ANEAR: Automatic Named Entity Aliasing Resolution. - Ayah Zirikly; Mona T. Diab (NLDB, 2013)

Named Entity Recognition System for Dialectal Arabic. - Ayah Zirikly; Mona T. Diab (ANLP@EMNLP, 2014)

Cross-lingual Transfer of Named Entity Recognizers without Parallel Corpora. - Ayah Zirikly (ACL (2), 2015)

Named Entity Recognition for Arabic Social Media. - Ayah Zirikly; Mona T. Diab (VS@HLT-NAACL, 2015)

GWU English TAC-KBP EL Diagnostic Task with Name Mention. - Ayah Zirikly; Mona T. Diab; Yassine Benajiba (TAC, 2015)

The Power of Language Music: Arabic Lemmatization through Patterns. - Mohammed Attia; Ayah Zirikly; Mona T. Diab (CogALex@COLING, 2016)

The GW/UMD CLPsych 2016 Shared Task System. - Ayah Zirikly; Varun Kumar; Philip Resnik (CLPsych@HLT-NAACL, 2016)

The GW/LT3 VarDial 2016 Shared Task System for Dialects and Similar Languages Detection. - Ayah Zirikly; Bart Desmet; Mona T. Diab (VarDial@COLING, 2016)

RSDD-Time: Temporal Annotation of Self-Reported Mental Health Diagnoses. - Sean MacAvaney; Bart Desmet; Arman Cohan; Luca Soldaini; Andrew Yates; Ayah Zirikly; Nazli Goharian (CLPsych@NAACL-HTL, 2018)

Expert, Crowdsourced, and Machine Assessment of Suicide Risk via Online Postings. - Han-Chin Shing; Suraj Nair 001; Ayah Zirikly; Meir Friedenberg; Hal Daumé III; Philip Resnik (CLPsych@NAACL-HTL, 2018)

Embedding Transfer for Low-Resource Medical Named Entity Recognition: A Case Study on Patient Mobility. - Denis Newman-Griffis; Ayah Zirikly (BioNLP, 2018)

Automated classification of mobility activities in free text clinical narratives. - Denis R. Newman-Griffis; Ayah Zirikly; Pei-Shu Ho; Jonathan Camacho Maldonado; Maryanne Sacco; Alex Marr; Albert M. Lai; Eric Fosler-Lussier (AMIA, 2019)

Bootstrapping a Mobility Dictionary from a Seed Set. - Ayah Zirikly; Denis R. Newman-Griffis; Julia Porcino; Pei-Shu Ho; Jonathan Camacho Maldonado; Maryanne Sacco; Alex Marr (AMIA, 2019)

Classifying the reported ability in clinical mobility descriptions. - Denis Newman-Griffis; Ayah Zirikly; Guy Divita; Bart Desmet (BioNLP@ACL, 2019)

Angelfish: Building a Structurally Diverse Clinical Document Corpus. - Guy Divita; Bart Desmet; Ayah Zirikly; Luke Breitfeller; Carolyn P. Rosé (AMIA, 2020)

Experiences and Challenges in Manual Annotation of Functioning Information in Medical Records. - Jonathan Camacho Maldonado; Pei-Shu Ho; Rafael Jiménez Silva; Alex Marr; Julia Porcino; Maryanne Sacco; Ayah Zirikly; Leighton Chan; Elizabeth Rasch (AMIA, 2020)

Curating Annotated Corpora for Functioning Information. - Rafael Jiménez Silva; Chunxiao Zhou; Bart Desmet; Ayah Zirikly; Alex Marr; Maryanne Sacco; Pei-Shu Ho; Jonathan Camacho Maldonado; Julia Porcino; Guy Divita; Elizabeth Rasch (AMIA, 2020)

Development of Natural Language Processing Tools to Support Determination of Federal Disability Benefits in the U.S. - Bart Desmet; Julia Porcino; Ayah Zirikly; Denis Newman-Griffis; Guy Divita; Elizabeth Rasch (LT4Gov@LREC, 2020)

Sparse encoding for more-interpretable feature-selecting representations in probabilistic matrix factorization. - Joshua C. Chang; Patrick Fletcher; Jungmin Han; Ted L. Chang; Shashaank Vattikuti; Bart Desmet; Ayah Zirikly; Carson C. Chow (ICLR, 2021)

Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) 2021. - Subhrajit Roy; Stephen Pfohl; Girmaw Abebe Tadesse; Luis Oala; Fabian Falck; Yuyin Zhou; Liyue Shen; Ghada Zamzmi; Purity Mugambi; Ayah Zirikly; Matthew B. A. McDermott; Emily Alsentzer (ML4H@NeurIPS, 2021)

A comprehensive study of mobility functioning information in clinical notes: Entity hierarchy, corpus annotation, and sequence labeling. - Thanh Thieu; Jonathan Camacho Maldonado; Pei-Shu Ho; Min Ding; Alex Marr; Diane Brandt; Denis Newman-Griffis; Ayah Zirikly; Leighton Chan; Elizabeth Rasch (Int. J. Medical Informatics, 2021)

Ambiguity in medical concept normalization: An analysis of types and coverage in electronic health record datasets. - Denis Newman-Griffis; Guy Divita; Bart Desmet; Ayah Zirikly; Carolyn P. Rosé; Eric Fosler-Lussier (J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2021)

Improving the Generalizability of Depression Detection by Leveraging Clinical Questionnaires. - Thong Nguyen 004; Andrew Yates; Ayah Zirikly; Bart Desmet; Arman Cohan (ACL (1), 2022)

Application of Natural Language Processing to Identify Social Needs from The Electronic Health Record's Free-Text Notes. - Geoffrey M. Gray; Luis M. Ahumada; Ayah Zirikly; Masoud Rouhizadeh; Thomas Richards; Elham Hatef (AMIA, 2022)

Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) 2022. - Gerardo Flores; George H. Chen; Tom J. Pollard; Ayah Zirikly; Michael C. Hughes; Tasmie Sarker; Joyce C. Ho; Tristan Naumann (CHIL, 2022)

A Whole-Person Function Dictionary for the Mobility, Self-Care and Domestic Life Domains: a Seedset Expansion Approach. - Ayah Zirikly; Bart Desmet; Julia Porcino; Jonathan Camacho Maldonado; Pei-Shu Ho; Rafael Jiménez Silva; Maryanne Sacco (LREC, 2022)

Characterization of Stigmatizing Language in Medical Records. - Keith Harrigian; Ayah Zirikly; Brant Chee; Alya Ahmad; Anne Links; Somnath Saha; Mary Catherine Beach; Mark Dredze (ACL (2), 2023)

Editorial: Artificial intelligence for human function and disability. - Denis R. Newman-Griffis; Bart Desmet; Ayah Zirikly; Suzanne Tamang; Chih-Hung Chang (Frontiers Digit. Health, 2023)

Are Clinical T5 Models Better for Clinical Text? - Yahan Li; Keith Harrigian; Ayah Zirikly; Mark Dredze (ML4H@NeurIPS, 2024)

Taxonomy-based prompt engineering to generate synthetic drug-related patient portal messages. - Natalie Wang; Sukrit Treewaree; Ayah Zirikly; Yuzhi L. Lu; Michelle H. Nguyen; Bhavik Agarwal; Jash Shah; James Michael Stevenson; Casey Overby Taylor (J. Biomed. Informatics, 2024)

Detecting Dataset Bias in Medical AI: A Generalized and Modality-Agnostic Auditing Framework. - Nathan Drenkow; Mitchell Pavlak; Keith Harrigian; Ayah Zirikly; Adarsh Subbaswamy; Mathias Unberath (CoRR, 2025)