Want to process Arabic in your application — ex. search, word sort, machine translation, question answering, etc.? Then, you absolutely need the Farasa segmenter. In this post, I will: explain Arabic segmentation, show the effectiveness of Farasa, and point to
Read moreArabic Named Entity Recognition — Video Lecture
This is a presentation that I gave at ACL entitled: “Named Entity Recognition using Cross-lingual Resources: Arabic as an Example” (pdf). In this work, I use rich English resources with cross-lingual links to Arabic to properly identify the names of
Read moreHaiti vs. Dominican Republic
Johnny Harris’s series “Borders” explores the border in a Caribbean island dividing two countries, with one side plush, green, and affluent, and the other barren, arid, and destitute! A story of colonialism, racism, and bad governance!
Read moreMy First Blog Post
Welcome to my blog. This is my first blog post. I intended to blog in both Arabic and English. I have interests in technology: natural language processing, information retrieval, social computing, and machine learning; social sciences: social psychology, sociology, and
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