PhD Researcher
Building C7.1
Room 0.14
Universität des Saarlandes (Saarland University)
66123 Saarbrücken
Feel free to contact me at babdullah (at) lsv dot uni-saarland dot de
+49 681 302 58 133
For up to date info, visit my website https://badrex.github.io/
Research Interests
My work focuses on applying machine learning to various problems in Speech Technology and Natural Language Processing [text modality 📝]. I have always been excited about broadening language technology to many of the under-represented languages of the world. I am currently working on building speech technologies that are inclusive, robust, and accessible.
Publications
Badr M. Abdullah, Matthew Baas, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow
Voice Conversion Improves Cross-Domain Robustness for Spoken Arabic Dialect Identification
Interspeech 2025
Iuliia Zaitova, Vitalii Hirak, Badr M. Abdullah, Dietrich Klakow, Bernd Möbius, Tania Avgustinova
Attention on Multiword Expressions: A Multilingual Study of BERT-based Models with Regard to Idiomaticity and Microsyntax
Findings of NAACL 2025
Iuliia Zaitova, Badr M. Abdullah, Wei Xue, Dietrich Klakow, Bernd Möbius, Tania Avgustinova
It’s Not a Walk in the Park! Challenges of Idiom Translation in Speech-to-text Systems
ACL 2025
- Analyzing the Representational Geometry of Acoustic Word Embeddings
Badr M. Abdullah, Dietrich Klakow
In BlackboxNLP @ EMNLP 2022
- Mapping Phonology to Semantics: A Computational Model of Cross-Lingual Spoken-Word Recognition
Iuliia Zaitova, Badr M. Abdullah, Dietrich Klakow
In VarDial @ COLING 2022
- Integrating Form and Meaning:
A Multi-Task Learning Model for Acoustic Word Embeddings
Badr M. Abdullah, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow
In INTERSPEECH 2022
- How Familiar Does That Sound? Cross-Lingual Representational Similarity Analysis of Acoustic Word Embeddings
Badr M. Abdullah, Iuliia Zaitova, Tania Avgustinova, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow
In BlackboxNLP @ EMNLP 2021
- Do Acoustic Word Embeddings Capture Phonological Similarity? An Empirical Study
Badr M. Abdullah, Marius Mosbach, Iuliia Zaitova, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow
In INTERSPEECH 2021
- SIGTYP 2021 Shared Task: Robust Spoken Language Identification
Elizabeth Salesky, Badr M. Abdullah, Sabrina Mielke, Elena Klyachko, Oleg Serikov, Edoardo Maria Ponti, Ritesh Kumar, Ryan Cotterell, Ekaterina Vylomova
In SIGTYP @ NAACL 2021
- Familiar words but strange voices: Modelling the influence of speech variability on word recognition
Alexandra Mayn, Badr M. Abdullah, Dietrich Klakow
In EACL 2021 [ student research workshop ]
- Do we read what we hear? Modeling orthographic influences on spoken word recognition
Nicole Macher, Badr M. Abdullah, Harm Brouwer, Dietrich Klakow
In EACL 2021 [ student research workshop ]
- Rediscovering the Slavic Continuum in Representations Emerging from Neural Models of Spoken Language Identification
Badr M. Abdullah, Jacek Kudera, Tania Avgustinova, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow
In VarDial @ COLING 2020
- A Closer Look at Linguistic Knowledge in Masked Language Models: The Case of Relative Clauses in American English
Marius Mosbach, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Marie-Pauline Krielke, Badr M. Abdullah, Dietrich Klakow
In COLING 2020
- Cross-Domain Adaptation of Spoken Language Identification for Related Languages: The Curious Case of Slavic Languages
Badr M. Abdullah, Tania Avgustinova, Bernd Möbius, Dietrich Klakow
In INTERSPEECH 2020