I’m Abeer (she/her).
I work as a researcher and teaching assistant at King Saud University. Currently, I am a computer science masters student at UCSD working with Prof. Julian McAuley and Prof. Deepak Kumar.
Previously, I was an AI researcher in computer vision, natural language processing, and speech at Tahakom under Prof. Abdulrahman Alarifi .
Research
In general, I am interested in natural language processing and machine learning. Particularly, I am interested in understanding the long-term impacts of large language models and improving them through my research. Recently, I have been interested in investigating digital safety in sociotechnical systems.
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PUBLICATION
A. Alessa, A. Lakshminarasimhan, P. Somane, J. Skirzynski, J. McAuley, and J. Echterhoff. How Much Content Do LLMs Generate That Induces Cognitive Bias in Users? Under Submission
Echterhoff, J., Liu, Y., Alessa, A., McAuley, J., and He, Z. (2024). Cognitive bias in high-stakes decision-making with llms. EMNLP 2024.
Alkanhal,. L, *Alessa, A., *Almahmoud, E., and R. Alaqil. Aswat: Arabic Audio Dataset For Automatic Speech Recognition Using Speech-Representation Learning. ArabicNLP 2023 (formerly WANLP 2023)
Alessa, A., H. Alkhalifah. Towards Designing a ChatGPT Conversational Companion for Elderly People. PETRA Workshop on NLP4Disability 2023.
PROJECTS
A web based application to provide a portable version of the famous transcription tools xTrans. wTrans supports a full range of speech annotation tasks, including quick and careful transcription.