Publications
Golazizian, P., Rahmati, E., Trager, J., Sourati, Z., … & Dehghani, M. (2026). The subjectivity of respect in police traffic stops: Modeling community perspectives in body-worn camera footage (Under review in ARR)
Karimi-Malekabadi, F., Abdurahman, S., Sourati, Z., Trager, J., & Dehghani, M. (2026). Theory Trace Card: Theory-Driven Socio-Cognitive Evaluation of LLMs. arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.01878. (Under review in ARR)
Daryani, Y., Sourati, Z., & Dehghani, M. (2025). The Homogenizing Engine: AI’s Role in Standardizing Culture and the Path to Policy. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23727322251406591.
Sourati, Z., Wang, Z., Liu, M. M., Hu, Y., Guo, M., Bharadwaj, S., … & Roth, D. (2025). LAD-RAG: Layout-aware Dynamic RAG for Visually-Rich Document Understanding. (Under review in ARR)
Sourati, Z., Ziabari, A. S., & Dehghani, M. (2025). The Homogenizing Effect of Large Language Models on Human Expression and Thought. (Under review in TICS)
Sourati, Z., Karimi-Malekabadi, F., Ozcan, M., McDaniel, C., Ziabari, A., Trager, J., … & Dehghani, M. (2025). The Shrinking Landscape of Linguistic Diversity in the Age of Large Language Models. (Under review in Nature Human Behaviour)
Ziabari, A. S., Ghazizadeh, N., Sourati, Z., Karimi-Malekabadi, F., Piray, P., & Dehghani, M. (2025). Reasoning on a Spectrum: Aligning LLMs to System 1 and System 2 Thinking. (Under review in ICLR)
Ahrabian, K.*, Sourati, Z.*, Sun, K., Zhang, J., Jiang, Y., Morstatter, F., & Pujara, J. (2024). The Curious Case of Nonverbal Abstract Reasoning with Multi-Modal Large Language Models. (Accepted to COLM 2024)
Jiang, Y., Zhang, J., Sun, K., Sourati, Z., Ahrabian, K., Ma, K., … & Pujara, J. (2024). MARVEL: Multidimensional Abstraction and Reasoning through Visual Evaluation and Learning. (Accepted to NeurIPS 2024)
Sourati, Z., Ilievski, F., & Sommerauer, P. (2024). ARN: A Comprehensive Framework and Dataset for Analogical Reasoning on Narratives. (Accepted to TACL)
Deshpande, D., Sourati, Z., Ilievski, F., & Morstatter, F. (2024). Contextualizing Argument Quality Assessment with Relevant Knowledge. (Accepted to NAACL 2024)
Sourati, Z., Deshpande, D., Ilievski, F., Gashteovski, K., & Saralajew, S. (2024). Robust Text Classification: Analyzing Prototype-Based Networks. (Accepted to EMNLP 2024)
Jiang, Y., Ilievski, F., Ma, K., & Sourati, Z. (2023). BRAINTEASER: Lateral Thinking Puzzles for Large Language Models. (Accepted to EMNLP 2023)
Thakur, A. K., Ilievski, F., Sandlin, H. Â., Sourati, Z., Luceri, L., Tommasini, R., & Mermoud, A. (2023). Explainable Classification of Internet Memes. (Accepted to Nesy 2023)
Sourati, Z., Ilievski, F., Sandlin, H.-Â., & Mermoud, A. (2023). Case-based reasoning with language models for classification of logical fallacies. (Accepted to IJCAI 2023)
Sourati, Z., Venkatesh, V. P. P., Deshpande, D., Rawlani, H., Ilievski, F., Sandlin, H. Â., & Mermoud, A. (2023). Robust and explainable identification of logical fallacies in natural language arguments. (Accepted to Knowledge-Based Systems 2023)
Thakur, A., Ilievski, F., Sandlin, H., Mermoud, A., Sourati, Z., Luceri, L., & Tommasini, R. (2023). Multimodal and Explainable Internet Meme Classification. (Accepted in AI4SG-23 at AAAI-23)
ShabaniMirzaei, T., Chamani, H., Abaskohi, A., Sourati, Z., & Bahrak, B. (2023). A large-scale analysis of Persian Tweets regarding Covid-19 vaccination. (Accepted to Social Network Analysis and Mining 2023)
Sourati, Z., Sabri, N., Chamani, H., & Bahrak, B. (2022). Quantitative analysis of fanfictions’ popularity. (Accepted to Social Network Analysis and Mining 2022)
Setayesh, A., Sourati, Z., & Bahrak, B. (2022). Analysis of the global trade network using exponential random graph models. (Accepted to Applied Network Science 2022)
Sourati, Z., von Däniken, P., & Cieliebak, M. (2022). Ukraine–Russia: First insights into recent Twitter posts about this conflict. SwissText 2022 (Poster).
von Däniken, P., Sourati, Z., & Tuggener, D. (2022). Hateful Social Media Users – Can we predict their behavior? SwissText 2022 (Poster).