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

4 citations · 14 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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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.CL2025

Tec-Habilidad: Skill Classification for Bridging Education and Employment

Sabur Butt, Hector G. Ceballos, Diana P. Madera

Job application and assessment processes have evolved significantly in recent years, largely due to advancements in technology and changes in the way companies operate. Skill extra…

cs.CL2024

NLP Progress in Indigenous Latin American Languages

Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt +4

The paper focuses on the marginalization of indigenous language communities in the face of rapid technological advancements. We highlight the cultural richness of these languages a…

cs.CL2024

Multi-class Regret Detection in Hindi Devanagari Script

Renuka Sharma, Sushama Nagpal, Sangeeta Sabharwal +1

The number of Hindi speakers on social media has increased dramatically in recent years. Regret is a common emotional experience in our everyday life. Many speakers on social media…

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★ 3 cited

ReDDIT: Regret Detection and Domain Identification from Text

Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Sabur Butt, Grigori Sidorov +1

In this paper, we present a study of regret and its expression on social media platforms. Specifically, we present a novel dataset of Reddit texts that have been classified into th…

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…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

What goes on inside rumour and non-rumour tweets and their reactions: A Psycholinguistic Analyses

Sabur Butt, Shakshi Sharma, Rajesh Sharma +2

In recent years, the problem of rumours on online social media (OSM) has attracted lots of attention. Researchers have started investigating from two main directions. First is the…