Publications

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  1. "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
  2. "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
  3. "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
  4. "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
  5. "Goud.ma: a News Article Dataset for Summarization in Moroccan Darija"
    Abderrahmane Issam, Khalil Mrini
    AfricaNLP workshop at ICLR 2022
    PDF
  6. "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
  7. "Sentence-level Privacy for Document Embeddings"
    Casey Meehan, Khalil Mrini, Kamalika Chaudhuri
    ACL 2022 (Main, Long Paper)
    Dublin, Ireland
    PDF | ACL Anthology | BibTeX
  8. "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
  9. "Interpretable Label-Attentive Encoder-Decoder Parser"
    Khalil Mrini, Walter Chang, Trung Bui, Quan Tran, Franck Dernoncourt
    United States Patent Application Publication
    PDF
  10. "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
  11. "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
  12. "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
  13. "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
  14. "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
  15. "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
  16. "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
  17. "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
  18. "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
  19. "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
  20. "Interpretable Structure-aware Document Encoders with Hierarchical Attention"
    Khalil Mrini, Claudiu Musat, Michael Baeriswyl, Martin Jaggi
    EPFL Master Thesis (2018)
    PDF | Code
  21. "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
  22. "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
  23. "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
  24. "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
  25. "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