Publications

Developing and Validating the Spanish Version of the Large Language Models Dependency Scale (LLM-D12-SP)

Tran Gia Bao, El-Haj, M. , Sameha Al-Shakhsi, Antonio Garcia-Cabot, Raian Ali and Ala Yankouskaya. . Discover Psychology Journal, July 2026.

Transformer-Assisted LLM-Based Source Code Summarisation: to Enable More Secure Software Development

Jesse Phillips, Tracy Hall, Paul Rayson and El-Haj, M. . . 2nd NLPAICS Conference 2026.

Tarab: A Multi-Dialect Corpus of Arabic Lyrics and Poetry

El-Haj, M. . . 2nd AbjadNLP at EACL 2026.

FreeTxt-Vi: A Benchmarked Vietnamese-English Toolkit for Segmentation, Sentiment, and Summarisation

Nguyen Huy, H., El-Haj, M. , Knight, D., and Rayson, P. . LREC 2026.

VietJobs: A Vietnamese Job Advertisement Dataset

Pham Dinh, H., Nguyen Huy, H., and El-Haj, M. . . LREC 2026.

Structured Prompting for Arabic Essay Proficiency: A Trait-Centric Evaluation Approach

Al Mandhari, S., Pham Dinh, H., El-Haj, M. , and Rayson, P. . LREC 2026.

AbjadMed: Arabic Medical Text Classification at AbjadNLP 2026

Gupta, P., Kumar M, N., Nagarajan, B., Zitouni, I., and El-Haj, M. . 2nd AbjadNLP at EACL 2026. Rabat, Morocco 23-28 March 2026.

AbjadGenEval: Abjad AI Generated Text Detection Shared Task for Languages Using Arabic Script at AbjadNLP 2026

Ezzini, S., Ahmad, I., Chafik, S., Abudalfa, S., El-Haj, M. , Abdelali, A., Jarrar, M., Durrani, N., Sajjad, H., and Adeeba, F. . 2nd AbjadNLP at EACL 2026. Rabat, Morocco 23-28 March 2026.

AbjadAuthorID: Authorship Identification for Arabic-Script Languages at AbjadNLP 2026

Abudalfa, S., Ezzini, S., Abdelali, A., Jarrar, M., El-Haj, M. , Durrani, N., Sajjad, H., Adeeba, F., and Ahmadi, S. . 2nd AbjadNLP at EACL 2026. Rabat, Morocco 23-28 March 2026.

AbjadStyleTransfer: Authorship Style Transfer for Arabic-Script Languages at AbjadNLP 2026

Abudalfa, S., Ezzini, S., Abdelali, A., Jarrar, M., El-Haj, M. , Durrani, N., Sajjad, H., and Adeeba, F. . 2nd AbjadNLP at EACL 2026. Rabat, Morocco 23-28 March 2026.

El-Haj, M. " Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script. Rabat, Morocco 23-28 March 2026.

AraFinNews: Arabic Financial Summarisation with Domain-Adapted LLMs

El-Haj, M. , and Rayson, P...IEEE Big Data 2025, Macau, China, 8–11 December 2025.

ArabJobs: A Multinational Corpus of Arabic Job Ads

El-Haj, M. .. 2nd ArabicNLP, EMNLP, Suzhou, China, 4–9 November 2025.

FreeTxt: Analyse and Visualise Multilingual Qualitative Survey Data for Cultural Heritage Sites

Khallaf, N.; Ezeani, I.; Knight, D.; Rayson, P.; El-Haj, M. ; Vidler, J.; Davies, J.; Alva-Manchego, F. . In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI Era, September 2025, Varna, Bulgaria, pp. 541–545.

Survey on Legal Information Extraction: Current Status and Open Challenges

Premasiri, Damith; Ranasinghe, Tharindu; Mitkov, Ruslan; El-Haj, M. . . Knowledge and Information Systems Journal, September 2025.

Complex Concept-Based Readability Estimation from Arabic Curriculum

Almujaiwe, Sultan; El-Haj, M. ; Premasiri, Damith; Ranasinghe, Tharindu; Mitkov, Ruslan. . Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP) Journal, ACM, September 2025.

FreeTxt: A corpus-based bilingual free-text survey and questionnaire data analysis toolkit

Knight, Dawn; Khallaf, Nouran; Rayson, Paul; El-Haj, M. ; Ezeani, Ignatius; Morris, Steve. . Applied Corpus Linguistics Journal, Volume 4, Issue 3, January 2025.

DR-LIB: CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Digital Resources for the Languages in Ireland and Britain

Wynne, Martin; Alex, Beatrice; Bushnell, Megan; El-Haj, M. ; Knight, Dawn; Lamb, Will; Ó Meachair, Mícheál J.; Rayson, Paul. . Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL2025), July 2025.

LENS: Learning Entities from Narratives of Skin Cancer

Lal, Daisy Monika; Rayson, Paul; Peter, Christopher; Ezeani, Ignatius; El-Haj, M. ; Zhu, Yafei; Liu, Yufeng. . Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pp. 20–27, 2025.

Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources

Jarrar, Mustafa; Habash, Habash; El-Haj, M. . 2025.

The Nakba Lexicon: Building a Comprehensive Dataset from Palestinian Literature

AbuHaija, Izza; Al Mandhari, Salim; El-Haj, M. ; Sibony, Jonas; Rayson, Paul. . Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources, pp. 37–47, 2025.

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4)

Ezzini, Saad; Alami, Hamza; Berrada, Ismail; Benlahbib, Abdessamad; El Mahdaouy, Abdelkader; Lamsiyah, Salima; Derrouz, Hatim; Haddad, Amal; Jarrar, Mustafa; El-Haj, M. . 2025.

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script

El-Haj, M. . 2025.

Hindi Reading Comprehension: Do Large Language Models Exhibit Semantic Understanding?

Lal, Daisy Monika; Rayson, Paul; El-Haj, M. . Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages, pp. 10–Jan, 2025.

AbjadNLP 2025 at the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics

El-Haj, M. ; Haddad, Amal; Amol, Cynthia; Ahmadi, Sina; Paterson III, Hugh; Ezeani, Ignatius; Ezzini, Saad; Rayson, Paul. . Proceedings of the Workshop, 2025.

Welsh Automatic Text Summarisation

Morris, J., Ezeani, I., Gruffydd, I., Young, K., Davies, L., El-Haj, M. and Knight, D. . Language and Technology in Wales: Volume II. Bangor University. ISBN 978-1 84220-207-4. Bangor, Wales, UK. .

Metric-Oriented Pretraining of Neural Source Code Summarisation Transformers to Enable more Secure Software Development

Phillips, J., El-Haj, M. and Hall, T. . The 1st International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS), Lancaster, UK. 2024.

AraFinNLP 2024: The first Arabic financial NLP shared task.

Malaysha, S., El-Haj, M. , Ezzini, S., Khalilia, M., Jarrar, M., Almujaiwel, S., Berrada, I., and Bouamor, H. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.09818 (2024).

Is it Offensive or Abusive? An Empirical Study of Hateful Language Detection of Arabic Social Media Texts

Salim Al Mandhari, El-Haj, and Paul Rayson. . The 1st International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS), Lancaster, UK. 2024.

Deciphering Cyber Threats: A Unifying Framework with GPT-3.5, BERTopic and Feature Importance

Chun Man Tsang, Tom Bell, Antonios Gouglidis, El-Haj, M. . The 1st International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS), Lancaster, UK. 2024.

The Multilingual Corpus of World’s Constitutions (MCWC)

El-Haj, M. and Saad Ezzini. . The 6th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools. 25 May 2024, Turin, Italy Co-Located with the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation LREC-COLING 2024.

DARES: Dataset for Arabic Readability Estimation of School Materials

El-Haj, M. , Sultan Almujaiwel, Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Ruslan Mitkov. . DeTermIt! Workshop Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context 21 May 2024, Turin, Italy Co-Located with the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation LREC-COLING 2024.

The Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task (FNS 2023),

Elias Zavitsanos, Aris Kosmopoulos, George Giannakopoulos, Marina Litvak, Blanca Carbajo-Coronado, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, and El-Haj, M. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Sorrento, Italy, 2023, pp. 2890-2896.

The Financial Document Causality Detection Shared Task (FinCausal 2023),

A. Moreno-Sandoval, J. Porta-Zamorano, B. Carbajo-Coronado, D. Samy, D. Mariko and El-Haj, M. , 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Sorrento, Italy, 2023, pp. 2855-2860.

FreeTxt: a corpus-based approach to bilingual free-text survey and questionnaire data analysis

Dawn Knight, Paul Rayson, El-Haj, M. , Nouran Khallaf, Ignatius Ezeani and Steve Morris,. . The 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference 2024. Cambridge, UK

DR-LIB: a Knowledge Centre to support the use of Digital Resources for the Languages of Ireland and Britain

Martin Wynne, El-Haj, M. Dawn Knight, Paul Rayson, and Mícheál J. Ó Meachair. . UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Annual Event 2024. Cork, Ireland

Exploring Abstractive Text Summarisation for Podcasts: A Comparative Study of BART and T5 Models

Parth Saxena and El-Haj, M. . . Recent advances in natural language processing RANLP 2023. Varna, Bulgaria

#Menopause: examining the frequency and sentiment of communications about menopause on Twitter.

Myra S. Hunter, El-Haj, M. , Eleanor Thorne, Amanda Griffith and Claire Hardy. Maturitas Journal (Short Communication / Gynecology / Endocrinology), 2023-2024. [Accepted for publication]

A Comparative Study of Evaluation Metrics for Long-Document Financial Narrative Summarization with Transformers

Nadhem Zmandar, El-Haj, M. and Paul Rayson. . The 28th International Conference on Natural Language and Information Systems (NLDB 2023), Derby, United Kingdom.

Unifying Emotion Analysis Datasets using Valence Arousal Dominance (VAD)

Ryutaro Takanami and El-Haj, M. . . The 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023), Vienna, Austria.

FinAraT5: A text to text model for financial Arabic text understanding and generation

Nadhem Zmandar, El-Haj, M. and Paul Rayson. . The 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge Conference (LDK 2023), Vienna, Austria.

Open-Source Thesaurus Development for Under-Resourced Languages: a Welsh Case Study

Nouran Khallaf, Elin Arfon, El-Haj, M. , Jonathan Morris, Dawn Knight, Paul Rayson, Tymaa Hasanain, and Mustafa Jarrar. . The 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge Conference (LDK 2023), Vienna, Austria.

Creating an Open-Access Thesaurus of the Welsh Language Using Natural Language Processing

El-Haj, M. Nouran Khallaf, Elin Arfon, Jonathan Morris and Dawn Knight. . International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL 2023), Lancaster, UK.

Analysing and visualising free-text comments: a corpus-based toolkit

Dawn Knight, Paul Rayson, Nouran Khallaf, Steve Morris, El-Haj, M. and Ignatius Ezeani. . International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL 2023), Lancaster, UK.

IgboNER: Expanding Named Entity Recognition Datasets via Projection

Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Ignatius Ezeani, Paul Rayson and El-Haj, M. . . AfricaNLP 2023 Workshop at The Eleventh International Conference On Learning Representations (ICLR 2023), Kigali, Rwanda, Africa.

A Data-driven Latent Semantic Analysis for Automatic Text Summarization using LDA Topic Modelling

Daniel F. O. Onah, Elaine Ling Ling Pang and El-Haj, M. . . IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data 2022) December 2022. Osaka, Japan

Improved Evaluation of Automatic Source Code Summarisation

Jesse Phillips, David Bowes El-Haj, M. and Tracy Hall. . GEM 2022 @ Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022), Abu Dhabi, UAE

CoFiF Plus: A French Financial Narrative Summarisation Corpus

Nadhem Zmandar, Tobias Daudert, Sina Ahmadi, El-Haj, M. and Paul Rayson. . 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022. Marseille, France

Introducing the Welsh Text Summarisation Dataset and Baseline Systems

Ignatius Ezeani, El-Haj, M. Jonathan Morris and Dawn Knight. . 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022. Marseille, France

IgboBERT Models: Building and Training Transformer Models for the Igbo Language

Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Ignatius Ezeani, Paul Rayson and El-Haj, M. . . 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022. Marseille, France

AraSAS: The Open Source Arabic Semantic Tagger

El-Haj, M. Elvis de Souza, Nouran Khallaf, Paul Rayson and Nizar Habash. . OSACT 2022 at the 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022. Marseille, France

Creation of an Evaluation Corpus and Baseline Evaluation Scores for Welsh Text Summarisation

El-Haj, M. , Ignatius Ezeani, Jonathan Morris and Dawn Knight. . CLTW 2022 at the 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022. Marseille, France

Financial Narrative Summarisation Using a Hybrid TF-IDF and Clustering Summariser: AO-Lancs System at FNS 2022

Andrew Ogden and El-Haj, M. . The 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2022) at the 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022.". Marseille, France [hybrid] on 24 June 2022.

The Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task (FNS 2022)

El-Haj, M. , Nadhem Zmandar, Paul Rayson, Ahmed Abura’Ed, Marina Litvak, George Giannakopoulos, Nikiforos Pittaras, Aris Kosmopoulos, Blanca Carbajo-Coronado and Antonio Moreno-Sandoval. The 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2022) at the 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022.". Marseille, France [hybrid] on 24 June 2022.

Financial Document Causality Detection Shared Task (FinCausal 2022)

Dominique Mariko, Kim Trottier and El-Haj, M. . The 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2022) at the 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022.". Marseille, France [hybrid] on 24 June 2022.

The Financial Document Structure Extraction Shared Task (FinTOC 2022)

Abderrahim Ait Azzi, Sandra Bellato, Blanca Carbajo Coronado, El-Haj, M. , Ismail El Maarouf, Mei Gan, Ana Gisbert, Juyeon Kang and Antonio Moreno Sandoval. The 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2022) at the 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022.". Marseille, France [hybrid] on 24 June 2022.

The 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2022) at the 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022.

El-Haj, M. , Paul Rayson, Nadhem Zmandar. . Marseille, France [hybrid] on 24 June 2022.

MULDASA: Multifactor Lexical Sentiment Analysis of Social-Media Content in Nonstandard Arabic Social Media

Ghadah Alwakid, Taha Osman, El-Haj, M. , Saad Alanazi, Mamoona Humayun and Najm Us Sama. . Academic Editors: Luis Javier García Villalba, Andrea Prati and Vincent A. Cicirello, 9 April 2022. Applied Sciences Journal, Vlume 12, Issue no. 8: 3806. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12083806

Review of the State of the Art in Financial Narrative Processing

El-Haj, M. , Paul Rayson, Ismail El Maarouf, Najah-Imane Bentabet, Dominique Mariko, Estelle Labidurie, Marina Litvak, George Giannakopoulos, Ahmed AbuRa'ed, Nadhem Zmandar. . Financial narrative processing in Spanish / coord. by Antonio Moreno Sandoval, 2021/2022, ISBN 978-84-18802-42-3, pp. 51-98

Machine Learning Models for Classifying Spanish Beaters and Non-Beaters Financial Reports

El-Haj, M. , Antonio Moreno Sandoval, Jose Antonio Jimenez Millan. . Financial narrative processing in Spanish / coord. by Antonio Moreno Sandoval, 2021/2022, ISBN 978-84-18802-42-3, pp. 179-198

Morris, Jonathan, Ignatius Ezeani, Ianto Gruffydd, Katharine Young, Lynne Davies, Mahmoud El-Haj a Dawn Knight. 2022. Creu crynodebau awtomatig o destunau Cymraeg (Welsh automatic text summarisation). Symposiwm Academaidd Technolegau Iaith Cymru 2022. Prifysgol Bangor, 28 Ionawr 2022. [Wales Academic Symposium on Language Technologies 2022, Bangor University, 28 January 2022.]

Morris, Jonathan, Ignatius Ezeani, Ianto Gruffydd, Katharine Young, Lynne Davies, Mahmoud El-Haj a Dawn Knight. Forth. Creu crynodebau awtomatig o destunau Cymraeg (Welsh automatic text summarisation). Yn dod. Iaith a Thechnoleg yng Nghymru: Cyfrol II, gol. D. Prys. Bangor: Canolfan Bedwyr. [Language and Technology in Wales: Volume II, ed. D. Prys. Bangor: Canolfan Bedwyr.]

Multilingual Financial Word Embeddings for Arabic, English and French

Nadhem Zmandar, El-Haj, M. and Paul Rayson. at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) on 15-18 December 2021.

The Influence of Social Factors on Mental Health and Wellbeing during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Alex Sartain and El-Haj, M. . at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) on 15-18 December 2021.

The 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2021)

El-Haj, M. , Paul Rayson, Nadhem Zmandar. . Lancaster, UK [hybrid] on 15-16 September 2021.

Joint abstractive and extractive method for long financial document summarization

Nadhem Zmandar, Abhishek Singh, El-Haj, M. , Paul Rayson. at The 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2021). Lancaster, UK [hybrid] on 15-16 September 2021.

Financial Document Causality Detection Shared Task (FinCausal 2021)

Dominique Mariko, Hanna Abi Akl, Estelle Labidurie, Stephane Durfort, Hugues de Mazancourt, El-Haj, M. . at The 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2021). Lancaster, UK [hybrid] on 15-16 September 2021.

The Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task (FNS 2021)

Nadhem Zmandar, El-Haj, M. , Paul Rayson, Ahmed Abura’Ed, Marina Litvak, George Giannakopoulos, Nikiforos Pittaras. at The 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2021). Lancaster, UK [hybrid] on 15-16 September 2021.

The Financial Document Structure Extraction Shared Task (FinTOC2021)

Ismail El Maarouf, Juyeon Kang, Abderrahim Ait Azzi, Sandra Bellato, Mei Gan, El-Haj, M. . at The 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2021). Lancaster, UK [hybrid] on 15-16 September 2021.

Problematising Characteristicness: A Biomedical Association Case Study

Sheryl Prentice; Jo Knight; Paul Rayson; El-Haj, M. and Nathan Rutherford. . In the IJCL Journal (International Journal of Corpus Linguistics)

Financial Document Causality Detection Shared Task (FinCausal 2020)

El-Haj, M. , D Mariko, HA Akl, E Labidurie, S Durfort, H De Mazancourt. at The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING’2020), Barcelona, Spain [online] on 12 December 2020.

The Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task (FNS 2020)

El-Haj, M. ,Marina Litvak, Nikiforos Pittaras, George Giannakopoulos. at The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING’2020), Barcelona, Spain [online] on 12 December 2020.

The Financial Document Structure Extraction Shared task (FinToc 2020)

El-Haj, M. ,Najah-Imane Bentabet, Rémi Juge, Ismail El Maarouf, Virginie Mouilleron, Dialekti Valsamou-Stanislawsk. at The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING’2020), Barcelona, Spain [online] on 12 December 2020.

Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation

El-Haj, M. , Vasiliki Athanasakou, Sira Ferradans, Catherine Salzedo, Ans Elhag, Houda Bouamor, Marina Litvak, Paul Rayson, George Giannakopoulos, Nikiforos Pittaras. at The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING’2020), Barcelona, Spain [online] on 12 December 2020.

Proceedings of the Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop

Imed Zitouni, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Houda Bouamor, Fethi Bougares, El-Haj, M. , Nadi Tomeh, Wajdi Zaghouani. at The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING’2020), Barcelona, Spain [online] on 12 December 2020.

Habibi - a multi Dialect multi National Arabic Song Lyrics Corpus

El-Haj, M. . . 12th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'20). May 2020. Marseille, France

Infrastructure for Semantic Annotation in the Genomics Domain

El-Haj, M. , Nathan Rutherford, Matthew Coole, Ignatius Ezeani, Sheryl Prentice, Nancy Ide, Jo Knight, Scott Piao, John Mariani, Paul Rayson and Keith Suderman . 12th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'20). May 2020. Marseille, France

Financial Narrative Summarisation

El-Haj, M. , . . Proceedings of the Workshop MultiLing 2019/2020: Summarization Across Languages, Genres and Sources. RANLP Conference 2019/2020, Varna, Bulgaria.

Retrieving, classifying and analysing narrative commentary in unstructured (glossy) annual reports published as PDF files

El-Haj, M. , Paulo Alves, Paul Rayson, Martin Walker, and Steven Young. . . Accounting and Business Research (ABR) 2020.

In Search of Meaning: Lessons, Resources and Next Steps for Computational Analysis of Financial Discourse

El-Haj, M. , and Rayson, Paul and Walker, Martin and Young, Steven and Simaki, Vasiliki. . Published in the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (JBFA) 2019.

Multilingual Financial Narrative Processing: AnalysingAnnual Reports in English, Spanish and Portuguese

El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P., Alves, P., Herrero-Zorita, C., and Young, S.. . Book chapter at the to the World Scientific Publishers (WSPC) 2019.

Book of Proceedings of the 1st Financial Narrative Processing (FNP 2018) Workshop at LREC 2018. May 2018. Miyazaki, Japan

El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P. and Moore, A.. . 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'18). May 2018. Miyazaki, Japan

Arabic Dialect Identification in the Context of Bivalency and Code-Switching

El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P. and Aboelezz, M.. . 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'18). May 2018. Miyazaki, Japan

Profiling Medical Journal Articles Using a Gene Ontology Semantic Tagger

El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P., Piao, S., and Knight, Jo.. . The 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'18). May 2018. Miyazaki, Japan

Towards a Multilingual Financial Narrative Processing System

El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P., Alves, P., and Young, S.. . 1st Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP2018) at the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'18). May 2018. Miyazaki, Japan

Readability of Arabic vs English Patient Educational Materials

Malik, A., El-Haj, M. , and Paasche-Orlow, M.. . SGIM Annual Meeting. Denver, USA 2018 and New England Science Symposium. Boston, USA 2018

A Comparison Between Genetics Papers Relating To Immune Disorders And Psychiatric Disorders

El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P., Piao, S. and Knight, J.. . International Genetic Epidemiology Society. IGES 26th Annual Meeting, September 9 - 11, 2017 Queens' College, Cambridge, UK. 2017

Creating and validating multilingual semantic representations for six languages: expert versus non-expert crowds

El-Haj, M. , , Rayson, P., Piao, S. and Wattam, S.. . Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 61-71 11 p. Valencia, Spain 2017

BOOK: Corpus Linguistics: Analytical Applications on Arabic Language. In Arabic: لغويات المدونة الحاسوبية - تطبيقات تحليلة على العربية الطبيعية.

El-Haj, M. et al. . King Saud University Press, 2017 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 2017

OSMAN - A Novel Arabic Readability Metric

El-Haj, M. , and Rayson, P.. . 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'16). May 2016. Portoroz, Slovenia.

Learning Tone and Attribution for Financial Text Mining

El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P., Young, S., Moore A.,Walker M., Schleicher T. and Athanasakou V.. . 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'16). May 2016. Portoroz, Slovenia.

Lexical Coverage Evaluation of Large-scale Multilingual Semantic Lexicons for Twelve Languages

Piao S., Rayson P., Archer D., Bianchi F., Dayrell C., El-Haj, M. , Kren M., Lofberg L., Mudraya O., Nawab R., Shaffi J. and Lee Teh P. . 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'16). May 2016. Portoroz, Slovenia.

Does Equity Analyst Research Lack Rigor and Objectivity? Evidence from Conference Call Questions and Research Notes

Salzedo, C., Young, S. El-Haj, M. , . The Accounting and Business Research Journal

Creating Language Resources for Under-resourced Languages - Methodologies, and experiments with Arabic

El-Haj, M. , U. Kruschwitz, and C. Fox. . Language Resources and Evaluation journal

Language Independent Evaluation of Translation Consistency and Style: comparing Human and Machine Translation of Camus' Novel

El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P., and Hall, D. . . In 17th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue. Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12 2014

Detecting Document Structure in a Very Large Corpus of UK Financial Reports

El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P., Young, S., and Walker, M. . . In The 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 26-31 May 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland

Computer-based Analysis of the Strategic Content of UK Annual Report Narratives

Athanasakou, V., El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P., Young, S., and Walker, M. . . In American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, August 2-6, 2014, Atlanta, USA.

An Experiment in Automatic Indexing Using the HASSET Thesaurus

El-Haj, M. , Balkan, L., Barbalet, S., Bell, L., and Shepherdson, J . . In the 5th Computer science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC'13), IEEE Xplore, 17th-18th Sept 2013, University of Essex, Colchester, UK

Using a Keyness Metric for Single and Multi Document Summarisation

El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P. . MultiLing 2013 Workshop, held within the ACL 2013 Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Multi-document multilingual summarization corpus preparation, Part 1: Arabic, English, Greek, Chinese, Romanian

Li, L., Forascu, C., El-Haj, M. , Giannakopoulos, G. . MultiLing 2013 Workshop, held within the ACL 2013 Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria.

KALIMAT a Multipurpose Arabic Corpus

El-Haj, M. , Koulali, R. at the Second Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-2) 2013

Koulali, R., El-Haj, M. ,Meziane, A. Arabic Topic Detection using Automatic Text Summarization. The 10th ACS/IEEE ICCSA 2013.

UKDA Keyword Indexing with a SKOS Version of HASSET Thesaurus

El-Haj, M. , In IASSIST 2013 [Poster]. Cologne, Germany.

Multi-Document Arabic Text Summarisation

El-Haj, M. , . Albert Sloman Library, Essex University. Thesis (Ph.D.), School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering -- University of Essex, 2012.

A. Aker, El-Haj, M. , D. Albakour and U. Kruschwitz. Assessing Crowdsourcing Quality through Objective Tasks. In the 8th Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), Istanbul, Turkey 2012.

Exploring Clustering for Multi-document Arabic Summarisation.

El-Haj, M. , , U. Kruschwitz, and C. Fox. In 7th Asian Information Retrieval Societies (AIRS 2011)., Dubai, UAE, 2011. AIRS 2011.

El-Haj, M. , U. Kruschwitz, and C. Fox. University of Essex at the TAC 2011 MultiLingual Summarisation Pilot. In Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2011, MultiLing Summarisation Pilot, Maryland, USA, 2011. TAC 2011.

G. Giannakopoulos, El-Haj, M. , B. Favre, M. Litvak, J. Steinberger, and V. Varma. ”TAC 2011 MultiLing Pilot Overview. In Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2011, MultiLing Summarisation Pilot, Maryland, USA, 2011. TAC 2011.

Multi-Document Arabic Text Summarisation

El-Haj, M. , , Kruschwitz, U. and Fox, C. . In the 3rd Computer science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC'11). IEEE Xplore, 13th-14th July 2011, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.

Experimenting with Automatic Text Summarisation for Arabic

El-Haj, M. , , Kruschwitz, U. and Fox, C. . In Human Language Technology: LTC 2009, Revised Selected Papers, volume 6562 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 490-499. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2011.

Using Mechanical Turk to Create a Corpus of Arabic Summaries

El-Haj, M. , , Kruschwitz, U., and Fox, C. in the Language Resources (LRs) and Human Language Technologies (HLT) for Semitic Languages workshop held in conjunction with the 7th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010), pages 36-39, Valletta, Malta.

Eric Atwell, K. Dukes, A. Sharaf, N. Habash, B. Louw, B. Abu Shawar, T. McEnery, W. Zaghouani, El-Haj, M. . Understanding the Quran: A New Grand Challenge for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence . In Grand Challenges in Computing Research for 2010 and beyond. part of ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science conference. 13-16 April 2010, Edinburgh University

El-Haj, M. , , Kruschwitz, U., and Fox, C. Experimenting with Automatic Text Summarization for Arabic . In Proceeding of the 4th Language and Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC’09, pages 365–369, Poznan, Poland, 2009. LTC.

El-Haj, M. , and Hammo, B.. Evaluation of Query-based Arabic Text Summarization System . In Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, NLP-KE’08, pages 1–7, Beijing, China, 2008. IEEE Computer Society.

Hammo,B., Sleit, A., El-Haj, M. . Enhancing Retrieval Effectiveness of Diacritisiz ed Arabic Passages Using Stemmer And Thesaurus . In Proceeding of the 19th Midwest Artificial Intelligence And Cognitive Science Conference Maics2008, pages 1 89–196, Ohio, USA, 2008. MAICS .

Hammo,B., Sleit, A., El-Haj, M. . Effectiveness of Query Expansion in searching the Holy Quran. In Proceeding of the Second International Conference on Arabic Language Processing CITALA'07, pages 1-10, Rabat, Morocco 2007. CITALA.