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Saif M. Mohammad

15 accepted papers

2025

BRIGHTER: BRIdging the Gap in Human-Annotated Textual Emotion Recognition Datasets for 28 Languages

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, Meriem Beloucif +42
ACL 2025long

People worldwide use language in subtle and complex ways to express emotions. Although emotion recognition–an umbrella term for several NLP tasks–impacts various applications within NLP and beyond, most work in this area has focused on high-resource languages. This has led to significant disparities…

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2025

Building Better: Avoiding Pitfalls in Developing Language Resources when Data is Scarce

Nedjma Ousidhoum, Meriem Beloucif, Saif M. Mohammad
ACL 2025long

Language is a form of symbolic capital that affects people’s lives in many ways (Bourdieu1977,1991). As a powerful means of communication, it reflects identities, cultures, traditions, and societies more broadly. Therefore, data in a given language should be regarded as more than just a collection o…

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2025

Citation Amnesia: On The Recency Bias of NLP and Other Academic Fields

Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Lima Ruas, Mohamed Abdalla, Bela Gipp, Saif M. Mohammad
COLING 2025main

This study examines the tendency to cite older work across 20 fields of study over 43 years (1980–2023). We put NLP’s propensity to cite older work in the context of these 20 other fields to analyze whether NLP shows similar temporal citation patterns to them over time or whether differences can be…

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2025

The Language of Interoception: Examining Embodiment and Emotion Through a Corpus of Body Part Mentions

Sophie Wu, Jan Philip Wahle, Saif M. Mohammad
EMNLP 2025

This paper is the first investigation of the connection between emotion, embodiment, and everyday language in a large sample of natural language data. We created corpora of body part mentions (BPMs) in online English text (blog posts and tweets). This includes a subset featuring human annotations fo

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2025

The Nature of NLP: Analyzing Contributions in NLP Papers

Aniket Pramanick, Yufang Hou, Saif M. Mohammad, Iryna Gurevych
ACL 2025long

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an established and dynamic field. Despite this, what constitutes NLP research remains debated. In this work, we address the question by quantitatively examining NLP research papers. We propose a taxonomy of research contributions and introduce _NLPContributions_,…

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2024

Emotion Granularity from Text: An Aggregate-Level Indicator of Mental Health

Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, Daniela Teodorescu, Mallory J Feldman, Kristen Lindquist, Saif M. Mohammad
EMNLP 2024main

We are united in how emotions are central to shaping our experiences; yet, individuals differ greatly in how we each identify, categorize, and express emotions. In psychology, variation in the ability of individuals to differentiate between emotion concepts is called emotion granularity (determined…

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2023

A Diachronic Analysis of Paradigm Shifts in NLP Research: When, How, and Why?

Aniket Pramanick, Yufang Hou, Saif M. Mohammad, Iryna Gurevych
EMNLP 2023long main

Understanding the fundamental concepts and trends in a scientific field is crucial for keeping abreast of its continuous advancement. In this study, we propose a systematic framework for analyzing the evolution of research topics in a scientific field using causal discovery and inference techniques…

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2023

AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele, Nedjma OUSIDHOUM, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Seid Muhie Yimam +21
EMNLP 2023long main

Africa is home to over 2,000 languages from over six language families and has the highest linguistic diversity among all continents. This includes 75 languages with at least one million speakers each. Yet, there is little NLP research conducted on African languages. Crucial in enabling such researc…

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2023

Evaluating Emotion Arcs Across Languages: Bridging the Global Divide in Sentiment Analysis

Daniela Teodorescu, Saif M. Mohammad
EMNLP 2023long findings

Emotion arcs capture how an individual (or a population) feels over time. They are widely used in industry and research; however, there is little work on evaluating the automatically generated arcs. This is because of the difficulty of establishing the true (gold) emotion arc. Our work, for the firs…

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2023

Language and Mental Health: Measures of Emotion Dynamics from Text as Linguistic Biosocial Markers

Daniela Teodorescu, Tiffany Cheng, Alona Fyshe, Saif M. Mohammad
EMNLP 2023long main

Research in psychopathology has shown that, at an aggregate level, the patterns of emotional change over time---emotion dynamics---are indicators of one's mental health. One's patterns of emotion change have traditionally been determined through self-reports of emotions; however, there are known iss…

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2023

We are Who We Cite: Bridges of Influence Between Natural Language Processing and Other Academic Fields

Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, Mohamed Abdalla, Bela Gipp, Saif M. Mohammad
EMNLP 2023long main

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is poised to substantially influence the world. However, significant progress comes hand-in-hand with substantial risks. Addressing them requires broad engagement with various fields of study. Yet, little empirical work examines the state of such engagement (past or…

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2021

Ruddit: Norms of Offensiveness for English Reddit Comments

Rishav Hada, Sohi Sudhir, Pushkar Mishra, Helen Yannakoudakis, Saif M. Mohammad, Ekaterina Shutova
ACL 2021long

On social media platforms, hateful and offensive language negatively impact the mental well-being of users and the participation of people from diverse backgrounds. Automatic methods to detect offensive language have largely relied on datasets with categorical labels. However, comments can vary in t…

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