• ARABIC QUESTION ANSWERING ON THE HOLY QUR'AN 

      MALHAS, RANA R. (2023 , Dissertation)
      In this dissertation,we address the need for an intelligent machine reading at scale (MRS) Question Answering (QA) system on the Holy Qur'an, given the permanent interest of inquisitors and knowledge seekers in this sacred ...
    • ArCov-19: The First Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Database with Propagation Networks 

      Haouari, Fatima; Hasanain, Maram; Suwaileh, Reem; Elsayed, Tamer ( Cornel University , 2020 , Article  &   Video)
      In this paper, we present ArCOV-19, an Arabic COVID-19 Twitter dataset that covers the period from 27th of January till 31st of March 2020. ArCOV-19 is the first publicly-available Arabic Twitter dataset covering COVID-19 ...
    • Building a Test Collection for Significant-Event Detection in Arabic Tweets 

      Almerekhi, Hind Ali (2016 , Master Thesis)
      With the increasing popularity of microblogging services like Twitter, researchers discov- ered a rich medium for tackling real-life problems like event detection. However, event detection in Twitter is often obstructed ...
    • DID I SEE IT BEFORE? RETRIEVING PREVIOUSLY CHECKED CLAIMS OVER TWITTER 

      MANSOUR,WATHEQ AHMAD (2022 , Master Thesis)
      With the proliferation of fake news in the last few years, especially during COVID- 19, combating the spread of misinformation has become a social and political urgent need. Fact-checkers and journalists need to identify ...
    • ENABLING EFFECTIVE ARABIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL ON THE WEB AND SOCIAL MEDIA 

      HASANAIN, MARAM GHANEM (06-2 , Dissertation)
      Arabic is one of the most dominant languages on the Web and social media. The huge and ever-growing Arabic user generated content, further motivated by the ongoing political unrest in the region, created an immense need ...
    • LOCATION MENTION PREDICTION FROM DISASTER TWEETS 

      SUWAILEH, REEM ALI (2023 , Dissertation)
      While utilizing Twitter data for crisis management is of interest to different response authorities, a critical challenge that hinders the utilization of such data is the scarcity of automated tools that extract and resolve ...
    • ON RELEVANCE FILTERING FOR REAL-TIME TWEET SUMMARIZATION 

      SUWAILEH, REEM ALI (2018 , Master Thesis)
      Real-time tweet summarization systems (RTS) require mechanisms for capturing relevant tweets, identifying novel tweets, and capturing timely tweets. In this thesis, we tackle the RTS problem with a main focus on the relevance ...
    • QU-IR at SemEval 2016 Task 3: Learning to rank on Arabic community question answering forums with word embedding 

      Malhas, Rana; Torki, Marwan; Elsayed, Tamer ( Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Resorting to community question answering (CQA) websites for finding answers has gained momentum in the past decade with the explosive rate at which social media has been proliferating. With many questions left unanswered ...
    • Real-time Tweet Summarization Mobile Application 

      Salim, Nazar S. (2018 , Professional Masters Project)
      With the emergence of the massive volume of content through social media platforms, users are getting overwhelmed with information, though searching for the topic will give you filtered information that interests you. ...