influence of Social Factors on Mental Health and Wellbeing during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    El-Haj, M. & Sartain, A., 13/01/2022, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). IEEE, p. 2818-2827 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  42. 2021
  43. Published

    Review of the State of the Art in Financial Narrative Processing

    El-Haj, M., Rayson, P., El Maarouf, I., Bentabet, N.-I., Mariko, D., Labidurie, E., Litvak, M., Giannakopoulos, G., AbuRa'ed, A. & Zmandar, N., 13/12/2021, Financial Narrative Processing in Spanish. Moreno Sandoval, A. (ed.). Tirant lo Blanch, p. 51-98 48 p. (Tecnología, traducción y cultura).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  44. Published

    Joint abstractive and extractive method for long financial documentsummarization

    Zmandar, N., Singh, A., El-Haj, M. & Rayson, P., 26/10/2021, p. 99-105. 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  45. Published

    Proceedings of the 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop: FNP 2021

    El-Haj, M. (Editor), Rayson, P. (Editor) & Zmandar, N. (Editor), 26/10/2021, Lancaster, United Kingdom: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology).

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsProceedings

  46. Published

    The Financial Document Causality Detection Shared Task (FinCausal 2021)

    Mariko, D., Akl, H. A., Labidurie, E., Durfort, S., de Mazancourt, H. & El-Haj, M., 26/10/2021, p. 58-60. 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  47. Published

    The Financial Document Structure Extraction Shared Task (FinTOC2021): FinTOC 2021

    Maarouf, I. E., Kang, J., Azzi, A. A., Bellato, S., Gan, M. & El-Haj, M., 26/10/2021, p. 111-119. 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  48. Published

    The Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task FNS 2021

    Zmandar, N., El-Haj, M., Rayson, P., Abura'Ed, A., Litvak, M., Giannakopoulos, G. & Pittaras, N., 26/10/2021, Proceedings of the 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop: FNP 2021. Lancaster, United Kingdom: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Anthology), Vol. 3. p. 120-125 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  49. Published

    Problematising Characteristicness: A Biomedical Association Case Study

    Prentice, S., Knight, J., Rayson, P., El-Haj, M. & Rutherford, N., 31/08/2021, In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 26, 3, p. 305-335 31 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  50. 2020
  51. Published

    Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation

    El-Haj, M., Rayson, P., Athanasakou, V., Bouamor, H., Salzedo, C., Giannakopoulos, G., Litvak, M., Pittaras, N., Elhag, A. & Ferradans, S., 1/12/2020, Association for Computational Linguistics.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsProceedings

  52. Published

    Proceedings of the Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop

    Zitouni, I. (Editor), Abdul-Mageed, M. (Editor), Bouamor, H., Bougares, F. (Editor), El-Haj, M. (Editor), Tomeh, N. (Editor) & Zaghouani, W., 1/12/2020, Barcelona, Spain : Association for Computational Linguistics. 14 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsAnthology

  53. Published

    The Financial Document Causality Detection Shared Task (FinCausal 2020)

    Mariko, D., Abi-Akl, H., Labidurie, E., Durfort, S., De Mazancourt, H. & El-Haj, M., 1/12/2020, Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation: FNP-FNS 2020. Barcelona, Spain (Online): COLING, p. 23-32 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  54. Published

    The Financial Document Structure Extraction Shared task (FinToc 2020)

    Bentabet, N.-I., Juge, R., El Maarouf, I., Mouilleron, V., Valsamou-Stanislawski, D. & El-Haj, M., 1/12/2020, Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation. Barcelona, Spain (Online): COLING, p. 13-22 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  55. Published

    The Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task (FNS 2020)

    El Haj, M., Giannakopoulos, G., AbuRa'ed, A., Litvak, M. & Pittaras, N., 1/12/2020, The First Financial Narrative Processing Workshop: Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation. El-Haj, M. (ed.). 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  56. Published

    Habibi - a multi Dialect multi National Arabic Song Lyrics Corpus

    El-Haj, M., 11/05/2020, LREC 2020, Twelfth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: LREC'20. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

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