3 papers
cs.CL2026
Are Non-English Papers Reviewed Fairly? Language-of-Study Bias in NLP Peer Reviews
Ehsan Barkhordar, Abdulfattah Safa, Verena Blaschke +3
Peer review plays a central role in the NLP publication process, but is susceptible to various biases. Here, we study language-of-study (LoS) bias: the tendency for reviewers to ev…
cs.CL2026
Instructional Text Across Disciplines: A Survey of Representations, Downstream Tasks, and Open Challenges Toward Capable AI Agents
Abdulfattah Safa, Tamta Kapanadze, Arda UzunoÄlu +1
Recent advances in large language models have demonstrated promising capabilities in following simple instructions through instruction tuning. However, real-world tasks often invol…
cs.CL2025
A Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Pipeline for Dialogue Understanding
Abdulfattah Safa, Gözde Gül Åahin
Dialogue State Tracking (DST) is crucial for understanding user needs and executing appropriate system actions in task-oriented dialogues. Majority of existing DST methods are desi…