Mahmoud EL-Haj
NLP Research Associate
Lancaster University · School of Computing and Communications

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Research experience

  • Teaching: Web Development and Digital Systems Architecture.
  • Teaching: Graduate Teaching/Lab Assistant at Essex University. CE161
  • Teaching: CE154 and CE203 Computer Courses. Which include: Java Programming
  • Sep 2011–
    Nov 2011
    Research: MEDIE Search Engine
    National Institute of Informatics · Natural Language Processing · National Institute of Informatics
    NLP · Tokyo
    Working on clustering and summarising the results of the syntactic and semantic search engine (MEDIE) that searches millions of medical journals.
  • Jul 2011–
    Jul 2011
    Research: Hadoop Hackathon
    Edinburgh University · Informatics · Edinburgh University
    NLP · Edinburgh
    Working on extracting useful information from a sea of garbage data (billions of words corpus). The project was a two days hackathon, we were a group of 5 people from 5 different universities. Our group was succesful in extracting (statistically) useful information before the end of the hackathon. No competition between groups as the idea was to learn how to use Hadoop tool.
  • Jun 2011–
    Dec 2012
    Research: SKOS-HASSET project
    University of Essex · UK Data Archive · http://hassetukda.wordpress.com/
    United Kingdom · Colchester
    The objective of this project is to bring HASSET, the leading and well-respected English language social science thesaurus, into the Linked Data web. http://hassetukda.wordpress.com/
  • Feb 2011–
    Dec 2012
    Research: Upgrade the Archive's Systems and Preservation Service
    UK Data Archive · Digital Preservation and Systems
    UK's largest collection of social and economic data
  • Jan 2009–
    present
    Research: University of Essex
    University of Essex · School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
    United Kingdom · Colchester

Education

  • Jan 2009–
    Aug 2012
    Essex University
    Arabic Multi-document Text Summarisation · PhD
    United Kingdom · Colchester

Awards & achievements

  • Nov 2009
    Award: Best Paper Award at LTC 2009 Poznań, Poland.

Other

  • Languages
    Arabic, English
  • Scientific Memberships
    University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language
    http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/

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