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AACLFindings2026
Disentangling Perception and Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs via Reward Design
Omar Sharif, Eftekhar Hossain, Nikhil Singh*, Patrick Ng*
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EMNLPFindings2026
Improving Information Extraction with Learned Queries
Omar Sharif, Soroush Vosoughi, Nikhil Singh
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EMNLPFindings2025
REGen: A Reliable Evaluation Framework for Generative Event Argument Extraction
Omar Sharif, Joseph Gatto, Madhusudan Basak, Sarah Preum
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ACL2025
Document-Level Event-Argument Data Augmentation for Challenging Role Types
Joseph Gatto, Omar Sharif, Parker Seegmiller, Sarah Preum
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ACLFindings2025
BenNumEval: A Benchmark to Assess LLMs' Numerical Reasoning Capabilities in Bengali
Kawsar Ahmed, Md Osama, Omar Sharif, Eftekhar Hossain, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
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Journal2025
Information Needs for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Using Buprenorphine Product: Qualitative Analysis of Suboxone-Focused Reddit Data
Madhusudan Basak, Omar Sharif, Sarah E Lord, Jacob T Borodovsky, et al.
Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Q1, 2025 [IF: 6.00]
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EMNLP2024
Explicit, Implicit, and Scattered: Revisiting Event Extraction to Capture Complex Arguments
Omar Sharif, Joseph Gatto, Madhusudan Basak, Sarah Preum
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AAAI2024
Characterizing Information Seeking Events in Health-Related Social Discourse
Omar Sharif, Madhusudan Basak, Tanzia Parvin, Ava Scharfstein, Alphonso Bradham, et al.
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ACL2024
Deciphering Hate: Identifying Hateful Memes and Their Targets
Eftekhar Hossain, Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, Sarah Preum
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ICWSM2024
Theme-driven Keyphrase Extraction to Analyze Social Media Discourse
Omar Sharif*, William Romano*, Madhusudan Basak, Joseph Gatto, Sarah Preum
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EACL2024
A Multimodal Framework to Detect Target Aware Aggression in Memes
Shawly Ahsan, Eftekhar Hossain, Omar Sharif, Avishek Das, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, M. Dewan
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EACLSRW2024
Align before Attend: Aligning Visual and Textual Features for Multimodal Hateful Content Detection
Omar Sharif*, Eftekhar Hossain*, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, Sarah Preum
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ICWSMWorkshop2024
Do LLMs Find Human Answers To Fact-Driven Questions Perplexing? A Case Study on Reddit
Parker Seegmiller, Joseph Gatto, Omar Sharif, Madhusudan Basak, Sarah Preum
Real-Info Workshop. ICWSM, 2024
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EMNLPFindings2023
Chain-of-Thought Embeddings for Stance Detection on Social Media
Joseph Gatto, Omar Sharif, Sarah Preum
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EMNLPWorkshop2023
Text Encoders Lack Knowledge: Leveraging Generative LLMs for Domain-Specific Semantic Textual Similarity
Joseph Gatto, Omar Sharif, Parker Seegmiller, Philip Bohlman, Sarah Preum
GEM Workshop. EMNLP, 2023
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LREC2022
MemoSen: A Multimodal Dataset for Sentiment Analysis of Memes
Eftekhar Hossain, Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
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Journal2022
Identification of Multilingual Offense and Troll from Social Media Memes using Weighted Ensemble of Multimodal Features
Eftekhar Hossain, Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, M. Ali Akber Dewan, Nazmul Siddique, Md. Azad Hossain
Journal of King Saud University - CIS, Q1. Elsevier, 2022 [IF: 8.83]
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Journal2022
BEmoC: A Corpus for Identifying Emotion in Bengali Texts
MD. Asif Iqbal, Avishek Das, Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, Iqbal H. Sarker
SN Computer Science. Springer, 2022 [IF: 2.19]
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AACLSRW2022
MUTE: A Multimodal Dataset for Detecting Hateful Memes
Eftekhar Hossain, Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
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SPICSCON2021
Align and Conquer: An Ensemble Approach to Classify Aggressive Texts from Social Media
Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
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ICO2021
Automatic Categorization of News Articles and Headlines Using Multi-layer Perceptron
Fatima Jahara, Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
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Journal2021
Tackling Cyber-Aggression: Identification and Fine-Grained Categorization of Aggressive Texts on Social Media using Weighted Ensemble of Transformers
Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
Neurocomputing, Q1. Elsevier, 2021 [IF: 6.50]
Best Research Publication Award, ECE Department, CUET
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Journal2021
Multi-class Textual Emotion Categorization using Ensemble of Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Network
Tanzia Parvin, Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
SN Computer Science. Springer, 2021 [IF: 2.19]
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AAAIWorkshop2021
Identification and Classification of Textual Aggression in Social Media: Resource Creation and Evaluation
Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
CONSTRAINT Workshop. AAAI, 2021
Best Paper Award
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NAACLSRW2021
Emotion Classification in a Resource Constrained Language Using Transformer-based Approach
Avishek Das, Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque, Iqbal H. Sarker
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EACLShared Task2021
Offensive Language Detection from Multilingual Code-Mixed Text using Transformers
Omar Sharif, Eftekhar Hossain, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
DravidianLangTech Workshop. EACL, 2021
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EACLShared Task2021
Multilingual Code-Mixed Hope Speech Detection using Cross-lingual Representation Learner
Eftekhar Hossain, Omar Sharif, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque
LT-EDI Workshop. EACL, 2021
Top Model in the Challenge
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