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Career

· Sr Director of Applied Science, Oracle2024–
· Sr Manager, Applied Science, Amazon Web Services2023–2024
· Applied Science Manager, Amazon Web Services2021–2023
· Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University2019–
· CTO & Co-Founder, Dailight2019–2021
· Chief Scientist, Symanto2017–2021
· Director of Innovation, Symanto2017–2017
· Adjunct Professor, The George Washington University2017–2017
· Director of Research, Symanto2016–2017
· Founder, Alpha Semantics2014–2017
· Lead Research Scientist, Symanto2014–2016
· Research Scientist, Thomson Reuters2012–2014
· Member Research Staff, Philips Research North America2010–2012
· Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University2009–2010
· Research Intern, IBM Tj Watson Research Center2008–2009
· PhD in Computer Science, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)2005–2009

Publications (50)

Question Answering
Handbook of Natural Language Processing · 2010
260
cited
ANERsys: An Arabic Named Entity Recognition System Based on Maximum Entropy
Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics · 2009
242
cited
Arabic Named Entity Recognition using Optimized Feature Sets
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2008
140
cited
Arabic Named Entity Recognition using Conditional Random Fields
2008
129
cited
ANERsys 2.0: Conquering the NER Task for the Arabic Language by Combining the Maximum Entropy with POS-tag Information
Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2007
108
cited
COLABA : Arabic Dialect Annotation and Processing
2011
108
cited
Arabic Named Entity Recognition: A Feature-Driven Study
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing · 2009
92
cited
Implementation of the ArabiQA Question Answering System's components
2007
61
cited
Named Entity Recognition and Classification for Text in Arabic
International Conference on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering · 2004
59
cited
Instruction Tuning for Few-Shot Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis · 2022
43
cited
Using Language Independent and Language Specific Features to Enhance Arabic Named Entity Recognition
˜The œinternational Arab journal of information technology · 2009
42
cited
Arabic Named Entity Recognition: Using Features Extracted from Noisy Data
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2010
40
cited
Overview of QA4MRE Main Task at CLEF 2013
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum · 2013
28
cited
POS Tagging in Amazighe Using Support Vector Machines and Conditional Random Fields
International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Data Bases · 2011
28
cited
Towards an Arabic Question Answering System
2007
27
cited
Arabic Named Entity Recognition
Proces. del Leng. Natural · 2010
24
cited
ODIST: Open World Classification via Distributionally Shifted Instances
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2021
24
cited
A Web Application for Dialectal Arabic Text Annotation
2011
22
cited
Dynamic Benchmarking of Masked Language Models on Temporal Concept Drift with Multiple Views
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2023
22
cited
Adapting the JIRS Passage Retrieval System to the Arabic Language
Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics · 2009
21
cited
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