Kareem Darwish is a principal scientist at the Arabic Language Technologies at QCRI with interest in natural language processing (NLP), social computing, and information retrieval. He was as a researcher at the Cairo Microsoft Innovation Lab and the IBM Human Language Technologies group in Cairo. He also taught in the Electrical Engineering Department at the German University in Cairo and the Faculty of Computer and Informatics at Cairo University. He is currently developing a state-of-the-art Arabic NLP toolkit that includes POS tagging, named entity recognition, parsing, etc. In social computing, he is working on the automated detection of propaganda accounts on social media and on stance detection.
Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), HBKU
February 2011Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center (CMIC), Microsoft
March 2007 – February 2011IBM Technology Development Center, Cairo, IBM
March 2005 – March 2007Cairo University, Cairo
August 2005 – February 2011German University in Cairo
January 2004 – August 2005University of Maryland, College Park, MD
May 2003University of Maryland, College Park
August 1999University of Maryland, College Park
December 1995Using Twitter to Study the Antecedents of ISIS Support." First Monday 21.2 (2016)
2016"Arabic information retrieval." Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval 7, no. 4 (2014): 239-342.
2014"Farasa: A fast and Furious Segmenter for Arabic." In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations, pp. 11-16. 2016
2016In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), vol. 1, pp. 1558-1567. 2013.
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