IEEE Computer Society Chapter in Jordan in cooperation with the University of Jordan are pleased to invite you to attend this
Microsoft Jordan Natural Language Processing (NLP) research seminar.

Main Speaker: Dr.Kareem Darwish.
Title: Natural Language Processing Research & Microsoft Research Center Activities
Time: Tuesday 12th October 2010 @ 12:00 PM
Location: The University of Jordan - King Abdullah II School for Information Technology-The Auditorium

Abstract:
Arabic Content is increasing exponentially on the web. However, processing it and searching through it is proving to be a hard problem. Please join us to see presentations by scholars from Microsoft Research Center and Jordanian Universities on Arabic Natural Language Processing topic.

Speaker Biography:
Kareem Darwish is a researcher at Microsoft Research Center in Cairo in the areas of information retrieval and natural language processing. He finished his BSc, MS, and PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1995, 1999, and 2003 respectively. In the past, he has consulted with Kevric, a bioinformatics firm in the US, and the IBM Human Language Technologies group in Cairo, Egypt. He also taught in the Electrical Engineering Department at the German University in Cairo and the Faculty of Computer and Informatics at Cairo University. His current research interests cover applying natural language processing techniques to improve search, particularly as they apply to Arabic, overcoming query ambiguity using implicit and explicit user feedback, and improving document discoverability. He is also the co-founder and chief architect of Alzoa.com, one of the largest Arabic news aggregators on the web.

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