Publications

2024

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


• Phillips, J., El-Haj, M. and Hall, T. "Metric-Oriented Pretraining of Neural Source Code Summarisation Transformers to Enable more Secure Software Development". The 1st International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS), Lancaster, UK. 2024.


• Malaysha, S., El-Haj, M. , Ezzini, S., Khalilia, M., Jarrar, M., Almujaiwel, S., Berrada, I., and Bouamor, H. "AraFinNLP 2024: The first Arabic financial NLP shared task." arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.09818 (2024).


• Salim Al Mandhari, El-Haj, and Paul Rayson. "Is it Offensive or Abusive? An Empirical Study of Hateful Language Detection of Arabic Social Media Texts". The 1st International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS), Lancaster, UK. 2024.


• Chun Man Tsang, Tom Bell, Antonios Gouglidis, El-Haj, M. "Deciphering Cyber Threats: A Unifying Framework with GPT-3.5, BERTopic and Feature Importance". The 1st International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS), Lancaster, UK. 2024.


• El-Haj, M. and Saad Ezzini. "The Multilingual Corpus of World’s Constitutions (MCWC)". 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.


• El-Haj, M. , Sultan Almujaiwel, Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Ruslan Mitkov. "DARES: Dataset for Arabic Readability Estimation of School Materials". 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.


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


• A. Moreno-Sandoval, J. Porta-Zamorano, B. Carbajo-Coronado, D. Samy, D. Mariko and El-Haj, M. , "The Financial Document Causality Detection Shared Task (FinCausal 2023)," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Sorrento, Italy, 2023, pp. 2855-2860.


• Dawn Knight, Paul Rayson, El-Haj, M. , Nouran Khallaf, Ignatius Ezeani and Steve Morris,. "FreeTxt: a corpus-based approach to bilingual free-text survey and questionnaire data analysis". The 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference 2024. Cambridge, UK


• Martin Wynne, El-Haj, M. Dawn Knight, Paul Rayson, and Mícheál J. Ó Meachair. "DR-LIB: a Knowledge Centre to support the use of Digital Resources for the Languages of Ireland and Britain". UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Annual Event 2024. Cork, Ireland



2023

• Parth Saxena and El-Haj, M. . "Exploring Abstractive Text Summarisation for Podcasts: A Comparative Study of BART and T5 Models". Recent advances in natural language processing RANLP 2023. Varna, Bulgaria


• Myra S. Hunter, El-Haj, M. , Eleanor Thorne, Amanda Griffith and Claire Hardy. "#Menopause: examining the frequency and sentiment of communications about menopause on Twitter." Maturitas Journal (Short Communication / Gynecology / Endocrinology), 2023-2024. [Accepted for publication]


• Nadhem Zmandar, El-Haj, M. and Paul Rayson. "A Comparative Study of Evaluation Metrics for Long-Document Financial Narrative Summarization with Transformers". The 28th International Conference on Natural Language and Information Systems (NLDB 2023), Derby, United Kingdom.


• Ryutaro Takanami and El-Haj, M.. "Unifying Emotion Analysis Datasets using Valence Arousal Dominance (VAD)". The 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023), Vienna, Austria.


• Nadhem Zmandar, El-Haj, M. and Paul Rayson. "FinAraT5: A text to text model for financial Arabic text understanding and generation". The 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge Conference (LDK 2023), Vienna, Austria.


• Nouran Khallaf, Elin Arfon, El-Haj, M. , Jonathan Morris, Dawn Knight, Paul Rayson, Tymaa Hasanain, and Mustafa Jarrar. "Open-Source Thesaurus Development for Under-Resourced Languages: a Welsh Case Study". The 4th Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge Conference (LDK 2023), Vienna, Austria.


• El-Haj, M. Nouran Khallaf, Elin Arfon, Jonathan Morris and Dawn Knight. "Creating an Open-Access Thesaurus of the Welsh Language Using Natural Language Processing". International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL 2023), Lancaster, UK.


• Dawn Knight, Paul Rayson, Nouran Khallaf, Steve Morris, El-Haj, M. and Ignatius Ezeani. "Analysing and visualising free-text comments: a corpus-based toolkit". International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL 2023), Lancaster, UK.


• Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Ignatius Ezeani, Paul Rayson and El-Haj, M. . "IgboNER: Expanding Named Entity Recognition Datasets via Projection". AfricaNLP 2023 Workshop at The Eleventh International Conference On Learning Representations (ICLR 2023), Kigali, Rwanda, Africa.



2022

• Daniel F. O. Onah, Elaine Ling Ling Pang and El-Haj, M. . "A Data-driven Latent Semantic Analysis for Automatic Text Summarization using LDA Topic Modelling". IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data 2022) December 2022. Osaka, Japan


• Jesse Phillips, David Bowes El-Haj, M. and Tracy Hall. "Improved Evaluation of Automatic Source Code Summarisation". GEM 2022 @ Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022), Abu Dhabi, UAE


• Nadhem Zmandar, Tobias Daudert, Sina Ahmadi, El-Haj, M. and Paul Rayson. "CoFiF Plus: A French Financial Narrative Summarisation Corpus". 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022. Marseille, France


• Ignatius Ezeani, El-Haj, M. Jonathan Morris and Dawn Knight. "Introducing the Welsh Text Summarisation Dataset and Baseline Systems". 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022. Marseille, France


• Chiamaka Ijeoma Chukwuneke, Ignatius Ezeani, Paul Rayson and El-Haj, M. . "IgboBERT Models: Building and Training Transformer Models for the Igbo Language". 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022. Marseille, France


• El-Haj, M. Elvis de Souza, Nouran Khallaf, Paul Rayson and Nizar Habash. " AraSAS: The Open Source Arabic Semantic Tagger". OSACT 2022 at the 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022. Marseille, France


• El-Haj, M. , Ignatius Ezeani, Jonathan Morris and Dawn Knight. "Creation of an Evaluation Corpus and Baseline Evaluation Scores for Welsh Text Summarisation". CLTW 2022 at the 13th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'22). June 2022. Marseille, France


• Andrew Ogden and El-Haj, M.. "Financial Narrative Summarisation Using a Hybrid TF-IDF and Clustering Summariser: AO-Lancs System at FNS 2022" 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.


• 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 Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task (FNS 2022)" 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.


• Dominique Mariko, Kim Trottier and El-Haj, M. . "Financial Document Causality Detection Shared Task (FinCausal 2022)" 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.


• 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 Financial Document Structure Extraction Shared Task (FinTOC 2022)" 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.


• El-Haj, M. , Paul Rayson, Nadhem Zmandar. "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.


• Ghadah Alwakid, Taha Osman, El-Haj, M. , Saad Alanazi, Mamoona Humayun and Najm Us Sama. “MULDASA: Multifactor Lexical Sentiment Analysis of Social-Media Content in Nonstandard Arabic Social Media”. 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


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


• El-Haj, M. , Antonio Moreno Sandoval, Jose Antonio Jimenez Millan. “Machine Learning Models for Classifying Spanish Beaters and Non-Beaters Financial Reports”. 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.]



2021

• Nadhem Zmandar, El-Haj, M. and Paul Rayson. "Multilingual Financial Word Embeddings for Arabic, English and French" at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) on 15-18 December 2021.


• Alex Sartain and El-Haj, M. . "The Influence of Social Factors on Mental Health and Wellbeing during the COVID-19 Pandemic" at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) on 15-18 December 2021.


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


• Nadhem Zmandar, Abhishek Singh, El-Haj, M. , Paul Rayson. "Joint abstractive and extractive method for long financial document summarization" at The 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2021). Lancaster, UK [hybrid] on 15-16 September 2021.


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


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


• Ismail El Maarouf, Juyeon Kang, Abderrahim Ait Azzi, Sandra Bellato, Mei Gan, El-Haj, M.. "The Financial Document Structure Extraction Shared Task (FinTOC2021)" at The 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2021). Lancaster, UK [hybrid] on 15-16 September 2021.


• Sheryl Prentice; Jo Knight; Paul Rayson; El-Haj, M. and Nathan Rutherford. " Problematising Characteristicness: A Biomedical Association Case Study". In the IJCL Journal (International Journal of Corpus Linguistics)



2020

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


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


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


• El-Haj, M. , Vasiliki Athanasakou, Sira Ferradans, Catherine Salzedo, Ans Elhag, Houda Bouamor, Marina Litvak, Paul Rayson, George Giannakopoulos, Nikiforos Pittaras. "Proceedings of the 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation" at The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING’2020), Barcelona, Spain [online] on 12 December 2020.


• Imed Zitouni, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Houda Bouamor, Fethi Bougares, El-Haj, M. , Nadi Tomeh, Wajdi Zaghouani. "Proceedings of the Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop" at The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING’2020), Barcelona, Spain [online] on 12 December 2020.


• El-Haj, M. . "Habibi - a multi Dialect multi National Arabic Song Lyrics Corpus". 12th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'20). May 2020. Marseille, France


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


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


• El-Haj, M. , Paulo Alves, Paul Rayson, Martin Walker, and Steven Young. "Retrieving, classifying and analysing narrative commentary in unstructured (glossy) annual reports published as PDF files". Published (Open Access) in Accounting and Business Research (ABR) 2020.



2019

• El-Haj, M. , and Rayson, Paul and Walker, Martin and Young, Steven and Simaki, Vasiliki. "In Search of Meaning: Lessons, Resources and Next Steps for Computational Analysis of Financial Discourse". Published in the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (JBFA) 2019.


• El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P., Alves, P., Herrero-Zorita, C., and Young, S.. "Multilingual Financial Narrative Processing: AnalysingAnnual Reports in English, Spanish and Portuguese". Book chapter at the to the World Scientific Publishers (WSPC) 2019.



2018

• El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P. and Moore, A.. "Book of Proceedings of the 1st Financial Narrative Processing (FNP 2018) Workshop at LREC 2018. May 2018. Miyazaki, Japan". 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'18). May 2018. Miyazaki, Japan


• El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P. and Aboelezz, M.. "Arabic Dialect Identification in the Context of Bivalency and Code-Switching". 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'18). May 2018. Miyazaki, Japan


• El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P., Piao, S., and Knight, Jo.. "Profiling Medical Journal Articles Using a Gene Ontology Semantic Tagger". The 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'18). May 2018. Miyazaki, Japan


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


• Malik, A., El-Haj, M. , and Paasche-Orlow, M.. "Readability of Arabic vs English Patient Educational Materials ". SGIM Annual Meeting. Denver, USA 2018 and New England Science Symposium. Boston, USA 2018



2017

• El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P., Piao, S. and Knight, J.. "A Comparison Between Genetics Papers Relating To Immune Disorders And Psychiatric Disorders". International Genetic Epidemiology Society. IGES 26th Annual Meeting, September 9 - 11, 2017 Queens' College, Cambridge, UK. 2017


• El-Haj, M. , , Rayson, P., Piao, S. and Wattam, S.. "Creating and validating multilingual semantic representations for six languages: expert versus non-expert crowds". 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


• El-Haj, M. et al. "BOOK: Corpus Linguistics: Analytical Applications on Arabic Language. In Arabic: لغويات المدونة الحاسوبية - تطبيقات تحليلة على العربية الطبيعية. ". King Saud University Press, 2017 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 2017



2016

• El-Haj, M. , and Rayson, P.. "OSMAN - A Novel Arabic Readability Metric". 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'16). May 2016. Portoroz, Slovenia.


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


• 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. "Lexical Coverage Evaluation of Large-scale Multilingual Semantic Lexicons for Twelve Languages". 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'16). May 2016. Portoroz, Slovenia.


• Salzedo, C., Young, S. El-Haj, M. , "Does Equity Analyst Research Lack Rigor and Objectivity? Evidence from Conference Call Questions and Research Notes". The Accounting and Business Research Journal



2015

• El-Haj, M. , U. Kruschwitz, and C. Fox. "Creating Language Resources for Under-resourced Languages - Methodologies, and experiments with Arabic". Language Resources and Evaluation journal



2014

• El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P., and Hall, D.. " Language Independent Evaluation of Translation Consistency and Style: comparing Human and Machine Translation of Camus' Novel". In 17th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue. Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12 2014


• El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P., Young, S., and Walker, M.. "Detecting Document Structure in a Very Large Corpus of UK Financial Reports". In The 9th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 26-31 May 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland


• Athanasakou, V., El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P., Young, S., and Walker, M.. "Computer-based Analysis of the Strategic Content of UK Annual Report Narratives". In American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, August 2-6, 2014, Atlanta, USA.



2013

• El-Haj, M. , Balkan, L., Barbalet, S., Bell, L., and Shepherdson, J. "An Experiment in Automatic Indexing Using the HASSET Thesaurus". In the 5th Computer science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC'13), IEEE Xplore, 17th-18th Sept 2013, University of Essex, Colchester, UK


• El-Haj, M. , Rayson, P. "Using a Keyness Metric for Single and Multi Document Summarisation". MultiLing 2013 Workshop, held within the ACL 2013 Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria.


• Li, L., Forascu, C., El-Haj, M. , Giannakopoulos, G. "Multi-document multilingual summarization corpus preparation, Part 1: Arabic, English, Greek, Chinese, Romanian". MultiLing 2013 Workshop, held within the ACL 2013 Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria.


• El-Haj, M. , Koulali, R. "KALIMAT a Multipurpose Arabic Corpus" 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.


• El-Haj, M. , "UKDA Keyword Indexing with a SKOS Version of HASSET Thesaurus" In IASSIST 2013 [Poster]. Cologne, Germany.



2012

• El-Haj, M. , "Multi-Document Arabic Text Summarisation". 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.


• El-Haj, M. , , U. Kruschwitz, and C. Fox. "Exploring Clustering for Multi-document Arabic Summarisation." In 7th Asian Information Retrieval Societies (AIRS 2011)., Dubai, UAE, 2011. AIRS 2011.



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.


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


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



2010

• El-Haj, M. , , Kruschwitz, U., and Fox, C. "Using Mechanical Turk to Create a Corpus of Arabic Summaries" 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



2009

• 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.



2008

• 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 Diacritisized Arabic Passages Using Stemmer And Thesaurus. In Proceeding of the 19th Midwest Artificial Intelligence And Cognitive Science Conference Maics2008, pages 189–196, Ohio, USA, 2008. MAICS.



2007

• 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.