85 citations · 146 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for
22 papers
News Consumption in Time of Conflict: 2021 Palestinian-Israel War as an Example
Kareem Darwish
This paper examines news consumption in response to a major polarizing event, and we use the May 2021 Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an example. We conduct a detailed analysis of…
Pre-Training BERT on Arabic Tweets: Practical Considerations
Ahmed Abdelali, Sabit Hassan, Hamdy Mubarak +2
Pretraining Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) for downstream NLP tasks is a non-trival task. We pretrained 5 BERT models that differ in the size of the…
BERT Transformer model for Detecting Arabic GPT2 Auto-Generated Tweets
Fouzi Harrag, Maria Debbah, Kareem Darwish +1
During the last two decades, we have progressively turned to the Internet and social media to find news, entertain conversations and share opinion. Recently, OpenAI has developed a…
A Panoramic Survey of Natural Language Processing in the Arab World
Kareem Darwish, Nizar Habash, Mourad Abbas +9
The term natural language refers to any system of symbolic communication (spoken, signed or written) without intentional human planning and design. This distinguishes natural langu…
Political Framing: US COVID19 Blame Game
Chereen Shurafa, Kareem Darwish, Wajdi Zaghouani
Through the use of Twitter, framing has become a prominent presidential campaign tool for politically active users. Framing is used to influence thoughts by evoking a particular pe…
Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media: A Holistic Perspective and a Call to Arms
Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi, Shaden Shaar +8
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, people turned to social media to read and to share timely information including statistics, warnings, advice, and inspirational stories.…