Research

Publications

31 peer-reviewed papers, preprints, and proceedings across NLP and generative AI. Also on Google Scholar.

31 results
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Global PIQA: Evaluating Physical Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures

Tyler A. Chang*, Catherine Arnett*, and Authors at the 5th Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL) Workshop (including Khalil Mrini)
arXiv preprint (cs.CL) ★ AraPIQA team: Best Shared Task Contribution Award at the EMNLP 2025 Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop
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Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference

Kareem Darwish, Ahmed Ali, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Samia Touileb, Imed Zitouni, Ahmed Abdelali, Sharefah Al-Ghamdi, Sakhar Alkhereyf, Wajdi Zaghouani, Salam Khalifa, Badr AlKhamissi, Rawan Almatham, Injy Hamed, Zaid Alyafeai, Areeb Alowisheq, Go Inoue, Khalil Mrini, Waad Alshammari
Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (co-located with EMNLP 2025) · 🇨🇳 Suzhou, China
29

Agent-Testing Agent: A Meta-Agent for Automated Testing and Evaluation of Conversational AI Agents

Sameer Komoravolu, Khalil Mrini
EACL 2026 (Oral)
28

Fast Prompt Alignment for Text-to-Image Generation

Khalil Mrini, Hanlin Lu, Linjie Yang, Weilin Huang, Heng Wang
TikTok Technical Report
27

Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference

Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ramy Eskander, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Ahmed Abdelali, Samia Touileb, Injy Hamed, Yaser Onaizan, Bashar Alhafni, Wissam Antoun, Salam Khalifa, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Badr AlKhamissi, Rawan Almatham, Khalil Mrini
Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (co-located with EMNLP 2024) · 🇺🇸 Miami, Florida
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Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023

Hassan Sawaf, Samhaa El-Beltagy, Wajdi Zaghouani, Walid Magdy, Ahmed Abdelali, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Nizar Habash, Salam Khalifa, Amr Keleg, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Khalil Mrini, Rawan Almatham
First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (co-located with EMNLP 2023) · 🇸🇬 Singapore
24

InfiMM-Eval: Complex Open-Ended Reasoning Evaluation For Multi-Modal Large Language Models

Xiaotian Han, Quanzeng You, Yongfei Liu, Wentao Chen, Huangjie Zheng, Khalil Mrini, Xudong Lin, Yiqi Wang, Bohan Zhai, Jianbo Yuan, Heng Wang, Hongxia Yang
arXiv pre-print
23

Ahmed and Khalil at NADI 2022: Transfer Learning and Addressing Class Imbalance for Arabic Dialect Identification and Sentiment Analysis

Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti, Khalil Mrini
EMNLP 2022 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP) · 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and Online
22

Medical Question Understanding and Answering with Knowledge Grounding and Semantic Self-Supervision

Khalil Mrini, Harpreet Singh, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole
COLING 2022 · 🇰🇷 Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, and Online
21

Goud.ma: a News Article Dataset for Summarization in Moroccan Darija

Abderrahmane Issam, Khalil Mrini
AfricaNLP workshop at ICLR 2022
20

Detection, Disambiguation, Re-ranking: Autoregressive Entity Linking as a Multi-Task Problem

Khalil Mrini, Shaoliang Nie, Jiatao Gu, Sinong Wang, Maziar Sanjabi, Hamed Firooz
ACL 2022 (Findings, Long Paper) · 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
19

Sentence-level Privacy for Document Embeddings

Casey Meehan, Khalil Mrini, Kamalika Chaudhuri
ACL 2022 (Main, Long Paper) · 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
18

Rewards with Negative Examples for Reinforced Topic-Focused Abstractive Summarization

Khalil Mrini, Can Liu, Markus Dreyer
EMNLP 2021 workshop on New Frontiers in Summarization (NewSum)
17

Interpretable Label-Attentive Encoder-Decoder Parser

Khalil Mrini, Walter Chang, Trung Bui, Quan Tran, Franck Dernoncourt
United States Patent Application Publication
16

A Gradually Soft Multi-Task and Data-Augmented Approach to Medical Question Understanding

Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole
ACL 2021 (Main, Long Paper)
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Toward a Unified Metadata Schema for Ecological Momentary Assessment with Voice-First Virtual Assistants

Chen Chen, Khalil Mrini, Kemeberly Charles, Ella Lifset, Michael Hogarth, Alison Moore, Nadir Weibel, Emilia Farcas
The 2021 ACM Conversational User Interface (CUI) Conference
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Joint Summarization-Entailment Optimization for Consumer Health Question Understanding

Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole
NAACL 2021 workshop on NLP for Medical Conversations (NLPMC) ★ Best Student Paper Award
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UCSD-Adobe at MEDIQA 2021: Transfer Learning and Answer Sentence Selection for Medical Summarization

Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Emilia Farcas, Ndapa Nakashole
NAACL 2021 workshop on Biomedical NLP (BioNLP)
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Medical Question Understanding and Answering for Older Adults

Khalil Mrini, Chen Chen, Ndapa Nakashole, Nadir Weibel, Emilia Farcas
The 2021 Southern California (SoCal) NLP Symposium
10

Rethinking Self-Attention: Towards Interpretability in Neural Parsing

Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Quan Tran, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Ndapa Nakashole
EMNLP 2020 (Findings, Long paper)
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Voice-Based Conversational Agents for Older Adults

Janet Johnson, Khalil Mrini, Michael Hogarth, Alison Moore, Ndapa Nakashole, Nadir Weibel, Emilia Farcas
CHI 2020 Workshop on Conversational Agents for Health and Wellbeing
8

Using HCI to Tackle Race and Gender Bias in ADHD Diagnosis

Naba Rizvi, Khalil Mrini
CHI 2020 Workshop on Engaging in Race in HCI
7

Highlights of Attention Mechanisms for Model Interpretability

Khalil Mrini, Franck Dernoncourt, Trung Bui, Walter Chang, Ndapa Nakashole
The 2019 Southern California (SoCal) NLP Symposium · 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, CA
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Interpretable Structure-aware Document Encoders with Hierarchical Attention

Khalil Mrini, Claudiu Musat, Michael Baeriswyl, Martin Jaggi
EPFL Master Thesis (2018)
5

Bringing letters to life: handwriting with haptic-enabled tangible robots

Thibault Asselborn, Arzu Guneysu, Khalil Mrini, Elmira Yadollahi, Ayberk Ozgur, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg
IDC 2018: The 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children · 🇳🇴 Trondheim, Norway
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Building a Question-Answering Chatbot using Forum Data in the Semantic Space

Khalil Mrini, Marc Laperrouza, Pierre Dillenbourg
SwissText 2018: The 3rd Swiss Text Analytics Conference · 🇨🇭 Winterthur, Switzerland ★ Best Presentation Award
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Putting Figures on Influences on Moroccan Darija from Arabic, French and Spanish using the WordNet

Khalil Mrini, Francis Bond
GWC 2018: The 9th Global WordNet Conference · 🇸🇬 Singapore
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Building the Moroccan Darija Wordnet (MDW) using Bilingual Resources

Khalil Mrini, Francis Bond
ICNLSSP 2017: The International Conference on Natural Language, Signal and Speech Processing · 🇲🇦 Casablanca, Morocco
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Towards Producing Human-Validated Translation Resources for the Fula language through WordNet Linking

Khalil Mrini, Martin Benjamin
RANLP 2017 Workshop on Human-informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT) · 🇧🇬 Varna, Bulgaria
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