PosterApril 2026
Inside the Nativeness Axis: Mechanistic Interpretability of Native and Non-Native Arabic Speech Representations
Muhammad S. Abdo
NLP @ Michigan Day 2026 · Ann Arbor, Michigan · April 22, 2026
PosterApril 2026
Translation-Induced Label Drift across Nine Languages in Natural Language Inference
Muhammad S. Abdo, Elias Naske, Jose P. Benavides, Wenchen Shi, Elder Henrique Attala e Paiva, Hale Karkoutli, Phakphum Artkaew, Sadia Ashraf, Jinyuan Wang, Sandra Kübler
Midwest Speech and Language Days 2026 · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois · April 15–16, 2026
PosterApril 2026
Ontology-Grounded Knowledge Graph Construction for Alzheimer's Disease Literature Using Multi-Model Ensemble Embeddings
Muhammad S. Abdo, Damir Cavar
Midwest Speech and Language Days 2026 · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois · April 15–16, 2026
TalkMarch 2026
Natural Language Inference: Lost in Translation? Label Stability in Arabic Machine Translation
Muhammad S. Abdo, Sandra Kübler
39th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics · Bloomington, Indiana · March 27–29, 2026
PaperSeptember 2025
On the Diminutive Suffix -aaya in Egyptian (Cairene) Arabic
Muhammad S. Abdo, Stuart Davis
Sixth Arabic Linguistics Forum (ALiF 2025) · University of Vienna, Austria · September 3–5, 2025
Workshop PaperJanuary 2025
AMWAL: Named Entity Recognition for Arabic Financial News
Muhammad S. Abdo, Yash Hatekar, Damir Cavar
FinNLP–FNP–LLMFinLegal @ COLING 2025 · Abu Dhabi, UAE · January 19–20, 2025
TalkOctober 2024
Comparing Apologies and Complaints in Egyptian Arabic: Native Speakers vs. Large Language Model-Based Chatbots
Muhammad S. Abdo, Nihal Sarhan
5th Biennial University of Michigan International Conference on Arabic Applied Linguistics · October 19–20, 2024
TalkApril 2024
The Hoosier Ellipsis Corpus (HELC): Documenting Linguistic Dark Matter
Damir Cavar, Louis V. Mompelat, Muhammad S. Abdo
Midwest Speech and Language Days 2024 · University of Michigan · April 15–16, 2024
TalkApril 2024
The Hoosier Ellipsis Corpus: Building a Corpus of Ellipsis for Arabic Natural Language Processing
Muhammad S. Abdo, Damir Cavar
Midwest Speech and Language Days 2024 · University of Michigan · April 15–16, 2024
Workshop PaperMarch 2024
The Typology of Ellipsis: A Corpus for Linguistic Analysis and Machine Learning Applications
Damir Cavar, Louis V. Mompelat, Muhammad S. Abdo
SIGTYP 2024 @ EACL · St. Julian's, Malta · March 22, 2024
TalkFebruary 2024
Ellipsis in Arabic: Using Machine Learning to Detect and Predict Elided Words
Muhammad S. Abdo, Damir Cavar, Billy Dickson
37th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics · Long Island University, New York · February 23–25, 2024
PosterDecember 2023
IUNADI at NADI 2023 Shared Task: Country-Level Arabic Dialect Classification in Tweets
Yash Hatekar, Muhammad S. Abdo
First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023) · Singapore
TalkMarch 2023
Thus Spoke a Couple: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Spousal Duties Fatwas
Muhammad S. Abdo, Abdullah Omran, Said Fares
Living in a Digital Age: Technology and Its Effects on Religion and Popular Culture · Nile University, Egypt
TalkJune 2021
Naguib: A Lexical-Conceptual Taxonomy for the Computational Analysis of Arabic Novels
Khaled Elghamry, Attia Youseif, Muhammad S. Abdo
BATA Inaugural International Conference · University of Leeds, UK
Talk2021
Analyzing Judgment in Major Depression Patients' Narratives
Muhammad S. Abdo
Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference (LELPGC21) · University of Edinburgh, Scotland
TalkApril 2021
Naguib: A Model for the Computational Analysis of Arabic Novels
Khaled Elghamry, Attia Youseif, Muhammad S. Abdo
Experimental Arabic Linguistics Conference (EXAL 2021) · American University of Sharjah, UAE
Talk2018
Exploring Emotional Reactions to Social Problems Using Appraisal Theory: The Case of Egyptian Facebookers
Muhammad S. Abdo
Junior Scholars' Forum of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Linguistics and Translation · Faculty of Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University, Egypt
TalkMarch 2018
Analyzing Affect in Bipolar Depression Patients' Narratives in Mental Health Forums: A Corpus-Based Study
Muhammad S. Abdo
2nd International Conference on Literature, Linguistics and Translation · Ain Shams University, Egypt