Dr. Abdelali is a Senior Software Engineer at Qatar Computing Research Institute, Arabic Language Technologies research group. His research interest focuses on natural language processing namely, areas of machine translation, information retrieval and extraction with emphasis on applications related to Arabic language and its dialects. Dr. Abdelali received his MS and PhD in computer Science from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Worked as a researcher for NMSU Computing Research Laboratory and Physical Science Laboratory before joining QCRI. Dr. Abdelali has published and co-authored several research papers and articles in various peer-reviewed conferences and journals.
Research Administration NMSU Las Cruces, New Mexico
07/2007-03/2013Physical Science Laboratory NMSU Las Cruces, New Mexico
02/2004-07/2007Computing Research Laboratory NMSU Las Cruces, New Mexico
03/2000-02/2004New Mexico Tech Socorro, New Mexico Master student of Computer Science at New Mexico Tech.
1998-1999New Mexico Tech. Socorro, NM
2002-2006New Mexico Tech. Socorro, NM
1998-1999Highly Effective Arabic Diacritization using Sequence to Sequence Modeling. Accepted at NAACL-HLT 2019.
2019The WAW Corpus: The First Corpus of Interpreted Speeches and their Translations for English and Arabic. LREC 2018. 7-12 May 2018. Miyazaki, Japan.
2018iAppraise: A Manual Machine Translation Evaluation Environment. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), San Diego, US, June 2016.
2016An information-theoretic, vector-space-model approach to cross-language information retrieval. Natural Language Engineering, 17(1), pp 37–70.
2011Benefits of the ‘Massively Parallel Rosetta Stone’: Cross-Language Information Retrieval with over 30 Languages. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2007. Prague, Czech Republic, June 23–30, 2007. pp. 872-879.
2007Localization in Modern Standard Arabic. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Volume 55, Number 1, 2004. pp. 23-28.
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