Dr Mahmoud El-Haj Research Associate Lancaster University
ABOUT ME NLP Research Associate at Lancaster University. At the School of Computing and Communications working on the ESRC funded Corporate Financial Information Environment (CFIE) project. Previously Worked as a Developmental Systems and Data Mining Developer at the UK Data Archive at Essex University. Education PhD in Computer Science, Essex University 2012. MSc in Information Systems, Jordan University 2008. BSc in Computer Information Systems, Jordan University 2005. Research Interests Natural Language Processing (NLP); mainly on multi-document text summarisation for both Arabic and English, Information Retrieval, Question Answering, machine translation, text classification, crowd-sourcing, information extraction and creating NLP resources. Projects SKOS-HASSET Project at the UK Data Archive, Essex, UK. The objective of this project is to bring HASSET, the leading and well-respected English language social science thesaurus, into the Linked Data web. Its aims are twofold: firstly, it will apply SKOS to HASSET, thus creating SKOS-HASSET, a Linked Open Data product for the use of the wider social science community; secondly, it will test SKOS-HASSET's automatic indexing capabilities in relation to survey data resources. The project is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). My role is to automatically index the HASSET thesaurus, publications and questionnaires and evaluate the automatic indexing with other human manual indexing. Apply Natural Language Processing tools to connect the thesaurus index terms with the related terms in the index of the publications and questionnaires to enhance the retrieving process of these documents. Updating Digital Preservation and Systems (DPS) at the UK Data Archive, Essex, UK The objective of this project is to build applications to help organise and manage the DPS current systems. The project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). My role is to write PowerShell scripts to enhance the process of organising the Archive's studies and to manage the process of creating and downloading the studies zip bundles which requires security and validation check to ensure that the uploaded studies and zip bundles meet Archive's required specifications and standards. Professional Service Co-Organiser of the MultiLing Pilot at the Text Analysis Conference (TAC) 2011 in Maryland, USA. Organiser of the disciplinary Language And Computation (LAC) group at Essex University. Organiser of the FlatLands 2012 Workshop on Natural Language Processing Research for postgraduate students at Cambridge, Essex, Open, and Oxford Universities Friday, 29th June, 2012 at Essex University, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, UK. Conference Reviewing Reviewer for the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2010. Reviewer for the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology (ICCCT) 2011. Reviewer for the LRE-Rel Workshop at the eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2012. Reviewer for the fourth Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC) 2012. Award Best Paper Award at the 4th LTC Conference, Poznan, Poland, 2009. The paper was then selected to appear at the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.	LINKS Find me on LinkedIn Mahmoud El-Haj LinkedIn Follow my work on ResearchGate Mahmoud El-Haj ResearchGate InfoLab 21 Lancaster University School of Computing & Communications _______________________________ CONTACT Email: m.el-haj @ lancaster.ac.uk Tel: +44(0)15245 10348 Address: Office: C28 InfoLab21 Lancaster University Bailrigg Lancaster Lancashire LA1 4WA
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