My main research area of interest is Natural Language Processing (NLP), the field at the nexus of linguistics and computer science. The main goal driving my research is to develop and advance theoretically-grounded computational models to analyze social media unstructured texts, and, hence to better understand how social media users build, maintain and perceive on-line self-images and social relationships.
My research interests include machine learning in NLP, computational semantics and pragmatics, part-of-speech tagging, shallow parsing, anaphora resolution and discourse analysis. I am interested in morphologically-rich languages, especially the Arabic language and its formal and informal varieties.
I am currently a lecturer in linguistics at the Department of English, Faculty of Al-Alsun (Languages), Ain Shams University, Egypt. I receieved my Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics in May 2015 from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where I was advised by Prof. Roxana Girju from the Department of Linguistics and the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Beckman Institute and Dr. Jana Diesner from the iSchool. Through my PhD. program, I worked on several NLP projects with my advisors as well as Prof. Elabbas Benmamoun from the Department of Linguistics and Prof. Mark Hasegawa-Johnson from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
My research interests include machine learning in NLP, computational semantics and pragmatics, part-of-speech tagging, shallow parsing, anaphora resolution and discourse analysis. I am interested in morphologically-rich languages, especially the Arabic language and its formal and informal varieties.
I am currently a lecturer in linguistics at the Department of English, Faculty of Al-Alsun (Languages), Ain Shams University, Egypt. I receieved my Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics in May 2015 from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where I was advised by Prof. Roxana Girju from the Department of Linguistics and the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Beckman Institute and Dr. Jana Diesner from the iSchool. Through my PhD. program, I worked on several NLP projects with my advisors as well as Prof. Elabbas Benmamoun from the Department of Linguistics and Prof. Mark Hasegawa-Johnson from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
