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Ms Omnia Zayed

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Biography

I am a PhD Student at The Insight Centre for Data Analytics @NUI Galway. I am working in the Unit for Natural Language Processing (UNLP). I am being supervised by Dr. Paul Buitelaar and co-supervised by Dr. John McCrae. My work is concerned with “Figurative Language Processing” and I am interested in detecting the usage of figurative and metaphoric expressions in social media, with the aim of improving sentiment and emotion detection across multiple languages.I am ambitious to build Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems that are domain independent focusing on semantic processing and information extraction (IE).

Since 2011, I have been building my experience in NLP by developing academic and commercial applications.
I was a Research Assistant at Nile University (NU) in Egypt, my research focused on IE from Arabic text. In 2015, I earned my master’s degree in Communications and Information Technology from the same university. My master thesis, under the supervision of Prof. Samhaa El-Beltagy, focused on Named Entity Recognition for the Arabic Language. My Bachelor’s degree is in the field of Systems and Biomedical Engineering from Cairo University. My graduation project was related to information systems and helped to improve Women Healthcare Management in Egypt.

As part of my NLP adventure, I joined various internship programs in Germany at Sony Stuttgart Technology Center, IBM Boeblingen R&D Lab, and Darmstadt University to reinforce my skills in the field of NLP and to gain invaluable experience by working on different projects related to IE, Sentiment Analysis, Big Data Preparation and QA Summarization.

Research Interests: natural language processing (NLP), information extraction (IE) and text analytics.

You can check my publications on google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5Eu_ZSwAAAAJ&hl=en

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
(2020) Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing
Zayed, Omnia and McCrae, John Philip and Buitelaar, Paul (2020) Adaptation of Word-Level Benchmark Datasets for Relation-Level Metaphor Identification Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Figurative Language Processing online, [Details]
(2020) Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Zayed, Omnia and McCrae, John Philip and Buitelaar, Paul (2020) Figure Me Out: A Gold Standard Dataset for Metaphor Interpretation Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Marseille, France, , pp.5810-5819 [Details]
(2019) The 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019)
Omnia Zayed, John McCrae and Paul Buitelaar (2019) Crowd-sourcing A High-Quality Dataset for Metaphor Identification in Tweets The 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019) Leipzig, Germany, , 20-MAY-19 - 23-MAY-19 [DOI] [Details]
(2018) Proceedings of the Workshop on Figurative Language Processing
Zayed, Omnia and McCrae, John Philip and Buitelaar, Paul (2018) Phrase-Level Metaphor Identification Using Distributed Representations of Word Meaning Proceedings of the Workshop on Figurative Language Processing New Orleans, Louisiana, , pp.81-90 [DOI] [Details]