1 code implementation • VarDial (COLING) 2022 • Noëmi Aepli, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Adrian-Gabriel Chifu, William Domingues, Fahim Faisal, Mihaela Gaman, Radu Tudor Ionescu, Yves Scherrer
This report presents the results of the shared tasks organized as part of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2022.
2 code implementations • 11 Apr 2024 • Fahim Faisal, Antonios Anastasopoulos
We propose an approach that combines the strengths of different types of language models and leverages data augmentation techniques to improve task performance on three South Slavic dialects: Chakavian, Cherkano, and Torlak.
1 code implementation • 29 Mar 2024 • Fahim Faisal, Antonios Anastasopoulos
The capacity and effectiveness of pre-trained multilingual models (MLMs) for zero-shot cross-lingual transfer is well established.
1 code implementation • 16 Mar 2024 • Fahim Faisal, Orevaoghene Ahia, Aarohi Srivastava, Kabir Ahuja, David Chiang, Yulia Tsvetkov, Antonios Anastasopoulos
This allows for a comprehensive evaluation of NLP system performance on different language varieties.
1 code implementation • 12 Oct 2023 • Md Mushfiqur Rahman, Fardin Ahsan Sakib, Fahim Faisal, Antonios Anastasopoulos
To understand the downstream implications of text representation choices, we perform a comparative analysis on language models having diverse text representation modalities including 2 segmentation-based models (\texttt{BERT}, \texttt{mBERT}), 1 image-based model (\texttt{PIXEL}), and 1 character-level model (\texttt{CANINE}).
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2023 • Fahim Faisal
Modern NLP breakthrough includes large multilingual models capable of performing tasks across more than 100 languages.
no code implementations • 2 Aug 2023 • Fatin Abrar Shams, Rashed Hasan Ratul, Ahnaf Islam Naf, Syed Shaek Hossain Samir, Mirza Muntasir Nishat, Fahim Faisal, Md. Ashraful Hoque
To bridge the gap, numerous machine learning techniques have been established to estimate critical temperatures as it is extremely challenging to determine.
no code implementations • 24 May 2023 • Yueqi Song, Catherine Cui, Simran Khanuja, PengFei Liu, Fahim Faisal, Alissa Ostapenko, Genta Indra Winata, Alham Fikri Aji, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Yulia Tsvetkov, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Graham Neubig
Despite the major advances in NLP, significant disparities in NLP system performance across languages still exist.
no code implementations • 25 Apr 2023 • Md Mahfuz ibn Alam, Ruoyu Xie, Fahim Faisal, Antonios Anastasopoulos
This report describes GMU's sentiment analysis system for the SemEval-2023 shared task AfriSenti-SemEval.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2022 • Fahim Faisal, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Pretrained language models (PLMs) often fail to fairly represent target users from certain world regions because of the under-representation of those regions in training datasets.
1 code implementation • 19 May 2022 • Fahim Faisal, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Large pretrained multilingual models, trained on dozens of languages, have delivered promising results due to cross-lingual learning capabilities on variety of language tasks.
no code implementations • 22 Jan 2022 • Ishrak Jahan Ratul, Ummay Habiba Wani, Mirza Muntasir Nishat, Abdullah Al-Monsur, Abrar Mohammad Ar-Rafi, Fahim Faisal, Mohammad Ridwan Kabir
A synthetic dataset is generated by imputing the missing values, transforming the data using dummy variable encoding, and compressing the dataset from 59 features to the 11 most correlated features using Chi-squared feature selection.
no code implementations • ACL 2022 • Fahim Faisal, Yinkai Wang, Antonios Anastasopoulos
As language technologies become more ubiquitous, there are increasing efforts towards expanding the language diversity and coverage of natural language processing (NLP) systems.
no code implementations • 16 Oct 2021 • Rafid Ameer Mahmud, Fahim Faisal, Saaduddin Mahmud, Md. Mosaddek Khan
Against this background, we introduce a simulation based online planning algorithm, that we call SiCLOP, for multi-agent cooperative environments.
1 code implementation • Findings (EMNLP) 2021 • Fahim Faisal, Sharlina Keshava, Md Mahfuz ibn Alam, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Question answering (QA) systems are now available through numerous commercial applications for a wide variety of domains, serving millions of users that interact with them via speech interfaces.
no code implementations • EMNLP (MRQA) 2021 • Fahim Faisal, Antonios Anastasopoulos
Human knowledge is collectively encoded in the roughly 6500 languages spoken around the world, but it is not distributed equally across languages.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2021 • Abdullah Al Mehadi, Mirza Muntasir Nishat, Fahim Faisal, Ahmed Raza Hasan Bhuiyan, Mohyeu Hussain, Md Ashraful Hoque
A model road of 200 meters is reconnoitered for energy harvesting by solar power using three prominent software namely PVSOL, PVsyst, and SAM where a promising mean annual yield of 70492. 9 kWh is obtained, and the bifacial gain is calculated to be 12. 26%.
1 code implementation • ACL (NLP4Prog) 2021 • Junayed Mahmud, Fahim Faisal, Raihan Islam Arnob, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Kevin Moran
Automated source code summarization is a popular software engineering research topic wherein machine translation models are employed to "translate" code snippets into relevant natural language descriptions.
1 code implementation • 22 Jul 2019 • Nazim Choudhury, Fahim Faisal, Matloob Khushi
Existing techniques from Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing attempt to identify the hidden or unpublished connections between information concepts within published literature, however, these techniques undermine the concept of predicting the future and emerging relations among scientific knowledge components encapsulated within the literature.
no code implementations • 1 May 2019 • Fahim Faisal, Shafkat Ahmed Bhuiyan, Dr. Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal
A method to identify probable diseases from the unstructured textual input (eg, health forum posts) by incorporating a lexicographic and semantic feature based two-phase text classification module and a symptom-disease correlation-based similarity measurement module.