4 papers
Entity Image and Mixed-Modal Image Retrieval Datasets
Cristian-Ioan Blaga, Paul Suganthan, Sahil Dua +6
Despite advances in multimodal learning, challenging benchmarks for mixed-modal image retrieval that combines visual and textual information are lacking. This paper introduces a no…
Adapting Decoder-Based Language Models for Diverse Encoder Downstream Tasks
Paul Suganthan, Fedor Moiseev, Le Yan +7
Decoder-based transformers, while revolutionizing language modeling and scaling to immense sizes, have not completely overtaken encoder-heavy architectures in natural language proc…
ArabicNLU 2024: The First Arabic Natural Language Understanding Shared Task
Mohammed Khalilia, Sanad Malaysha, Reem Suwaileh +4
This paper presents an overview of the Arabic Natural Language Understanding (ArabicNLU 2024) shared task, focusing on two subtasks: Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) and Location Me…
The FIGNEWS Shared Task on News Media Narratives
Wajdi Zaghouani, Mustafa Jarrar, Nizar Habash +5
We present an overview of the FIGNEWS shared task, organized as part of the ArabicNLP 2024 conference co-located with ACL 2024. The shared task addresses bias and propaganda annota…