Papers by Iqra Ameer
The Causal News Corpus: Annotating Causal Relations in Event Sentences from News (2022.lrec-1)
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Fiona Anting Tan, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Tommaso Caselli, Nelleke Oostdijk, Tadashi Nomoto, Hansi Hettiarachchi, Iqra Ameer, Onur Uca, Farhana Ferdousi Liza, Tiancheng Hu
| Challenge: | Existing annotation guidelines for event causality focus on only explicit relations or clauses. |
| Approach: | They propose an annotation schema for event causality that addresses these concerns . they annotated 3,559 event sentences from protest event news with labels on whether it contains causal relations or not. |
| Outcome: | The proposed annotation schema for event causality addresses these concerns . it performs well with 81.20% F1 score on test set and 83.46% in 5-folds cross-validation . |
CULEMO: Cultural Lenses on Emotion - Benchmarking LLMs for Cross-Cultural Emotion Understanding (2025.acl-long)
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Tadesse Destaw Belay, Ahmed Haj Ahmed, Alvin C Grissom Ii, Iqra Ameer, Grigori Sidorov, Olga Kolesnikova, Seid Muhie Yimam
| Challenge: | Existing emotion benchmarks rely on keyword-based emotion recognition, overlooking cultural dimensions required for emotion understanding. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate culturally-aware emotion prediction across six languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark evaluates state-of-the-art LLMs on culture-aware emotion prediction and sentiment analysis tasks. |