Shimaa Amer Ibrahim
2026
KZ-SafetyPrompts: A Kazakh Safety Evaluation Prompt Dataset for Large Language Models
Wajdi Zaghouani | Shimaa Amer Ibrahim | Aruzhan Muratbek | Olzhasbek Zhakenov | Adiya Akhmetzhanova
Proceedings of the SIGUL 2026 Joint Workshop with ELE, EURALI, and DCLRL: Towards Inclusivity and Equality: Language Resources and Technologies for Under-Resourced and Endangered Languages
Wajdi Zaghouani | Shimaa Amer Ibrahim | Aruzhan Muratbek | Olzhasbek Zhakenov | Adiya Akhmetzhanova
Proceedings of the SIGUL 2026 Joint Workshop with ELE, EURALI, and DCLRL: Towards Inclusivity and Equality: Language Resources and Technologies for Under-Resourced and Endangered Languages
Kazakh is underrepresented in resources for evaluating the safety behavior of large language models. We present KZ-SafetyPrompts, a Kazakh prompt dataset for safety evaluation across eleven categories covering common risk areas such as self-harm, violence, child exploitation, sexual content, racist content, radicalization, and regulated goods or illegal activities. The dataset contains 5,717 prompts written natively in Kazakh (Cyrillic), organized by category, with English translations for cross-lingual analysis. Prompts resemble realistic user queries, often in a teen or child style, and are phrased as intent prompts without procedural instructions. We document the writing protocol, labeling procedures (including borderline-case decision rules), and quality-control steps (schema standardization, completeness checks, and deduplication). We also align the categories with widely used safety taxonomies to support integration with existing evaluation pipelines. Baseline results with GPT-4o show an overall refusal rate of 28.2%, varying from 5.5% to 53.8% across categories, indicating that Kazakh prompts expose category-specific safety gaps not captured by English-only evaluation.
StanceNakba Shared Task: Actor and Topic-Aware Stance Detection in Public Discourse
Kholoud Khalil Aldous | Md. Rafiul Biswas | Mabrouka Bessghaier | Shimaa Amer Ibrahim | Kais Attia | Wajdi Zaghouani
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources @ LREC 2026
Kholoud Khalil Aldous | Md. Rafiul Biswas | Mabrouka Bessghaier | Shimaa Amer Ibrahim | Kais Attia | Wajdi Zaghouani
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources @ LREC 2026
We present StanceNakba 2026, a shared task on stance detection in polarized social media discourse related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, organized as part of Nakba-NLP 2026 at LREC-COLING 2026. The task introduces two subtasks: Subtask A (Actor-Level Stance Detection), which classifies English social media posts as Pro-Palestine, Pro-Israel, or Neutral; and Subtask B (Cross-Topic Stance Detection), which identifies Favor, Against, or Neither stances in Arabic posts toward two conflict-related topics, normalization with Israel and refugee presence in Jordan. The task is grounded in an annotated dataset of 2,606 social media posts. A total of 7 teams participated in Subtask A, and 6 teams in Subtask B. Participating systems primarily fine-tuned Arabic and multilingual transformer-based models, including MARBERT, AraBERT, and DeBERTa-v3 variants, with several teams employing cross-validation, ensemble methods, and topic-conditioned architectures. The best-performing systems achieved a Macro F1 of 0.9620 on Subtask A and 0.8724 on Subtask B, demonstrating that transformer-based approaches are highly effective for conflict-domain stance detection while highlighting persistent challenges in cross-topic generalization and neutral class prediction
ArabDiscrim: A Decade-Long Arabic Facebook Corpus on Racism and Discrimination
Wajdi Zaghouani | Shimaa Amer Ibrahim | Mabrouka Bessghaier | Houda Bouamor
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Wajdi Zaghouani | Shimaa Amer Ibrahim | Mabrouka Bessghaier | Houda Bouamor
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
We present ArabDiscrim, a decade-long lexical resource and corpus of 293K public Arabic Facebook posts (2014–2024) discussing racism and discrimination. Unlike existing Twitter-centric datasets, ArabDiscrim integrates platform-native engagement signals, including reactions, shares, comments, and page metadata, enabling joint analysis of language and audience response. The resource includes 200 curated terms (100 racism, 100 discrimination) with morphological regex families (13+ inflections per lemma), and 20 discrimination axes capturing identity-based grounds for unequal treatment. It also provides explicit attribution patterns. Released under a restricted research-use license for ethical compliance with platform terms, ArabDiscrim supports weak supervision, axis-aware sampling, and platform ecology research. By bridging lexical depth and ecological validity, it establishes a foundation for fairness-oriented, platform-aware Arabic NLP.
ClimateChat-300K: A Multi-Modal Facebook Dataset for Understanding Diverse Perspectives in Climate Communication
Wajdi Zaghouani | Md. Rafiul Biswas | Mabrouka Bessghaier | Shimaa Amer Ibrahim | George Mikros
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Wajdi Zaghouani | Md. Rafiul Biswas | Mabrouka Bessghaier | Shimaa Amer Ibrahim | George Mikros
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
We present ClimateChat-300K, a large-scale dataset of 299,329 public Facebook posts about climate change collected between May 2020 and May 2024 through the CrowdTangle platform. The dataset contains 41 metadata features including post content, engagement metrics, and page attributes, covering material from more than 26,000 global pages. Each post includes rich contextual information such as language, timestamp, page category, and interaction counts, enabling comprehensive analyses of public discourse around climate communication. Using topic modeling and sentiment analysis, we identify ten main themes grouped into five domains: policy, activism, cooperation, science, and conservation. The results reveal that emotional tone, post format, and page identity strongly influence audience engagement, with visually rich and emotionally charged content receiving the highest levels of interaction. The dataset also demonstrates how online discussions evolved in response to major events such as international climate summits and the COVID-19 pandemic period. ClimateChat-300K provides an open resource for reproducible and interdisciplinary research on polarization, misinformation, and the dynamics of digital climate discourse. By releasing this dataset, we aim to support transparent, data-driven research and contribute to a deeper understanding of how public engagement with climate issues develops across time, geography, and institutional contexts.
JobArabi: An Arabic Corpus and Analysis of Job Announcements from Social Media
Wajdi Zaghouani | Shimaa Amer Ibrahim | Mabrouka Bessghaier | Houda Bouamor
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Wajdi Zaghouani | Shimaa Amer Ibrahim | Mabrouka Bessghaier | Houda Bouamor
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
This paper introduces JobArabi, a large-scale corpus of Arabic job announcements collected from social media between January 2024 and October 2025. The dataset contains 20,528 public posts from X and captures more than two years of employment-related discourse across Arabic-speaking online communities. The corpus was compiled using a linguistically informed query framework covering 21 Arabic keyword families that reflect gendered, plural, formal, and dialectal expressions of recruitment language. The resulting dataset includes posts from institutional, commercial, and individual accounts and provides metadata such as timestamps, engagement indicators, and geolocation when available, enabling temporal and regional analysis of employment discourse.Quantitative analysis reveals several sociolinguistic patterns in online recruitment, including the persistence of gendered hiring language, regional variation in occupational demand, and the emotional framing of recruitment messages. These findings highlight the potential of Arabic social media as a resource for studying labor market communication and linguistic change.The JobArabi corpus, together with documentation and collection scripts, will be released to support research in Arabic NLP, computational social science, and digital labor studies.
Audience Engagement with Arabic Women’s Social Empowerment and Wellbeing: A Decadal Corpus
Wajdi Zaghouani | Mabrouka Bessghaier | Md. Rafiul Biswas | Shimaa Amer Ibrahim
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Wajdi Zaghouani | Mabrouka Bessghaier | Md. Rafiul Biswas | Shimaa Amer Ibrahim
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
This paper presents the Arabic Women and Society Corpus, a ten-year collection of 252,487 public Arabic Facebook posts related to women’s empowerment and social wellbeing. The corpus was collected from 51,660 pages across 77 countries between 2014 and 2024, resulting in more than 267 million user interactions. Each post includes engagement metrics such as shares, comments, and emotional reactions, providing a unique view of audience sentiment and social attention. The data were processed using an automated pipeline with language identification, normalization, and metadata cleaning to ensure reliability and reproducibility. The corpus enables large-scale analysis of gender discourse, social reform, and emotional engagement across Arabic dialects. It supports research in Arabic natural language processing, computational social science, and digital communication studies. The dataset and accompanying documentation will be released publicly for research use under an open license.
2025
Ahasis Shared Task: Hybrid Lexicon-Augmented AraBERT Model for Sentiment Detection in Arabic Dialects
Shimaa Amer Ibrahim | Mabrouka Bessghaier | Wajdi Zaghouani
Proceedings of the Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Dialects
Shimaa Amer Ibrahim | Mabrouka Bessghaier | Wajdi Zaghouani
Proceedings of the Shared Task on Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Dialects
This work was conducted as part of the Ahasis@RANLP–2025 shared task, which focuses on sentiment detection in Arabic dialects within the hotel review domain. The primary objective is to advance sentiment analysis methodologies tailored to dialectal Arabic. Our work combines data augmentation with a hybrid model that integrates AraBERT and our created sentiment lexicon. Notably, our hybrid model significantly improved performance, reaching an F1-score of 0.74, compared to 0.56 when using only AraBERT. These results highlight the effectiveness of lexicon integration and augmentation strategies in enhancing both the accuracy and robustness of sentiment classification in dialectal Arabic.