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Farah Benamara

6 accepted papers

2025

Are Dialects Better Prompters? A Case Study on Arabic Subjective Text Classification

ACL 2025finding

This paper investigates the effect of dialectal prompting, variations in prompting scrip t and model fine-tuning on subjective classification in Arabic dialects. To this end, we evaluate the performances of 12 widely used open LLMs across four tasks and eight benchmark datasets. Our results reveal t…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

CDB: A Unified Framework for Hope Speech Detection Through Counterfactual, Desire and Belief

NAACL 2025findings

Computational modeling of user-generated desires on social media can significantly aid decision-makers across various fields. Initially explored through wish speech,this task has evolved into a nuanced examination of hope speech. To enhance understanding and detection, we propose a novel scheme root…

2025

CrisisTS: Coupling Social Media Textual Data and Meteorological Time Series for Urgency Classification

ACL 2025long

This paper proposes CrisisTS, the first multimodal and multilingual dataset for urgency classification composed of benchmark crisis datasets from French and English social media about various expected (e.g., flood, storm) and sudden (e.g., earthquakes, explosions) crises that have been mapped with o…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Humans Need Context, What about Machines? Investigating Conversational Context in Abusive Language Detection

COLING 2024main

A crucial aspect in abusive language on social media platforms (toxicity, hate speech, harmful stereotypes, etc.) is its inherent contextual nature. In this paper, we focus on the role of conversational context in abusive language detection, one of the most “direct” forms of context in this domain,…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2021

“Be nice to your wife! The restaurants are closed”: Can Gender Stereotype Detection Improve Sexism Classification?

EMNLP 2021finding

In this paper, we focus on the detection of sexist hate speech against women in tweets studying for the first time the impact of gender stereotype detection on sexism classification. We propose: (1) the first dataset annotated for gender stereotype detection, (2) a new method for data augmentation b…

Cited by 29SourcePDFScholar
2020

Multilingual Irony Detection with Dependency Syntax and Neural Models

COLING 2020main

This paper presents an in-depth investigation of the effectiveness of dependency-based syntactic features on the irony detection task in a multilingual perspective (English, Spanish, French and Italian). It focuses on the contribution from syntactic knowledge, exploiting linguistic resources where s…