Publications

2026

1. MENASpeechBank: A Reference Voice Bank with Persona-Conditioned Multi-Turn Conversations for AudioLLMs

   Zien Sheikh Ali, Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Rabindra Nath Nandi, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Firoj Alam

   In Proc. of EMNLP , 2026

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   @inproceedings{ali2026menaspeechbank,
     title = {MENASpeechBank: A Reference Voice Bank with Persona-Conditioned Multi-Turn Conversations for AudioLLMs},
     author = {Ali, Zien Sheikh and Bhatti, Hunzalah Hassan and Nandi, Rabindra Nath and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Alam, Firoj},
     booktitle = {Proc. of EMNLP},
     year = {2026}
   }

2. Multi-turn Conversational AI from Text to Multimodal Interaction: Data, Models, Evaluation, and Open Challenges

   Syeda Faiza Ahmed, Zien Sheikh Ali, Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Firoj Alam, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

   In Proc. of EMNLP , 2026

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   @inproceedings{ahmed2026multiturn,
     title = {Multi-turn Conversational AI from Text to Multimodal Interaction: Data, Models, Evaluation, and Open Challenges},
     author = {Ahmed, Syeda Faiza and Ali, Zien Sheikh and Bhatti, Hunzalah Hassan and Alam, Firoj and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
     booktitle = {Proc. of EMNLP},
     year = {2026},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17605}
   }

3. WASIL: In-the-Wild Arabic Spoken Interactions with LLMs

   Zien Sheikh Ali, Hamdy Mubarak, Soon-Gyo Jung, Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Firoj Alam, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

   In Proc. of Interspeech , 2026

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   @inproceedings{ali2026wasil,
     title = {WASIL: In-the-Wild Arabic Spoken Interactions with LLMs},
     author = {Ali, Zien Sheikh and Mubarak, Hamdy and Jung, Soon-Gyo and Bhatti, Hunzalah Hassan and Alam, Firoj and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
     booktitle = {Proc. of Interspeech},
     year = {2026}
   }

4. Light-weight Pronunciation Assessment via Discrete Speech Token Surprisal

   Syeda Faiza Ahmed, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

   In Proc. of Interspeech , 2026

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   @inproceedings{ahmed2026light,
     title = {Light-weight Pronunciation Assessment via Discrete Speech Token Surprisal},
     author = {Ahmed, Syeda Faiza and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
     booktitle = {Proc. of  Interspeech},
     year = {2026}
   }

5. Said Aloud, Read Different: Cross-Modal Instability in Multimodal Models

   Basel Mousi, Fahim Dalvi, Shammur Chowdhury, Firoj Alam, and Nadir Durrani

   In Proc. of Interspeech , 2026

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   @inproceedings{mousi2026said,
     title = {Said Aloud, Read Different: Cross-Modal Instability in Multimodal Models},
     author = {Mousi, Basel and Dalvi, Fahim and Chowdhury, Shammur and Alam, Firoj and Durrani, Nadir},
     booktitle = {Proc. of Interspeech},
     year = {2026}
   }

6. IQRA 2026: Interspeech Challenge on Automatic Pronunciation Assessment for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)

   Yassine El Kheir, Amit Meghanani, Mostafa Shahin, Omnia Ibrahim, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Nada AlMarwani, Youssef Elshahawy, and Ahmed Ali

   In Proc. of Interspeech , 2026

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   @inproceedings{kheir2026iqra,
     title = {IQRA 2026: Interspeech Challenge on Automatic Pronunciation Assessment for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)},
     author = {Kheir, Yassine El and Meghanani, Amit and Shahin, Mostafa and Ibrahim, Omnia and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and AlMarwani, Nada and Elshahawy, Youssef and Ali, Ahmed},
     booktitle = {Proc. of Interspeech},
     year = {2026}
   }

7. Once Correct, Still Wrong: Counterfactual Hallucination in Multilingual Vision-Language Models

   Basel Mousi, Fahim Dalvi, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam, and Nadir Durrani

   In In Proc. of ACL , 2026

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   @inproceedings{mousi2026once,
     title = {Once Correct, Still Wrong: Counterfactual Hallucination in Multilingual Vision-Language Models},
     author = {Mousi, Basel and Dalvi, Fahim and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Alam, Firoj and Durrani, Nadir},
     booktitle = {In Proc. of ACL},
     year = {2026}
   }

8. The Complementary Role of Para-linguistic cues for Robust Pronunciation Assessment

   Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Ahmed Ali

   In Proc. of 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology , 2026

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   @inproceedings{el2026complementary,
     title = {The Complementary Role of Para-linguistic cues for Robust Pronunciation Assessment},
     author = {El Kheir, Yassine and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Ali, Ahmed},
     booktitle = {Proc. of 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue System Technology},
     year = {2026}
   }

9. Fanar 2.0: Arabic generative ai stack

   Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad, Minhaj Ahmad, Abdulaziz Al-Homaid, Anas Al-Nuaimi, Enes Altinisik, Ehsaneddin Asgari, Sanjay Chawla, Shammur Chowdhury, Fahim Dalvi, and  others

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.16397, 2026

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   @article{abbas2026fanar,
     title = {Fanar 2.0: Arabic generative ai stack},
     author = {Abbas, Ummar and Ahmad, Mohammad Shahmeer and Ahmad, Minhaj and Al-Homaid, Abdulaziz and Al-Nuaimi, Anas and Altinisik, Enes and Asgari, Ehsaneddin and Chawla, Sanjay and Chowdhury, Shammur and Dalvi, Fahim and others},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.16397},
     year = {2026}
   }

10. Beyond LLM-as-a-judge: Deterministic metrics for multilingual generative text evaluation

    Firoj Alam, Gagan Bhatia, Sahinur Rahman Laskar, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.05083, 2026

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    @article{alam2026beyond,
      title = {Beyond LLM-as-a-judge: Deterministic metrics for multilingual generative text evaluation},
      author = {Alam, Firoj and Bhatia, Gagan and Laskar, Sahinur Rahman and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
      journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.05083},
      year = {2026}
    }

11. HARNESS: Lightweight Distilled Arabic Speech Foundation Models

    Vrunda N Sukhadia, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

    Proc. of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis, 2026

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    @article{sukhadia2026harness,
      title = {HARNESS: Lightweight Distilled Arabic Speech Foundation Models},
      author = {Sukhadia, Vrunda N and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
      journal = {Proc. of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis},
      year = {2026}
    }

12. CallShield: Secure Caller Authentication over Real-Time Audio Channels

    Mouna Rabh, Yazan Boshmaf, Mashael Alsabah, Shammur Chowdhury, Mohamed Hefeeda, and Issa Khalil

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.09327, 2026

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    @article{rabh2026callshield,
      title = {CallShield: Secure Caller Authentication over Real-Time Audio Channels},
      author = {Rabh, Mouna and Boshmaf, Yazan and Alsabah, Mashael and Chowdhury, Shammur and Hefeeda, Mohamed and Khalil, Issa},
      journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.09327},
      year = {2026}
    }

13. Multi-Task Instruction Tuning via Data Scheduling for Low-Resource Arabic AudioLLMs

    Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Firoj Alam, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.12494, 2026

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    @article{bhatti2026multi,
      title = {Multi-Task Instruction Tuning via Data Scheduling for Low-Resource Arabic AudioLLMs},
      author = {Bhatti, Hunzalah Hassan and Alam, Firoj and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
      journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.12494},
      year = {2026}
    }

14. Child ASR Adaptation with Adult Retention: An Empirical Study

    Houssam Eddine-Othman Lachemat, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

    In ArabicNLP 2026 , 2026

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    @inproceedings{lachemat-2026-child,
      title = {Child ASR Adaptation with Adult Retention: An Empirical Study},
      author = {Lachemat, Houssam Eddine-Othman and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
      booktitle = {ArabicNLP 2026},
      year = {2026}
    }

2025

1. EverydayMMQA: A Multilingual and Multimodal Framework for Culturally Grounded Spoken Visual QA

   Firoj Alam, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Md. Arid Hasan, Zien Sheikh Ali, Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Mohamed Bayan Kmainasi, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Basel Mousi, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, and Natasa Milic-Frayling

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.06371, 2025

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   @article{alam2025everydaymmqa,
     title = {EverydayMMQA: A Multilingual and Multimodal Framework for Culturally Grounded Spoken Visual QA},
     author = {Alam, Firoj and Shahroor, Ali Ezzat and Hasan, Md. Arid and Ali, Zien Sheikh and Bhatti, Hunzalah Hassan and Kmainasi, Mohamed Bayan and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Mousi, Basel and Dalvi, Fahim and Durrani, Nadir and Milic-Frayling, Natasa},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.06371},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06371}
   }

2. Unlocking the Potential of Arabic Voice-Generation Technologies

   Shammur Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali, Ahmed Abdelali, Mohamed Elfeky, and Kareem Darwish

   Commun. ACM, Sep 2025

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   @article{chowdhury2025unlocking,
     title = {Unlocking the Potential of Arabic Voice-Generation Technologies},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur and Ali, Ahmed and Abdelali, Ahmed and Elfeky, Mohamed and Darwish, Kareem},
     journal = {Commun. ACM},
     publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
     volume = {68},
     number = {10},
     pages = {45–47},
     month = {sep},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.1145/3742783},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3742783}
   }

3. From Words to Waves: Analyzing Concept Formation in Speech and Text-Based Foundation Models

   Asım Ersoy, Basel Mousi, Shammur Chowdhury, Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi, and Nadir Durrani

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Sep 2025

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   @inproceedings{ersoy2025words2wave,
     title = {From Words to Waves: Analyzing Concept Formation in Speech and Text-Based Foundation Models},
     author = {Ersoy, Asım and Mousi, Basel and Chowdhury, Shammur and Alam, Firoj and Dalvi, Fahim and Durrani, Nadir},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2025}
   }

4. SpokenNativQA: Multilingual Everyday Spoken Queries for LLMs

   Firoj Alam, Md Arid Hasan, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Sep 2025

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   @inproceedings{alam2025spokennativqa,
     title = {SpokenNativQA: Multilingual Everyday Spoken Queries for LLMs},
     author = {Alam, Firoj and Arid Hasan, Md and Absar Chowdhury, Shammur},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2025}
   }

5. SawtArabi: A Benchmark Corpus for Arabic TTS. Standard, Dialectal and Code-Switching

   Vasista Sai Lodagala, Lamya Alkanhal, Daniel Izham, Shivam Mehta, Sadeen Alharbi, Shammur Chowdhury, Aqeelah Makki, Hamdy S. Hussein, Gustav Eje Henter, and Ahmed Ali

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Sep 2025

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   @inproceedings{vasista2025,
     title = {SawtArabi: A Benchmark Corpus for Arabic TTS. Standard, Dialectal and Code-Switching},
     author = {Lodagala, Vasista Sai and Alkanhal, Lamya and Izham, Daniel and Mehta, Shivam and Alharbi, Sadeen and Chowdhury, Shammur and Makki, Aqeelah and Hussein, Hamdy S. and Henter, Gustav Eje and Ali, Ahmed},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2025}
   }

6. NativQA: Multilingual Culturally-Aligned Natural Query for LLMs

   Md Arid Hasan, Maram Hasanain, Fatema Ahmad, Sahinur Rahman Laskar, Sunaya Upadhyay, Vrunda N Sukhadia, Mucahid Kutlu, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Firoj Alam

   In Proc. of ACL , Sep 2025

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   @inproceedings{hasan2024nativqa,
     title = {NativQA: Multilingual Culturally-Aligned Natural Query for LLMs},
     author = {Hasan, Md Arid and Hasanain, Maram and Ahmad, Fatema and Laskar, Sahinur Rahman and Upadhyay, Sunaya and Sukhadia, Vrunda N and Kutlu, Mucahid and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Alam, Firoj},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ACL},
     year = {2025}
   }

7. CAFE: A Novel Code-switching Dataset for Algerian Dialect, French, and English

   Houssam Eddine-Othman Lachemat, Akli Abbas, Noureddine Oukas, Yassine Elkheir, Samia Haboussi, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

   Data in Brief, Sep 2025

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   @article{cafe,
     title = {CAFE: A Novel Code-switching Dataset for Algerian Dialect, French, and English},
     author = {Lachemat, Houssam Eddine-Othman and Abbas, Akli and Oukas, Noureddine and Elkheir, Yassine and Haboussi, Samia and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
     journal = {Data in Brief},
     year = {2025}
   }

8. Fanar: An Arabic-Centric Multimodal Generative AI Platform

   Fanar Team, Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad, Firoj Alam, Enes Altinisik, Ehsannedin Asgari, Yazan Boshmaf, Sabri Boughorbel, Sanjay Chawla, Shammur Chowdhury, and  others

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.13944, Sep 2025

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   @article{team2025fanar,
     title = {Fanar: An Arabic-Centric Multimodal Generative AI Platform},
     author = {Team, Fanar and Abbas, Ummar and Ahmad, Mohammad Shahmeer and Alam, Firoj and Altinisik, Enes and Asgari, Ehsannedin and Boshmaf, Yazan and Boughorbel, Sabri and Chawla, Sanjay and Chowdhury, Shammur and others},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.13944},
     year = {2025}
   }

9. BnTTS: Few-Shot Speaker Adaptation in Low-Resource Setting

   Mohammad Jahid Ibna Basher, Md Kowsher, Md Saiful Islam, Rabindra Nath Nandi, Nusrat Jahan Prottasha, Mehadi Hasan Menon, Tareq Al Muntasir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam, Niloofar Yousefi, and  others

   In Proc. of NAACL , Sep 2025

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   @inproceedings{basher2025bntts,
     title = {BnTTS: Few-Shot Speaker Adaptation in Low-Resource Setting},
     author = {Basher, Mohammad Jahid Ibna and Kowsher, Md and Islam, Md Saiful and Nandi, Rabindra Nath and Prottasha, Nusrat Jahan and Menon, Mehadi Hasan and Muntasir, Tareq Al and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Alam, Firoj and Yousefi, Niloofar and others},
     booktitle = {Proc. of NAACL},
     year = {2025}
   }

10. GenAI Content Detection Task 2: AI vs. Human–Academic Essay Authenticity Challenge

    Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hind Almerekhi, Mucahid Kutlu, Kaan Efe Keles, Fatema Ahmad, Tasnim Mohiuddin, George Mikros, and Firoj Alam

    In Proc. of COLING , Sep 2025

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    @inproceedings{chowdhury2024genai,
      title = {GenAI Content Detection Task 2: AI vs. Human–Academic Essay Authenticity Challenge},
      author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Almerekhi, Hind and Kutlu, Mucahid and Keles, Kaan Efe and Ahmad, Fatema and Mohiuddin, Tasnim and Mikros, George and Alam, Firoj},
      booktitle = {Proc. of COLING},
      year = {2025}
    }

11. AraDiCE: Benchmarks for Dialectal and Cultural Capabilities in LLMs

    Basel Mousi, Nadir Durrani, Fatema Ahmad, Md Arid Hasan, Maram Hasanain, Tameem Kabbani, Fahim Dalvi, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Firoj Alam

    In Proc. of COLING , Sep 2025

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    @inproceedings{mousi2024aradice,
      title = {AraDiCE: Benchmarks for Dialectal and Cultural Capabilities in LLMs},
      author = {Mousi, Basel and Durrani, Nadir and Ahmad, Fatema and Hasan, Md Arid and Hasanain, Maram and Kabbani, Tameem and Dalvi, Fahim and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Alam, Firoj},
      booktitle = {Proc. of COLING},
      year = {2025}
    }

2024

1. Children’s Speech Recognition through Discrete Token Enhancement

   Vrunda N. Sukhadia, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Sep 2024

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   @inproceedings{vrunda2024,
     title = {Children’s Speech Recognition through Discrete Token Enhancement},
     author = {Sukhadia, Vrunda N. and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2024}
   }

2. Beyond Orthography: Automatic Recovery of Short Vowels and Dialectal Sounds in Arabic

   Yassine El Kheir, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Ali, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

   In Proc. of ACL , Sep 2024

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   @inproceedings{ElKheir2024Beyond,
     title = {Beyond Orthography: Automatic Recovery of Short Vowels and Dialectal Sounds in Arabic},
     author = {Kheir, Yassine El and Mubarak, Hamdy and Ali, Ahmed and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ACL},
     year = {2024}
   }

3. L1-aware multilingual mispronunciation detection framework

   Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Ahmed Ali

   In Proc. of ICASSP , Sep 2024

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   @inproceedings{el2024l1,
     title = {L1-aware multilingual mispronunciation detection framework},
     author = {El Kheir, Yassine and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Ali, Ahmed},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ICASSP},
     year = {2024}
   }

4. Speech collage: code-switched audio generation by collaging monolingual corpora

   Amir Hussein, Dorsa Zeinali, Ondřej Klejch, Matthew Wiesner, Brian Yan, Shammur Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali, Shinji Watanabe, and Sanjeev Khudanpur

   In Proc. of ICASSP , Sep 2024

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   @inproceedings{hussein2024speech,
     title = {Speech collage: code-switched audio generation by collaging monolingual corpora},
     author = {Hussein, Amir and Zeinali, Dorsa and Klejch, Ondřej and Wiesner, Matthew and Yan, Brian and Chowdhury, Shammur and Ali, Ahmed and Watanabe, Shinji and Khudanpur, Sanjeev},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ICASSP},
     year = {2024}
   }

5. Speech representation analysis based on inter-and intra-model similarities

   Yassine El Kheir, Ahmed Ali, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

   In Proc. of the Explainable Machine Learning for Speech and Audio Workshop, ICASSP , Sep 2024

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   @inproceedings{el2024speech,
     title = {Speech representation analysis based on inter-and intra-model similarities},
     author = {El Kheir, Yassine and Ali, Ahmed and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
     booktitle = {Proc. of the Explainable Machine Learning for Speech and Audio Workshop, ICASSP},
     year = {2024}
   }

6. LAraBench: Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models

   Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Maram Hasanain, Basel Mousi, Sabri Boughorbel, Samir Abdaljalil, Yassine El Kheir, Daniel Izham, Fahim Dalvi, Majd Hawasly, Nizi Nazar, Yousseif Elshahawy, Ahmed Ali, Nadir Durrani, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Firoj Alam

   In Proc. of EACL , Sep 2024

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   @inproceedings{abdelali-2024-larabench,
     title = {LAraBench: Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models},
     author = {Abdelali, Ahmed and Mubarak, Hamdy and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Hasanain, Maram and Mousi, Basel and Boughorbel, Sabri and Abdaljalil, Samir and Kheir, Yassine El and Izham, Daniel and Dalvi, Fahim and Hawasly, Majd and Nazar, Nizi and Elshahawy, Yousseif and Ali, Ahmed and Durrani, Nadir and Milic-Frayling, Natasa and Alam, Firoj},
     booktitle = {Proc. of EACL},
     year = {2024}
   }

7. LLMeBench: A Flexible Framework for Accelerating LLMs Benchmarking

   Fahim Dalvi, Maram Hasanain, Sabri Boughorbel, Basel Mousi, Samir Abdaljalil, Nizi Nazar, Ahmed Abdelali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Ali, Majd Hawasly, Nadir Durrani, and Firoj Alam

   In Proc. of EACL , Sep 2024

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   @inproceedings{dalvi2024llmebench,
     title = {LLMeBench: A Flexible Framework for Accelerating LLMs Benchmarking},
     author = {Dalvi, Fahim and Hasanain, Maram and Boughorbel, Sabri and Mousi, Basel and Abdaljalil, Samir and Nazar, Nizi and Abdelali, Ahmed and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Mubarak, Hamdy and Ali, Ahmed and Hawasly, Majd and Durrani, Nadir and Alam, Firoj},
     booktitle = {Proc. of EACL},
     year = {2024}
   }

2023

1. Automatic Pronunciation Assessment-A Review

   Yassine Kheir, Ahmed Ali, and Shammur Chowdhury

   In Proc. of EMNLP , Sep 2023

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   @inproceedings{kheir2023automatic,
     title = {Automatic Pronunciation Assessment-A Review},
     author = {Kheir, Yassine and Ali, Ahmed and Chowdhury, Shammur},
     booktitle = {Proc. of EMNLP},
     year = {2023}
   }

2. Speechblender: Speech augmentation framework for mispronunciation data generation

   Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Ahmed Ali

   In Proc. of the Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) , Sep 2023

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   @inproceedings{speechBlender2023,
     title = {Speechblender: Speech augmentation framework for mispronunciation data generation},
     author = {Kheir, Yassine El and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Ali, Ahmed},
     booktitle = {Proc. of the Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE)},
     year = {2023}
   }

3. Multi-View Multi-Task Representation Learning for Mispronunciation Detection

   Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Ahmed Ali

   In Proc. of the Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) , Sep 2023

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   @inproceedings{multiview2023,
     title = {Multi-View Multi-Task Representation Learning for Mispronunciation Detection},
     author = {Kheir, Yassine El and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Ali, Ahmed},
     booktitle = {Proc. of the Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE)},
     year = {2023}
   }

4. What do end-to-end speech models learn about speaker, language and channel information? a layer-wise and neuron-level analysis

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Nadir Durrani, and Ahmed Ali

   Computer Speech & Language, Sep 2023

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   @article{chowdhury2023end,
     title = {What do end-to-end speech models learn about speaker, language and channel information? a layer-wise and neuron-level analysis},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Durrani, Nadir and Ali, Ahmed},
     journal = {Computer Speech & Language},
     publisher = {Elsevier},
     volume = {83},
     pages = {101539},
     year = {2023}
   }

5. Pseudo-Labeling for Domain-Agnostic Bangla Automatic Speech Recognition

   Rabindra Nath Nandi, Mehadi Menon, Tareq Muntasir, Sagor Sarker, Quazi Sarwar Muhtaseem, Md Tariqul Islam, Shammur Chowdhury, and Firoj Alam

   In Proc. of the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing, BLP , Sep 2023

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   @inproceedings{nandi2023pseudo,
     title = {Pseudo-Labeling for Domain-Agnostic Bangla Automatic Speech Recognition},
     author = {Nandi, Rabindra Nath and Menon, Mehadi and Muntasir, Tareq and Sarker, Sagor and Muhtaseem, Quazi Sarwar and Islam, Md Tariqul and Chowdhury, Shammur and Alam, Firoj},
     booktitle = {Proc. of the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing, BLP},
     year = {2023}
   }

6. MULTILINGUAL WORD ERROR RATE ESTIMATION: E-WER3

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Ahmed Ali

   In Proc. of ICASSP , Sep 2023

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2023multilingual,
     title = {MULTILINGUAL WORD ERROR RATE ESTIMATION: E-WER3},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Ali, Ahmed},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ICASSP},
     year = {2023}
   }

7. QVoice: Arabic Speech Pronunciation Learning Application

   Yassine El Kheir, Fouad Khnaisser, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Shazia Afzal, and Ahmed Ali

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Sep 2023

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   @inproceedings{kheir2023qvoice,
     title = {QVoice: Arabic Speech Pronunciation Learning Application},
     author = {Kheir, Yassine El and Khnaisser, Fouad and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Mubarak, Hamdy and Afzal, Shazia and Ali, Ahmed},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2023}
   }

8. MyVoice: Arabic Speech Resource Collaboration Platform

   Yousseif Elshahawy, Yassine El Kheir, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Ahmed Ali

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Sep 2023

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   @inproceedings{elshahawy2023myvoice,
     title = {MyVoice: Arabic Speech Resource Collaboration Platform},
     author = {Elshahawy, Yousseif and Kheir, Yassine El and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Ali, Ahmed},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2023}
   }

9. Emojis as anchors to detect arabic offensive language and hate speech

   Hamdy Mubarak, Sabit Hassan, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

   Natural Language Engineering (NLE) Journal, Sep 2023

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   @article{mubarak2022emojis,
     title = {Emojis as anchors to detect arabic offensive language and hate speech},
     author = {Mubarak, Hamdy and Hassan, Sabit and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
     journal = {Natural Language Engineering (NLE) Journal},
     year = {2023}
   }

2022

1. What can Speech and Language Tell us About the Working Alliance in Psychotherapy

   Sebastian P Bayerl, Gabriel Roccabruna, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Tommaso Ciulli, Morena Danieli, Korbinian Riedhammer, and Giuseppe Riccardi

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Sep 2022

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   @inproceedings{bayerl2022can,
     title = {What can Speech and Language Tell us About the Working Alliance in Psychotherapy},
     author = {Bayerl, Sebastian P and Roccabruna, Gabriel and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Ciulli, Tommaso and Danieli, Morena and Riedhammer, Korbinian and Riccardi, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2022}
   }

2. SemEval-2022 Task 3: PreTENS-Evaluating Neural Networks on Presuppositional Semantic Knowledge

   Roberto Zamparelli, Shammur Chowdhury, Dominique Brunato, Cristiano Chesi, Felice Dell’Orletta, Md Arid Hasan, and Giulia Venturi

   In Proc. of SemEval , Sep 2022

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   @inproceedings{zamparelli2022semeval,
     title = {SemEval-2022 Task 3: PreTENS-Evaluating Neural Networks on Presuppositional Semantic Knowledge},
     author = {Zamparelli, Roberto and Chowdhury, Shammur and Brunato, Dominique and Chesi, Cristiano and Dell’Orletta, Felice and Hasan, Md Arid and Venturi, Giulia},
     booktitle = {Proc. of SemEval},
     year = {2022}
   }

3. Benchmarking Evaluation Metrics for Code-Switching Automatic Speech Recognition

   Injy Hamed, Amir Hussein, Oumnia Chellah, Shammur Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Sunayana Sitaram, Nizar Habash, and Ahmed Ali

   In Proc. of SLT , Sep 2022

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   @inproceedings{hamed2023benchmarking,
     title = {Benchmarking Evaluation Metrics for Code-Switching Automatic Speech Recognition},
     author = {Hamed, Injy and Hussein, Amir and Chellah, Oumnia and Chowdhury, Shammur and Mubarak, Hamdy and Sitaram, Sunayana and Habash, Nizar and Ali, Ahmed},
     booktitle = {Proc. of SLT},
     year = {2022}
   }

4. Textual Data Augmentation for Arabic-English Code-Switching Speech Recognition

   Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Abdelali, Najim Dehak, Ahmed Ali, and Sanjeev Khudanpur

   In Proc. of SLT , Sep 2022

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   @inproceedings{hussein2023textual,
     title = {Textual Data Augmentation for Arabic-English Code-Switching Speech Recognition},
     author = {Hussein, Amir and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Abdelali, Ahmed and Dehak, Najim and Ali, Ahmed and Khudanpur, Sanjeev},
     booktitle = {Proc. of SLT},
     year = {2022}
   }

2021

1. Towards One Model to Rule All: Multilingual Strategy for Dialectal Code-Switching Arabic ASR

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Amir Hussein, Ahmed Abdelali, and Ahmed Ali

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Sep 2021

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury_towards_2021,
     title = {Towards One Model to Rule All: Multilingual Strategy for Dialectal Code-Switching Arabic ASR},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Hussein, Amir and Abdelali, Ahmed and Ali, Ahmed},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2021}
   }

2. Arabic Code-Switching Speech Recognition using Monolingual Data

   Ahmed Ali, Shammur Chowdhury, Amir Hussein, and Hifny Yasser

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Sep 2021

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   @inproceedings{ali_arabic_2021,
     title = {Arabic Code-Switching Speech Recognition using Monolingual Data},
     author = {Ali, Ahmed and Chowdhury, Shammur and Hussein, Amir and Yasser, Hifny},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2021}
   }

3. QASR: QCRI Aljazeera Speech Resource. A Large Scale Annotated Arabic Speech Corpus

   Hamdy Mubarak, Amir Hussein, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Ahmed Ali

   In Proc. of ACL , Sep 2021

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   @inproceedings{mubarak_qasr_2021,
     title = {QASR: QCRI Aljazeera Speech Resource. A Large Scale Annotated Arabic Speech Corpus},
     author = {Mubarak, Hamdy and Hussein, Amir and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Ali, Ahmed},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ACL},
     year = {2021}
   }

4. Connecting Arabs: bridging the gap in dialectal speech recognition

   Ahmed Ali, Shammur Chowdhury, Mohamed Afify, Wassim El-Hajj, Hazem Hajj, Mourad Abbas, Amir Hussein, Nada Ghneim, Mohammad Abushariah, and Assal Alqudah

   Commun, ACM, Sep 2021

   Publisher: ACM New York, NY, USA

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   @article{ali_connecting_2021,
     title = {Connecting Arabs: bridging the gap in dialectal speech recognition},
     author = {Ali, Ahmed and Chowdhury, Shammur and Afify, Mohamed and El-Hajj, Wassim and Hajj, Hazem and Abbas, Mourad and Hussein, Amir and Ghneim, Nada and Abushariah, Mohammad and Alqudah, Assal},
     journal = {Commun, ACM},
     volume = {64},
     number = {4},
     pages = {124–129},
     year = {2021}
   }

5. A Review of Bangla Natural Language Processing Tasks and the Utility of Transformer Models

   Firoj Alam, Arid Hasan, Tanvir Alam, Akib Khan, Janntatul Tajrin, Naira Khan, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

   arXiv e-prints, Sep 2021

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   @article{alam2021review,
     title = {A Review of Bangla Natural Language Processing Tasks and the Utility of Transformer Models},
     author = {Alam, Firoj and Hasan, Arid and Alam, Tanvir and Khan, Akib and Tajrin, Janntatul and Khan, Naira and Absar Chowdhury, Shammur},
     journal = {arXiv e-prints},
     pages = {arXiv–2107},
     year = {2021}
   }

6. Balanced End-to-End Monolingual pre-training for Low-Resourced Indic Languages Code-Switching Speech Recognition

   Amir Hussein, Shammur Chowdhury, and Ahmed Ali

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05885, Sep 2021

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   @article{hussein_kari_2021,
     title = {Balanced End-to-End Monolingual pre-training for Low-Resourced Indic Languages Code-Switching Speech Recognition},
     author = {Hussein, Amir and Chowdhury, Shammur and Ali, Ahmed},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05885},
     year = {2021}
   }

7. The ability of personas: An empirical evaluation of altering incorrect preconceptions about users

   Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Shammur Chowdhury, Dianne Ramirez Robillos, and Bernard Jansen

   International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Sep 2021

   Publisher: Academic Press

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   @article{salminen_ability_2021,
     title = {The ability of personas: An empirical evaluation of altering incorrect preconceptions about users},
     author = {Salminen, Joni and Jung, Soon-Gyo and Chowdhury, Shammur and Robillos, Dianne Ramirez and Jansen, Bernard},
     journal = {International Journal of Human-Computer Studies},
     volume = {153},
     pages = {102645},
     year = {2021}
   }

8. Persona analytics: Analyzing the stability of online segments and content interests over time using non-negative matrix factorization

   Bernard J Jansen, Soon-gyo Jung, Shammur A Chowdhury, and Joni Salminen

   Expert Systems with Applications, Sep 2021

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   @article{jansen2021persona,
     title = {Persona analytics: Analyzing the stability of online segments and content interests over time using non-negative matrix factorization},
     author = {Jansen, Bernard J and Jung, Soon-gyo and Chowdhury, Shammur A and Salminen, Joni},
     journal = {Expert Systems with Applications},
     publisher = {Pergamon},
     volume = {185},
     pages = {115611},
     year = {2021}
   }

2020

1. What does an End-to-End Dialect Identification Model Learn about Non-dialectal Information?

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Ali, Suwon Shon, and James Glass

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Sep 2020

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2020does,
     title = {What does an End-to-End Dialect Identification Model Learn about Non-dialectal Information?},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Ali, Ahmed and Shon, Suwon and Glass, James},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2020}
   }

2. Effects of Dialectal Code-Switching on Speech Modules: A Study using Egyptian Arabic Broadcast Speech

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Younes Samih, Mohamed Eldesouki, and Ahmed Ali

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Sep 2020

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2020effects,
     title = {Effects of Dialectal Code-Switching on Speech Modules: A Study using Egyptian Arabic Broadcast Speech},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Samih, Younes and Eldesouki, Mohamed and Ali, Ahmed},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2020}
   }

3. A Multi-Platform Arabic News Comment Dataset for Offensive Language Detection

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelali, Soon-gyo Jung, Bernard J Jansen, and Joni Salminen

   In Proc. of LREC , Sep 2020

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2020multi,
     title = {A Multi-Platform Arabic News Comment Dataset for Offensive Language Detection},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Mubarak, Hamdy and Abdelali, Ahmed and Jung, Soon-gyo and Jansen, Bernard J and Salminen, Joni},
     booktitle = {Proc. of LREC},
     year = {2020}
   }

4. Improving Arabic Text Categorization Using Transformer Training Diversification

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ahmed Abdelali, Kareem Darwish, Soon-gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, and Bernard J Jansen

   In Proc. of WANLP, COLING , Sep 2020

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2020wanlp,
     title = {Improving Arabic Text Categorization Using Transformer Training Diversification},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Abdelali, Ahmed and Darwish, Kareem and Jung, Soon-gyo and Salminen, Joni and Jansen, Bernard J},
     booktitle = {Proc. of WANLP, COLING},
     year = {2020}
   }

5. Personas and Analytics: A Comparative User Study of Efficiency and Effectiveness for a User Identification Task

   Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Shammur Chowdhury, Sercan Sengün, and Bernard J Jansen

   In Proc. of CHI , Sep 2020

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   @inproceedings{salminen2020personas,
     title = {Personas and Analytics: A Comparative User Study of Efficiency and Effectiveness for a User Identification Task},
     author = {Salminen, Joni and Jung, Soon-Gyo and Chowdhury, Shammur and Sengün, Sercan and Jansen, Bernard J},
     booktitle = {Proc. of CHI},
     pages = {1–13},
     year = {2020}
   }

6. Developing an online hate classifier for multiple social media platforms

   Joni Salminen, Maximilian Hopf, Shammur A Chowdhury, Soon-gyo Jung, Hind Almerekhi, and Bernard J Jansen

   Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, Sep 2020

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   @article{salminen2020developing,
     title = {Developing an online hate classifier for multiple social media platforms},
     author = {Salminen, Joni and Hopf, Maximilian and Chowdhury, Shammur A and Jung, Soon-gyo and Almerekhi, Hind and Jansen, Bernard J},
     journal = {Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences},
     publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
     volume = {10},
     number = {1},
     pages = {1},
     year = {2020}
   }

7. A Literature Review of Quantitative Persona Creation

   Joni Salminen, Kathleen Guan, Soon-Gyo Jung, Shammur A Chowdhury, and Bernard J Jansen

   In Proc. of CHI , Sep 2020

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   @inproceedings{salminen2020literature,
     title = {A Literature Review of Quantitative Persona Creation},
     author = {Salminen, Joni and Guan, Kathleen and Jung, Soon-Gyo and Chowdhury, Shammur A and Jansen, Bernard J},
     booktitle = {Proc. of CHI},
     pages = {1–14},
     year = {2020}
   }

8. Sentiment classification in bangla textual content: A comparative study

   Md Arid Hasan, Jannatul Tajrin, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Firoj Alam

   In Proc. of ICCIT , Sep 2020

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   @inproceedings{hasan2020sentiment,
     title = {Sentiment classification in bangla textual content: A comparative study},
     author = {Hasan, Md Arid and Tajrin, Jannatul and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Alam, Firoj},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ICCIT},
     pages = {1–6},
     year = {2020}
   }

9. Enriching Social Media Personas with Personality Traits: A Deep Learning Approach Using the Big Five Classes

   Joni Salminen, Rohan Gurunandan Rao, Soon-gyo Jung, Shammur A Chowdhury, and Bernard J Jansen

   In Proc. of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , Sep 2020

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   @inproceedings{salminen2020enriching,
     title = {Enriching Social Media Personas with Personality Traits: A Deep Learning Approach Using the Big Five Classes},
     author = {Salminen, Joni and Rao, Rohan Gurunandan and Jung, Soon-gyo and Chowdhury, Shammur A and Jansen, Bernard J},
     booktitle = {Proc. of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction},
     pages = {101–120},
     year = {2020}
   }

10. Rethinking Personas for Fairness: Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability in Data-Driven Personas

    Joni Salminen, Soon-gyo Jung, Shammur A Chowdhury, and Bernard J Jansen

    In Proc. of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , Sep 2020

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    @inproceedings{salminen2020rethinking,
      title = {Rethinking Personas for Fairness: Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability in Data-Driven Personas},
      author = {Salminen, Joni and Jung, Soon-gyo and Chowdhury, Shammur A and Jansen, Bernard J},
      booktitle = {Proc. of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction},
      pages = {82–100},
      year = {2020}
    }

11. ALT submission for OSACT shared task on offensive language detection

    Sabit Hassan, Younes Samih, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelali, Ammar Rashed, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

    In Proc. of the 4th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, with a Shared Task on Offensive Language Detection , Sep 2020

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    @inproceedings{hassan2020alt,
      title = {ALT submission for OSACT shared task on offensive language detection},
      author = {Hassan, Sabit and Samih, Younes and Mubarak, Hamdy and Abdelali, Ahmed and Rashed, Ammar and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
      booktitle = {Proc. of the 4th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, with a Shared Task on Offensive Language Detection},
      pages = {61–65},
      year = {2020}
    }

12. The Effect of Experience on Persona Perceptions

    Joni Salminen, Soon-gyo Jung, João M Santos, Shammur Chowdhury, and Bernard J Jansen

    In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Sep 2020

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    @inproceedings{salminen2020effect,
      title = {The Effect of Experience on Persona Perceptions},
      author = {Salminen, Joni and Jung, Soon-gyo and Santos, João M and Chowdhury, Shammur and Jansen, Bernard J},
      booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
      pages = {1–9},
      year = {2020}
    }

13. Things Change: Comparing Results Using Historical Data and User Testing for Evaluating a Recommendation Task

    Soon-Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Shammur A Chowdhury, Dianne Ramirez Robillos, and Bernard J Jansen

    In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Sep 2020

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    @inproceedings{jung2020things,
      title = {Things Change: Comparing Results Using Historical Data and User Testing for Evaluating a Recommendation Task},
      author = {Jung, Soon-Gyo and Salminen, Joni and Chowdhury, Shammur A and Ramirez Robillos, Dianne and Jansen, Bernard J},
      booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
      pages = {1–7},
      year = {2020}
    }

14. Analyzing Demographic Bias in Artificially Generated Facial Pictures

    Joni Salminen, Soon-gyo Jung, Shammur Chowdhury, and Bernard J Jansen

    In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Sep 2020

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    @inproceedings{salminen2020analyzing,
      title = {Analyzing Demographic Bias in Artificially Generated Facial Pictures},
      author = {Salminen, Joni and Jung, Soon-gyo and Chowdhury, Shammur and Jansen, Bernard J},
      booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
      pages = {1–8},
      year = {2020}
    }

15. Designing Prototype Player Personas from a Game Preference Survey

    Joni Salminen, Jukka Vahlo, Aki Koponen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Shammur A Chowdhury, and Bernard J Jansen

    In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Sep 2020

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    @inproceedings{salminen2020designing,
      title = {Designing Prototype Player Personas from a Game Preference Survey},
      author = {Salminen, Joni and Vahlo, Jukka and Koponen, Aki and Jung, Soon-Gyo and Chowdhury, Shammur A and Jansen, Bernard J},
      booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
      pages = {1–8},
      year = {2020}
    }

16. The Ethics of Data-Driven Personas

    Joni Salminen, Willemien Froneman, Soon-gyo Jung, Shammur Chowdhury, and Bernard J Jansen

    In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Sep 2020

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    @inproceedings{salminen2020ethics,
      title = {The Ethics of Data-Driven Personas},
      author = {Salminen, Joni and Froneman, Willemien and Jung, Soon-gyo and Chowdhury, Shammur and Jansen, Bernard J},
      booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
      pages = {1–9},
      year = {2020}
    }

2019

1. An LSTM adaptation study of (un)grammaticality

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Roberto Zamparelli

   In Proc. of the BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, ACL , Sep 2019

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2019domain,
     title = {An LSTM adaptation study of (un)grammaticality},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Zamparelli, Roberto},
     booktitle = {Proc. of the BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, ACL},
     year = {2019}
   }

2. Automatic classification of speech overlaps: Feature representation and algorithms

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny A Stepanov, Morena Danieli, and Giuseppe Riccardi

   Computer Speech & Language, Sep 2019

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   @article{chowdhury2019automatic,
     title = {Automatic classification of speech overlaps: Feature representation and algorithms},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Stepanov, Evgeny A and Danieli, Morena and Riccardi, Giuseppe},
     journal = {Computer Speech & Language},
     publisher = {Elsevier},
     volume = {55},
     pages = {145–167},
     year = {2019}
   }

3. Neural vs Statistical Machine Translation: Revisiting the Bangla-English Language Pair

   Arid Hasan, Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Naira Khan

   In Proc. of ICBSLP 2019 , Sep 2019

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   @inproceedings{hasan2019neural,
     title = {Neural vs Statistical Machine Translation: Revisiting the Bangla-English Language Pair},
     author = {Hasan, Arid and Alam, Firoj and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Khan, Naira},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ICBSLP 2019},
     year = {2019}
   }

4. Neural Machine Translation for the Bangla-English Language Pair

   Md Arid Hasan, Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Naira Khan

   In Proc. of ICCIT , Sep 2019

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   @inproceedings{hasan2019neural2,
     title = {Neural Machine Translation for the Bangla-English Language Pair},
     author = {Hasan, Md Arid and Alam, Firoj and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Khan, Naira},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ICCIT},
     year = {2019}
   }

2018

1. RNN Simulations of Grammaticality Judgments on Long-distance Dependencies

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Roberto Zamparelli

   In Proc. of COLING , Sep 2018

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2018rnn,
     title = {RNN Simulations of Grammaticality Judgments on Long-distance Dependencies},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Zamparelli, Roberto},
     booktitle = {Proc. of COLING},
     year = {2018}
   }

2. Depression Severity Estimation from Multiple Modalities

   Evgeny Stepanov, Stephane Lathuiliere, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Arindam Ghosh, Radu-Laurentiu Vieriu, Nicu Sebe, and Giuseppe Riccardi

   In Proc. of Healthcom, IEEE , Sep 2018

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   @inproceedings{depression2018,
     title = {Depression Severity Estimation from Multiple Modalities},
     author = {Stepanov, Evgeny and Lathuiliere, Stephane and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Ghosh, Arindam and Vieriu, Radu-Laurentiu and Sebe, Nicu and Riccardi, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {Proc. of Healthcom, IEEE},
     year = {2018}
   }

3. Cross-Language Transfer of Semantic Annotation via Targeted Crowdsourcing: Task Design and Evaluation

   Evgeny A. Stepanov, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Ali Orkan Bayer, Arindam Ghosh, Ioannis Klasinas, Marcos Calvo, Emilio Sanchis, and Giuseppe Riccardi

   Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, Sep 2018

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   @article{stepanovTrasnfer,
     title = {Cross-Language Transfer of Semantic Annotation via Targeted Crowdsourcing: Task Design and Evaluation},
     author = {Stepanov, Evgeny A. and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Bayer, Ali Orkan and Ghosh, Arindam and Klasinas, Ioannis and Calvo, Marcos and Sanchis, Emilio and Riccardi, Giuseppe},
     journal = {Language Resources and Evaluation Journal},
     year = {2018}
   }

4. Towards Bangla Named Entity Recognition

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam, and Naira Khan

   In Proc. of ICCIT , Sep 2018

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2018towards,
     title = {Towards Bangla Named Entity Recognition},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Alam, Firoj and Khan, Naira},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ICCIT},
     year = {2018}
   }

2017

1. Functions of Silences towards Information Flow in Spoken Conversation

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny Stepanov, Morena Danieli, and Giuseppe Riccardi

   In Proc. of the Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing, EMNLP , Sep 2017

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2017functions,
     title = {Functions of Silences towards Information Flow in Spoken Conversation},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Stepanov, Evgeny and Danieli, Morena and Riccardi, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {Proc. of the Workshop on Speech-Centric Natural Language Processing, EMNLP},
     year = {2017}
   }

2. Bangla grapheme to phoneme conversion using conditional random fields

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam, Naira Khan, and Sheak RH Noori

   In Proc. of ICCIT , Sep 2017

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2017bangla,
     title = {Bangla grapheme to phoneme conversion using conditional random fields},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Alam, Firoj and Khan, Naira and Noori, Sheak RH},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ICCIT},
     year = {2017}
   }

3. A Deep Learning Approach to Modeling Competitiveness in Spoken Conversation

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Giuseppe Riccardi

   In Proc. of ICASSP , Sep 2017

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2017overlap,
     title = {A Deep Learning Approach to Modeling Competitiveness in Spoken Conversation},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Riccardi, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ICASSP},
     publisher = {IEEE},
     year = {2017}
   }

4. Computational Modeling of Turn-Taking Dynamics in Spoken Conversations

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury

   University of Trento , Apr 2017

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   @phdthesis{shammurUNITN_2017_PhD,
     title = {Computational Modeling of Turn-Taking Dynamics in Spoken Conversations},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
     school = {University of Trento},
     month = {apr},
     year = {2017}
   }

2016

1. How Interlocutors Coordinate with each other within Emotional Segments?

   Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Morena Danieli, and Giuseppe Riccardi

   In Proc. of COLING , Apr 2016

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   @inproceedings{alam2016interlocutors,
     title = {How Interlocutors Coordinate with each other within Emotional Segments?},
     author = {Alam, Firoj and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Danieli, Morena and Riccardi, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {Proc. of COLING},
     year = {2016}
   }

2. Bidirectional LSTMs—CRFs networks for bangla POS tagging

   Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Sheak Rashed Haider Noori

   In Proc. of ICCIT , Apr 2016

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   @inproceedings{alam2016bidirectional,
     title = {Bidirectional LSTMs—CRFs networks for bangla POS tagging},
     author = {Alam, Firoj and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Noori, Sheak Rashed Haider},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ICCIT},
     year = {2016}
   }

3. Predicting User Satisfaction from Turn-Taking in Spoken Conversations

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny Stepanov, and Giuseppe Riccardi

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Apr 2016

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2016usersatis,
     title = {Predicting User Satisfaction from Turn-Taking in Spoken Conversations},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Stepanov, Evgeny and Riccardi, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2016}
   }

4. Transfer of Corpus-Specific Dialogue Act Annotation to ISO Standard: Is it worth it ?

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Evgeny A. Stepanov, and Giuseppe Riccardi

   In Proc. of LREC , Apr 2016

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2016dalrec,
     title = {Transfer of Corpus-Specific Dialogue Act Annotation to ISO Standard: Is it worth it ?},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Stepanov, Evgeny A. and Riccardi, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {Proc. of LREC},
     year = {2016}
   }

5. Discourse connective detection in spoken conversations

   Giuseppe Riccardi, Evgeny A Stepanov, and Shammur Absar Chowdhury

   In Proc. of ICASSP , Apr 2016

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   @inproceedings{riccardi2016discourse,
     title = {Discourse connective detection in spoken conversations},
     author = {Riccardi, Giuseppe and Stepanov, Evgeny A and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ICASSP},
     year = {2016}
   }

2015

1. Automatic summarization of call-center conversations

   E Stepanov, Benoit Favre, Firoj Alam, S Chowdhury, Karan Singla, Jeremy Trione, Frederic Béchet, and Giuseppe Riccardi

   In Proc. of ASRU , Apr 2015

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   @inproceedings{stepanov2015automatic,
     title = {Automatic summarization of call-center conversations},
     author = {Stepanov, E and Favre, Benoit and Alam, Firoj and Chowdhury, S and Singla, Karan and Trione, Jeremy and Béchet, Frederic and Riccardi, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ASRU},
     year = {2015}
   }

2. The Role of Speakers and Context in Classifying Competition in Overlapping Speech

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Morena Danieli, and Giuseppe Riccardi

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Apr 2015

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2015role,
     title = {The Role of Speakers and Context in Classifying Competition in Overlapping Speech},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Danieli, Morena and Riccardi, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2015}
   }

3. Selection and Aggregation Techniques for Crowdsourced Semantic Annotation Task

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Marcos Calvo, Arindam Ghosh, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Ali Orkan Bayer, Giuseppe Riccardi, Fernando García, and Emilio Sanchis

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Apr 2015

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury_etal_is_2015,
     title = {Selection and Aggregation Techniques for Crowdsourced Semantic Annotation Task},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Calvo, Marcos and Ghosh, Arindam and Stepanov, Evgeny A. and Bayer, Ali Orkan and Riccardi, Giuseppe and García, Fernando and Sanchis, Emilio},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2015}
   }

4. Annotating and Categorizing Competition in Overlap Speech

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Morena Danieli, and Giuseppe Riccardi

   In Proc. of ICASSP , Apr 2015

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2015overlapiccasp,
     title = {Annotating and Categorizing Competition in Overlap Speech},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Danieli, Morena and Riccardi, Giuseppe},
     booktitle = {Proc. of ICASSP},
     year = {2015}
   }

2014

1. Unsupervised Recognition and Clustering of Speech Overlaps in Spoken Conversations

   Shammur A. Chowdhury, Giuseppe Riccardi, and Firoj Alam

   In Proc. of Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia , Apr 2014

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury2014overlap,
     title = {Unsupervised Recognition and Clustering of Speech Overlaps in Spoken Conversations},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur A. and Riccardi, Giuseppe and Alam, Firoj},
     booktitle = {Proc. of Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia},
     year = {2014}
   }

2. Cross-Language Transfer of Semantic Annotation via Targeted Crowdsourcing

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Arindam Ghosh, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Ali Orkan Bayer, Giuseppe Riccardi, and Ioannis Klasinas

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Sep 2014

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   @inproceedings{chowdhury_etal_is_2014,
     title = {Cross-Language Transfer of Semantic Annotation via Targeted Crowdsourcing},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Ghosh, Arindam and Stepanov, Evgeny A. and Bayer, Ali Orkan and Riccardi, Giuseppe and Klasinas, Ioannis},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     month = {sep},
     year = {2014}
   }

2013

1. Motivational Feedback in Crowdsourcing: A Case Study in Speech Transcription

   Giuseppe Riccardi, Arindam Ghosh, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Ali Orkan Bayer

   In Proc. of INTERSPEECH , Sep 2013

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   @inproceedings{riccardi_etal_is_2013,
     title = {Motivational Feedback in Crowdsourcing: A Case Study in Speech Transcription},
     author = {Riccardi, Giuseppe and Ghosh, Arindam and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Bayer, Ali Orkan},
     booktitle = {Proc. of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2013}
   }

2011

1. Phonetically balanced Bangla speech corpus

   S. M. Murtoza Habib, Firoj Alam, Rabia Sultana, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Mumit Khan

   In Proc. of HLTD , Sep 2011

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   @inproceedings{murtoza2011,
     title = {Phonetically balanced Bangla speech corpus},
     author = {Habib, S. M. Murtoza and Alam, Firoj and Sultana, Rabia and Chowdhury, Shammur Absar and Khan, Mumit},
     booktitle = {Proc. of HLTD},
     year = {2011}
   }

2010

1. Implementation of speech recognition system for Bangla

   Shammur Absar Chowdhury

   Sep 2010

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   @B.Sc Thesis{chowdhury2010implementation,
     title = {Implementation of speech recognition system for Bangla},
     author = {Chowdhury, Shammur Absar},
     school = {BRAC University},
     year = {2010}
   }