Publications

• Linguistically-Controlled Paraphrase Generation
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025 (EMNLP’25 Findings) [PDF]

• LingConv: An Interactive Toolkit for Controlled Paraphrase Generation with Linguistic Attribute Control
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations (EMNLP’25 Demo) [PDF]

• FUTURE: Flexible Unlearning for Tree Ensemble
  Ziheng Chen, Jin Huang, Jiali Cheng, Yuchan Guo, Mengjie Wang, Lalitesh Morishetti, Kaushiki Nag, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’25 Short) [PDF]

• FROG: Fair Removal on Graphs
  Ziheng Chen, Jiali Cheng, Hadi Amiri, Kaushiki Nag, Lu Lin, Sijia Liu, Xiangguo Sun, Gabriele Tolomei. In Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’25) [PDF]

• MedDecXtract: A Clinician-Support System for Extracting, Visualizing, and Annotating Medical Decisions in Clinical Narratives
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Systems Demonstration (ACL’25 Demo) [Demo]

• Speech Unlearning
  Jiali Cheng, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2025 (INTERSPEECH’25) [PDF]

• Tool Unlearning for Tool-Augmented LLMs
  Jiali Cheng, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML’25) [PDF]

• EqualizeIR: Mitigating Linguistic Biases in Retrieval Models
  Jiali Cheng, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL’25) [PDF]

• Linguistic Blind Spots of Large Language Models
  Jiali Cheng, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL Workshop @ NAACL’25) [PDF]

• MU-Bench: A Multitask Multimodal Benchmark for Machine Unlearning
  Jiali Cheng, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of NeurIPS Safe Generative AI Workshop 2024 (SafeGenAI Workshop @ NeurIPS’24) [PDF]

• Controlled Transformation of Text-Attributed Graphs
  Nidhi Vakil, Hadi Amiri. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 (EMNLP’24 Findings). [PDF]

• FairFlow: Mitigating Dataset Biases through Undecided Learning for Natural Language Understanding
  Jiali Cheng, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’24). [PDF]

• MedDec: A Dataset for Extracting Medical Decisions from Discharge Summaries
  Mohamed Elgaar, Jiali Cheng, Nidhi Vakil, Hadi Amiri, Leo Anthony Celi. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 (ACL’24 Findings). [PDF]

• CogniVoice: Multimodal and Multilingual Fusion Networks for Mild Cognitive Impairment Assessment from Spontaneous Speech
  Jiali Cheng, Mohamed Elgaar, Nidhi Vakil, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2024 (INTERSPEECH’24). [PDF]

• MultiDelete for Multimodal Machine Unlearning
  Jiali Cheng, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of The 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV’24). [PDF]

• Ling-CL: Understanding NLP Models through Linguistic Curricula
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’23). [PDF]

• Complexity-Guided Curriculum Learning for Text Graphs
  Nidhi Vakil, Hadi Amiri. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 (EMNLP’23 Findings). [PDF]

• HuCurl: Human-induced Curriculum Discovery
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’23). [PDF]

• Curriculum Learning for Graph Neural Networks: A Multiview Competence-based Approach
  Nidhi Vakil, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’23). [PDF]

• Generic and Trend-aware Curriculum Learning for Relation Extraction in Graph Neural Networks
  Nidhi Vakil, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL’22). [PDF]

• Attentive Multiview Text Representation for Differential Diagnosis
  Hadi Amiri, Mitra Mohtarami, Isaac S. Kohane. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’21). [PDF]

• Embedding Time Differences in Context-sensitive Neural Networks for Learning Time to Event
  Nazanin Dehghani, Hassan Hajipoor, Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’21). [PDF]

• Machine Learning of Patient Characteristics to Predict Admission Outcomes in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network
  Hadi Amiri, Issac S. Kohane, Undiagnosed Diseases Network. In the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 2021. [PDF]

• Online Searching and Social Media to Detect Alcohol Use Risk at Population Scale
  Elissa R. Weitzman, Kara M. Magane, Po-Hua Chen, Hadi Amiri, Timothy S. Naimi, Lauren E. Wisk. In American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM’20). [Media] [PDF]

• Learning to Estimate Nutrition Facts from Food Descriptions
  Hadi Amiri, Andrew L. Beam, Isaac S. Kohane. In American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA’19). [PDF]

• Neural Self-Training through Spaced Repetition
  Hadi Amiri. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL’19). [PDF]

• Vector of Locally Aggregated Embeddings for Text Representation
  Hadi Amiri, Mitra Mohtarami. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL’19). [PDF]

• Serial Recall Effects in Neural Language Modeling
  Hassan Hajipoor, Hadi Amiri, Maseud Rahgozar, Farhad Oroumchian. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL’19). [PDF]

• Toward Large-scale and Multi-facet Analysis of First-person Alcohol Drinking
  Hadi Amiri, Kara Magane, Lauren Wisk, Guergana Savova, Elissa Weitzman. In Proceedings of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA’18). [PDF]

• Spotting Spurious Data with Neural Networks
  Hadi Amiri, Timothy A. Miller, Guergana Savova. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL’18). [PDF]

• Repeat before Forgetting: Spaced Repetition for Efficient and Effective Training of Neural Networks
  Hadi Amiri, Timothy A. Miller, Guergana Savova. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’17). [PDF]

• Learning Text Pair Similarity with Context-sensitive Autoencoders
  Hadi Amiri, Philip Resnik, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Hal Daumé III. In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’16). [PDF]

• Short Text Representation for Detecting Churn in Microblogs
  Hadi Amiri and Hal Daumé III. In Proceedings of the Thirtieth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’16). [PDF]

• Target-dependent Churn Classification in Microblogs
  Hadi Amiri and Hal Daumé III. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’15). [PDF]

• Emerging Topic Detection for Organizations from Microblogs
  Chen Yan, Hadi Amiri, Zhojun Li, Tat-Seng Chua. In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’13). [PDF]

• A Pattern Matching Based Model for Implicit Opinion Question Identification
  Hadi Amiri, Zheng-Jun Zha, Tat-Seng Chua. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’13). [PDF]

• Mining Sentiment Terminology through Time
  Hadi Amiri, Tat-Seng Chua. In Proceedings of the 21th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’12). [PDF]

• Mining Slang and Urban Opinion Words and Phrases from cQA Services: An Optimization Approach
  Hadi Amiri, Tat-Seng Chua. In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM’12). [PDF]

• Sense Sentiment Similarity: An Analysis.
  Mitra Mohtarami, Hadi Amiri, Man Lan, Thanh P. Tran, Chew Lim Tan. In Proceedings of the 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’12). [PDF]

• Predicting the Uncertainty of Sentiment Adjectives in Indirect Answers.
  Mitra Mohtarami, Hadi Amiri, Man Lan, Chew Lim Tan. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM’11). [PDF]