Publications

Yimin Fan, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad (2023). Evaluating Neuron Interpretation Methods of NLP Models. Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

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Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad, and Nadir Durrani (2023). NeuroX Library for Neuron Analysis of Deep NLP Models. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Enes Altinisik, Hassan Sajjad, Husrev Taha Sencar, Safa Messaoud, Sanjay Chawla (2023). Impact of Adversarial Training on Robustness and Generalizability of Language Models. Proceedings of the Findings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Tamim Jaban, Mus’ab Husaini, Ummar Abbas (2023). NxPlain: A Web-based Tool for Discovery of Latent Concepts. Proceedings of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL).

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Yu Yu, Hassan Sajjad, Jia Xu (2023). Learning Uncertainty for Unknown Domains with Zero-Target-Assumption. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).

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Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad (2023). Discovering Salient Neurons in deep NLP models. Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR).

David Arps, Younes Samih, Laura Kallmeyer, Hassan Sajjad (2022). Probing for Constituency Structure in Neural Language Models. Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

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Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Fahim Dalvi, Firoj Alam (2022). On the Transformation of Latent Space in Fine-Tuned NLP Models. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

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Ahmed Abdelali, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad (2022). Post-hoc analysis of Arabic transformer models. Proceedings of the BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP.

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Hassan Sajjad, Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani (2022). Effect of Post-processing on Contextualized Word Representations. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).

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Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi, Firoj Alam, Abdul Khan, Jia Xu (2022). Analyzing Encoded Concepts in Transformer Language Models. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT).

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Fahim Dalvi, Abdul Rafae Khan, Firoj Alam, Nadir Durrani, Jia Xu, Hassan Sajjad (2022). Discovering Latent Concepts Learned in BERT. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).

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Reem Suwaileh, Tamer Elsayed, Muhammad Imran, Hassan Sajjad (2022). When a Disaster Happens, We are Ready: Location Mention Recognition from Crisis Tweets. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

Hassan Sajjad, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, Preslav Nakov (2022). On the Effect of Dropping Layers of Pre-trained Transformer Models. Computer Speech & Language.

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Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi (2022). Neuron-level Interpretation of Deep NLP Models: A Survey. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

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Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Fahim Dalvi (2021). How transfer learning impacts linguistic knowledge in deep NLP models?. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-IJCNLP)).

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Esther Seyffarth, Younes Samih, Laura Kallmeyer, Hassan Sajjad (2021). Implicit Representations of Event Properties within Contextual Language Models:Searching for ``Causativity Neurons". International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS).

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Hassan Sajjad, Narine Kokhlikyan, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani (2021). Fine-grained Interpretationand Causation Analysis in Deep NLP Models. North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT).

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Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi, Shaden Shaar, Nadir Durrani, Hamdy Mubarak, Alex Nikolov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Ahmed Abdelali, Hassan Sajjad, Kareem Darwish, Preslav Nakov (2021). Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media: A Holistic Perspective and a Call to Arms. International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).

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Firoj Alam, Hassan Sajjad, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli (2021). CrisisBench: Benchmarking Crisis-related Social Media Datasets for Humanitarian Information Processing. International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).

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Prakhar Ganesh, Yao Chen, Xin Lou, Mohammad Ali Khan, Yin Yang, Deming Chen, Marianne Winslett, Hassan Sajjad, Preslav Nakov (2021). Compressing Large-Scale Transformer-Based Models: A Case Study on BERT. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

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Reem Suwaileh, Muhammad Imran, Tamer Elsayed, Hassan Sajjad (2020). Are We Ready for this Disaster? Towards Location Mention Recognition from Crisis Tweets. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.

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Hassan Sajjad, Ahmed Abdelali, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi (2020). AraBench: Benchmarking Dialectal Arabic-English Machine Translation. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.

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Zhenhai Li, Juan Pino, Vishrav Chudhary, Francisco Guzman, Paul Michel, Graham Neubig, Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Yonatan Belinkov, Philipp Koehn, Xian Li Lucia Specia (2020). Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Machine Translation Robustness.. Proceedings of the Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), Shared Task Papers.

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Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Yonatan Belinkov (2020). Analyzing Redundancy in Pretrained Transformer Models. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

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Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Fahim Dalvi, Yonatan Belinkov (2020). Analyzing Individual Neurons in Pre-trained Language Models. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

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John M. Wu, Yonatan Belinkov, Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi, James Glass (2020). Similarity Analysis of Contextual Word Representation Models. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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Abdul Rafae, Asim Karim, Hassan Sajjad, Faisal Kamiran, Jia Xu (2020). A Clustering Framework for Lexical Normalization of Roman Urdu. Natural Language Engineering (NLE).

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Yonatan Belinkov, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Fahim Dalvi, James Glass (2020). On the Linguistic Representational Power of Neural Machine Translation Models. Computational Linguistics.

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Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelali, Kareem Darwish, Mohamed Eldesouki, Younes Samih, Hassan Sajjad (2019). A System for Diacritizing Four Varieties of Arabic. In Proceedings of the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

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Paul Michel, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Yonatan Belinkov, Nadir Durrani, Orhan Firat, Philipp Koehn, Graham Neubig, Juan Pino, Xian Li, Hassan Sajjad (2019). Findings of the WMT 2019 Shared Task on Machine Translation Robustness.. Proceedings of the Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), Shared Task Papers.

Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad, Yonatan Belinkov, Preslav Nakov (2019). One Size Does Not Fit All: Comparing NMT Representations of Different Granularities. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL).

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Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelali, Hassan Sajjad, Younes Samih, Kareem Darwish (2019). Highly Effective Arabic Diacritization using Sequence to Sequence Modeling. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL).

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D. Anthony Bau*, Yonatan Belinkov*, Hassan Sajjad, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, James Glass (2019). Identifying and Controlling Important Neurons in Neural Machine Translation. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).

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Fahim Dalvi*, Nadir Durrani*, Hassan Sajjad*, Yonatan Belinkov, D. Anthony Bau, James Glass (2019). What is one Grain of Sand in the Desert? Analyzing Individual Neurons in Deep NLP Models. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

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Fahim Dalvi, Avery Nortonsmith, D. Anthony Bau, Yonatan Belinkov, Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, James Glass (2019). NeuroX: A Toolkit for Analyzing Individual Neurons in Neural Networks. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

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Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Stephan Vogel (2018). Incremental Decoding and Training Methods for Simultaneous Translation in Neural Machine Translation. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL).

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Houda Bouamor, Hassan Sajjad (2018). H2@BUCC18: Parallel Sentence Extraction from Comparable Corpora Using Multilingual Sentence Embeddings. Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC).

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Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi, Yonatan Belinkov, Stephan Vogel (2017). Neural Machine Translation Training in a Multi-Domain Scenario. Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).

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Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Yonatan Belinkov, Stephan Vogel (2017). Understanding and Improving Morphological Learning in the Neural Machine Translation Decoder. Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP).

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Yonatan Belinkov, Lluís Màrquez, Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi, James Glass (2017). Evaluating Layers of Representation in Neural Machine Translation on Part-of-Speech and Semantic Tagging Tasks. Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP).

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Yonatan Belinkov, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad, James Glass (2017). What do Neural Machine Translation Models Learn about Morphology?. Proceedings of the 55th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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Hassan Sajjad, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, Ahmed Abdelali, Yonatan Belinkov, Stephan Vogel (2017). Challenging Language-Dependent Segmentation for Arabic: An Application to Machine Translation and Part-of-Speech Tagging. Proceedings of the 55th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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Dat Tien Nguyen, Kamla Al-Mannai, Shafiq Joty, Hassan Sajjad, Muhammad Imran, Prasenjit Mitra (2017). Robust Classification of Crisis-Related Data on Social Networks using Convolutional Neural Networks. Proceedings of the 11th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).

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Renars Liepins, Ulrich Germann, Guntis Barzdins, Alexandra Birch, Steve Renals, Susanne Weberu, Peggy van der Kreefti, Hervé Bourlard, João PrietoJ, Ondrej Klejch, others (2017). The SUMMA Platform Prototype. Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL).

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Fahim Dalvi, Yifan Zhang, Sameer Khurana, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Ali, Stephan Vogel (2017). QCRI Live Speech Translation System. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL).

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Hassan Sajjad, Helmut Schmid, Alexander Fraser, Hinrich Schütze (2017). Statistical models for unsupervised, semi-supervised and supervised transliteration mining. Computational Linguistics.

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Shafiq Joty, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Ahmed Abdelali (2017). Domain Adaptation using Neural Network Joint Model. Computer Speech and Language.

Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad, Stephan Vogel (2016). QCRI’s Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT’2016. Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).

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Mohamed Eldesouki, Fahim Dalvi, Hassan Sajjad, Kareem Darwish (2016). QCRI @ DSL 2016: Spoken Arabic Dialect Identification Using Textual. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects.

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Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Shafiq Joty, Ahmed Abdelali (2016). A Deep Fusion Model for Domain Adaptation in Phrase-based MT. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).

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Wajdi Zaghouani, Ahmed Abdelali, Francisco Guzmán, Hassan Sajjad (2016). Normalizing Mathematical Expressions to Improve the Translation of Educational Content. Proceedings of the AMTA 2016 Workshop Semitic Machine Translation (SeMaT).

Dat Tien Nguyen, Shafiq Joty, Muhammad Imran, Hassan Sajjad, Prasenjit Mitra (2016). Applications of Online Deep Learning for Crisis Response Using Social Media Information. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Social Web for Disaster Management (SWDM).

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Hassan Sajjad, Francisco Guzmán, Stephan Vogel (2016). An Empirical Study: Post-editing Effort for English to Arabic Hybrid Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA).

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Hassan Sajjad, Francisco Guzmán, Nadir Durrani, Ahmed Abdelali, Houda Bouamor, Irina P Temnikova, Stephan Vogel (2016). Eyes Don't Lie: Predicting Machine Translation Quality Using Eye Movement.. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of theAssociation of Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT).

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Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Shafiq, Joty, Ahmed Abdelali, Stephan Vogel (2015). Using Joint Models for Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation. Proceedings of the 15th Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit XV).

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Shafiq Joty, Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Kamla Al-Mannai, Ahmed Abdelali, Stephan Vogel (2015). How to Avoid Unwanted Pregnancies: Domain Adaptation using Neural Network Models. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

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Francisco Guzmán, Ahmed Abdelali, Irina Temnikova, Hassan Sajjad, Stephan Vogel (2015). How do Humans Evaluate Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT).

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Abdul Rafae, Abdul Qayyum, Muhammad Moeen Uddin, Asim Karim, Hassan Sajjad, Faisal Kamiran (2015). An Unsupervised Method for Discovering Lexical Variations in Roman Urdu Informal Text.. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

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Houda Bouamor, Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Kemal Oflazer (2015). QCMUQ@QALB-2015 Shared Task: Combining Character level MT and Error-tolerant Finite-State Recognition for ArabicSpelling Correction. Proceedings of the Workshop of Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP).

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Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Francisco Guzman, Preslav Nakov, Ahmed Abdelali, Stephan Vogel, Wael Salloum, Ahmed El Kholy, Nizar Habash (2015). QCN Egyptian Arabic to English MachineTranslation System for NIST OpenMT15. Workshop of NIST OpenMT15.

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Walid Magdy, Hassan Sajjad, Tarek El-Ganainy, Fabrizio Sebastiani (2015). Distant Supervision for Tweet Classification Using YouTube Labels. Proceedings of the Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).

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Walid Magdy, Hassan Sajjad, Tarek El-Ganainy, Fabrizio Sebastiani (2015). Bridging social media via distant supervision. Social Network Analysis and Mining.

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Kareem Darwish, Hassan Sajjad, Hamdy Mubarak (2014). Verifiably Effective Arabic Dialect Identification.. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

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Kamla Al-Mannai, Hassan Sajjad, Alaa Khader, Fahad Al Obaidli, Preslav Nakov, Stephan Vogel (2014). Unsupervised word segmentation improves dialectal Arabic to English machine translation. Proceedings of the Workshop of Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP).

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Mohammad Moeen Uddin, Mohammad Imran, Hassan Sajjad (2014). Understanding Types of Users on Twitter. Proceedings of the 6th ASE International Conference in Social Computing (SocialCom).

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Ahmed Abdelali, Francisco Guzman, Hassan Sajjad, Stephan Vogel (2014). The AMARA Corpus: Building Parallel Language Resources for the Educational Domain. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC).

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Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Hieu Hoang, Philipp Koehn (2014). Integrating an Unsupervised Transliteration Model into Statistical Machine Translation. Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL).

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Francisco Guzmán, Hassan Sajjad, Stephan Vogel, Ahmed Abdelali (2013). The AMARA Corpus: Building Resources for Translating the Web's Educational Content. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (IWSLT).

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Hassan Sajjad, Francisco Guzmán, Preslav Nakov, Ahmed Abdelali, Kenton Murray, Fahad Al Obaidli, Stephan Vogel (2013). QCRI at IWSLT 2013: Experiments in Arabic-English and English-Arabic Spoken Language Translation. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (IWSLT).

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Hassan Sajjad, Kareem Darwish, Yonatan Belinkov (2013). Translating Dialectal Arabic to English. Proceedings of the 51st Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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Hassan Sajjad, Svetlana Smekalova, Nadir Durrani, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid (2013). QCRI-MES Submission at WMT13: Using Transliteration Mining to Improve Statistical Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT).

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Nadir Durrani, Helmut Schmid, Alexander Fraser, Hassan Sajjad, Richárd Farkas (2013). Munich-Edinburgh-Stuttgart Submissions of OSM Systems at WMT13. Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT).

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Marion Weller, Max Kisselew, Svetlana Smekalova, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Richárd Farkas (2013). Munich-Edinburgh-Stuttgart Submissions at WMT13: Morphological and Syntactic Processing for SMT. Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT).

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Hassan Sajjad, Patrick Pantel, Michael Gamon (2012). Underspecified Query Refinement via Natural Language Question Generation. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).

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Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid (2012). A Statistical Model for Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Transliteration Mining. Proceedings of the 50th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Helmut Schmid, Alexander Fraser (2011). Comparing Two Techniques for Learning Transliteration Models Using a Parallel Corpus. Proceedings of 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP).

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Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid (2011). An Algorithm for Unsupervised Transliteration Mining with an Application to Word Alignment. Proceedings of the 49th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT).

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Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid (2010). Hindi-to-Urdu Machine Translation through Transliteration. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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Hassan Sajjad, Helmut Schmid (2009). Tagging Urdu Text with Parts of Speech: A Tagger Comparison. Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL).

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