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most citedAffect Control Processes: Intelligent Affective Interaction using a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process

83 citations · 162 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CL2026

MentalMARBERT: Domain-Adaptive Pre-training and Two-Stage Fine-Tuning for Arabic Mental Health Disorders Detection

Fatimah Almalki, Areej Alhothali, Lulwah Alharigy +1

Detecting mental health disorders from Arabic social media text remains challenging due to dialectal variation, informal language, limited high-quality annotated resources, and sev…

cs.CV2026

A Dual Cross-Attention Graph Learning Framework For Multimodal MRI-Based Major Depressive Disorder Detection

Nojod M. Alotaibi, Areej M. Alhothali

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent mental disorder associated with complex neurobiological changes that cannot be fully captured using a single imaging modality. The us…

eess.IV2025

Placenta Accreta Spectrum Detection using Multimodal Deep Learning

Sumaiya Ali, Areej Alhothali, Sameera Albasri +3

Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS) is a life-threatening obstetric complication involving abnormal placental invasion into the uterine wall. Early and accurate prenatal diagnosis is e…

cs.CV2025

Placenta Accreta Spectrum Detection Using an MRI-based Hybrid CNN-Transformer Model

Sumaiya Ali, Areej Alhothali, Ohoud Alzamzami +3

Placenta Accreta Spectrum (PAS) is a serious obstetric condition that can be challenging to diagnose with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) due to variability in radiologists' inter…

cs.CL2025

ArbESC+: Arabic Enhanced Edit Selection System Combination for Grammatical Error Correction Resolving conflict and improving system combination in Arabic GEC

Ahlam Alrehili, Areej Alhothali

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) is an important aspect of natural language processing. Arabic has a complicated morphological and syntactic structure, posing a greater challenge…

cs.CL2025

Domain-Adaptive Pre-Training for Arabic Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: A Comparative Study of Domain Adaptation and Fine-Tuning Strategies

Salha Alyami, Amani Jamal, Areej Alhothali

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) in natural language processing enables organizations to understand customer opinions on specific product aspects. While deep learning models…

cs.CL2025

Continuous Saudi Sign Language Recognition: A Vision Transformer Approach

Soukeina Elhassen, Lama Al Khuzayem, Areej Alhothali +2

Sign language (SL) is an essential communication form for hearing-impaired and deaf people, enabling engagement within the broader society. Despite its significance, limited public…

cs.CV2025

3DViT-GAT: A Unified Atlas-Based 3D Vision Transformer and Graph Learning Framework for Major Depressive Disorder Detection Using Structural MRI Data

Nojod M. Alotaibi, Areej M. Alhothali, Manar S. Ali

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent mental health condition that negatively impacts both individual well-being and global public health. Automated detection of MDD using…

cs.CL2025

TransGAT: Transformer-Based Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Dimensional Automated Essay Scoring

Hind Aljuaid, Areej Alhothali, Ohoud Al-Zamzami +1

Essay writing is a critical component of student assessment, yet manual scoring is labor-intensive and inconsistent. Automated Essay Scoring (AES) offers a promising alternative, b…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models on Educational Textbook Question Answering

Hessa A. Alawwad, Anas Zafar, Areej Alhothali +3

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown success in vision-language tasks, but their ability to reason over complex educational materials remains largely untested. This…

cs.IR2025

Beyond Retrieval: Joint Supervision and Multimodal Document Ranking for Textbook Question Answering

Hessa Alawwad, Usman Naseem, Areej Alhothali +2

Textbook question answering (TQA) is a complex task, requiring the interpretation of complex multimodal context. Although recent advances have improved overall performance, they of…

cs.CL2025

Towards the Development of Balanced Synthetic Data for Correcting Grammatical Errors in Arabic: An Approach Based on Error Tagging Model and Synthetic Data Generating Model

Ahlam Alrehili, Areej Alhothali

Synthetic data generation is widely recognized as a way to enhance the quality of neural grammatical error correction (GEC) systems. However, current approaches often lack diversit…

cs.CV2024

Multi-atlas Ensemble Graph Neural Network Model For Major Depressive Disorder Detection Using Functional MRI Data

Nojod M. Alotaibi, Areej M. Alhothali, Manar S. Ali

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most common mental disorders, with significant impacts on many daily activities and quality of life. It stands as one of the most comm…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Tibyan Corpus: Balanced and Comprehensive Error Coverage Corpus Using ChatGPT for Arabic Grammatical Error Correction

Ahlam Alrehili, Areej Alhothali

Natural language processing (NLP) utilizes text data augmentation to overcome sample size constraints. Increasing the sample size is a natural and widely used strategy for alleviat…

cs.CL2024★ 41 cited

Enhancing textual textbook question answering with large language models and retrieval augmented generation

Hessa Abdulrahman Alawwad, Areej Alhothali, Usman Naseem +2

Textbook question answering (TQA) is a challenging task in artificial intelligence due to the complex nature of context needed to answer complex questions. Although previous resear…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Arabic Tweet Act: A Weighted Ensemble Pre-Trained Transformer Model for Classifying Arabic Speech Acts on Twitter

Khadejaa Alshehri, Areej Alhothali, Nahed Alowidi

Speech acts are a speakers actions when performing an utterance within a conversation, such as asking, recommending, greeting, or thanking someone, expressing a thought, or making…

cs.CL2023

Detecting Suicidality in Arabic Tweets Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques

Asma Abdulsalam, Areej Alhothali, Saleh Al-Ghamdi

Social media platforms have revolutionized traditional communication techniques by enabling people globally to connect instantaneously, openly, and frequently. People use social me…

cs.AI2023★ 1 cited

ALJP: An Arabic Legal Judgment Prediction in Personal Status Cases Using Machine Learning Models

Salwa Abbara, Mona Hafez, Aya Kazzaz +2

Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) aims to predict judgment outcomes based on case description. Several researchers have developed techniques to assist potential clients by predicting…

cs.CV2022★ 5 cited

Hybrid Classifiers for Spatio-temporal Real-time Abnormal Behaviors Detection, Tracking, and Recognition in Massive Hajj Crowds

Tarik Alafif, Anas Hadi, Manal Allahyani +4

Individual abnormal behaviors vary depending on crowd sizes, contexts, and scenes. Challenges such as partial occlusions, blurring, large-number abnormal behavior, and camera viewi…

cs.CL2022★ 12 cited

Suicidal Ideation Detection on Social Media: A Review of Machine Learning Methods

Asma Abdulsalam, Areej Alhothali

Social media platforms have transformed traditional communication methods by allowing users worldwide to communicate instantly, openly, and frequently. People use social media to e…

cs.CL2021

Detection of Hate Speech using BERT and Hate Speech Word Embedding with Deep Model

Hind Saleh, Areej Alhothali, Kawthar Moria

The enormous amount of data being generated on the web and social media has increased the demand for detecting online hate speech. Detecting hate speech will reduce their negative…

cs.CL2021★ 10 cited

Pre-trained Transformer-Based Approach for Arabic Question Answering : A Comparative Study

Kholoud Alsubhi, Amani Jamal, Areej Alhothali

Question answering(QA) is one of the most challenging yet widely investigated problems in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Question-answering (QA) systems try to produce answers…

cs.CL2020

Detecting White Supremacist Hate Speech using Domain Specific Word Embedding with Deep Learning and BERT

Hind Saleh Alatawi, Areej Maatog Alhothali, Kawthar Mustafa Moria

White supremacists embrace a radical ideology that considers white people superior to people of other races. The critical influence of these groups is no longer limited to social m…

cs.CL2017★ 7 cited

Semi-Supervised Affective Meaning Lexicon Expansion Using Semantic and Distributed Word Representations

Areej Alhothali, Jesse Hoey

In this paper, we propose an extension to graph-based sentiment lexicon induction methods by incorporating distributed and semantic word representations in building the similarity…