Papers by Saba Anwar
POLAR: A Benchmark for Multilingual, Multicultural, and Multi-Event Online Polarization (2026.findings-acl)
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Usman Naseem, Robert Geislinger, Juan Ren, Sarah Kohail, Rudy Alexandro Garrido Veliz, P Sam Sahil, Yiran Zhang, Idris Abdulmumin, Marco Antonio Stranisci, Özge Alacam, Cengiz Acarturk, Aisha Jabr, Saba Anwar, Abinew Ali Ayele, Simona Frenda, Alessandra Teresa Cignarella, Elena Tutubalina, Oleg Rogov, Aung Kyaw Htet, Xintong Wang, Surendrabikram Thapa, Kritesh Rauniyar, Tanmoy Chakraborty, MD Arfeen Zeeshan, Dheeraj Kodati, Satya Keerthi, Sahar Moradizeyveh, Firoj Alam, Md Arid Hasan, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Ye Kyaw Thu, Shantipriya Parida, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Lilian Diana Awuor Wanzare, Nelson Odhiambo Onyango, Clemencia Siro, Jane Wanjiru Kimani, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Adem Chanie Ali, Martin Semmann, Chris Biemann, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Seid Muhie Yimam
| Challenge: | polarization is a pervasive threat to democratic institutions, civil discourse, and social cohesion worldwide . most existing datasets focus on English or high-resource languages, reflecting a widespread trend across NLP tasks . |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual, multicultural, and multi-event dataset with over 110K instances in 22 languages drawn from diverse online platforms and real-world events. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset analyzes polarization detection, type, and manifestation using a variety of annotation platforms adapted to each cultural context. |
SCoT: Sense Clustering over Time: a tool for the analysis of lexical change (2021.eacl-demos)
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| Challenge: | Sense Clustering over Time (SCoT) is a network-based tool for analysing lexical change . it visualises word formation, change, and demise as clusters of similar words . SCoT has been successfully used in a European study on the changing meaning of ‘crisis’. |
| Approach: | They propose a new network-based tool for analysing lexical change using a dynamic network of word similarities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed tool has been successfully used in a European study on the changing meaning of ‘crisis’. |
How to Compare Things Properly? A Study of Argument Relevance in Comparative Question Answering (2025.acl-long)
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Irina Nikishina, Saba Anwar, Nikolay Dolgov, Maria Manina, Daria Ignatenko, Artem Shelmanov, Chris Biemann
| Challenge: | Comparative Question Answering (CQA) is a task that involves processing information and diverse viewpoints. |
| Approach: | They construct a dataset of arguments annotated with their relevance and use it to answer comparative questions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset contains arguments annotated with their relevance and enables precise traceability and faithfulness. |