Publications

F. K. Abu Salem, R. Al Feel, S. Elbassuoni, H. Ghannam, M. Jaber, and M. Farah
Metalearning for Fake News Detection surrounding the Syrian War
in Patterns, 2(11), 2021.

Y. Fattah, M. Nourallah, L. Wahab, F. K. Abu Salem, S. Elbassuoni
An RDF Data Management System for Conflict Casualties
Proc. 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2021, pp.
4711-4715

N. Sawaya, S. Elbassuoni, F. K. Abu Salem
TAGWAR: An Annotated Corpus for Sequence Tagging of War Incidents
in the Proceedings of 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge
Engineering and Knowledge Management (KDIR), 2020, pp. 243-250

J. Doughman, F. K. Abu Salem, S. Elbassuoni
Time-Aware Word Embeddings for Three Lebanese News Archives
in the Proceedings of LREC 2020, pp. 4717-4725

F. K. Abu Salem, R. Al Feel, S. Elbassuoni, M. Jaber, and M. Farah
FA-KES: A Fake News Dataset around the Syrian War
In Proc. 13th AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2019)

F. K. Abu Salem, M. Jaber, C. Abdallah, O. Mehio, S. Najem
A Distributed Spatiotemporal contingency analysis for the Lebanese power grid
In IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2019

Global Conference Participations

TAMAM 12th Gathering in Jordan:

February 2024

Check the booklet here
Watch the opening session here

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Education Forum

Connecting over 40 educators across Lebanon in a full-day event to brainstorm and discuss various forms of public school empowerment.

Volunteering Day in Ras Baalbeck

SAIL representatives engaged with youths in Ras Baalbeck to encourage community-service and volunteering.

Gaming Academy Workshop

The Gaming Academy hosted its first hybrid workshop in iPark! Over 50 participants attended the session to learn about animation.

Mental Health Session in Mekse

In collaboration with Embrace, two sessions happened in parallel: one for children, and one for parents on coping mechanisms and ways to address bullying in schools. The event was organized by World...

Environment Day in Hermel

Ziad Abi Chaker presented to community in Hermel on ways to deal with waste. The day was organized by World Vision.

SAIL for Change meets AUB Community

Our Khaddit Beirut team re-introduces themselves as part of SAIL for Change cluster to AUB community.

Fundraiser – Led by Students

In collaboration with Nursing Student Society (NSS), Education Department, and Sigma Iota Chapter at AUB, students raised donations for displaced families in South of Lebanon.

3RF General Consultative Meeting

Representatives from health and mental health organizations gathered to discuss top health priorities in Lebanon to be relayed to EU, WHO, and ministries for reforms.

On SAIL for Change & Scholar Activism: Breaking Academic Silos

A discussion on scholar activism led by Drs Douglas Creed, Judy Makhoul, Charlotte Karam and Ms. Lina Abou Habib. Check out the full webinar here.

Games for palestine

As part of Palestine week, Gaming Academy showcased games made for Palestine from all over the world; students and instructors joined to try them out. Check out the collection of games here!