Publications

Alaa Aljabari, Nagham Hamad, Mohammed Khalilia, Mustafa Jarrar (2025). WojoodOntology: Ontology-Driven LLM Prompting for Unified Information Extraction Tasks. Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference.

Diyam Akra, Mohammed Khalilia, Mustafa Jarrar (2025). Active Learning for Multidialectal Arabic POS Tagging. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025.

Alaa Aljabari, Mohammed Khalilia, Mustafa Jarrar (2025). $mathrmWojood^Relations$: Arabic Relation Extraction Corpus and Modeling. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

Nagham Hamad, Mohammed Khalilia, Mustafa Jarrar (2025). Konooz: Multi-domain Multi-dialect Corpus for Named Entity Recognition. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025.

Mustafa Jarrar, Nagham Hamad, Mohammed Khalilia, Bashar Talafha, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed (2024). WojoodNER 2024: The Second Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task. Proceedings of the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference.

Sanad Malaysha, Mo El-Haj, Saad Ezzini, Mohammed Khalilia, Mustafa Jarrar, Sultan Almujaiwel, Ismail Berrada, Houda Bouamor (2024). AraFinNLP 2024: The First Arabic Financial NLP Shared Task. Proceedings of the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference.

Mohammed Khalilia, Sanad Malaysha, Reem Suwaileh, Mustafa Jarrar, Alaa Aljabari, Tamer Elsayed, Imed Zitouni (2024). ArabicNLU 2024: The First Arabic Natural Language Understanding Shared Task. Proceedings of the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference.

Tymaa Hammouda, Mustafa Jarrar, Mohammed A. Khalilia (2024). SinaTools: Open Source Toolkit for Arabic Natural Language Processing. Procedia Computer Science, 6th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics.

Sanad Malaysha, Mustafa Jarrar, Mohammed A. Khalilia (2024). NLU-STR at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Generative-based Augmentation and Encoder-based Scoring for Semantic Textual Relatedness. Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024).

Alaa Aljabari, Lina Duaibes, Mustafa Jarrar, Mohammed Khalilia (2024). Event-Arguments Extraction Corpus and Modeling using BERT for Arabic. Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference.

Mohammed Khalilia, Naveen Nair (2023). Multi-Channel Volume Level Equalization Based on User Preferences. United States Patent.

Mustafa Jarrar

Organizer, paper revision

, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Co-organizer, paper revision

, Mohammed Khalilia

Co-organizer, paper reviewer, paper revision

, Bashar Talafha, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Nagham Hamad, Alaa' Omar (2023). WojoodNER 2023: The First Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task. Proceedings of The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023, co-hosted with EMNLP 2023).

Mustafa Jarrar

Supervision, data annotation

, Sanad Malaysha

Model design, training

, Tymaa Hammouda

Model training

, Mohammed Khalilia

Supervision, paper revision

(2023). SALMA: Arabic Sense-Annotated Corpus and WSD Benchmarks. Proceedings of The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023, co-hosted with EMNLP 2023).

Mustafa Jarrar

Supervision, data annotation

, Ahmet Birim

Model design, training

, Mohammed Khalilia

Supervision (technical and data), paper review

, Mustafa Erden, Sana Ghanem (2023). ArBanking77: Intent Detection Neural Model and a New Dataset in Modern and Dialectical Arabic. Proceedings of The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023, co-hosted with EMNLP 2023).

Haneen Liqreina

Data annotation

, Mustafa Jarrar

Supervisor

, Mohammed Khalilia

Supervision, modeling assistance, paper review

, Ahmed El-Shangiti

Model training

, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed (2023). Arabic Fine-Grained Entity Recognition. Proceedings of The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023, co-hosted with EMNLP 2023).

Nagham Hamad

Data annotation, model design, training

, Mustafa Jarrar

Annotation, publication

, Mohammed Khalilia

Supervision, paper revision

, Nadim Nashif

Domain expert

(2023). Offensive Hebrew Corpus and Detection using BERT. The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications.

Sanad Malaysha

Data annotation

, Mustafa Jarrar

Model design, training, annotation, publication

, Mohammed Khalilia (2023). Context-Gloss Augmentation for Improving Arabic Target Sense Verification. The 12th International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2023), Global Wordnet Association. (pp. ). San Sebastian, Spain, 2023.

Thiruvarul Selvan Senthivel, Varun Sembium Varadarajan, Borui Zhang, Tiberiu Mircea Doman, Parminder Bhatia- Arun Kumar Ravi, Mohammed Khalilia, Emine Busra Celikkaya (2022). Service architecture for entity and relationship detection in unstructured text. United States Patent.

Mohammed Khalilia, Pragyana Mishra (2022). Facial Feature Location-based Audio Frame Replacement. United States Patent.

Gregory Johnson, Pragyana Mishra, Mohammed Khalilia, Wenbin Ouyang, Naveen Nair (2022). Video Frame Replacement Based on Auxiliary Data. United States Patent.

Mustafa Jarrar

Data annotation

, Mohammed Khalilia

Model design, training, annotation, publication

, Sana Ghanem (2022). Wojood: Nested Arabic Named Entity Corpus and Recognition using BERT. Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC).

Parminder Bhatia, Busra Celikkaya, Mohammed Khalilia (2019). Joint Entity Extraction and Assertion Detection for Clinical Text. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Parminder Bhatia, Busra Celikkaya, Mohammed Khalilia, Selvan Senthivel (2019). Comprehend Medical: A Named Entity Recognition and Relationship Extraction Web Service. 18th IEEE International Conference On Machine Learning And Applications (ICMLA).

Mengqi Jin, Mohammad Taha Bahadori, Aaron Colak, Parminder Bhatia, Busra Celikkaya, Ram Bhakta, Selvan Senthivel, Mohammed Khalilia, Daniel Navarro, Borui Zhang, Tiberiu Doman, Arun Ravi, Matthieu Liger, Taha Kass-hout (2018). Improving Hospital Mortality Prediction with Medical Named Entities and Multimodal Learning. Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) Workshop at NeurIPS.

David A Gutman, Mohammed Khalilia, Sanghoon Lee, Michael Nalisnik, Zach Mullen, Jonathan Beezley, Deepak R Chittajallu, David Manthey, Lee A D Cooper (2017). The Digital Slide Archive: A Software Platform for Management, Integration, and Analysis of Histology for Cancer Research. Cancer Research.

Lincoln Sheets, Lori Popejoy, Mohammed Khalilia, Greg Petroski, Jerry C. Parker (2016). Identifying Patients at Risk of High Healthcare Utilization. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings.

Lori L. Popejoy, Frank Stetzer, Lanis Hicks, Marilyn J. Rantz, Colleen Galambos, Mihail Popescu, Mohammed A. Khalilia, Karen D. Marek (2015). Comparing Aging in Place to Home Health Care: Impact of Nurse Care Coordination On Utilization and Costs. Nursing Economics.

Robert Chen, Hang Su, Mohammed Khalilia, Sizhe Lin, Yue Peng, Tod Davis, Daniel A Hirsh, Elizabeth Searles, Javier Tejedor-Sojo, Michael Thompson, Jimeng Sun (2015). Cloud-based Predictive Modeling System and its Application to Asthma Readmission Prediction. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings.

Mohammed Khalilia, Myung Choi, Amelia Henderson, Sneha Iyengar, Mark Braunstein, Jimeng Sun (2015). Clinical predictive modeling development and deployment through FHIR web services. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings.

Mohammed Khalilia, Mihail Popescu (2014). Topology Preservation in Fuzzy Self-Organizing Maps. Advance Trends in Soft Computing.

Mohammed Khalilia, Mihail Popescu (2014). Relational Fuzzy Self-Organizing Maps for Cluster Visualization and Summarization. International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems.

Lori L Popejoy, Mohammed A Khalilia, Mihail Popescu, Colleen Galambos, Vanessa Lyons, Marilyn Rantz, Lanis Hicks, Frank Stetzer (2014). Quantifying care coordination using natural language processing and domain-specific ontology. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Mohammed Khalilia, James Bezdek, Mihail Popescu, James Keller (2014). Improvements to the relational fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm. Pattern Recognition.

Mohammed Khalilia, Mihail Popescu (2012). Fuzzy relational self-organizing maps. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems.

Mihail Popescu, Mohammed Khalilia (2011). Improving disease prediction using ICD-9 ontological features. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems.