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most citedOverview of Abusive and Threatening Language Detection in Urdu at FIRE 2021

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cs.CL2025

Classification of Hope in Textual Data using Transformer-Based Models

Chukwuebuka Fortunate Ijezue, Tania-Amanda Fredrick Eneye, Maaz Amjad

This paper presents a transformer-based approach for classifying hope expressions in text. We developed and compared three architectures (BERT, GPT-2, and DeBERTa) for both binary…

cs.CL2025

Alif: Advancing Urdu Large Language Models via Multilingual Synthetic Data Distillation

Muhammad Ali Shafique, Kanwal Mehreen, Muhammad Arham +3

Developing a high-performing large language models (LLMs) for low-resource languages such as Urdu, present several challenges. These challenges include the scarcity of high-quality…

cs.CL2025

Optimism, Expectation, or Sarcasm? Multi-Class Hope Speech Detection in Spanish and English

Sabur Butt, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Ahmad Imam Amjad +3

Hope is a complex and underexplored emotional state that plays a significant role in education, mental health, and social interaction. Unlike basic emotions, hope manifests in nuan…

cs.CL2024

GuReT: Distinguishing Guilt and Regret related Text

Sabur Butt, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Abdul Gafar Manuel Meque +4

The intricate relationship between human decision-making and emotions, particularly guilt and regret, has significant implications on behavior and well-being. Yet, these emotions s…

cs.CL2022

Overview of the Shared Task on Fake News Detection in Urdu at FIRE 2020

Maaz Amjad, Grigori Sidorov, Alisa Zhila +2

This overview paper describes the first shared task on fake news detection in Urdu language. The task was posed as a binary classification task, in which the goal is to differentia…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Overview of Abusive and Threatening Language Detection in Urdu at FIRE 2021

Maaz Amjad, Alisa Zhila, Grigori Sidorov +5

With the growth of social media platform influence, the effect of their misuse becomes more and more impactful. The importance of automatic detection of threatening and abusive lan…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Overview of the Shared Task on Fake News Detection in Urdu at FIRE 2021

Maaz Amjad, Sabur Butt, Hamza Imam Amjad +3

Automatic detection of fake news is a highly important task in the contemporary world. This study reports the 2nd shared task called UrduFake@FIRE2021 on identifying fake news dete…