Papers by Preni Golazizian
Optimizing Annotation Effort Using Active Learning Strategies: A Sentiment Analysis Case Study in Persian (2020.lrec-1)
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Seyed Arad Ashrafi Asli, Behnam Sabeti, Zahra Majdabadi, Preni Golazizian, Reza Fahmi, Omid Momenzadeh
| Challenge: | Existing deep learning approaches require huge amounts of data to be trained properly. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Persian as a model to choose the samples for annotation instead of labeling the whole dataset. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models achieve the baseline performance with a significantly lower amount of labeled data. |
Social-Group-Agnostic Bias Mitigation via the Stereotype Content Model (2023.acl-long)
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Ali Omrani, Alireza Salkhordeh Ziabari, Charles Yu, Preni Golazizian, Brendan Kennedy, Mohammad Atari, Heng Ji, Morteza Dehghani
| Challenge: | Existing methods for mitigating bias require social-group-specific word pairs for each social attribute (e.g., gender) Existing approaches require only one social attribute, rendering them impractical and costly . |
| Approach: | They propose that stereotype content models capture the underlying connection between bias and stereotypes by embedding only two psychological dimensions of warmth and competence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method performs comparably to group-specific debiasing on multiple bias benchmarks, but has theoretical and practical advantages over existing methods. |
Cost-Efficient Subjective Task Annotation and Modeling through Few-Shot Annotator Adaptation (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | In subjective tasks, the inclusion of diverse annotators is crucial as their unique perspectives significantly influence the annotations. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that minimizes the annotation budget while maximizing the predictive performance for each annotator. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework surpasses the previous SOTA in capturing the annotators’ individual perspectives with as little as 25% of the original annotation budget on two datasets. |
The Subjectivity of Respect in Police Traffic Stops: Modeling Community Perspectives in Body-Worn Camera Footage (2026.acl-long)
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Preni Golazizian, Elnaz Rahmati, Jackson Trager, Zhivar Sourati, Nona Ghazizadeh, Georgios Chochlakis, Jose J. Alcocer, Kerby Bennett, Aarya Vijay Devnani, Parsa Hejabi, Harry G. Muttram, Akshay Kiran Padte, Mehrshad Saadatinia, Chenhao Wu, Alireza Salkhordeh Ziabari, Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Nicholas Weller, Shrikanth Narayanan, Benjamin A.t. Graham, Morteza Dehghani
| Challenge: | a new study examines the perception of police-civilian traffic stops using respect ratings and free-text rationales from multiple perspectives. |
| Approach: | They propose a traffic-stop dataset annotated with respect ratings and rationales from multiple perspectives . they use a criterion-driven preference data construction framework to predict personalized respect ratings . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves rating prediction performance and rationale alignment across all three annotators. |
Irony Detection in Persian Language: A Transfer Learning Approach Using Emoji Prediction (2020.lrec-1)
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Preni Golazizian, Behnam Sabeti, Seyed Arad Ashrafi Asli, Zahra Majdabadi, Omid Momenzadeh, Reza Fahmi
| Challenge: | Existing methods for emotion extraction and sentiment analysis produce invalid results due to the use of irony. |
| Approach: | They propose to use emoji prediction to fine tune a model using hand labeled tweets with irony tags. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art method on Persian dataset with an accuracy of 83.1% and offers strong baseline for further research in Persian language. |
Reinforced Multiple Instance Selection for Speaker Attribute Prediction (2024.naacl-long)
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Alireza Salkhordeh Ziabari, Ali Omrani, Parsa Hejabi, Preni Golazizian, Brendan Kennedy, Payam Piray, Morteza Dehghani
| Challenge: | Current methods for predicting speaker attributes take a speaker’s utterances as input and provide a prediction per speaker attribute. |
| Approach: | They propose a Multiple Instance Learning approach that uses Reinforcement Learning to predict speaker attributes using a set of utterances from social media posts and political ideologies from transcribed speeches. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing methods on a range of related tasks including predicting speakers’ psychographics and demographics from social media posts and political ideologies from transcribed speeches. |
Twitter Trend Extraction: A Graph-based Approach for Tweet and Hashtag Ranking, Utilizing No-Hashtag Tweets (2020.lrec-1)
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Zahra Majdabadi, Behnam Sabeti, Preni Golazizian, Seyed Arad Ashrafi Asli, Omid Momenzadeh, Reza Fahmi
| Challenge: | Twitter has become a major platform for users to express their opinions on any topic and engage in debates. |
| Approach: | They propose to use tweets as graph nodes to extract trends from tweets graph . they propose to employ RankClus algorithm to rank tweets, words and hashtags in each trend . |
| Outcome: | The proposed algorithm can extract trends from tweets and rank tweets, words and hashtags based on their importance and relevance to the topic. |