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Mohamad Ballout

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

10

Venues

6

Active years

2020–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

10 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026ACLNeoAraBERT: A Modern Foundation Model for Arabic Embeddings with Diacritics-Aware Tokenization and POS-Targeted Masking.Chadi Abou Chakra, Hadi Khaled Hamoud, Osama Rakan Al Mraikhat, Qusai Abu Obaida, Mohamad Ballout, Fadi Zaraket
2026ACLAlexandria: A Multi-Domain Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation Dataset for Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse LLMs.Abdellah El Mekki, Samar Mohamed Magdy, Houdaifa Atou, Ruwa AbuHweidi, Baraah Qawasmeh, Omer Nacar, Thikra Al-Hibiri, Razan Saadie, Hamzah A. Alsayadi, Nadia Ghezaiel Hammouda, Alshima Mohammed Alkhazimi, Aya Hamod, Al-Yas Yaqoob Al-Ghafri, Wesam El-Sayed, Asila Ismail Al Sharji, Mohamad Ballout, Anas Belfathi, Karim Ghaddar, Serry Sibaee, Alaa Aoun, Aeej Mohammed Aseri, Lina Abureesh, Ahlam Bashiti, Majdal Yousef, Abdulaziz Hafiz, Yehdih Mohamed, Emira Hamedtou, Brakehe Emehah, Rahaf Alhamouri, Youssef Nafea, Aya El Aatar, Walid Al-Dhabyani, Emhemed Hamed, Sara Shatnawi, Fakhraddin Alwajih, Khalid Elkhidir, Ashwag Alasmari, Abdurrahman Gerrio, Omar Said Alshahri, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Ismail Berrada, Amir Azad Adli Alkathiri, Fadi A. Zaraket, Mustafa Jarrar, Yahya Mohamed El Hadj, Hassan Alhuzali, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
2025EMNLPCan you SPLICE it together? A Human Curated Benchmark for Probing Visual Reasoning in VLMs.Mohamad Ballout, Okajevo Wilfred, Seyedalireza Yaghoubi, Nohayr Abdelmoneim, Julius Mayer, Elia Bruni
2025EMNLPiVISPAR - An Interactive Visual-Spatial Reasoning Benchmark for VLMs.Julius Mayer, Mohamad Ballout, Serwan Jassim, Farbod Nosrat Nezami, Elia Bruni
2024DIAGRAMSGenerating Qualitative Descriptions of Diagrams with a Transformer-Based Language Model.Marco Schorlemmer, Mohamad Ballout, Kai-Uwe Khnberger
2024EMNLPFOOL ME IF YOU CAN! An Adversarial Dataset to Investigate the Robustness of LMs in Word Sense Disambiguation.Mohamad Ballout, Anne Dedert, Nohayr Abdelmoneim, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Khnberger
2024NLDBEfficient Knowledge Distillation: Empowering Small Language Models with Teacher Model Insights.Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Khnberger
2024NLDBEnhancing Small Language Models via ChatGPT and Dataset Augmentation.Tom Pieper, Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Khnberger
2023ACMLShow Me How It's Done: The Role of Explanations in Fine-Tuning Language Models.Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Khnberger
2020IJCNNThe benefits of synthetic data for action categorization.Mohamad Ballout, Mohammad Tuqan, Daniel C. Asmar, Elie A. Shammas, George E. Sakr