Publications

For a complete list of publications, please visit Google Scholar.

2026


PersianPunc: A Large-Scale Dataset and BERT-Based Approach for Persian Punctuation Restoration
M.J. Ranjbar Kalahroodi, A. Shakery, H. Faili
in SilkRoadNLP (EACL Workshop),  


2025


ParsVoice: A Large-Scale Multi-Speaker Persian Speech Corpus for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
M.J. Ranjbar Kalahroodi, H. Faili, A. Shakery
in arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.10774,    

PolitiSky24: US Political Bluesky Dataset with User Stance Labels
P. Rostami, V. Rahimzadeh, A. Adibi, A. Shakery
in arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.07606,    

PersianMedQA: Evaluating Large Language Models on a Persian-English Bilingual Medical Question Answering Benchmark
M.J. Ranjbar Kalahroodi, A. Sheikholselami, S. Karimi, S.R. Kalahroodi, H. Faili, A. Shakery
in arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.00250,    

From Millions of Tweets to Actionable Insights: Leveraging LLMs for User Profiling
V. Rahimzadeh, A. Hamzehpour, A. Shakery, M. Asadpour
in arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.06184,    

PERCUL: A Story-Driven Cultural Evaluation of LLMs in Persian
E.M. Monazzah, V. Rahimzadeh, Y. Yaghoobzadeh, A. Shakery, M.T. Pilehvar
in arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.07459,    


2024


QEQR: An Exploration of Query Expansion Methods for Question Retrieval in CQA Services
Y. Ghafourian, S. Movahedi, A. Shakery
in arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.15530,    

Entity-centric multi-domain transformer for improving generalization in fake news detection
P. Bazmi, M. Asadpour, A. Shakery, A. Maazallahi
in Information Processing & Management 61(5), 103807,    

Persian offensive language detection
E. Kebriaei, A. Homayouni, R. Faraji, A. Razavi, A. Shakery, H. Faili, B. Bahrak
in Machine Learning 113(7), 4359-4379,    

Harnessing the power of metadata for enhanced question retrieval in community question answering
S. Ghasemi, A. Shakery
in IEEE Access 12, 65768-65779,    

On the use of Intelligent Information Retrieval in Patent Prior-Art Search
H. Asghari, A. Shakery
in Roshd-e-Fanavari 1(77), 24,  


2023


PEACH: Pre-Training Sequence-to-Sequence Multilingual Models for Translation with Semi-Supervised Pseudo-Parallel Document Generation
A. Salemi, A. Abaskohi, S. Tavakoli, A. Shakery, Y. Yaghoobzadeh
in Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages,    

A deep learning-based expert finding method to retrieve agile software teams from CQAs
P. Rostami, A. Shakery
in Information Processing & Management 60(2), 103144,    

Enhancement of Twitter event detection using news streams
S. Karimi, A. Shakery, R.M. Verma
in Natural Language Engineering 29(2), 181-200,    

Multi-view co-attention network for fake news detection by modeling topic-specific user and news source credibility
P. Bazmi, M. Asadpour, A. Shakery
in Information Processing & Management 60(1), 103146,    


2022


Generative Adversarial Training Can Improve Neural Language Models
S. Movahedi, A. Shakery
in arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.09728,    

α-DARTS: Mitigating Performance Collapse by Harmonizing Operation Selection among Cells
S. Movahedi, M. Adabinejad, A. Imani, A. Keshavarz, M. Dehghani, A. Shakery
in arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07998,    

A learning to rank framework based on cross-lingual loss function for cross-lingual information retrieval
E. Ghanbari, A. Shakery
in Applied Intelligence 52(3), 3156-3174,    


2021


Arman: Pre-training with semantically selecting and reordering of sentences for persian abstractive summarization
A. Salemi, E. Kebriaei, G.N. Minaei, A. Shakery
in arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.04098,    

WordNet construction for under-resourced languages using personalized PageRank
P. Berangi, Z. Mousavi, H. Faili, A. Shakery
in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 36(3), 565-580,    

Online news media website ranking using user-generated content
S. Karimi, A. Shakery, R. Verma
in Journal of Information Science 47(3), 340-358,    

NLP-IIS@UT at SemEval-2021 Task 4: Machine Reading Comprehension using the Long Document Transformer
H. Basafa, S. Movahedi, A. Ebrahimi, A. Shakery, H. Faili
in arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.03775,    

UTNLP at SemEval-2021 task 5: A comparative analysis of toxic span detection using attention-based, named entity recognition, and ensemble models
A. Salemi, N. Sabri, E. Kebriaei, B. Bahrak, A. Shakery
in arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.04770,    


2020


Distilling knowledge for fast retrieval-based chat-bots
A. Vakili Tahami, K. Ghajar, A. Shakery
in Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval,    

An axiomatic approach to corpus-based cross-language information retrieval
R. Rahimi, A. Montazeralghaem, A. Shakery
in Information Retrieval Journal 23(3), 191-215,    

Swash: A collective personal name matching framework
M. Raeesi, M. Asadpour, A. Shakery
in Expert Systems with Applications 147, 113115,    

Method and system for information retrieval
S.A. Tabrizi, A. Shakery, M.A. Tavallaei, J. Dadashkarimi
in US Patent 10,540,399,    


Earlier Publications

For publications from 2019 and earlier, please visit our Google Scholar page.