- K. Thang, H. Hosseini, H. Fani; Translative Neural Team Recommendation: From Multilabel Classification to Sequence Prediction. In the The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2025.
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- H. Waezi, H. Fani; Enhancing Online Grooming Detection via Backtranslation Augmentation. In the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2025.
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- R. Barzegar, M. Kurepa+♥, H. Fani; Adaptive Loss-based Curricula for Neural Team Recommendation. In the 18th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2025.
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- M. Saeedi, C. Wong+, H. Fani; Bridging Historical Subgraph Optimization and Modern Graph Neural Network Approaches in Team Recommendations. In the 18th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2025.
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- D. Rajaei, Z. Taheri, H. Fani; No Query Left Behind: Query Refinement via Backtranslation. In the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2024.
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- H. Waezi, R. Barzegar, H. Fani; Osprey🪶: A Reference Framework for Online Grooming Detection via Neural Models and Conversation Features. In the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2024.
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- F. Hemmatizadeh, C. Wong†, A. Yu+, H. Fani; LADy💃: A Benchmark Toolkit for Latent Aspect Detection Enriched with Backtranslation Augmentation. The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2024.
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- H. Fani, R. Barzegar, A. Dashti, M. Saeedi; A Streaming Approach to Neural Team Formation Training. In the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2024.
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- F. Zarrinkalam, H. A. Noughabib, Z. Noorian, H. Fani, E. Bagheri; Predicting Users’ Future Interests on Social Networks: A Reference Framework. Information Processing and Management (IP&M), 2024.
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- M.J. Ahmed, M. Saeedi, H. Fani; Skill Vector Representation Learning for Collaborative Team Recommendation: A Comparative Study. In the 25th International Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), 2024.
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- D. Rajaei, Z. Taheri, H. Fani; Enhancing RAG's Retrieval via Query Backtranslations. In the 25th International Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), 2024.
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- Y. Lakshmi Narayanan, H. Fani; RePair My Queries: Personalized Query Reformulation via Conditional Transformers. In the 25th International Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), 2024.
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- R. Moasses, D. Rajaei, H. Loghmani, M. Saeedi, H. Fani; vivafemme: Mitigating Gender Bias in Neural Team Recommendation via Female-Advocate Loss Regularization. The 5th International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation, Colocated with the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (BIAS-SIGIR), 2024.
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- M. Saeedi, C. Wong†, H. Fani; Paradigm Shifts in Team Recommendation: From Historical Subgraph Optimization to Emerging Graph Neural Network. In the 2nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific (SIGIR-AP), 2024.
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- M. Saeedi, C. Wong†, H. Fani; Collaborative Team Recommendation for Skilled Users: Objectives, Techniques, and New Perspectives. In the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), 2024.
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F. Hemmatizadeh, C. Wong†, A. Yu+, H. Fani; Latent Aspect Detection via Backtranslation Augmentation. In the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2023.
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- Y. Lakshmi Narayanan, H. Fani; RePair: An Extensible Toolkit to Generate Large-Scale Datasets for Query Refinement via Transformers. In the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2023.
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- R. Hamidi Rad, H. Fani, E. Bagheri, M. Kargar, D. Srivastava, J. Szlichta; A Variational Neural Architecture for Skill-based Team Formation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 42(1): 1-28, 2023.
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- H. Loghmani, H. Fani; Bootless Application of Greedy Re-ranking Algorithms in Fair Neural Team Formation. In the 4th International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation, Colocated with the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (BIAS-ECIR), 2023.
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- A. Dashti, S. Samet, H. Fani; Effective Neural Team Formation via Negative Samples. In the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2022.
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- A. Dashti, K. Saxena, D. Patel†, H. Fani; OpeNTF: A Benchmark Library for Neural Team Formation. In the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2022.
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- S. Ziaeinejad, S. Samet, H. Fani; SEERa: A Framework for Community Prediction. In the 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2022.
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- H. Fani, M. Tamannaee, F. Zarrinkalam, J. Samouh†, S. Paydar, E. Bagheri; An Extensible Toolkit of Query Refinement Methods and Gold Standard Dataset Generation. In Advances in Information Retrieval: 43rd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR), 2021
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- R. Hamidi Rad, Aabid Mitha†, H. Fani, M. Kargar, J. Szlichta, E. Bagheri; PyTFL: A Python-based Neural Team Formation Toolkit. In the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2021.
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- S.A.M Falavarjani, J. Jovanovic, H. Fani, A. Ghorbani, Z. Noorian, E. Bagheri; On the Causal Relation Between Real-World Activities and Emotional Expressions of Social Media Users. In Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 72(6): 723-743, 2021.
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- H. Fani, E. Bagheri, W. Du; Temporal Latent Space Modeling for Community Prediction. In the 42nd European Conference on IR Research (ECIR), 2020.
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- H. Fani; Diachronically Like-Minded User Community Detection, University of New Brunswick, PhD Thesis, 2020.
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- H. Fani, E. Jiang†, E. Bagheri, F. Al-Obeidat, W. Du, M. Kargar; User Community Detection via Embedding of Social Network Structure and Temporal Content. In Information Processing and Management (IP&M), 57(2): 102056, 2020.
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- M. Tamannaee, H. Fani, F. Zarrinkalam, J. Samouh†, S. Paydar, E. Bagheri; ReQue: A Configurable Workflow and Dataset Collection for Query Refinement. In the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2020.
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- R. Hamidi Rad, H. Fani, M. Kargar, J. Szlichta, E. Bagheri; Learning to Form Skill-based Teams of Experts. In the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2020.
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- F. Zarrinkalam, H. Fani, E. Bagheri; Social User Interest Mining: Methods and Applications. In the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD), 2019.
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- F. Zarrinkalam, H. Fani, E. Bagheri; Extracting, Mining and Predicting Users' Interests from Social Networks. In the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2019.
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- H. Fani, A. Mirlohi, H. Hosseini, R. Herpers; Swim Stroke Analytic: Front Crawl Pulling Pose Classification. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018.
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- H. Fani, M. Bashari, F. Zarrinkalam, E. Bagheri, F. Al-Obeidat; Stopword Detection for Streaming Content. In Advances in Information Retrieval: 40th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR), 2018.
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- H. Fani, E. Bagheri, F. Zarrinkalam, X. Zhao†, W. Du; Finding Diachronic Like-Minded Users. In Computational Intelligence: An International Journal (CI), 34(1): 124-144, 2018.
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- N. Arabzadeh, H. Fani, F. Zarrinkalam, A. Navivala†, E. Bagheri; Causal Dependencies for Future Interest Prediction on Twitter. In the 27th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2018.
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- M. Khodabakhsh, H. Fani, F. Zarrinkalam, E. Bagheri; Predicting Personal Life Events from Streaming Social Content. In the 27th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2018.
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- H. Fani, E. Bagheri, W. Du; Temporally Like-minded User Community Identification through Neural Embeddings. In the 2017 Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2017.
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- H. Fani and E. Bagheri; Community detection in social networks. Encyclopedia with Semantic Computing and Robotic Intelligence, 1(1): 1630001:1-1630001:8, 2017.
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- T. T. Nguyen, H. Fani, Ebrahim Bagheri, Gilberto Titericz; Bagging Model for Product Title Quality with Noise. In CIKM AnalytiCup 2017 (CIKM), 2017.
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- F. Zarrinkalam, H. Fani, E. Bagheri, M. Kahani; Predicting Users’ Future Interests on Twitter. In 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2017.
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- Y. Feng, F. Zarrinkalam, E. Bagheri, H. Fani, F. Al-Obeidat; Entity Linking of Tweets Based on Dominant Entity Candidates. In Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 8(1): 46:1-46:16, 2018.
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- H. Fani, F. Zarrinkalam, E. Bagheri, W. Du; Time-Sensitive Topic-Based Communities on Twitter. In 29th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI), 2016.
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- H. Fani; Temporal Formation and Evolution of Online Communities. Doctoral Consortium, The 9th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2016.
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- F. Zarrinkalam, H. Fani, E. Bagheri, M. Kahani; Inferring Implicit Topical Interests on Twitter. In 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2016.
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- H. Fani and E. Bagheri; An Ontology for Describing Security Events. In 27th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE, 2015.
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- F. Zarrinkalam, H. Fani, E. Bagheri, M. Kahani, W. Du; Semantics-enabled User Interest Detection from Twitter. In ACM/IEEE/WIC Web Intelligence, IEEE, 2015.
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- Y. Feng, H. Fani, E. Bagheri, J. Jovanovic; Lexical Semantic Relatedness for Twitter Analytics. In IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), IEEE, 2015.
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