Publications

2025

[1] Amirhossein Abaskohi, Raymond Li, Chuyuan Li, Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini CEMTM: Contextual Embedding-based Multimodal Topic Modeling

EMNLP 2025

[Paper]

[2] Ali Salamatian, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Wan-Cyuan Fan, Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain, Leonid Sigal, Giuseppe Carenini

ChartGaze: Enhancing Chart Understanding in LVLMs with Eye-Tracking Guided Attention Refinement

EMNLP 2025

[3] Amirhossein Abaskohi, Spandana Gella, Giuseppe Carenini, Issam H Laradji

FM²DS: Few-Shot Multimodal Multihop Data Synthesis with Knowledge Distillation for Question Answering

EMNLP 2025

[Paper] / [Code] / [Website] / [Huggingface]

[4] Amirhossein Abaskohi, Amrutha Varshini Ramesh, Shailesh Nanisetty, Chirag Goel, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal, Spandana Gella, Giuseppe Carenini, Issam H. Laradji

AgentAda: Skill-Adaptive Data Analytics for Tailored Insight Discovery

REALM@ACL 2025

[Paper] / [Code]

2024

[5] Juan A. Rodriguez, Xiangru Jian, Siba Smarak Panigrahi, Tianyu Zhang, Aarash Feizi, Abhay Puri, Akshay Kalkunte, Francois Savard, Amirhossein Abaskohi (Second Author With Equal Contribution), Ahmed Masry, Perampalli Shravan Nayak, Mahsa Massoud, Rabiul Awal, Pierre-André Noël, Mats L. Richter, Saverio Vadacchino, Shubham Agarwal, Sanket Biswas, Ying Zhang, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, João Monteiro, Krishnamurthy (Dj) Dvijotham, Torsten Scholak, Nicolas Chapados, Sean Hughes, Tamer Özsu, Aishwarya Agrawal, Marco Pedersoli, Christopher Pal, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez, Issam H. Laradji, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar Mudumba

BigDocs: A Permissively-Licensed Dataset for Training Vision-Language Models on Document and Code Tasks

ICLR 2025 & RBFM@NeurIPS 2024

[Paper] / [Website] / [Huggingface]

[6] Gaurav Sahu, Abhay Puri, Juan Rodriguez, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Mohammad Chegini, Alexandre Drouin, Perouz Taslakian, Valentina Zantedeschi, Alexandre Lacoste, David Vazquez, Nicolas Chapados, Christopher Pal, Sai Rajeswar Mudumba, Issam Hadj Laradji

InsightBench: Evaluating Business Analytics Agents Through Multi-Step Insight Generation

ICLR 2025

[Paper] / [Code]

[7] Amirhossein Abaskohi, Sara Baruni, Mostafa Masoudi, Nesa Abbasi, Mohammad Hadi Babalou, Ali Edalat, Sepehr Kamahi, Samin Mahdizadeh Sani, Nikoo Naghavian, Danial Namazifard, Pouya Sadeghi, and Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh

Benchmarking Large Language Models for Persian: A Preliminary Study Focusing on ChatGPT

LREC-COLING 2024

[Paper] / [Code]

[8] Amirhossein Abaskohi*, Amirhossein Dabiriaghdam*, Lele Wang, Giuseppe Carenini
BCAmirs at SemEval-2024 Task 4: Beyond Words: A Multimodal and Multilingual Exploration of Persuasion in Memes

SemEval@NAACL 2024

[Paper] / [Code] / [Huggingface]

[9] Pouya Sadeghi*, Amirhossein Abaskohi*, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh

uTeBC-NLP at SemEval-2024 Task 9: Can LLMs be Lateral Thinkers?

SemEval@NAACL 2024

[Paper] / [Code]

2023

[10] Amirhossein Abaskohi, Sascha Rothe, and Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh

LM-CPPF: Paraphrasing-Guided Data Augmentation for Contrastive Prompt-Based Few-Shot Fine-Tuning

ACL 2023

[Paper] / [Code]

[11] Amirhossein Abaskohi*, Alireza Salemi*, Sara Tavakoli, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, Azadeh Shakery
PEACH: Pre-Training Sequence-to-Sequence Multilingual Models for Translation with Semi-Supervised Pseudo-Parallel Document Generation

LoResMT@ EACL 2023.

[Paper] / [Code]

[12] Taha ShabaniMirzaei, Houmaan Chamani, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Zhivar Sourati Hassan Zadeh, and Behnam Bahrak
A Large-Scale Analysis of Persian Tweets Regarding Covid-19 Vaccination

Springer’s Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal

[Paper]

2022

[13] Amirhossein Abaskohi, Sabri Nazanin, and Bahrak Behnam

Persian Emotion Detection using ParsBERT and Imbalanced Data Handling Approaches

arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.08029.

[Paper] / [Code]

[14] Amirhossein Abaskohi, Arash Rasouli*, Tanin Zeraati*, and Behnam Bahrak
UTNLP at SemEval-2022 Task 6: A Comparative Analysis of Sarcasm Detection Using Generative-based and Mutation-based Data Augmentation

SemEval@NAACL 2022

[Paper] / [Code]

[15] Amirhossein Abaskohi, Fatemeh Mortazavi, and Hadi Moradi

Automatic Speech Recognition for Speech Assessment of Persian Preschool Children

arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.12886

[Paper] / [Code]