Basel Barakat

Article

• Empirical evaluation of public hatespeech datasets Jaf, Sardar and Barakat, Basel. 2025. Empirical evaluation of public hatespeech datasets. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 6(11), pp. 3056-3069. ISSN 2691-4581
• Beyond Traditional Classifiers: Evaluating Large Language Models for Robust Hate Speech Detection Barakat, Basel and Jaf, Sardar. 2025. Beyond Traditional Classifiers: Evaluating Large Language Models for Robust Hate Speech Detection. Computation, 13(8), 196. ISSN 2079-3197
• Coupled thermo-electrical dispatch strategy with AI forecasting for optimal sizing of grid-connected hybrid renewable energy systems Kahwash, F.; Barakat, Basel and Maheri, A.. 2023. Coupled thermo-electrical dispatch strategy with AI forecasting for optimal sizing of grid-connected hybrid renewable energy systems. Energy Conversion and Management, 293, 117460. ISSN 0196-8904

Book Section

• Phonemes: An Explanatory Study Applied to Identify a Speaker Kinkiri, Saritha; Barakat, Basel and Keates, Simeon. 2020. Phonemes: An Explanatory Study Applied to Identify a Speaker. In: Arup Bhattacharjee; Samir Kr. Borgohain; Badal Soni; Gyanendra Verma and Xiao-Zhi Gao, eds. Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences. Singapore: Springer, pp. 58-68. ISBN 9789811563171

Conference or Workshop Item

• Exploring the Application of Transfer Learning in Malware Detection by Fine-tuning Pre-Trained Models on Binary Classification to New Datasets on Multi-class Classification Ajayi, Bamidele; Barakat, Basel; McGarry, Ken and Abukeshek, Mays. 2024. 'Exploring the Application of Transfer Learning in Malware Detection by Fine-tuning Pre-Trained Models on Binary Classification to New Datasets on Multi-class Classification'. In: 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 - 30 August 2024.
• Acoustic Emotion Analysis for Novel Detection of Alzheimer's Dementia Sviderski, Marek; Barakat, Basel and Allen, Becky. 2024. 'Acoustic Emotion Analysis for Novel Detection of Alzheimer's Dementia'. In: 2024 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 -30 August 2024.
• Multi-Task Learning with Acoustic Features for Alzheimer's Disease Detection Sviderski, Marek; Barakat, Basel; Allen, Becky and MacFarlane, Kate. 2024. 'Multi-Task Learning with Acoustic Features for Alzheimer's Disease Detection'. In: 2024 29th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC). Sunderland, United Kingdom 28 - 30 August 2024.

Other

• Improving Reliability of Fine-tuning with Block-wise Optimisation Barakat, Basel and Huang, Qiang. 2023. Improving Reliability of Fine-tuning with Block-wise Optimisation. arXiv, New York.