Publications
Papers and shared-task systems. Full details in my CV (PDF).
2026
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ZHR at StanceEval-2026: Surface-Matched Synthetic Demonstrations and Metric-Aware Decoding for Arabic Cross-Target Stance Detection
M. Zaher, M. Alshrief, M. Bahgat
ArabicNLP 2026 @ EMNLP 2026, Budapest, Hungary · Oct 2026
1st place on unseen targets · 2nd on seen targets (22 teams)
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ZHR at BAREC Shared Task 2026: Ordinal-Objective Ensembles with Threshold Calibration and Silver-Label Pretraining for Arabic Readability Assessment
M. Zaher
ArabicNLP 2026 @ EMNLP 2026, Budapest, Hungary · Oct 2026
2nd place in both sentence-level tracks · sole author
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The Nile at NADI 2026 Subtask 1.1: A Two-Phase Acoustic Fine-Tuning Strategy for Robust Dialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
M. Alshrief, M. Bahgat, M. Zaher, S. Selim
ArabicNLP 2026 @ EMNLP 2026, Budapest, Hungary · Oct 2026