2023

  • Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration
    Jiahui He*, Haris Bin Zia*, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson
    ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2023)
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  • Will Admins Cope? Decentralized Moderation in the Fediverse
    Ishaku Hassan Anaobi, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Haris Bin Zia, Dami Ibosiola, Gareth Tyson
    ACM Web Conference (WWW 2023)
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2022

  • Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing
    Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Ishaku Hassan Anaobi, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson
    ACM SIGMETRICS/ IFIP PEFORMANCE Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS/ PERFORMANCE 2022)
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  • Improving Zero-shot Cross-lingual Hate Speech Detection with pseudo-label fine-tuning of Transformer Language Models
    Haris Bin Zia, Ignacio Castro, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Gareth Tyson
    16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2022)
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2021

  • Exploring Content Moderation in the Decentralised Web: The Pleroma Case
    Ishaku Hassan Anaobi, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Haris Bin Zia, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson
    17th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2021)
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  • Racist or Sexist Meme? Classifying Memes beyond Hateful
    Haris Bin Zia, Ignacio Castro, Gareth Tyson
    5th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH 2021)
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  • Personalized weather information for low-literate farmers using multimodal dialog systems
    Muhammad Qasim, Haris Bin Zia, Awais Athar, Tania Habib, Agha Ali Raza
    International Journal of Speech Technology
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2020

  • SimplifyUR: Unsupervised Lexical Text Simplification for Urdu
    Namoos Hayat Qasmi, Haris Bin Zia, Awais Athar, Agha Ali Raza
    12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020)
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2018

  • Rapid Collection of Spontaneous Speech Corpora using Telephonic Community Forums
    Agha Ali Raza, Awais Athar, Shan Randhawa, Zain Tariq, Muhammad Bilal Saleem, Haris Bin Zia, Umar Saif, Roni Rosenfeld
    Proceedings of Interspeech 2018
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  • Urdu Word Segmentation using Conditional Random Fields
    Haris Bin Zia, Agha Ali Raza, Awais Athar
    27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018)
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  • PronouncUR: An Urdu Pronunciation Lexicon Generator
    Haris Bin Zia, Agha Ali Raza, Awais Athar
    11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)
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