Slimane Bellaouar


2024

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MODOS at ArAIEval Shared Task: Multimodal Propagandistic Memes Classification Using Weighted SAM, CLIP and ArabianGPT
Abdelhamid Haouhat | Hadda Cherroun | Slimane Bellaouar | Attia Nehar
Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference

Arabic social media platforms are increasingly using propaganda to deceive or influence people. This propaganda is often spread through multimodal content, such as memes. While substantial research has addressed the automatic detection of propaganda in English content, this paper presents the MODOS team’s participation in the Arabic Multimodal Propagandistic Memes Classification shared task. Our system deploys the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and CLIP for image representation and ARABIAN-GPT embeddings for text. Then, we employ LSTM encoders followed by a weighted fusion strategy to perform binary classification. Our system achieved competitive performance in distinguishing between propagandistic and non-propagandistic memes, scored 0.7290 macro F1, and ranked 6th among the participants.

2023

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AraBERT and mBert: Insights from Psycholinguistic Diagnostics
Basma Sayah | Attia Nehar | Hadda Cherroun | Slimane Bellaouar
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2023)