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Under Review

Investigating Length Bias and Robustness in LVLMs for Multiple-Choice Question Answering
Md Atabuzzaman, Hani Alomari, Chris Thomas
Under commitment to ACL 2026
Reasoning-Guided Part-Level Visual Grounding via Reinforcement Learning
Kazi Sajeed Mehrab, Hani Alomari, Najibul Haque Sarker, Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim, Chia-Wei Tang, Anuj Karpatne, Chris Thomas.
Under review ECCV
NEST: Narrative Event Structures in Time for Long Video Understanding
Ali Asgarov, Kaushik Narasimhan, Najibul Haque Sarker, Hani Alomari, Chia-Wei Tang, Anushka Sivakumar, Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim, Shaurya Mallampati, Chris Thomas.
ACL Rolling Review (Mar 2026)
Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim, Najibul Haque Sarker, Chia-Wei Tang, Aafiya Shamshad Hussain, Alvi Md Ishmam, Ali Asgarov, Hani Alomari, Chris Thomas.
ACL Rolling Review (Mar 2026)
ENTER (v2): Event-Based Interpretable Reasoning for VideoQA
Hammad Ayyubi, Junzhang Liu, Ali Asgarov, Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim, Najibul Haque Sarker, Zhecan Wang, Chia-Wei Tang, Hani Alomari, et al.
ACL Rolling Review (Jan 2026)

Conference Papers

Lenses: Toward Polysemous Vision-Language Understanding
Hani Alomari, Ali Asgarov, Chris Thomas
CVPR 2026
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Maximal Matching Matters: Preventing Representation Collapse for Robust Cross-Modal Retrieval
Hani Alomari, Anushka Sivakumar, Andrew Zhang, Chris Thomas
ACL 2025 (Main)
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JourneyBench: A Challenging One-Stop Vision-Language Understanding Benchmark of Generated Images
Zhecan Wang, Junzhang Liu, Chia-Wei Tang, Hani Alomari, et al.
NeurIPS 2024
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Workshop Papers

Real-Time Ultra-Fine-Grained Surgical Instrument Classification
Md Atabuzzaman, Gino DiMatteo, Hani Alomari, et al.
FGVC Workshop @ CVPR 2025
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ENTER: Event-Based Interpretable Reasoning for VideoQA
Hammad Ayyubi, Junzhang Liu, Ali Asgarov, Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim, Najibul Haque Sarker, Zhecan Wang, Chia-Wei Tang, Hani Alomari, et al.
MAR Workshop, NeurIPS 2024 (Spotlight)
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DLJUST at SemEval-2021 Task 7: Hahackathon--Linking Humor and Offense
Hani Al-Omari, Isra'a AbedulNabi, Rehab Duwairi
SemEval 2021
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JUSTDeep at NLP4IF 2019 Task 1: Propaganda Detection Using Ensemble Deep Learning Models
Hani Al-Omari, Malak Abdullah, Ola AlTiti, Samira Shaikh
NLP4IF 2019
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EmoDet at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Emotion Detection in Text Using Deep Learning
Hani Al-Omari, Malak Abdullah, Nabeel Bassam
SemEval 2019
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Journal Articles

So2al-wa-Gwab: A New Arabic Question-Answering Dataset Trained on Answer Extraction Models
Hani Alomari, Rehab Duwairi
ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, 22(8), 2023
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Earlier Conference Papers

EmoDet2: Emotion Detection in English Textual Dialogue Using BERT and BiLSTM Models
Hani Al-Omari, Malak A. Abdullah, Samira Shaikh
ICICS 2020 (IEEE)
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MTRecS-DLT: Multi-Modal Transport Recommender System Using Deep Learning and Tree Models
Ayat Abedalla, Ali Fadel, Ibraheem Tuffaha, Hani Al-Omari, et al.
SNAMS 2019 (IEEE)
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