Publications

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1. "Finetuned Multimodal Language Models Are High-Quality Image-Text Data Filters"
   Weizhi Wang, Khalil Mrini, Linjie Yang, Sateesh Kumar, Yu Tian, Xifeng Yan, Heng Wang
   arXiv pre-print
   PDF | arXiv | Website | GitHub | HuggingFace
2. "Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023"
   Hassan Sawaf, Samhaa El-Beltagy, Wajdi Zaghouani, Walid Magdy, Ahmed Abdelali, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Nizar Habash, Salam Khalifa, Amr Keleg, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Khalil Mrini, Rawan Almatham
   First ArabicNLP Conference, co-located with EMNLP 2023
   Singapore
   PDF | ACL Anthology | BibTeX
3. "InfiMM-Eval: Complex Open-Ended Reasoning Evaluation For Multi-Modal Large Language Models"
   Xiaotian Han, Quanzeng You, Yongfei Liu, Wentao Chen, Huangjie Zheng, Khalil Mrini, Xudong Lin, Yiqi Wang, Bohan Zhai, Jianbo Yuan, Heng Wang, Hongxia Yang
   arXiv pre-print
   PDF | arXiv | Website | GitHub | HuggingFace
4. "Ahmed and Khalil at NADI 2022: Transfer Learning and Addressing Class Imbalance for Arabic Dialect Identification and Sentiment Analysis"
   Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti, Khalil Mrini
   EMNLP 2022 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP)
   Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and Online
   PDF | Meta AI
5. "Medical Question Understanding and Answering with Knowledge Grounding and Semantic Self-Supervision"
   Khalil Mrini, Harpreet Singh, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole
   COLING 2022
   Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, and Online
   PDF | ACL Anthology | BibTeX
6. "Goud.ma: a News Article Dataset for Summarization in Moroccan Darija"
   Abderrahmane Issam, Khalil Mrini
   AfricaNLP workshop at ICLR 2022
   PDF
7. "Detection, Disambiguation, Re-ranking: Autoregressive Entity Linking as a Multi-Task Problem"
   Khalil Mrini, Shaoliang Nie, Jiatao Gu, Sinong Wang, Maziar Sanjabi, Hamed Firooz
   ACL 2022 (Findings, Long Paper)
   Dublin, Ireland
   PDF | ACL Anthology | BibTeX
8. "Sentence-level Privacy for Document Embeddings"
   Casey Meehan, Khalil Mrini, Kamalika Chaudhuri
   ACL 2022 (Main, Long Paper)
   Dublin, Ireland
   PDF | ACL Anthology | BibTeX
9. "Rewards with Negative Examples for Reinforced Topic-Focused Abstractive Summarization"
   Khalil Mrini, Can Liu, Markus Dreyer
   EMNLP 2021 workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization (NewSum)
   PDF | ACL Anthology | BibTeX
10. "Interpretable Label-Attentive Encoder-Decoder Parser"
    Khalil Mrini, Walter Chang, Trung Bui, Quan Tran, Franck Dernoncourt
    United States Patent Application Publication
    PDF
11. "A Gradually Soft Multi-Task and Data-Augmented Approach to Medical Question Understanding"
    Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole
    ACL 2021 (Main, Long Paper)
    PDF | ACL Anthology | BibTeX | Video Presentation
12. "Recursive Tree-Structured Self-Attention for Answer Sentence Selection"
    Khalil Mrini, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole
    ACL 2021 (Main, Long Paper)
    PDF | ACL Anthology | BibTeX | Video Presentation
13. "Toward a Unified Metadata Schema for Ecological Momentary Assessment with Voice-First Virtual Assistants"
    Chen Chen, Khalil Mrini, Kemeberly Charles, Ella Lifset, Michael Hogarth, Alison Moore, Nadir Weibel, Emilia Farcas
    The 2021 ACM Conversational User Interface (CUI) Conference
14. "Joint Summarization-Entailment Optimization for Consumer Health Question Understanding"
    Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole
    NAACL 2021 workshop on NLP for Medical Conversations (NLPMC)
    Best Student Paper Award
    PDF | ACL Anthology | BibTeX
15. "UCSD-Adobe at MEDIQA 2021: Transfer Learning and Answer Sentence Selection for Medical Summarization"
    Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole
    NAACL 2021 workshop on Biomedical NLP (BioNLP)
    PDF | ACL Anthology | BibTeX
16. "Medical Question Understanding and Answering for Older Adults"
    Khalil Mrini, Chen Chen, Ndapa Nakashole, Nadir Weibel, Emilia Farcas
    The 2021 Southern California (SoCal) NLP Symposium
    PDF
17. "Rethinking Self-Attention: Towards Interpretability in Neural Parsing"
    Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Quan Tran, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Ndapa Nakashole
    EMNLP 2020 (Findings, Long paper)
    PDF | ACL Anthology | BibTeX | Code
18. "Voice-Based Conversational Agents for Older Adults"
    Janet Johnson, Khalil Mrini, Michael Hogarth, Alison Moore, Ndapa Nakashole, Nadir Weibel, Emilia Farcas
    CHI 2020 Workshop on Conversational Agents for Health and Wellbeing
    PDF
19. "Using HCI to Tackle Race and Gender Bias in ADHD Diagnosis"
    Naba Rizvi, Khalil Mrini
    CHI 2020 Workshop on Engaging in Race in HCI
    PDF
20. "Highlights of Attention Mechanisms for Model Interpretability"
    Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Ndapa Nakashole
    The 2019 Southern California (SoCal) NLP Symposium
    Los Angeles, CA
    PDF
21. "Interpretable Structure-aware Document Encoders with Hierarchical Attention"
    Khalil Mrini, Claudiu Musat, Michael Baeriswyl, Martin Jaggi
    EPFL Master Thesis (2018)
    PDF | Code
22. "Bringing letters to life: handwriting with haptic-enabled tangible robots"
    Thibault Asselborn, Arzu Guneysu, Khalil Mrini, Elmira Yadollahi, Ayberk Ozgur, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg
    IDC 2018: The 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children
    Trondheim, Norway
    PDF | ACM Library
23. "Building a Question-Answering Chatbot using Forum Data in the Semantic Space"
    Khalil Mrini, Marc Laperrouza, Pierre Dillenbourg
    SwissText 2018: The 3rd Swiss Text Analytics Conference
    Best Presentation Award
    Winterthur, Switzerland
    PDF | Conference Presentation Video | Code
24. "Putting Figures on Influences on Moroccan Darija from Arabic, French and Spanish using the WordNet"
    Khalil Mrini, Francis Bond
    GWC 2018: The 9th Global WordNet Conference
    Singapore
    PDF | Poster
25. "Building the Moroccan Darija Wordnet (MDW) using Bilingual Resources"
    Khalil Mrini, Francis Bond
    ICNLSSP 2017: The International Conference on Natural Language, Signal and Speech Processing
    Casablanca, Morocco
    PDF | Proceedings
26. "Towards Producing Human-Validated Translation Resources for the Fula language through WordNet Linking"
    Khalil Mrini, Martin Benjamin
    RANLP 2017 Workshop on Human-informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT)
    Varna, Bulgaria
    PDF | ACL Anthology | BibTeX