College of Engineering: Recent submissions
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When a disaster happens, we are ready: Location mention recognition from crisis tweets
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article Review)Geolocation information is important for humanitarian organizations to gain situational awareness and deliver timely aid during disasters. Towards addressing the problem of recognizing locations, i.e., Location Mention ... -
Ontology-based model in tourism context-aware systems
( IEEE Computer Society , 2013 , Conference Paper)Different approaches have been used to model contextual information in context-aware systems. Comparing to other models, ontology-based modeling offers more expressiveness, semantically sharing and interoperability. It ... -
Overview of CheckThat! 2020 English: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media
( CEUR-WS , 2020 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2020. The lab featured five tasks in Arabic and English, and here we focus on the three English tasks. Task 1 challenged the participants to predict ... -
ArCOV19-Rumors: Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset for Misinformation Detection
( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2021 , Conference Paper)In this paper we introduce ArCOV19-Rumors, an Arabic COVID-19 Twitter dataset for misinformation detection composed of tweets containing claims from 27th January till the end of April 2020. We collected 138 verified claims, ... -
Overview of CheckThat! 2020 Arabic: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media
( CEUR-WS , 2020 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we present an overview of the Arabic tasks of the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2020. The lab featured three Arabic tasks over social media (and the Web): Task 1 on check-worthiness estimation, ... -
Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims. Task 2: Factuality
( CEUR-WS , 2018 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims, with focus on Task 2: Factuality. The task asked to assess whether a given check-worthy claim made ... -
Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims. Task 1: Check-Worthiness
( CEUR-WS , 2018 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims, with focus on Task 1: Check-Worthiness. The task asks to predict which claims in a political debate ... -
CheckThat! at CLEF 2019: Automatic identification and verification of claims
( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Conference Paper)We introduce the second edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2019 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). CheckThat! proposes two complementary tasks. Task 1: predict which claims in a political debate should be ... -
Overview of the CLEF-2019 CheckThat! Lab: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims
( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of the second edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2019. The lab featured two tasks in two different languages: English and Arabic. Task 1 (English) challenged the participating systems to predict ... -
Time-critical geolocation for social good
( Springer , 2020 , Conference Paper)Twitter has become an instrumental source of news in emergencies where efficient access, dissemination of information, and immediate reactions are critical. Nevertheless, due to several challenges, the current fully-automated ... -
Improving Arabic Microblog Retrieval with Distributed Representations
( Springer , 2020 , Conference Paper)Query expansion (QE) using pseudo relevance feedback (PRF) is one of the approaches that has been shown to be effective for improving microblog retrieval. In this paper, we investigate the performance of three different ... -
An Ontology-Based Context-Aware Mobile System for On-the-Move Tourists
( Springer Verlag , 2013 , Conference Paper)Ontology-based model in context-aware systems offers more expressiveness, semantically sharing and interoperability. It supports reasoning tasks in a better way than other approaches. However, the main concern with ontology ... -
Overview of CheckThat! 2020: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2020 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2020. The lab featured five tasks in two different languages: English and Arabic. The first four tasks compose the full pipeline of claim verification ... -
CheckThat! at CLEF 2020: Enabling the automatic identification and verification of claims in social media
( Springer , 2020 , Conference Paper)We describe the third edition of the CheckThat! Lab, which is part of the 2020 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). CheckThat! proposes four complementary tasks and a related task from previous lab editions, offered in ... -
Electrodeposited white bronzes on brass: Corrosion in 3.5 % sodium chloride solution
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)White bronzes are electrodeposited coatings applied on brass as surface finishes. We report a comparative study on the corrosion resistance in chloride aqueous environment of two white bronzes, a Zn-bearing and a Zn-free. ... -
N-cetyl-N,N,N trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB)-stabilized polyaniline: a corrosion inhibitor for mild steel
( Emerald Publishing , 2018 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to compare the inhibitive effect of polyaniline (PAni) and N-cetyl-N,N,N trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB)-stabilized PAni in a hydrochloric acid (HCl) medium. Design/methodology/approach: ... -
Polymeric smart coatings containing modified capped halloysite nanotubes for corrosion protection of carbon steel
( Springer , 2023 , Article)A newly designed smart self-healing epoxy coating system comprised of modified halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) having capping is proposed for corrosion protection of steel. In the first step, HNTs were loaded with 8-hydroxyquinoline ... -
Security Supply Chain Using UAVs: Validation and Development of a UAV-Based Model for Qatar's Mega Sporting Events
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)Unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) are now used to support security precautions in search and rescue operations to track and evaluate critical services, to provide cybersecurity measures by transporting security supply chain ... -
A New Shift in Implementing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the Safety and Security of Smart Cities: A Systematic Literature Review
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article Review)The rapid rise of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and their integration into smart city initiatives has sparked a surge of research interest in a broad array of thematic areas. This study undertakes a comprehensive review ... -
Risk-Management Framework and Information-Security Systems for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): A Meta-Analysis Approach
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)Information-technology (IT) security standards are regularly updated in a rapidly changing technological world to maintain pace with advanced technologies. This study was motivated by the realization that established IT ...