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Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Natural Language Processing
- S. Arif, A.J. Khan, M. Abbas, A.A. Raza and A. Athar, "WER We Stand: Benchmarking Urdu
ASR Models", to appear in The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025), January 19-24, Abu Dhabi, UAE. 2025.
- S. Arif, A.H. Azeemi, A.A. Raza, and A. Athar,
"Generalists vs.
Specialists: Evaluating Large Language Models for Urdu", in Findings of the
Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 (EMNLP 2024), November 11-15, Miami,
US. 2024.
- S. Arif, S. Farid, A. Athar, A.A. Raza, "UQA: Corpus for Urdu
Question Answering", in The 2024 Joint International
Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC-COLING 2024), May 20-25, Torino, Italy. 2024.
- N.H.Qasmi, H.B. Zia, A. Athar, A.A. Raza, "SimplifyUR:
Unsupervised Lexical Text Simplification for Urdu", in the
12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC 2020), May 11-16, Marseille, France. 2020.
- H.B. Zia, A.A. Raza, A. Athar, Urdu
Word Segmentation using Conditional Random Fields", in Proc.
of the 2018 International Conference on Computational Linguistics
(COLING 2018), August 20-26, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. 2018.
- H.B. Zia, A.A. Raza, A. Athar, "PronouncUR:
An Urdu Pronunciation Lexicon Generator", in the 11th
International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC
2018), May 07-12, Miyazaki, Japan. 2018.
- A. Raza, A. Athar, and S. Nadeem, "N-GRAM
Based Authorship Attribution in Urdu Poetry", in Proc. of
Conference on Language and Technology (CLT09), Lahore, Pakistan. 2009.
Preprints
- S. Arif, Z. Khan, A.A Raza and A. Athar, "With a
Grain
of SALT: Are LLMs
Fair Across Social Dimensions?". 2024.
- S. Arif, S. Farid, A.H. Azeemi, A. Athar and A.A.
Raza, "The Fellowship of
the LLMs: Multi-Agent Workflows for Synthetic Preference Optimization
Dataset Generation". 2024.
- S. Arif, T. Arif, M.S. Haroon, A.J. Khan, A.A. Raza and A. Athar, "The Art of Storytelling:
Multi-Agent Generative AI for Dynamic Multimodal Narratives". 2024.
Knowledge Management
- K.S. Lee, Z. Landry, A. Athar, et al., "Microbiol Raman:
an open-access web repository for microbiological Raman spectroscopy data",
in Nature Microbiology. 2024.
- B. Hardy, T. Mohoric, T. Exner, ... & A. Athar,
"Knowledge
infrastructure for integrated data management and analysis supporting new
approach methods in predictive toxicology and risk assessment",
in Toxicology in Vitro. 2024.
- U. Sarkans,
A. Füllgrabe, A.
Ali, A. Athar, E. Behrangi, N. Diaz, A. Ali, S. Fexova, N. George, H. Iqbal,
S. Kurri, J. Munoz, J.
Rada, I. Papatheodorou, and A. Brazma From
ArrayExpress
to BioStudies ", Nucleic Acids
Research, 2021.
- A. Athar*, A. Füllgrabe*, N.
George, H. Iqbal, L. Huerta, A. Ali, C. Snow, N. Fonseca, R Petryszak, I.
Papatheodorou, U. Sarkans, and A. Brazma, "ArrayExpress update — from
bulk to single-cell expression data ", in Nucleic Acids
Research, 2018.
- A. Füllgrabe, N. George, L. Huerta, A. Athar, H. Iqbal,
A. Tang, I. Papatheodorou, and R. Petryszak,
"Annotare — annotating
and sharing functional genomics data through ArrayExpress and Expression
Atlas", in Proc. of the 11th International Biocuration
Conference, April 08-11, Shanghai,
China. 2018.
- U. Sarkans,
M. Gostev, A.
Athar, E. Behrangi, O. Melnichuk, A. Ali, J. Minguet, J. C. Rada, C. Snow, A.
Tikhonov, A. Brazma, and J. McEntyre "The
BioStudies
database — one stop shop for all data supporting a life sciences study ",
Nucleic Acids Research, 2017.
Citation Sentiment Analysis
- A. Athar, "Sentiment
analysis of scientific citations", Computer Laboratory,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. UCAM-CL-TR-856, 2014.
- A. Athar and S. Teufel, "Detection
of
implicit citations for sentiment detection", in Proc. of
Workshop on Detecting Structure in Scholarly Discourse 2012, Jeju,
Republic of Korea. 2012.
- A. Athar and S. Teufel, "Context-Enhanced
Citation Sentiment Detection", in Proc. of NAACL/HLT 2012,
Montréal, Canada. 2012.
- A. Athar, "Sentiment
Analysis of Citations using Sentence Structure-Based Features",
in Proc. Of ACL 2011, Portland, Oregon, US. 2011.
- A. Athar, "Web-based Normalisation of Author Names and Titles in a
Citation Database", M.Phil
Thesis, University of Cambridge, UK. 2008.
Speech Processing
- M. Qasim, H.B. Zia, A. Athar, A.A. Raza, "Personalized weather
information for low-literate farmers using multimodal dialog systems",
in the Int J Speech Technol 24, 455-471
(2021), 2021.
- A.A. Raza, A. Athar, S. Randhawa, Z. Tariq, M.B. Saleem, H.B.Zia,
U. Saif, and R. Rosenfeld, "Rapid
Collection of Spontaneous Speech Corpora using Telephonic Community Forums",
in INTERSPEECH 2018, Sep 2-6, Hyderabad, India. 2018.
- A.A. Raza, B. Saleem, S. Randhawa, Z. Tariq, A. Athar, U. Saif, and R.
Rosenfeld, "Baang:
A Viral Speech-based Social Platform for Under-Connected Populations",
in Proc. of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems (CHI 2018), April 21-26, Montréal, Canada. 2018.