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CSE Faculty Receives “Best Reviewer Award” at CIKM 2021
Dr. Tamer Elsayed has received a “Best Reviewer Award” at the 30th International Conference on Information on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2021. The award was announced during the conference that was held online last week. The award was given to 30 reviewers out of more than 1,600 reviewers, according to the General Chairs of the conference.
Congratulations Dr. Tamer for the recognition!
CSE PhD Students Win “Best Paper Award” at WANLP 2021
Three PhD students of our department, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, and Reem Suwaileh, all supervised by Dr. Tamer Elsayed, have won the “Best Paper Award” on their paper titled “ArCOV19-Rumors: Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset for Misinformation Detection” at the Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2021), the premier venue for Arabic NLP, that was held on April 19th and co-located with EACL 2021 conference.
The paper aims to facilitate research on misinformation detection on social media, during this complex and historical period of our time, by introducing a manually-annotated Arabic dataset that covers tweets spreading COVID-19 related claims. ArCOV19-Rumors supports two levels of misinformation detection over Twitter: verifying free-text claims (called claim-level verification) and verifying claims expressed in tweets (called tweet-level verification). ArCOV19-Rumors is the only Arabic dataset made available to support both claim-level and tweet-level verification tasks in Twitter given the propagation networks of the tweets in general and on COVID-19 in particular. The dataset covers, in addition to health, claims related to other topical categories that were influenced by COVID-19, namely, social, politics, sports, entertainment, and religion.
The paper offers baselines for future research on the problem by presenting benchmarking results using SOTA models of versatile approaches that either exploit content, user profiles features, temporal features, or propagation structure of the conversational threads for tweet verification.
Congratulations to Fatima , Maram , Reem, and Dr. Tamer!
CSE Members Gave Research Talks at QNRF AI Seminar
Dr. Tamer Elsayed, Dr. Khaled Shaban, and Ms. Abeer Al-Marridi (a CE PhD Candidate) have given three research talks at the Research Outcome Seminar titled “Artificial Intelligence in Qatar: Current R&D Activities and Challenges” organized by Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). This seminar aimed to highlight AI and its practical applications in Qatar through the presentation of some promising projects that illustrated their integrated role in providing advanced digital services and developing strategies to improve the standard of living in Qatar.
QU Ranked among Top 125 Universities Worldwide in Computer Science (THE 2021)
Qatar University has been ranked among the top 125 universities worldwide in Computer Science, according to Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking of 2021 that was just released. The ranking also positions QU as the first in the Arab world in that subject. This is indeed a big achievement for our department. It is surely a result of years of active and hard work in planning, teaching, and research. Congratulations to all members! (more…)
“What it means to be a PhD Student”: A Workshop at HBKU
Many graduate students enroll in PhD not knowing why, therefore they suffer a lot when they are faced with challenges they never expect. on Sep 9th 2020, Dr. Tamer Elsayed has given a workshop titled “What it means to be a PhD Student” as the first in the “Life after Graduation” series organized by College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). In the workshop, Dr. Tamer gave some quick advice to help existing, new, and prospective students set their “mindset” in their long, serious, and very important journey.