Malik Altakrori, Ph.D.

NLP/DL from @mcgillu /CS. Style Analysis, Evaluation techniques for authorship identification/obfuscation. Ex DMaS, @rllabmcgill, and @Mila_quebec.🇵🇸 🇨🇦

[Malik Altakrori, Ph.D. @AltakroriM]

If you are at #EMNLP22, and interested in authorship obfuscation, join us in Hall A-room A at 14:30 local time. I ll be presenting our work on Evaluating Authorship Obfuscation, and would be happy to hear your thoughts! https://t.co/Akr4QkvJDr

[Nizar Habash @NYHabash]

Excited to present our work at #LREC2026 in Palma! 🇪🇸

📄 DIALECTALARABICMMLU: Benchmarking Dialectal Capabilities in Arabic and Multilingual Language Models

We introduce DIALECTALARABICMMLU, a new benchmark for evaluating LLM performance across major Arabic dialects.

The benchmark extends MMLU-Redux with:
🔹 15K QA pairs across 5 Arabic dialects
🔹 32 academic and professional domains
🔹 Human-curated translations and adaptations
🔹 Evaluation of 19 Arabic and multilingual LLMs

Our results reveal substantial variation in model performance across dialects, highlighting persistent gaps in dialectal understanding and generalization.

Dataset: https://t.co/vw77ZQjOhw

#ArabicNLP #LLM #DialectalArabic #NLP #ComputationalLinguistics @AltakroriM @cigilt @preslav_nakov @AlhamFikri

[Malik Altakrori, Ph.D. @AltakroriM]

@NYHabash 92%
مش بطال 🙂

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

GAZA. The so called peace plan is allowing Israel to "finish the job": 450 killed; 2,500 structures destroyed; lifesaving aid blocked.
The human rights movement will not allow those responsible to run away from justice. It is not matter of if. It's matter of when.
@ICC
@CIJ_ICJ

[MSF International @MSF]

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza. 

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
https://t.co/C7Qglwa4DJ

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

10 years.
9kg.
His name is Nafez.

You don't need gas chambers and machetes to have genocide.

Israel is designing and perfectioning a new set of weaponery to genocide people as such.

[Younis Tirawi | يونس @ytirawi]

Gaza City |

“Here from Gaza City.. We will destroy all of Gaza as much as possible.we won’t leave anything of it” - Today 22 Sept

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

The Israe prime minister Netanyahu ordered the closure of the Allenby bridge till further notice. The bridge is the only entry and exit point for 3.2 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Netanyahu’s decision practically imprisons the whole Palestinian population in the West Bank following his imprisonment of 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza for more the last two years.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

❌️ BREAKING! ❌️ At least 114 Palestinian children were killed in Gaza with SINGLE GUNSHOT to head/chest, consistent with shooting aimed to kill. A genocide unfolding everyday under our eyes. Will Israel ever be held accountable? And when will the killing machine be stopped?

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israeli forces continue to demolish high-rise residential buildings in Gaza City, claiming without evidence that Hamas is using them.

Analysts say the destruction shows a clear intent to render the city uninhabitable, an act they say amounts to ethnic cleansing and genocide.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

My God. Each pair of shoes is a child's life.

[Financial Times @FT]

Israel has killed at least 20 people, including several journalists, in a double strike on Nasser Medical Complex, the largest health facility in southern Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave. https://t.co/yw5sagr6ih

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

"It is a famine. The Gaza Famine.

It is a famine that we could have prevented, if we had been allowed. Yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel.

Everyone owns this. The #GazaFamine is the world’s famine."

- @UNReliefChief

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

As the opening salvo of its occupation of Gaza City, Israel has assassinated Anas Al-Sharif, one of the world’s most courageous journalists

Israel also murdered his brave colleagues, Ismail Al-Ghoul and Hosam Shabat

Israel killed them because they showed the world the uniquely satanic violence it has unleashed across Gaza - they were our eyes and ears on the ground

[Malik Altakrori, Ph.D. @AltakroriM]

@DBahdanau Congratulations 🙂

[Malik Altakrori, Ph.D. @AltakroriM]

@bose_joey @imperialcollege @ICComputing and the ping pong table at Mila! Good times 🙂