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cs.CL2026

DunbaaBERT: From Sacrifice to Semantics

Iffat Maab, Waleed Jamil, Raphael Schmitt

Large language models have achieved strong performance across many NLP tasks, yet Urdu remains comparatively underexplored due to limited resources and fragmented evaluation settin…

cs.CL2026

From Articles to Premises: Building PrimeFacts, an Extraction Methodology and Resource for Fact-Checking Evidence

Premtim Sahitaj, Jawan Kolanowski, Ariana Sahitaj +7

Fact-checking articles encode rich supporting evidence and reasoning, yet this evidence remains largely inaccessible to automated verification systems due to unstructured presentat…

cs.CL2026

AfrIFact: Cultural Information Retrieval, Evidence Extraction and Fact Checking for African Languages

Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Crystina Zhang +16

Assessing the veracity of a claim made online is a complex and important task with real-world implications. When these claims are directed at communities with limited access to inf…

cs.CL2026

When Bigger Isn't Better: A Comprehensive Fairness Evaluation of Political Bias in Multi-News Summarisation

Nannan Huang, Iffat Maab, Junichi Yamagishi

Multi-document news summarisation systems are increasingly adopted for their convenience in processing vast daily news content, making fairness across diverse political perspective…

cs.CL2025

Investigating Thinking Behaviours of Reasoning-Based Language Models for Social Bias Mitigation

Guoqing Luo, Iffat Maab, Lili Mou +1

While reasoning-based large language models excel at complex tasks through an internal, structured thinking process, a concerning phenomenon has emerged that such a thinking proces…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Towards Automated Fact-Checking of Real-World Claims: Exploring Task Formulation and Assessment with LLMs

Premtim Sahitaj, Iffat Maab, Junichi Yamagishi +3

Fact-checking is necessary to address the increasing volume of misinformation. Traditional fact-checking relies on manual analysis to verify claims, but it is slow and resource-int…

cs.CL2025

AFRIDOC-MT: Document-level MT Corpus for African Languages

Jesujoba O. Alabi, Israel Abebe Azime, Miaoran Zhang +13

This paper introduces AFRIDOC-MT, a document-level multi-parallel translation dataset covering English and five African languages: Amharic, Hausa, Swahili, Yorùbá, and Zulu. The da…

cs.CL2023

Target-Aware Contextual Political Bias Detection in News

Iffat Maab, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Yutaka Matsuo

Media bias detection requires comprehensive integration of information derived from multiple news sources. Sentence-level political bias detection in news is no exception, and has…