I’m Abeer (she/her).
Currently, I am a lecturer at King Saud University.
Previously, I completed my M.S. in Computer Science at UCSD where I worked with with Prof. Julian McAuley on cognitive bias with language models and with Prof. Deepak Kumar. on online content moderation.
Research
In general, I am interested in machine learning and human-computer interaction. Particularly, I am interested in understanding the impacts of large language models on individuals and online social interactions.
Hello!
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? IJCNLP-AACL 25’
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.