Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Natural Language Processing

• 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.
• S. Arif, A.J. Khan, M. Abbas, A.A. Raza and A. Athar, "WER We Stand: Benchmarking Urdu ASR Models. 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.