[Conference] Salam Albatarni, Sohaila Eltanbouly, Tamer Elsayed. Graded Relevance Scoring of Written Essays with Dense Retrieval (SIGIR 2024)

[Conference] Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Firoj Alam, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov, Piotr Przybyła, Julia Maria Struß, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Federico Ruggeri, Xingyi Song, Reem Suwaileh.  (ECIR 2024)

[Conference] Watheq Mansour, Salam Albatarni, Sohaila Eltanbouly, Tamer Elsayed. Can Large Language Models Automatically Score Proficiency of Written Essays? (LREC-COLING 2024)  

[Journal] Fatima Haouari, Tamer Elsayed. Are authorities denying or supporting? Detecting stance of authorities towards rumors in Twitter. Social Network Analysis and Mining journal.

[Conference] Rana Malhas, Watheq Mansour, Tamer Elsayed. Qur’an QA 2023 Shared Task: Overview of Passage Retrieval and Reading Comprehension Tasks over the Holy Qur’an (ArabicNLP 2023). 

[Conference] Reem Suwaileh, Muhammad Imran, Tamer Elsayed. IDRISI-RA: The First Arabic Location Mention Recognition Dataset of Disaster Tweets (ArabicNLP 2023). 

[Conference] Reem Suwaileh, Muhammad Imran, Tamer Elsayed. IDRISI-RA: The First Arabic Location Mention Recognition Dataset of Disaster Tweets (ACL 2023). 

[Conference] Dilara Dogan, Bahadir Altun, Muhammed Said Zengin, Mucahid Kutlu, Tamer Elsayed. Catch Me If You Can: Deceiving Stance Detection and Geotagging Models to Protect Privacy of Individuals on Twitter (ICWSM 2023).

[Conference] Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Firoj Alam, Andrea Galassi, Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov, Tamer Elsayed, Dilshod Azizov, Tommaso Caselli, Gullal S Cheema, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Mucahid Kutlu, Chengkai Li, Federico Ruggeri, Julia Maria Struß, Wajdi Zaghouani (CLEF 2023).

[Workshop] Fatima Haouari, Zien Sheikh Ali, T Elsayed. Overview of the CLEF-2023 CheckThat! lab task 5 on authority finding in Twitter (CLEF 2023 working notes).  

[Journal] Watheq Mansour, Tamer Elsayed, Abdulaziz Al-Ali. This is not new! Spotting previously-verified claims over Twitter.  Information processing & management journal.

[Journal] Haya Al-Thani, Tamer Elsayed, Bernard J Jansen. Improving​ conversational​ search with​ query​ reformulation​ using​ selective​ contextual​ history. Data and Information Management journal.  

[Journal] Reem Suwaileh, Tamer Elsayed, Muhammad Imran. IDRISI-RE: A generalizable dataset with benchmarks for location mention recognition on disaster tweets. Information processing & management journal.

[Journal]  Haya Al-Thani, Bernard J Jansen, Tamer Elsayed. ECAsT: a large dataset for conversational search and an evaluation of metric robustness. PeerJ Computer Science. 

[Journal]  Marwa Essam, Tamer Elsayed. Unsupervised query reduction for efficient yet effective news background linking. PeerJ Computer Science journal. 

[Journal] Fatima Haouari, Tamer Elsayed, Watheq Mansour. Who can verify this? Finding authorities for rumor verification in Twitter. Information processing & management journal.

[Conference] Zien Sheikh Ali, Watheq Mansour, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Tamer Elsayed, and Abdulaziz Al-Ali. Tahaqqaq: A Real-Time System for Assisting Twitter Users in Arabic Claim Verification (SIGIR 2023).

[Conference] Fatima Haouari, Tamer Elsayed. Detecting Stance of Authorities towards Rumors in Arabic Tweets: A Preliminary Study. Proceedings of the 45rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023).

[Conference] 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. Proceedings of the 45rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023).

[Journal] Rana Malhas, Tamer Elsayed. Arabic machine reading comprehension on the Holy Qur’an using CL-AraBERT. Information processing & management.

[Journal] Reem Suwaileh, Tamer Elsayed, Muhammad Imran, Hassan Sajjad. When a Disaster Happens, We Are Ready: Location Mention Recognition from Crisis Tweets. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

[Journal] Maram Hasanain and Tamer Elsayed. Studying effectiveness of Web search for fact checking. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 73, Issue 5, pp. 738-751, 2022.

[Conference] Marwa Essam, Tamer Elsayed. bigIR at TREC 2021: Adopting Transfer Learning for News Background Linking. Proceedings of the 30th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2021), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, NIST, February 2022.

[Workshop] Rana Malhas, Watheq Mansour, and Tamer Elsayed. Qur'an QA 2022: Overview of The First Shared Task on Question Answering over the Holy Qur'an. Proceedings of The 5th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT5). 

[Workshop] Zien Sheikh Ali, Abdulaziz Al-Ali and Tamer Elsayed. Detecting Users Prone to Spread Fake News on Arabic Twitter. Proceedings of The 5th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT5).

[Doctoral Consortium, Conference] Fatima Haouari. Evidence-based Early Rumor Verification in Social Media. Proceedings of the 44rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022). 

[Conference] Watheq Mansour, Tamer Elsayed, and Abdulaziz Al-Ali. Did I see it before? Detecting previously-checked claims over Twitter. Proceedings of the 44rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022).

[Conference] Preslav Nakov, David Corney, Maram Hasanain, Firoj Alam, Tamer Elsayed, Alberto Barr´on-Cede˜no, Paolo Papotti, Shaden Shaar, Giovanni Da San Martino. Automated Fact-Checking for Assisting Human Fact-Checkers. Proceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21), pp. 4551-4558, Montreal, Canada, August 2021.

[Conference] Fatima Haouari, Marwa Essam and Tamer Elsayed. bigIR at TREC 2020: Simple but Deep Retrieval of Passages and Documents. Proceedings of the 29th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2020), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, NIST. 

[Doctoral Consortium, Conference] Marwa Essam. Background Linking of News Articles. Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021). 

[Conference] 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, and Thomas Mandl. The CLEF-2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News. Proceedings of the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021).

[Conference] Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Tamer Elsayed, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Rubén Míguez, 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, Yavuz Selim Kartal. Overview of the CLEF–2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News. Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. CLEF 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12880. Springer.

[Workshop] 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, Rubén Míguez, 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 Working Notes. CheckThat! 2021 Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), Vol-2936 , ISSN 1613-0073. 

[Workshop] 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 Detecting Previously Fact-Checked Claims in Tweets and Political Debates. CLEF 2021 Working Notes. CheckThat! 2021 Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), Vol-2936 , ISSN 1613-0073. 

[Workshop]  Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh and Tamer Elsayed. ArCOV-19: The First Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with Propagation Networks. In Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, (WANLP 2021). 

[Workshop] Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh and Tamer Elsayed. ArCOV19-Rumors: Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset for Misinformation Detection. In Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, (WANLP 2021). 

[Workshop] Zien Sheikh Ali, Watheq Mansour, Tamer Elsayed, and Abdulaziz Al-Ali. AraFacts: The First Large Arabic Dataset of Naturally-Occurring Professionally-Verified Claims.  In Proceedings of the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, (WANLP 2021). 

[Conference] Ammar Rashed, Mucahid Kutlu, Kareem Darwish, Tamer Elsayed, Cansın Bayrak. Embeddings-Based Clustering for Target Specific Stances: The Case of a Polarized Turkey. (ICWSM  2021) , pp.537-548 

[Conference] Haya Al-Thani, Bernard J Jansen, Tamer Elsayed. HBKU at TREC 2020: Conversational Multi-Stage Retrieval with Pseudo-Relevance Feedback. Proceedings of the 29th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2020), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, NIST. 

[MSc] Watheq Mansour. Did I see it before? Detecting previously-checked claims over Twitter.Nov 2021.

[Conference] Reem Suwaileh, Muhammad Imran, Tamer Elsayed, and Hassan Sajjad. Are We Ready for this Disaster? Towards Location Mention Recognition from Crisis Tweets. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020), pp. 6252-6263. 2020.

[Conference] Md Mustafizur Rahman, Mucahid Kutlu, Tamer Elsayed, Matthew Lease. Efficient Test Collection Construction via Active Learning. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2020).

[Conference] Marwa Essam and Tamer Elsayed. Why is That a Background Article? A Qualitative Analysis of Relevance for News Background Linking. Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020). 

[Technical Report] Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, and Tamer Elsayed. ArCOV19-Rumors: Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset for Misinformation Detection. arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.08768, Oct 2020.

[Workshop] Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Fatima Haouari, Zien Sheikh Ali, Bayan Hamdan, Tamer Elsayed, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, and Preslav Nakov. Overview of CheckThat! 2020 Arabic: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media. CLEF 2020 Working Notes. CheckThat! 2020 Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), ISSN 1613-0073.

[Workshop] Shaden Shaar, Alex Nikolov, Nikolay Babulkov, Firoj Alam, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Tamer Elsayed, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Fatima Haouari, Giovanni Da San Martino, and Preslav Nakov. Overview of CheckThat! 2020 English: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media. CLEF 2020 Working Notes. CheckThat! 2020 Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), ISSN 1613-0073. 

[Workshop] Maram Hasanain and Tamer Elsayed. bigIR at CheckThat! 2020: Multilingual BERT for ranking Arabic tweets by check-worthiness. CLEF 2020 Working Notes. CheckThat! 2020 Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org), ISSN 1613-0073. 

[Conference] Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Fatima Haouari, Nikolay Babulkov, Bayan Hamdan, Alex Nikolov, Shaden Shaar, and Zien Sheikh Ali. Overview of CheckThat! 2020: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2020). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 12260, Springer.

[Conference] Omar Khattab, Mohammad Hammoud and Tamer Elsayed. Finding the Best of Two Worlds: Faster and More Robust Top-k Document Retrieval. Proceedings of the 43rd annual international ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval: SIGIR '20, Xi'an, China, July 2020. 

[Conference] Maram Hasanain, Yassmine Barkallah, Reem Suwaileh, Mucahid Kutlu and Tamer Elsayed. ArTest: The First Test Collection for Arabic Web Search with Relevance Rationales. Proceedings of the 43rd annual international ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval: SIGIR '20, Xi'an, China, July 2020.

[Journal] Mucahid Kutlu, Tyler McDonnell, Tamer Elsayed, Matthew Lease. Annotator Rationales for Labeling Tasks in Crowdsourcing. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Vol. 69 pp. 143-189, 2020

[Journal] Rana Malhas and Tamer Elsayed. AyaTEC: Building a Reusable Verse-based Test Collection for Arabic Question Answering on the Holy Qur’an. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), Vol. 19, No. 6, Article 78(pp, 1-21), 2020.

[Workshop] Abeer Abuzayed and Tamer Elsayed. Quick and Simple Approach for Detecting Hate Speech in Arabic Tweets. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT4) at LREC 2020, May 2020.

[Technical Report] Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Tamer Elsayed. ArCOV-19: The First Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with Propagation Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.05861, Apr 2020.

[Doctoral Consortium, Conference] Reem Suwaileh. Time-Critical Geolocation for Social Good. Proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020), pp 624-629,Lisbon, Portugal, April 2020. 

[Conference] Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, and Fatima Haouari. CheckThat! at CLEF 2020: Enabling the Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media. Proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020), pp 499-507, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2020. 

[Conference] Marwa Essam and Tamer Elsayed. bigIR at TREC 2019: Graph-based Analysis for News Background Linking. Proceedings of the 28th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2019), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, NIST, February 2020. 

[Conference] Sara Al-Rasbi and Tamer Elsayed. Can We Build a Search Engine over Spark? IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies (ICIoT 2020). Feb 2020. 

[MSc] Sara Al-Rasbi. SparkIR: A Scalable Distribuited Infomration Retrieval Engine over Spark. Qatar University. Jan 2020.

[Conference] Shahad Alshalan, Raghad Alshalan, Hend Al-Khalifa, Reem Suwaileh, Tamer Elsayed. Improving Arabic Microblog Retrieval with Distributed Representations. Proceedings of the 15th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2019), Hong Kong, China, November 2019. 

[Conference] Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Giovanni Da San Martino, Pepa Atanasova. Overview of the CLEF-2019 CheckThat! Lab: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages (CLEF 2019), pp. 301-321, Springer, 2019.

[Conference] Tamer Elsayed, Preslav Nakov, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Giovanni Da San Martino, Pepa Atanasova. CheckThat! at CLEF 2019: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims. Proceedings of the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Cologne, Germany, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 11438, pp. 309–315, Springer, Cham, April 2019. 

[Workshop] Fatima Haouari, Zien Sheikh Ali, Tamer Elsayed. bigIR at CLEF 2019: Automatic Verification of Arabic Claims over the Web. Proceedings of CheckThat! Lab at the 10th International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages (CLEF'19), Lugano, Switzerland, Sep 2019.

[Workshop] Sohaila Eltanbouly, May Bashendy, Tamer Elsayed. Simple But Not Naïve: Fine-Grained Arabic Dialect Identification Using Only N-Grams. Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, pp. 214-218, 2019.

[Conference] Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Tamer Elsayed, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Preslav Nakov. Overview of the CLEF-2019 CheckThat! Lab: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims. Task 2: Evidence and Factuality. Proceedings of CheckThat! Lab at the 10th International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages (CLEF'19), Lugano, Switzerland, Sep 2019.

[Journal] Yousuf Ahmad, Omar Khattab, Arsal Malik, Ahmad Musleh, Mohammad Hammoud, Mucahid Kutlu, Mostafa Shehata, Tamer Elsayed. LA3: A Scalable Link- and Locality-Aware Linear Algebra-Based Graph Analytics System. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), Vol. 11(8), pp. 920-933, 2018.

[Journal] Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Tamer Elsayed, Mucahid Kutlu, and Hind Almerekhi. EveTAR: Building a Large-Scale Multi-Task Test Collection over Arabic Tweets. Information Retrieval Journal, Springer, (2018) 21:307–336, Springer, 2018.

[Journal] Mucahid Kutlu, Tamer Elsayed, and Matthew Lease. Intelligent topic selection for low-cost information retrieval evaluation: A New perspective on deep vs. shallow judging. Information Processing and Management, Vol. 54(1), Elsevier, 2018. 

[Conference] Mucahid Kutlu, Tamer Elsayed, Maram Hasanain, and Matthew Lease. When Rank Order Isn’t Enough: New Statistical-Significance-Aware Correlation Measures. Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’18), Torino, Italy, pp. 397-406, October 22–26, 2018. 

[Conference] Khaled Yasser, Mucahid Kutlu, and Tamer Elsayed. Re-ranking Web Search Results for Better Fact-Checking: A Preliminary Study. Proceedings of The 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’18), Torino, Italy, pp. 1783-1786, October 22–26, 2018.

[Conference] Preslav Nakov, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Tamer Elsayed, Reem Suwaileh, Lluís Màrquez, Wajdi Zaghouani, Pepa Atanasova, Spas Kyuchukov, Giovanni Da San Martino. Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on automatic identification and verification of political claims. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages (CLEF'18), Avignon, France, pp. 372-387, Sep 2018. 

[Conference] Mucahid Kutlu, Tyler McDonnell, Aashish Sheshadri, Tamer Elsayed, and Matthew Lease. Mix and Match: Collaborative Expert-Crowd Judging for Building Test Collections Accurately and Affordably. Proceedings of the 1st Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems (DESIRES ’18), Bertinoro, Italy, August 28-31, 2018. 

[Conference] Mucahid Kutlu, Tyler McDonnell, Yassmine Barkallah, Tamer Elsayed, and Matthew Lease. Crowd vs. Expert: What Can Relevance Judgment Rationales Teach Us About Assessor Disagreement? Proceedings of the 41st annual international ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval: SIGIR '18, pp. 805-814, Michigan, USA. July 2018.

[Conference] Tanya Goyal, Tyler McDonnell, Mucahid Kutlu, Tamer Elsayed, and Matthew Lease. Your Behavior Signals Your Reliability: Modeling Crowd Behavioral Traces to Ensure Quality Relevance Annotations. Proceedings of the 6th AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2018), pp. 41-49, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2018.

[MSc] Reem Suwaileh. On the Relevance Filtering for Real-time Summarization. MSc thesis. Qatar University. June 2018. 

[Conference] Israa Alsarsour, Esraa Mohamed, Reem Suwaileh, and Tamer Elsayed. DART: A Large Dataset of Dialectal Arabic Tweets. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), pp. 3666-3670, Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018.

[Workshop] Khaled Yasser, Mucahid Kutlu, and Tamer Elsayed. bigIR at CLEF 2018: Detection and Verification of Check-Worthy Political Claims. Proceedings of CheckThat! Lab at the 9th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF'18), Avignon, France, Sep 2018.

[Workshop] Khaled Yasser, Reem Suwaileh, Abdelrahman Shouman, Yassmine Barkallah, Mucahid Kutlu, and Tamer Elsayed. iArabicWeb16: Making a Large Web Collection More Accessible for Research. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT 2018) at LREC 2018, pp. 75-79, Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018.

[Workshop] Tamer Elsayed, Walid Magdy, Mucahid Kutlu, Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh. BroDyn’18: Workshop on Analysis of Broad Dynamic Topics over Social Media. First International Workshop on Analysis of Broad Dynamic Topics over Social Media (BroDyn 2018) at ECIR 2018, Grenoble, France, March 2018. 

[Eval. Conference] Alberto Barrón-Cedeño1, Tamer Elsayed, Reem Suwaileh, Lluís Màrquez, Pepa Atanasova, Wajdi Zaghouani, Spas Kyuchukov, Giovanni Da San Martino, and Preslav Nakov. Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims. Task 2: Factuality. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages (CLEF'18), Avignon, France, Sep 2018.

[Eval. Conference] Pepa Atanasova, Lluís Màrquez, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Tamer Elsayed, Reem Suwaileh, Wajdi Zaghouani, Spas Kyuchukov, Giovanni Da San Martino, and Preslav Nakov. Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims. Task 1: Check-Worthiness. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages (CLEF'18), Avignon, France, Sep 2018.

[Eval. Conference] Reem Suwaileh, and Tamer Elsayed. Exploiting Live Feedback for Tweet Real-time Push Notifications. Proceedings of the 26th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2017), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, NIST, February 2018. 

[Tech. Report] Mucahid Kutlu, Kareem Darwish, and Tamer Elsayed. Devam vs. Tamam: 2018 Turkish Elections. arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.06655. July 2018.

[Journal] Mohammad Aliannejadi, Maram Hasanain, Jiaxin Mao, Jaspreet Singh, Johanne R Trippas, Hamed Zamani, Laura Dietz. ACM SIGIR Student Liaison Program. ACM SIGIR Forum. Vol. 51 Issue 3. PP. 42-45. ACM. Feb 2018.

[Doctoral] Maram Hasanain. Automatic Ranking of Information Retrieval Systems. Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'18). PP. 749-750. ACM. Feb 2018.

[Tech. Report] Mustaf Rahman, Mucahid Kutlu, Tamer Elsayed, Matthew Lease. Efficient Test Collection Construction via Active Learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05605. Jan 2018.

[Abstract] Reem Suwaileh and Tamer Elsayed. Effective Realtime Tweet Summarization. Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings 2018(3), ICTPD1061.2018.

[Journal] Maram Hasanain and Tamer Elsayed. Query Performance Prediction for Microblog Search. Information Processing and Management, Vol. 53(6), pp. 1320–1341, Elsevier, 2017.

[Conference] Tyler McDonnell, Mucahid Kutlu, Tamer Elsayed, and Matthew Lease. The Many Benefits of Annotator Rationales for Relevance Judgments. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-17), pp. 4909-4913, Melbourne, Australia, August 2017.

[Conference] Ameer Albahem, Maram Hasanain, Marwan Torki, and Tamer Elsayed. QweetFinder: Real-time Finding and Filtering of Question Tweets. Proceedings of the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017), pp. 766-769, Aberdeen, Scotland, April 2017.

[Workshop] Marwan Torki, Maram Hasanain, and Tamer Elsayed. QU-BIGIR at SemEval 2017 Task 3: Using Similarity Features for Arabic Community Question Answering Forums. Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval ’17, pp. 360-364, Vancouver, Canada, August 2017.

[Eval. Conference] Rana Malhas, Marwan Torki, Rahma Ali, Evi Yulianti, Tamer Elsayed. Real, Live, and Concise: Answering Open-Domain Questions with Word Embedding and Summarization. Proceedings of the 25th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2016), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, NIST, February 2017.

[Eval. Conference] Reem Suwaileh, Maram Hasanain, and Tamer Elsayed. Light-weight, Conservative, yet Effective: Scalable Real-time Tweet Summarization. Proceedings of the 25th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2016), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, NIST, February 2017.

[Tech. Report] Maram Hasanain, Reem Suwaileh, Tamer Elsayed, Mucahid Kutlu, Hind Almerekhi. EveTAR: Building a Large-Scale Multi-Task Test Collection over Arabic Tweets. arXiv:1708.05517v2 [cs.IR], Aug 2017.

[Tech. Report] Mucahid Kutlu, Tamer Elsayed, and Matthew Lease. Learning to Effectively Select Topics for Information Retrieval Test Collections. arXiv:1701.07810v1 [cs.IR], January 2017.

[Journal] Walid Magdy and Tamer Elsayed. Unsupervised Adaptive Microblog Filtering for Broad Dynamic Topics. Information Processing and Management, Vol. 52(4), pp. 513-528, Elsevier, 2016. 

[Conference] Tyler McDonnell, Matthew Lease, Mucahid Kutlu, and Tamer Elsayed. Why Is That Relevant? Collecting Annotator Rationales for Relevance Judgments. Proceedings of the 4th AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2016). pp. 139-148. Austin, Texas, USA. Nov 2016, Best Paper Award.

[Conference] Hind Almerekhi, Maram Hasanain, and Tamer Elsayed. EveTAR: A New Test Collection for Event Detection in Arabic Tweets. Proceedings of the 39th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval: SIGIR '16. pp. 689-692. Pisa, Italy. July 2016.

[Conference] Reem Suwaileh, Mucahid Kultlu, Nihal Fathima, Tamer Elsayed, and Matthew Lease. ArabicWeb16: A New Crawl for Today’s Arabic Web. Proceedings of the 39th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval: SIGIR '16. pp. 673-676. Pisa, Italy. July 2016.

[Conference] Walid Magdy, Maram Hasanain, and Tamer Elsayed. On the Evaluation of Tweet Timeline Generation Task. Proceedings of the 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval: ECIR 2016, pp. 648-653, Padua, Italy, March 2016.

[Workshop] Rana Malhas, Marwan Torki, and Tamer Elsayed. QU at SemEval 2016 Task 3: Learning to Rank on Arabic Question Answering Forums with Word Embedding. Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval ’16, pp. 866-871, San Diego, California, June 2016.

[Workshop] Maram Hasanain, Mossaab Bagdouri, Tamer Elsayed, and Douglas W. Oard. What Questions Do Journalists Ask on Twitter? Proceedings of the Social Media in the Newsroom Workshop (SMNews’16) at International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). pp. 127-134. Cologne, Germany, May 2016.

[MSc] Hind Almerekhi. Building a Test Collection for Significant-Event Detection in Arabic Tweets. MSc. thesis. Qatar University. February 2016. 

[Eval. Conference] Reem Suwaileh, Maram Hasanain, Marwan Torki, and Tamer Elsayed. QU at TREC-2015: Building Real-Time Systems for Tweet Filtering and Question Answering. Proceedings of the 24th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2015), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, NIST, January 2016.

[Journal] Fan Zhang, Qutaibah. M. Malluhi , Tamer Elsayed, Samee U. Khan, Keqin Li. CloudFlow: Data-aware Programming Model for Cloud Workflow Applications on Modern HPC Systems. Future Generation Computer Systems Journal, Vol. 51, pp. 98–110, Elsevier, 2015. 

[Conference] Hind Almerekhi and Tamer Elsayed. Detecting Automatically-Generated Arabic Tweets. Proceedings of the 11th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference: AIRs 2015, pp. 123-134, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Springer, December 2015.

[Conference] Maram Hasanain, Tamer Elsayed, and Walid Magdy. Improving Tweet Timeline Generation by Predicting Optimal Retrieval Depth. Proceedings of the 11th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference: AIRs 2015, pp. `135-146, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Springer, December 2015, Best Paper Award.

[MSc] Latifa Al-Marri. Utilizing Hashtags for Microblog Adhoc Retrieval. MSc thesis. Qatar University. June 2015.

[Eval. Conference] Maram Hasanain and Tamer Elsayed. QU at TREC-2014: Online Clustering with Temporal and Topical Expansion for Tweet Timeline Generation. Proceedings of the 23rd Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2014), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, NIST, January 2015.

[Conference] Maram Hasanain, Tamer Elsayed, and Walid Magdy. Identification of Answer-Seeking Questions in Arabic Microblogs. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management: CIKM’14, pp. 1839-1842, Shanghai, China, November 2014.

[MSc] Maram Hasanain. Query Performance Prediction for Microblog Search. MSc thesis. Qatar University. September 2014.

[Conference] Walid Magdy and Tamer Elsayed. Adaptive Method for Following Dynamic Topics on Twitter. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), pp. 335-345, Ann Arber, USA, June 2014.

[Workshop] Maram Hasanain, Rana Malhas, and Tamer Elsayed. Query Performance Prediction for Microblog Search: A Preliminary Study. Proceedings of the SIGIR International Workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis (SoMeRA’14), pp. 1-6, July 2014.

[Eval Conference] Maram Hasanain, Latifa Al-Marri, and Tamer Elsayed. QU at TREC-2013: Expansion Experiments for Microblog Ad-hoc Search. Proceedings of the 22nd Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2013), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, NIST, January 2014.

[Abstract] Nassma Mohandes, Qutaibah Malluhi, and Tamer Elsayed. Effective Recommendation of Reviewers to Research Proposals. Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference, Poster, 2014.