Publications
Book Chapters
Firoj Alam, Kashif Ahmed, Md. Arid Hasan, Ferda Ofli, and Muhammad Imran, Role of Social Media Imagery in Disaster Informatics, A. Singh (ed.), International Handbook of Disaster Research, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8800-3_170-1.
Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran, Firoj Alam, Using Artificial Intelligence and Social Media for Disaster Response and Management: An Overview, In: Kumar T.V.V., Sud K. (eds) AI and Robotics in Disaster Studies. Disaster Research and Management Series on the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4291-6_5.
Muhammad Imran, Firoj Alam, Ferda Ofli, Michael Aupetit, Enabling Rapid Disaster Response Using Artificial Intelligence and Social Media, Book: Mitigating the Impact of Extreme Natural Events in Developing Countries, Daya Publishing House, Edited by: R.J. Durrheim and B.G.N. Sewwandi, Daya Publishing House, ISBN: 9789388982160, 2019.
Firoj Alam, Morena Danieli, Giuseppe Riccardi, Automatic Labeling Affective Scenes in Spoken Conversations, Cognitive Infocommunications and Computing Book Chapter, Springer, 2018.
Firoj Alam, Bernardo Magnini, and Roberto Zanoli, Comparing Named Entity Recognition on Transcriptions and Written Texts, Harmonization and Development of Resources and Tools for Italian Natural Language Processing within the PARLI Project, Vol. 589, Basili, R., Bosco, C., Delmonte, R., Moschitti, A., Simi, M. (Eds.) 2015, Springer.
Firoj Alam, Roberto Zanoli, A Combination of Classifiers for Named Entity Recognition on Transcription, Evaluation of Natural Language and Speech Tools for Italian, B. Magnini et al. (Eds.), LNCS 7689, Berlin, Springer Verlag, 2013 , pp. 107 - 115.
Journal Publications
Mubarak, Hamdy, Samir Abdaljalil, Azza Nassar, and Firoj Alam. 2023. Detecting and Identifying the Reasons for Deleted Tweets Before They are Posted, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2023.1219767 (IF. 4.0).
Firoj Alam, Tanvirul Alam, Ferda Ofli, and Muhammad Imran, Robust Training of Social Media Image Classification Models for Rapid Disaster Response, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS) (Submitted), 2022. https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04184
Izzat Alsmadi, Kashif Ahmad, Mahmoud Nazzal, Firoj Alam, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Abdallah Khreishah, and Abdulelah Algosaibi, Adversarial NLP for Social Network Applications: Attacks, Defenses, and Research Directions, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TCSS.2022.3218743.
Firoj Alam, Tanvirul Alam, Md. Arid Hasan, Abul Hasnat, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli, MEDIC: A Multi-Task Learning Dataset for Disaster Image Classification, Neural Computing and Applications, 2022. [DOI] [dataset] [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6625120]
Ahmad, Kashif, Firoj Alam, Junaid Qadir, Basheer Qolomany, Imran Khan, Talhat Khan, Muhammad Suleman et al. Global User-Level Perception of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications: Data-Driven Approach Using Natural Language Processing, JMIR Formative Research 6, no. 5 (2022): e36238.
Firoj Alam, Arid Hasan, Tanvirul Alam, Akib Khan, Janntatul Tajrin, Naira Khan, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, A Review of Bangla Natural Language Processing Tasks and the Utility of Transformer Models, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP) (Submitted), 2021. https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03844
Firoj Alam, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran. Descriptive and Visual Summaries of Disaster Events using Artificial Intelligence Techniques: Case Studies of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. In the Journal of Behaviour & Information Technology (Taylor & Francies), 2019. DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2019.1610908.
Firoj Alam, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran, Processing Social Media Images by Combining Human and Machine Computing During Crises, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI), 2018, pp 1-17, https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2018.1427831.
Firoj Alam, Morena Danieli, Giuseppe Riccardi, Annotating and Modeling Empathy in Spoken Conversations, Computer Speech & Language, Volume 50, 2018, pp 40-61, ISSN 0885-2308, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2017.12.003.
Firoj Alam, Anna Corazza, Alberto Lavelli and Roberto Zanoli, A Knowledge-Poor Approach to Chemical-Disease Relation Extraction, The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, 2016 (doi: 10.1093/database/baw071).
Fabio Celli, Arindam Ghosh, Firoj Alam, Giuseppe Riccardi, In the Mood for Sharing Contents: Emotions, Personality and Interaction Styles in the Diffusion of News, Information Processing & Management, Elsevier, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2015.08.002.
Conference/Workshop Publications
2023
Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto, Firoj Alam, Andrea Galassi, Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov, Tamer Elsayed, Dilshod Azizov et al. Overview of the CLEF–2023 CheckThat! Lab on Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Political Bias, Factuality, and Authority of News Articles and Their Source. In International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages, pp. 251-275. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Firoj Alam, Tommaso Caselli, Giovanni Da San Martino, Tamer Elsayed, Andrea Galassi, Fatima Haouari, Federico Ruggeri, Julia Maria Struß, Rabindra Nath Nandi, Gullal S. Cheema, Dilshod Azizov and Preslav Nakov, The CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab: Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Political Bias, Factuality, and Authority of News Articles and Their Sources, ECIR 2023.
Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Abdul Rafae Khan and Jia Xu, ConceptX: A Framework for Latent Concept Analysis, AAAI 2023 (Demo)
2022
Firoj Alam, Hamdy Mubarak, Wajdi Zaghouani, Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov, Overview of the WANLP 2022 Shared Task on Propaganda Detection in Arabic, EMNLP (WANLP) 2022, UAE, Association for Computational Linguistics.
Nadir Durrani, Hassan Sajjad, Fahim Dalvi and Firoj Alam, On the Transformation of Latent Spaces in Fine-Tuned NLP Models, EMNLP 2022, UAE, Association for Computational Linguistics.
Shaden Shaar, Nikola Georgiev, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino, Aisha Mohamed and Preslav Nakov, Assisting the Human Fact-Checkers: Detecting All Previously Fact-Checked Claims in a Document, EMNLP 2022 (Findings), UAE, Association for Computational Linguistics.
Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Absar Chowdhury and Firoj Alam, ArabGend: Gender Analysis and Inference on Arabic Twitter, COLING (WNUT), 2022.
Hassan Sajjad, Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi, Nadir Durrani, Effect of Post-processing on Contextualized Word Representations, COLING, 2022.
Firoj Alam, Stefano Cresci, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Fabrizio Silvestri, Dimiter Dimitrov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Shaden Shaar, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov, A Survey on Multimodal Disinformation Detection, COLING, 2022.
Prerona Tarannum, Md. Arid Hasan, Firoj Alam and Sheak Rashed Haider Noori, Z-Index at CheckThat! Lab 2022: Check-Worthiness Identification on Tweet Text, in: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the CLEF Association: Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization, CLEF ’2022, Bologna, Italy, 2022.
Preslav Nakov, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Firoj Alam, Ruben Miguez, Tommaso Caselli, Mucahid Kutlu, Wajdi Zaghouani, Chengkai Li, Shaden Shaar, Hamdy Mubarak, Alex Nikolov, Yavuz Selim Kartal, Overview of the CLEF-2022 CheckThat! lab Task 1 on Identifying Relevant Claims in Tweets, in: Working Notes of CLEF 2022—Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, CLEF ’2022, Bologna, Italy, 2022.
Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Firoj Alam, Shaden Shaar, Hamdy Mubarak, Nikolay Babulkov, Overview of the CLEF-2022 CheckThat! Lab Task 2 on Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims, in: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the CLEF Association: Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization, CLEF ’2022, Bologna, Italy, 2022.
P.Nakov, A.Barrón-Cedeño, G.Da San Martino, F.Alam, J.M.Struß, T.Mandl, R.Míguez, T. Caselli, M. Kutlu, W. Zaghouani, C. Li, S. Shaar, G. K. Shahi, H. Mubarak, A. Nikolov, N. Babulkov, Y. S. Kartal, J. Beltrán, M. Wiegand, M. Siegel, J. Köhler, Overview of the CLEF-2022 CheckThat! lab on Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic and Fake News Detection, in: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the CLEF Association: Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization, CLEF ’2022, Bologna, Italy, 2022.
Shivam Sharma, Firoj Alam, Shad Md., Dimitar Dimitrov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Hamed Firooz, Alon Halevy, Fabrizio Silvestri, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Detecting and Understanding Harmful Memes: A Survey, Proceedings of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 25th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-22) Survey Track, July 23-29, 2022, Messe Wien, Vienna, Austria
Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi, Firoj Alam, Abdul Khan, and Jia Xu, 2022, Analyzing Encoded Concepts in Transformer Language Models. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 3082–3101, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino, and Preslav Nakov. 2022. The Role of Context in Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, pages 1619–1631, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Firoj Alam, ArabGend: Gender Analysis and Inference on Arabic Twitter, arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.00271 (2022).
Nandi, Rabindra Nath, Firoj Alam, and Preslav Nakov, Detecting the Role of an Entity in Harmful Memes: Techniques and their Limitations, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situations, pp. 43-54. 2022.
Nandi, Rabindra Nath, Firoj Alam, and Preslav Nakov, TeamX@ DravidianLangTech-ACL2022: A Comparative Analysis for Troll-Based Meme Classification, In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages, pp. 79-85. 2022.
Nakov, Preslav, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Firoj Alam, Julia Maria Struß, Thomas Mandl, Rubén Míguez et al, The CLEF-2022 CheckThat! lab on fighting the COVID-19 infodemic and fake news detection, In European Conference on Information Retrieval, pp. 416-428. Springer, Cham, 2022.
Nakov, Preslav, Firoj Alam, Yifan Zhang, Animesh Prakash, and Fahim Dalvi, QCRI's COVID-19 Disinformation Detector: A System to Fight the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media, arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.03506 (2022).
Nakov, Preslav, Giovanni Da San Martino, and Firoj Alam, Fact-Checking, Fake News, Propaganda, Media Bias, and the COVID-19 Infodemic, In Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, pp. 1632-1634. 2022.
Mubarak, Hamdy, Sabit Hassan, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Firoj Alam, ArCovidVac: Analyzing Arabic Tweets About COVID-19 Vaccination, LREC, 2022.
Muhammad Imran, Umair Qazi, Ferda Ofli, Steve Peterson, and Firoj Alam, AI for Disaster Rapid Damage Assessment from Microblogs, The Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-22), February 2022.
2021
Dalvi, Fahim, Abdul Rafae Khan, Firoj Alam, Nadir Durrani, Jia Xu, and Hassan Sajjad, Discovering Latent Concepts Learned in BERT, In International Conference on Learning Representations. 2021. https://openreview.net/forum?id=POTMtpYI1xH
Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Tamer Elsayed, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Ruben Miguez, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Watheq Mansour, Bayan Hamdan, Zien Sheikh Ali, Nikolay Babulkov, Alex Nikolov, Gautam Kishore Shahi, Julia Maria Struß, Thomas Mandl, Mucahid Kutlu and Yavuz Selim Kartal, Overview of the CLEF-2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News, CLEF 2021.
Shaden Shaar, Maram Hasanain, Bayan Hamdan, Zien Sheikh Ali, Fatima Haouari, Alex Nikolov, Mucahid Kutlu, Yavuz Selim Kartal, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Ruben Miguez, Javier Beltrán, Tamer Elsayed and Preslav Nakov, Overview of the CLEF-2021 CheckThat! Lab Task 1 on Check-Worthiness Estimation in Tweets and Political Debates, CLEF 2021.
Shaden Shaar, Fatima Haouari, Watheq Mansour, Maram Hasanain, Nikolay Babulkov, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino, Tamer Elsayed and Preslav Nakov, Overview of the CLEF-2021 CheckThat! Lab Task 2 on Detect Previously Fact-Checked Claims in Tweets and Political Debates, CLEF 2021.
Preslav Nakov, Firoj Alam, Shaden Shaar, Giovanni Da San Martino and Yifan Zhang, COVID-19 in Bulgarian Social Media: Factuality, Harmfulness, Propaganda, and Framing, RANLP, 2021.
Preslav Nakov, Firoj Alam, Shaden Shaar, Giovanni Da San Martino and Yifan Zhang, A Second Pandemic? Analysis of Fake News About COVID-19 Vaccines in Qatar, RANLP, 2021.
Dimitar Dimitrov, Bishr Bin Ali, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov and Giovanni Da San Martino, SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images. SemEval, 2021. Task Data.
Dimitar Dimitrov, Bishr Bin Ali, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov and Giovanni Da San Martino, Detecting Propaganda Techniques in Memes, ACL, 2021. paper, Download dataset: https://github.com/di-dimitrov/propaganda-techniques-in-memes
Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alex Nikolov, Wajdi Zaghouani, Preslav Nakov, Anna Feldman, Findings of the NLP4IF-2021 Shared Tasks on Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic and Censorship Detection, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda, NAACL, 2021. Task page.
Firoj Alam, Hassan Sajjad, Muhammad Imran and Ferda Ofli, CrisisBench: Benchmarking Crisis-related Social Media Datasets for Humanitarian Information Processing, In ICWSM, 2021. paper, Download dataset: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/G98BQG, https://crisisnlp.qcri.org/crisis_datasets_benchmarks
Firoj Alam, Umair Qazi, Muhammad Imran and Ferda Ofli, HumAID: Human-Annotated Disaster Incidents Data from Twitter with Deep Learning Benchmarks, In ICWSM, 2021. paper, Download dataset: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/A7NVF7 https://crisisnlp.qcri.org/humaid_dataset
Firoj Alam, Fahim Dalvi, Shaden Shaar, Nadir Durrani, Hamdy Mubarak, Alex Nikolov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Ahmed Abdelali, Hassan Sajjad, Kareem Darwish, Preslav Nakov, Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic in Social Media: A Holistic Perspective and a Call to Arms, In ICWSM, 2021. paper, Download dataset: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XYK2UE
Preslav Nakov, David Corney, Maram Hasanain, Firoj Alam, Tamer Elsayed, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Paolo Papotti, Shaden Shaar, Giovanni Da San Martino, Automated Fact-Checking for Assisting Human Fact-Checkers, Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21) Survey Track, 2021, https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2021/0619.pdf
Thomas Mandl Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Tamer Elsayed, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Rubén Míguez, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Nikolay Babulkov, Alex Nikolov, Gautam Kishore Shahi, Julia Maria Struß, The CLEF-2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News, ECIR (2), 2021
2020
Firoj Alam, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran, Tanvirul Alam and Umair Qazi, Deep Learning Benchmarks and Datasets for Social Media Image Classification for Disaster Response, The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2020), 7-10 December 2020, The Hague, Netherlands (Virtual). Download dataset: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QXT5QL, https://crisisnlp.qcri.org/crisis-image-datasets-asonam20
Tanvirul Alam, Akib Khan and Firoj Alam, Punctuation Restoration using Transformer Models for High- and Low-Resource Languages, The 6th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT), 16th – 20th November, 2020. Code: https://github.com/xashru/punctuation-restoration
Shaden Shaar, Alex Nikolov, Nikolay Babulkov, Firoj Alam, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Tamer Elsayed, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Fatima Haouari, Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov, Overview of CheckThat! 2020 English: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media, CLEF 2020, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 22-25, 2020.
Firoj Alam, Zohaib Hassan, Kashif Ahmad, Asma Gul, Michael Reiglar, Nicola Conci, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Flood Detection via Twitter Streams using Textual and Visual Features, MediaEval, 2020.
Muhammad Imran, Firoj Alam, Umair Qazi, Steve Peterson and Ferda Ofli, Rapid Damage Assessment Using Social Media Images by Combining Human and Machine Intelligence, In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), 2020, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
Ferda Ofli, Firoj Alam, Muhammad Imran. Analysis of Social Media Data using Multimodal Deep Learning for Disaster Response. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), 2020, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
2019
Firoj Alam, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli. CrisisDPS: Crisis Data Processing Services. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), 2019, Valencia, Spain.
2018
Firoj Alam, Shafiq Joty, Muhammad Imran. Domain Adaptation with Adversarial Training and Graph Embeddings. ACL, 2018, Melbourne, Australia.
Firoj Alam, Shafiq Joty, Muhammad Imran. Graph Based Semi-supervised Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks to Classify Crisis Related Tweets. International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2018, Stanford, California, USA.
Firoj Alam, Ferda Ofli and Muhammad Imran. CrisisMMD: Multimodal Twitter Datasets from Seven Natural Disasters. In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2018, Stanford, California, USA.
Firoj Alam, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran, Michael Aupetit. A Twitter Tale of Three Hurricanes: Harvey, Irma, and Maria. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), May 2018, Rochester NY, USA.
2017
Muhammad Imran, Firoj Alam, Ferda Ofli, Michael Aupetit. Enabling Rapid Disaster Response Using Artificial Intelligence and Social Media. International Roundtable on the Impacts of Extreme Natural Events: Science and Technology for Mitigation (IRENE) workshop, December 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Firoj Alam, Naira Khan and Sheak Rashed Haider Noori, Bangla Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion Using Conditional Random Fields, 20th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2017, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCITECHN.2017.8281780.
Firoj Alam, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli, Image4Act: Online Social Media Image Processing for Disaster Response, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2017, Sydney, Australia.
Firoj Alam, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli, Online Social Media Image Processing Using AIDR 2.0: Artificial Intelligence for Digital Response, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Dat Tien Nguyen, Firoj Alam, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran, Automatic Image Filtering on Social Networks Using Deep Learning and Perceptual Hashing During Crises, 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management (ISCRAM). 2017 Albi, France. [slides] [data]
2016
Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury and Sheak Rashed Haider Noori, Bidirectional LSTMs - CRFs Networks for Bangla POS Tagging, ICCIT 2016.
Firoj Alam, Fabio Celli, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Arindam Ghosh, Giuseppe Riccardi, The Social Mood of News: Self-reported Annotations to Design Automatic Mood Detection Systems, Workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Opinions, Personality, and Emotions in Social Media, Co-located with COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan, 2016.
Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Morena Danieli, Giuseppe Riccardi, How Interlocutors Coordinate with each other within Emotional Segments?, COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan, 2016..
Firoj Alam, Morena Danieli, Giuseppe Riccardi, Can We Detect Speakers’ Empathy?: A Real-Life Case Study, 7th IEEE International Conference Cognitive InfoCommunications, 2016.
Fabio Celli, Giuseppe Riccardi, Firoj Alam, Multilevel Annotation of Agreement and Disagreement in Italian News Blogs, Proc. LREC, Portroz, 2016.
2015
E. A. Stepanov, B. Favre, F. Alam, S. A. Chowdhury, K. Singla, J. Trione, F. B'echet, G. Riccardi, Automatic Summarization of Call-center Conversations, IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2015), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 2015.
Firoj Alam, Anna Corazza, Alberto Lavelli, and Roberto Zanoli, A Knowledge-Poor Approach to BioCreative V DNER and CID Tasks, Proceedings of the Fifth BioCreative Challenge Evaluation Workshop, 274-279, 2015.
Morena Danieli, Giuseppe Riccardi, Firoj Alam, Emotion Unfolding and Affective Scenes: A Case Study in Spoken Conversations, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Emotion Representations and Modeling for Companion Technologies, pp. 5-11, ACM (ICMI), 2015.
2014
Morena Danieli, Giuseppe Riccardi, Firoj Alam, Annotation of Complex Emotions in Real-Life Dialogues: The Case of Empathy, Clic-it14, 2014.
Firoj Alam, Giuseppe Riccardi, Predicting Personality Traits using Multimodal Information, Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Multimedia on Workshop on Computational Personality Recognition, pp. 15-18. ACM, 2014, Orlando, USA.
Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Giuseppe Riccardi, Firoj Alam, Unsupervised Recognition and Clustering of Speech Overlaps in Spoken Conversations, Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia - SLAM, pp. 62-66., 2014.
Firoj Alam, Giuseppe Riccardi, Fusion of Acoustic, Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Features for Speaker Personality Traits Recognition, ICASSP2014 - Speech and Language Processing (ICASSP2014 - SLTC), 04-09 May 2014, Florence, Italy.
2013
Firoj Alam, Giuseppe Riccardi, Comparative Study of Speaker Personality Traits Recognition in Conversational and Broadcast News Speech, Interspeech-2013, 25-29 August 2013, Lyon, France.
Firoj Alam, Evgeny A. Stepanov, Giuseppe Riccardi, Personality Traits Recognition on Social Network - Facebook, WCPR-2013 (ICWSM-13), Cambridge, MA, USA. [paper]
2012
Firoj Alam, Named Entity Recognition on Transcription Using Cascaded Classifiers: EVALITA 2011. In Working Notes of EVALITA 2011, 23-24th January 2012, Rome, Italy, ISSN 2240-5186 (2012). [paper]
2011
Firoj Alam, S.M. Murtoza Habib and Mumit Khan, Bangla Text to Speech using Festival, Conference on Human Language Technology for Development (HLTD 2011), Alexandria, Egypt, 02-05 May, 2011.
S. M. Murtoza Habib, Firoj Alam, Rabia Sultana, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, and Mumit Khan, Phonetically balanced Bangla speech corpus, Conference on Human Language Technology for Development (HLTD 2011), Alexandria, Egypt, 02-05 May, 2011.
2010
Firoj Alam, S. M. Murtoza Habib, Dil Afroza Sultana and Mumit Khan, Development of Annotated Bangla Speech Corpora, Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced language (SLTU’10), vol 1, pp-35-41, Penang, Malasia, May 3 - 5, 2010.[paper] [presentation]
2009
2008
Firoj Alam , S. M. Murtoza Habib and Professor Mumit Khan, Acoustic Analysis of Bangla Consonants, Proc. Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced language (SLTU’08), vol 1, page 108-113, Vietnam, May 5-7, 2008, . Link 1: [paper] [presentation] Link 2: [paper] [presentation]
2007
TALKS
Comparative Study of Speaker Personality Traits Recognition in Conversational and Broadcast News Speech, Firoj Alam, Skil-Lab, July, 2013.
Personality traits recognition from speech, Firoj Alam, Skil-Lab, April, 2013.
A Brief Overview of Random Forests, Firoj Alam, SIS-LAB, June, 2012.
Named Entity Recognition on Broadcast news transcription, Firoj Alam, SIS-LAB, November, 2011.
Unicode and localization, Firoj Alam, S.M. Murtoza Habib, Dil Afroza Sultana, Access to Information (A2I) of Prime Minister Office, Ministry of Cabinet held at Ministry of Establishment and BBS, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2010.
Language resource technologies available in Bangla, Firoj Alam, Farhana Faruqe, ADD4, NECTEC Academy, 539/2 Mahanakorn Gypsum Building 21F, Bangkok, Thailand, February 27, 2009.
Text to Speech, Firoj Alam, Computational Linguistics in Bangla Language: Current Situation and Future Prospects, Linguistic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka University, 14 September, 2008.
Acoustics Analysis of Bangla Phoneme Inventory, Firoj Alam, ADD3, Pathumthani, Thailand, March 2, 2008.