Papers by Mervat Abassy
Instruction-Guided Poetry Generation in Arabic and Its Dialects (2026.findings-acl)
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Abdelrahman Sadallah, Kareem Elozeiri, Mervat Abassy, Rania Elbadry, Mohamed Anwar, Abed Alhakim Freihat, Preslav Nakov, Fajri Koto
| Challenge: | Existing literature on Arabic poetry has focused on analysis tasks such as interpretation or metadata prediction, e.g., rhyme schemes and titles. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a large-scale instruction-based dataset to generate Arabic poetry based on predefined criteria such as style and rhyme . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can generate poetry that is aligned with user requirements, based on automated metrics and human evaluation with native Arabic speakers. |
Is Human-Like Text Liked by Humans? Multilingual Human Detection and Preference Against AI (2026.acl-long)
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Yuxia Wang, Rui Xing, Jonibek Mansurov, Giovanni Puccetti, Zhuohan Xie, Minh Ngoc Ta, Jiahui Geng, Jinyan Su, Mervat Abassy, Saadeldine Eletter, Kareem Elozeiri, Nurkhan Laiyk, Maiya Goloburda, Tarek Mahmoud, Raj Vardhan Tomar, Alexander Aziz, Ryuto Koike, Masahiro Kaneko, Artem Shelmanov, Ekaterina Artemova, Vladislav Mikhailov, Akim Tsvigun, Alham Fikri Aji, Nizar Habash, Iryna Gurevych, Preslav Nakov
| Challenge: | Prior studies have shown that distinguishing text generated by Large Language Models from human-written text is challenging for humans and often no better than random guessing. |
| Approach: | They conduct extensive case study to determine the upper bound of human detection accuracy. |
| Outcome: | The findings challenge previous conclusions on human detection accuracy across languages and domains. |
LLM-DetectAIve: a Tool for Fine-Grained Machine-Generated Text Detection (2024.emnlp-demo)
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Mervat Abassy, Kareem Elozeiri, Alexander Aziz, Minh Ta, Raj Tomar, Bimarsha Adhikari, Saad Ahmed, Yuxia Wang, Osama Mohammed Afzal, Zhuohan Xie, Jonibek Mansurov, Ekaterina Artemova, Vladislav Mikhailov, Rui Xing, Jiahui Geng, Hasan Iqbal, Zain Mujahid, Tarek Mahmoud, Akim Tsvigun, Alham Aji, Artem Shelmanov, Nizar Habash, Iryna Gurevych, Preslav Nakov
| Challenge: | a large number of machine-generated texts are often hard to distinguish between human-written and machine-generated text . this raises concerns about potential misuse, especially within educational and academic domains . |
| Approach: | They propose a system that can detect whether a text is human-written or machine-generated . they use a fine-grained classification schema to identify the use of machine-generated text . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can distinguish between human-written and machine-generated text . it can detect attempts to obfuscate the fact that a text was machine- generated . |
Uncovering Temporal Framing in the News (2026.acl-long)
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Tarek Mahmoud, Veronika Solopova, Premtim Sahitaj, Ariana Sahitaj, Max Upravitelev, Mervat Abassy, Hana Fatima Shaikh, Neda Foroutan, Vera Schmitt, Preslav Nakov
| Challenge: | Temporal language is used to structure meaning rather than report chronology in news discourse . a recent study focused on temporal expression extraction and temporal reasoning . |
| Approach: | They propose a taxonomy of eight temporal frames grounded in prior work on time and framing . they analyze frame prevalence, co-occurrence patterns, and lexical cues from a news corpus . |
| Outcome: | The proposed taxonomy outperforms zero-shot models at the sentence level . it shows that temporal framing is learnable at the sentences level compared to other methods . |