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  1. Can Thinking Models Think to Detect Hateful Memes?

    Article • May 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  2. In what style shall I confront them? The role of social relationships in social correction of misinformation among the UK and Arab Social media users

    Article • International Journal of Intercultural Relations, March 2026, Elsevier

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  3. User Correction of Misinformation on Social Media: Exploring Communication Styles and the Influence of Empathy, Altruism, Self-esteem, and Competency

    Article • September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  4. Combating Misinformation in the Arab World: Challenges and Opportunities

    Article • Communications of the ACM, September 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  5. The Landscape of Arabic Large Language Models (ALLMs): A New Era for Arabic Language Technology

    Article • Communications of the ACM, September 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Firoj Alam, Shahad Al-Khalifa

  6. Overview of the CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab: Subjectivity, Fact-Checking, Claim Normalization, and Retrieval

    Article • September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  7. Native vs Non-native Language Prompting: A Comparative Analysis

    Article • November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  8. Propaganda to Hate: A Multimodal Analysis of Arabic Memes with Multi-agent LLMs

    Article • November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  9. Overview of the CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab: Check-Worthiness, Subjectivity, Persuasion, Roles, Authorities, and Adversarial Robustness

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  10. Robust Training of Social Media Image Classification Models

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, January 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  11. The CLEF-2023 CheckThat! Lab: Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Political Bias, Factuality, and Authority

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  12. Overview of the CLEF–2023 CheckThat! Lab on Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Political Bias, Factuality, and Authority of News Articles and Their Source

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  13. MEDIC: a multi-task learning dataset for disaster image classification

    Article • Neural Computing and Applications, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  14. Global User-Level Perception of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications: Data-Driven Approach Using Natural Language Processing

    Article • JMIR Formative Research, May 2022, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  15. Accepted Tutorials at The Web Conference 2022

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Preslav Nakov, Dr. Firoj Alam, Johannes Frey, Emanuele Della Valle, Hiba Arnaout, Shrestha Ghosh, Nurendra Choudhary , Karthik Subbian, Prof. Chandan K Reddy, Yejing Wang, Yang Zhang, Filip Ilievski

  16. Fact-Checking, Fake News, Propaganda, Media Bias, and the COVID-19 Infodemic

    Article • February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Preslav Nakov, Dr. Firoj Alam

  17. Global User-Level Perception of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications: Data-Driven Approach Using Natural Language Processing (Preprint)

    Article • January 2022, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  18. Adversarial NLP for Social Network Applications: Attacks, Defenses, and Research Directions

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  19. Deep Learning Benchmarks and Datasets for Social Media Image Classification for Disaster Response

    Article • December 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Muhammad Imran, Dr. Firoj Alam

  20. Using Artificial Intelligence and Social Media for Disaster Response and Management: An Overview

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  21. Descriptive and visual summaries of disaster events using artificial intelligence techniques: case studies of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria

    Article • Behaviour and Information Technology, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Ferda Ofli, Dr. Firoj Alam, Muhammad Imran

  22. Annotating and modeling empathy in spoken conversations

    Article • Computer Speech & Language, July 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  23. Processing social media images by combining human and machine intelligence during crises

    Article • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Ferda Ofli, Dr. Firoj Alam, Muhammad Imran

  24. Image4Act

    Article • July 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Firoj Alam, Dr Ferda Ofli

  25. Bidirectional LSTMs — CRFs networks for bangla POS tagging

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  26. Can we detect speakers' empathy?: A real-life case study

    Article • October 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  27. In the mood for sharing contents: Emotions, personality and interaction styles in the diffusion of news

    Article • Information Processing & Management, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  28. Comparing Named Entity Recognition on Transcriptions and Written Texts

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  29. Emotion Unfolding and Affective Scenes

    Article • January 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  30. Fusion of acoustic, linguistic and psycholinguistic features for Speaker Personality Traits recognition

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  31. Predicting Personality Traits using Multimodal Information

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Firoj Alam

  32. A Combination of Classifiers for Named Entity Recognition on Transcription

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Firoj Alam