Publications

Preprint

• Curriculum Learning for LLM Pretraining: An Analysis of Learning Dynamics
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
  arXiv:2601.21698 [PDF]

• Analysis of Race, Sex, and Language Proficiency Disparities in Documented Medical Decisions
  Hadi Amiri, Nidhi Vakil, Mohamed Elgaar, Jiali Cheng, Mitra Mohtarami, Adrian Wong, Mehrnaz Sadrolashrafi, Leo Anthony G Celi
  medRxiv 2024.07.11.24310289 [PDF]

Peer-Reviewed

• MedDecXtract-XAI: Explainable Medical Decision Extraction with Grounded LLM Rationales
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri, Leo A. Celi
  AMIA Annual Symposium 2026 [PDF] [Demo]

• Overview of the Medical Decision Extraction, Analysis, and Classification Task (MedExACT) of BioNLP 2026
  Mohamed Elgaar, Jiali Cheng, Nidhi Vakil, Mehrnaz Sadrolashrafi, Mitra Mohtarami, Adrian Wong, Hadi Amiri, Leo A. Celi
  ACL Biomedical Natural Language Processing Workshop (BioNLP) 2026 [PDF]

• LingGen: Linguistic Fine-grained Controlled Generation
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
  EACL 2026 [PDF] [Code]

• Linguistic Blind Spots in Clinical Decision Extraction
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
  EACL Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing) 2026 [PDF]

• Linguistically-Controlled Paraphrase Generation
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
  Findings of EMNLP 2025 [PDF] [Code]

• LingConv: An Interactive Toolkit for Controlled Paraphrase Generation with Linguistic Attribute Control Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
  EMNLP Demo Track 2025 [PDF] [Demo]

• MedDecXtract: A Clinician-Support System for Extracting, Visualizing, and Annotating Medical Decisions in Clinical Narratives
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri, Mitra Mohtarami, Leo Anthony Celi
  ACL Demo Track 2025 [PDF] [Demo]

• MedDec: A Dataset for Extracting Medical Decisions from Clinical Narratives
  Mohamed Elgaar, Jiali Cheng, Nidhi Vakil, Hadi Amiri, Leo Anthony Celi
  Findings of ACL 2024 [PDF] [Code]

• CogniVoice: Multimodal and Multilingual Fusion Networks for Mild Cognitive Impairment Assessment from Spontaneous Speech
  Jiali Cheng, Mohamed Elgaar, Nidhi Vakil, Hadi Amiri
  INTERSPEECH 2024 [PDF] [Code]

• Ling-CL: Multiview Curriculum Learning using Linguistic Complexity
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
  EMNLP 2023 [PDF] [Code]

• HuCurl: Human-induced Curriculum Discovery
  Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
  ACL 2023 [PDF] [Code]

• Multi-Speaker and Multi-Domain Emotional Voice Conversion Using Factorized Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder
  Mohamed Elgaar, Jungbae Park, Sang Wan Lee
  IEEE ICASSP 2020 [PDF] [Demo]

Patents

• Methods for Emotional Voice Conversion, Mohamed Elgaar, Jungbae Park, Korean Patent (10-2277205)