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  1.  Invited Keynote Speaker
  2.  Journal Guest Editor
  3.  Conference/Track Chair
  4.  Journal Editorial Board
  5.  Seminars & Invited talks
  6.  Internal Talks During Open Days (at The British University in Dubai)
  7.  Talks Given by Academic Visitors Hosted by The British University in Dubai
  8.  Conference Steering Committee Member
  9.  Conference Organizing Committee Member
  10.  Conference Session Chair
  11. Conference Session Co-Chair
  12. Program/Technical/Scientific Committee
  13. Academic Reviewing
  14.  Establishing a Center of Excellence
  15.  Establishing the Natural Language Processing Research Group
  16.  Dissertation External Examiner
  17.  Dissertation Internal Examiner (Not under my supervision)

Invited Keynote Speaker

Journal Guest Editor

  • Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Arabic NLP: Current State and Future Challenges, Journal of King Saud University Computer and Information Sciences (JKSU-CIS), Elsevier, Official Journal of KSU – College of Computer and Information Sciences, Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2014.
  • Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP), ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), TALIP, Volume 8, Issue 4, December 2009.
  • Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Advances in Arabic Language Processing for the International Journal on Information and Communication Technologies (IJICT), Serial Publications, New Delhi, India, June 2010.

Conference/Track Chair

  • Founder and Co-chair, International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistic (ACLing 2015, 2016), Nile University, Cairo, Egypt, April 14-20, 2015. [Published Proceedings]
  • Program Committee Chair of The Seventh Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011), The University of Wollongong in Dubai, December 18-20, 2011.
  • Co-Chair of the International Health Informatics Symposium, May 5th 2010, The British University in Dubai, UAE.
  • Co-Chair of the eSystems and AI Symposium, the International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE’09), 14th-16th December 2009, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
  • Initiated, organized, chair of the special track on Natural Language Processing at INFOS2008, 27-29 March 2008, The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems, Cairo, Egypt.
  • Chair of the Technology Management track at IAMOT 2008, The 17th International Conference for the International Association of Management of Technology, April 6-10, 2008, Dubai, UAE.

Journal Editorial Board

Seminars & Invited talks

  • 14/10/2010: Invited talk on “RBA-ANLP: Rule-Based Approach in Arabic Natural Language Processing”, the Research Institute in Information and Language Processing, University of Wolverhampton, UK.
  • 13/10/2010: Seminar on “A Rule-based approach in Arabic NLP: Tools, Systems and Resources”, the data mining and pattern recognition research centre, school of computing, science & engineering, University of Salford, UK.
  • 14/11/2006: Seminar on “Closing the Gap between English and Arabic Language Technology”, University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE.
  • 12/04/2005: Seminar on “Machine Translation of noun phrases: from English to Arabic”, The Arabic Computational Linguistics Research Group (ACL-RG), University of Sharjah, UAE.

Internal Talks During Open Days (at The British University in Dubai)

  • 4/12/05: Using Computers to Process Arabic Text
  • 10/3/06: Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation (S2SMT)
  • 12/05/2006: Artificial Intelligence: What can it do for Arab farmers?

Talks Given by Academic Visitors Hosted by The British University in Dubai

  • “Computational Processing of Gulf Arabic”, Dr Nizar Habash, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2016.
  • “The Survival of Arabic Language & Culture”, Prof. Ali Farghaly, NLP Consultant at Cataphora Software in California, USA, January 2013.
  • “When Conclusions Are Hypotheses: Artificial Intelligence and Cancer Research”, Prof. Dr. Raouf Naguib Head of the Biomedical Computing and Engineering Technologies Applied Research Group (BIOCORE) at Coventry University, UK, December 2011.
  • “Visual Cryptography Scheme – A Brief Survey”, Prof. Dr. S. Arumugam, Kalasalingam University, India, November 2011.
  • “A Financial Literacy Simulation Model using Neural Networks”, Dr Hissam Tawfik, Liverpool Hope University, UK, November 2007.
  • “Older People with helpful cars: Enabling older adults to drive safely and enjoyably for longer”Dr Mary Zajicek, Oxford Brookes University, UK, March 2008.

Conference Steering Committee Member

  • 2013 Engineering and Medical Informatics (EMI) International Conference, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom, May 23rd -24th 2013.
  • Technology Innovations for Next Generation Trendz (TECHFEST 2012), Al-Khawarizmi International College (KIC), 16 May 2012, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  • Annual InternationalConference on Database Operations and Development (DODS2010), The AmericanUniversity in Dubai, 18th – 19th June, 2010, Dubai, UAE.
  • The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems, INFOS2008, 27-28 March 2008, Cairo, Egypt.

Conference Organizing Committee Member

  • Fifth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture (AIA’2004), IFAC/CIGR, March 8-10, 2004.
  • International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS 2004), Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University, March 6-8, 2004.

Conference Session Chair

  • General Track: Algorithms session, The 28th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-28), May 18 – 20, 2015, Hollywood, Florida, USA.
  • Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval (I & II) Sessions, The Seventh Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011), December 18-20, 2011, University of Wollongong in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  • Networking and Wireless Environments Session, The International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE’11), 6th-8th December 2011, The British University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
  • Genre Analysis, Polarity Classification, Language Learning Session, Arabic NLP, The International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Sept. 12-14, 2011 (RANLP 2011), Hissar, Bulgaria.
  • Natural Language Processing Session, 6th International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing, October 13-16, Manchester, UK, 2010.
  • E-Learning(Technology Enhanced Learning) I, the International Conference on Developmentsin eSystems Engineering (DeSE’09), 14th-16th December 2009, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
  • 4th International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing (ICIIP 2006), Adelaide Australia, 20-23 September, 2006.

Conference Session Co-Chair

  • Annual conference on Statistics, Computer Science and Operation Research, Institute of Statistical Studies & Research (ISSR), Cairo University, Dec. 2002.
  • International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS 2004), Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University, 2004.

Program/Technical/Scientific Committee

  • The 12th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2015), Natural Language Processing track, November 17-20, 2015, Marrakech, Morocco.
  • The Arabic Natural Language Processing (Arabic-NLP) Workshop, 30 July 2015, Collocated with ACL-IJCNLP 2015, Beijing, China.
  • The ACS/IEEEInternational Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA’ 2014) November 10-13, 2014,Doha, Qatar.
  • Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop co-located with EMNLP 2014, October 25, 2014, Doha, Qatar.
  • The International Conference on Web and Open Access to Learning (ICWOAL’14), Dubai, Atlantis Resort, UAE, November 18-20, 2014.
  • The 19th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2014), Montpellier, France, 18-20 June 2014.
  • Workshop on Free/Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing Tools (OSACT 2014), In conjunction with LERC 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 27, 2014.
  • The “Arabic/Amazigh/Farsi/Urdu language processing” track of the Eleventh ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2013), Fes, Morocco, on May 27-30, 2013.
  • InternationalConference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2013), September7-13, 2013, Hissar, Bulgaria.
  • The 6th InternationalJoint Conference on Natural Language Processing Language Resources (IJCNLP 2013), Nagoya, Japan, October14-19, 2013.
  • “Traitementautomatique des langues” Journal, Special Issue on Managing Noise in theSignal: Error Handling in Natural Language Processing (http://tal-53-3.sciencesconf.org/).
  • The 26th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-26), Florida, USA.
  • 18th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems, 19-21 JUNE 2013, University of Salford aT Media City, UK (www.nldb.org)
  • Fourth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (CAASL4) In conjunction with The Tenth Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2012) San Diego CA, USA, Thursday, November 1st, 2012.
  • The 25th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-25), Florida, USA.
  • The International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE’11), 6th-8th December 2011, The British University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
  • The InternationalConference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, Sept. 12-14, 2011 (RANLP 2011), Hissar, Bulgaria.
  • Arabic LanguageTechnology International Conference (ALTIC) 2011, Bibliothequa Alexandrina, July17-18, 2011, Alexandria, Egypt.
  • The 24th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-24), May 18-20, 2011,Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
  • Workshop on Supporting eLearning with Language Resources and Semantic Data, In conjunction with LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta, May 22nd, 2010.
  • International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Information Technology (MCIT-2010), March 2-4, 2010, College of Sciences, University of Sharjah, U.A.E.
  • CAASL:Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages, which is held in conjunction with MT Summit XII, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 26, 2009.
  • MEDAR: 2nd International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools 22-23 April 2009, Cairo, Egypt.
  • CITALA: 3rd International Conference on Arabic Language Processing, May 4th – 5th 2009, Rabat, Morocco.
  • ICMSAO: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Network & Fuzzy Systems Track (Third International Conference on Modelling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization, ICMSAO’09), the American University of Sharjah, January 20 – 22, 2009, Sharjah, UAE.
  • CAML: The 2008 International Workshop on Context-Aware Mobile Learning CAML’08 which is organized in conjunction with the IEEE/ACM Sponsored International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology, to be held in Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France on 27-31 October, 2008.
  • ANLP-ACIT: Arabic Natural Language Processing Session  (ANLP-ACIT’2008) at The 2008 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT’2008), University of Sfax, Tunisia, December 16-18, 2008.
  • IBIMA: Special session on Arabic Information Processing at the 9th International Business Information Management Association (IBIMA) Conference, Marrakech, Morocco 4-6 January 2008.
  • RANLP: International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP – 2007), 27-29 September 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria
  • The IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2007), Palma De Mallorca, Spain, August 29-31, 2007.
  • The IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2006), Palma De Mallorca, Spain, August 28-30, 2006.
  • Special Session on Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer-Networks (IRP2P), 2nd International Computer Engineering Conference Engineering the Information Society (ICENCO’2006), IEEE, Egypt, December 26, 2006.
  • The IEEE International Workshop On Peer-to-Peer Computing and Autonomous Agents P2PAA 2006 (In conjunction with the International IEEE WI/IAT’06 Conference), Hong Kong, December 18, 2006.
  • MT Summit IX, Workshop on Machine Translation for Semitic Languages: Issues and Approaches, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., September, 2003.

Academic Reviewing

Refereed Journals

  • Computers & Electrical Engineering, Elsevier.
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
  • Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier.
  • Computational Linguistics, MIT Press.
  • Informatics forHealth and Social Care, Taylor & Francis.
  • Data & KnowledgeEngineering (DATAK), Elsevier.
  • EngineeringApplications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier.
  • International Journalof Healthcare Technology and Management, Inderscience.
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part C (IEEE SMC-C): Applications and Reviews, IEEE.
  • Language Resources and Evaluation (LRE), Springer.
  • The American Societyfor Information Science and Technology (JASIST), John Wiley & Sons.
  • Journal NaturalLanguage Engineering (JNLE), Cambridge University Press.
  • Pattern Recognition, Elsevier.
  • ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), ACM.
  • Information Sciences: An International Journal, Elsevier.
  • Egyptian Informatics Journal, Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University, Elsevier.
  • International Journalof Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (IJCLCLP), theAssociation for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing(ACLCLP)
  • The Egyptian Computer Journal, Institute of Statistical Studies & Research (ISSR), Cairo University
  • Special issue on Advances in Intelligent Systems for Applied Simulation and Prototyping, the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (IJISTA).

Refereed Conferences & Workshops (other than reviewing as a PC member)

  • Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) conference, 2010
  • European Modelling Symposium (EMS) 2008, Second UKSim European Symposium on Modelling and Simulation, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, England, 8th – 10th September 2008.
  • Annual conference on Statistics, Computer Science and Operation Research, Institute of Statistical Studies & Research (ISSR), Cairo University.
  • International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS2004-INFOS 2008), Faculty of Computers & Information, Cairo University.

Establishing a Center of Excellence

  • I have been instrumental in the initiatives for establishing the “Arabic Language Technology Centre of Excellence (ALTCE)” centre of excellence at BUiD. The main objective of ALTCE is to: (a) develop speech and text resources for written and spoken Arabic, and (b) advance research on all aspects of Arabic language technology. My contribution was on suggesting projects for Arabic text processing.

Establishing the Natural Language Processing Research Group

  • I have been instrumental in the establishment of the Natural Language Processing Research Group. This research group aims at the following:  (a) Developing a large amount of annotated text resources for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and subsequently for Colloquial Arabic (CA), (b) Developing a set of natural language processing tools that can be used to build applications for MSA and CA, and (c) Using these resources to conduct research on issues that remained unresolved such as information extraction, machine translation, teaching Arabic for native and second language learners, and automatic diacritization of Arabic text. The scope will cover written text from either Modern Standard Arabic or Colloquial Arabic.

Dissertation External Examiner

  • B. VASANTHISAMUEL, Human Resource Management and Financial Risk Management – A Graph Theoretic Approach, Kalasalingam University (kalasalingam academy of research and education), Anand nagar, krishnankoil, Tamil Nadu, India, September 2015.
  • Omnia Hassan Zayed, Approaches for Extracting Arabic Persons’ Names and Resolving their Ambiguity from Formal and Informal Texts, MSc, Graduate School of Communication and Information Technology, Nile University, Egypt.
  • Maha Sulaiman Alrabiah, Building A Distributional Semantic Model for Traditional Arabic & Investigating its Novel Applications to The Holy Quran, PhD, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2015.
  • R. Joshua Samuel Raj, Intelligence in Scheduling for Grid Computing, PhD, Faculty of Science and Humanities, Kalasalingam university (kalasalingam academy of research and education), Anand nagar, krishnankoil, Tamil Nadu, India, November 2014.
  • R. Lakshmanan, Studies in visual cryptography scheme, PhD, Faculty of Science and Humanities, Kalasalingam university (kalasalingam academy of research and education), Anand nagar, krishnankoil, Tamil Nadu, India, September 2013.
  • Rana Aref Salama, Automated Diagnosis of Lexical Errors for Arabic Language Learners, MSc in Computer Science, Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Egypt, July 2011.
  • M. Osman Seleem, Bi-Directional Machine Translationwith Performance Evaluation, M.Sc., Computer Science Department, HelwanUniversity, Egypt, July 2004.

Dissertation Internal Examiner (Not under my supervision)

  • M.Sc. in InformationTechnology, at Faculty of Engineering & IT, The BritishUniversity in Dubai, UAE

  • Amro Dabash, Factors Affecting Maturity Level in UAE IT Organizations, Jan. 2015.
  • Rasha Mahmoud Abdel Salam Mohamed, Using Probability Binning and Bayesian Inference to measure Euclidean Distance of Flow Cytometric data, Jan. 2015.
  • Deena Younes Abu Khashan, Using Data Mining and Text Mining Techniques in Predicting the Price of Real Estate Properties in Dubai, May 2014.
  • Rasha Sayed Abdelhamid Ibrahim, The Paradox of Corruption in Civil Society, December, 2013.
  • Mayada Mohamed Oudah, Studying Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Networks, May 2012.
  • Rasha AlMutawa, The Effects of Data Mining on Small Businesses in Dubai, December 2011.
  • Habab Musa, Quantitative Evaluation of Generalizations, June 2011.
  • Moumena Shaqfeh, Shortest-Time Route Finding Using Inter-Vehicular Communication, June 2011.
  • Manal El Rayes, A visualization Technique forMultiagent Systems, June 2011.
  • Fatima Mohsen Bin Alnaqeeb, Methodology for Weighted Social Networks Navigation, May 2010.
  • Mohammed Hussien Saleh Al-Hemairy, Security in Wired/Wireless Networks: Sniffing Attacks Prevention and Detection Techniques in Wired and Wireless Local Area Networks (LAN), Jan. 2010.
  • Ayesha Al Janahi, Prenatal and Postnatal Information Support through the web, November 2009.
  • Fouad Zablith, Arguments on the Semantic Web, Dec. 2006.

  • M.Sc. in InformationTechnology Management, at Faculty of Engineering & IT, The BritishUniversity in Dubai, UAE.

  • Mohamed Fahmy Mahmoud, Are healthcare organizations in the developing countries ready for the information-driven healthcare? A case study in the Arabian Gulf, Sept. 2015.
  • Yasmeen Musmar, User Acceptance Factors of ERP Systems in Dubai Business Environment, May 2015.
  • Basma Younis Abou Khashan, The effects of mobile apps on autistic students in UAE, May 2015.
  • Moutaz Wajih Hamadeh, Using Text Mining and Clustering Techniques on Tweets to Discover Trending Topics in Dubai, May 2015.
  • Alya Zaid Harbi, Research Paper in Speech Recognition Technology, May 2014.
  • Shaikha Abdool, A Cross-Sectional Study about a Health Information System (HIS) in the United Arab Emirates Federal Healthcare Organization (UAE FHO), May 2014.
  • Dibin Devassy, Automatic keyword extraction from a real estate classifieds data set, December, 2011.
  • Khaled Wajeeh Sawafta, Application of Machine Learning Algorithms to Enhance Money Laundering and Financial Crime Detection, December 2011.
  • Rawhi Nasser Al Rae,Managing Development for the Health Records to be Centralized Electronically, in UAE, December 2011.
  • Mohammed Yousif Ebrahim, Innovation KPIs in the UAE, December 2011.
  • Abeer Mohd Mohsin Al Amri, Managing Uncertainty in Strategy Execution in the Transportation Sector of the United Arab Emirates, June 2011.
  • Shahd Ahmed Saeed Al Huwaidi, Exploring KeySuccess Factors in Implementing Project Management Processes to Ease StrategyExecution, February, 2011.
  • Mona Salem Al Musabi, How can Electronic Medical Record Help improve Health Services in Emirate of Abu Dhabi? May 2010.Dibin Devassy, Automatic keyword extraction from a real estate classifieds data set, December, 2011.
  • Waleed Al Ali, IT Governance in Dubai Government Organisations, May 2010.
  • Charu Verma, The Effects of Organization Culture on Risk management during Software Development, September 2009.
  • Osama Abushaban, Managing Business Intelligence challenges within the Telecommunication Industry, June 2009.
  • Mohammed Al Agha, Utilizing Web activities to generate revenue for Airports – with focus on Social Media, May 2010.

  • M.Sc. in Project Management, at Faculty of Business, The British University in Dubai, UAE.

  • Mohamed Rashid Bin Taliah, Overview of Information and Computer Technology Ethics in the United Arab Emirates June 2009.

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