Publications

Selected bibliography: [Google Scholar]

*Advised student

2023 :

21. E. Kasson, L. M. Filiatreau, N. Kaiser, K. Davet, J. Taylor, S. Garg, M. ElSherief, T. Aledavood, M. De Choudhury, P. Cavazos-Rehg (2023). Using Social Media to Examine Themes Surrounding Fentanyl Misuse and Risk Indicators. In Substance Use Misuse (2023): 1-10. (pdf)

20. N. Sabri*, B. Chen*, A. Teoh*, S. Dow, K. Vaccaro, M. ElSherief (2023). Challenges of Moderating Social Virtual Reality. In CHI 2023: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (pdf)

Before 2023:

19. M. ElSherief, K. Saha, P. Gupta, S. Mishra, J. Seybolt*, J. Xie, M. O'Toole, S. Burd-Sharps, M. De Choudhury (2021). Impacts of school shooter drills on the psychological well-being of American K-12 school communities: a social media study. In Nature's Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. (pdf)

18. M. ElSherief, S. Sumner, C. Jones, R. Law, A. Kacha-Ochana, L. Schieber, L. Cordier, K. Holton, M. De Choudhury (2021). Characterizing and Identifying the Prevalence of Web-Based Misinformation Relating to Medication for Opioid Use Disorder: Machine Learning Approach. In Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23.12 (pdf)

17. M. ElSherief, C. Ziems, D. Muchlinski, V. Anupindi, J. Seybolt, M. De Choudhury, D. Yang (2021). Latent Hatred: A Benchmark for Understanding Implicit Hate Speech. In EMNLP 2021: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. (pdf)

16. S. Garg, J. Taylor, M. ElSherief, E. Kasson, T. Aledavood, R. Riordan, N. Kaiser, z P. Cavazos-Rehg, M. De Choudhury (2021). Detecting Risk Level in Individuals Misusing Fentanyl Utilizing Posts from an Online Community on Reddit. In Journal of the European Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ESRII) and the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII). (pdf)

15. J. Qian, H. Wang, M. ElSherief, X. Yan (2021). Lifelong Learning of Hate Speech Classication on Social Media. In Proc. NAACL HLT 2021: North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. (pdf)

14. A. Gaut, T. Sun, S. Tang, Y. Huang, J. Qian, M. ElSherief, J. Zhao, D. Mirza, E. Belding, K. Chang and W. Yang Wang (2020). Towards Understanding Gender Bias in Neural Relation Extraction. In Proc. ACL 2020: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics [22%] (pdf)

13. S. Zannettou, M. ElSherief, E. Belding, S. Nilizadeh, G. Stringhini (2020). Measuring and Characterizing Hate Speech on News Websites. In Proc. WebSci 2020: ACM Web Science Conference [18%] (pdf)

12. T. Sun*, A. Gaut*, S. Tang*, Y. Huang*, M. ElSherief, J. Zhao, D. Mirza, E. Belding, Chang K., and W. Yang Wang (2019). Mitigating Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing: Literature Review. In Proc. ACL 2019: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics [22%] (pdf)

11. J. Qian, M. ElSherief, E. Belding, W. Yang Wang (2019). Learning to Decipher Hate Symbols. In Proc. NAACL HLT 2019: North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies [22%] (pdf)

10. J. Qian, M. ElSherief, E. Belding, W. Yang Wang (2018). Hierarchical CVAE for Fine-Grained Hate Speech Classification. In Proc. EMNLP 2018: Empirical Methods of Natural Language Processing [25%] (pdf)

9. J. Qian, M. ElSherief, E. Belding, W. Yang Wang (2018). Leveraging Intra-User and Inter-User Representation Learning for Automated Hate Speech Detection. In Proc. NAACL HLT 2018: North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies [18%] (pdf)

8. M. ElSherief, V. Kulranki, D. Nguyen, W. Yang Wang, and E. Belding (2018). Hate Lingo: A Target-based Linguistic Analysis of Hate Speech in Social Media. In Proc. ICWSM 2018: AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media [16%] (pdf)

7. M. ElSherief, S. Nilizadeh, D. Nguyen, G. Vigna, and E. Belding (2018). Peer to Peer Hate: Hate Speech Instigators and Their Targets. In Proc. ICWSM 2018: AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media [16%] (pdf)

6. M. ElSherief, B. Alipour, M. Al Qathrady, T. ElBatt, A. Zahran, and A. Helmy (2017). A Novel Mathematical Framework for Similarity-based Opportunistic Social Networks. In the Journal of Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing. (pdf)

5. M. ElSherief, M. Vigil-Hayes, R. Raghavendra, and E. Belding (2017). Whom to Query? Spatially-Blind Participatory Crowdsensing under Budget Constraints. In ACM Workshop on Mobile Crowdsensing Systems and Applications, colocated with SenSys 2017. (pdf)

4. M. ElSherief, E. Belding, and D. Nguyen. (2017). #NotOkay: Understanding Gender-based Violence in Social Media. In Proc. ICWSM 2017: AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. [14%] (pdf)

3. M. ElSherief, T. ElBatt, A. Zahran, and A. Helmy. (2015). An Information-theoretic Model for Knowledge Sharing in Opportunistic Social Networks. In Proc. SocialCom 2015: IEEE Conference on Social Computing and Networking. [25%] (pdf)

2. M. ElSherief and E. Belding. (2015). The Urban Characteristics of Street Harassment: A First Look. In ACM Workshop on Smart Cities and Urban Analytics, colocated with SigSpatial 2015. (pdf)

1. M. ElSherief T. ElBatt, A. Zahran, and A. Helmy (2014). The Quest for User Similarity in Mobile Societies. In IEEE Workshop on Social and Community Intelligence, colocated with the Sixth IEEE/ASE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom) 2014. [17%] (pdf)