Data and Knowledge Engineering Group

Farag A. Ahmed

M.Sc. Farag A. Ahmed

Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Faculty of Computer Science
Institut für Technische und Betriebliche Informationssysteme (ITI)

Gebäude 29, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, G29-005

Tel.: +49 391 67-11399 Fax: +49 391 67-12020

farag.ahmed@ovgu.de

Research

Research Topics

Cross lingual and Multilingual Information Retrieval
Arabic Text Searching
CLIR Interactive Tools
Word sense Disambiguation

I am interested in enhancing and finding new ways of retrieving Arabic content in web, dealing with its complexity that impede its retrieval. Furthermore, I am interested in Cross language information retrieval between Arabic and other languages. This research interest led me to the study of different models of information retrieval, machine learning, Word sense disambiguation, corpora linguistic and natural language processing. I am also interested in building better tools to help people understand and use complex cross information retrieval environments.

Research Activities

Programm Committee of IEEE IMCSIT-CLA Konferenz
Reviewer Computational Lingusitic-Application at IMCSIT-CLA

Publications

2012

Farag Ahmed and Andreas Nürnberger, Literature Review of Interactive Cross Language Information Retrieval Tools, The International Arab Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 9, No. 3, July 2012.

2011

Farag Ahmed, Andreas Nürnberger and Marcus Nitsche, Supporting Arabic Cross-Lingual Retrieval using Contextual Information, In: Proceedings of the 2nd Information Retrieval Facility conference (IRF2011), Hanbury, A. Rauber, and A.P de Vries (Eds.): IRFC 2011, LNCS Volume 6653, pp. 30-45, 06-June, 2011, Vienna, Austria.
Farag Ahmed and Andreas Nürnberger, A Web Statistics based Conflation Approach to Improve Arabic Text Retrieval, In: Proceedings of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Fedcsis2011), pp. 3-9, 18-23 September, 2011, Szczecin, Poland.

2010

Farag Ahmed and Andreas Nürnberger, multi Searcher: Can we Support People to get Information from Text they can't Read or Understand?, In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR conference in Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR2010), 19-23 July, pp. 837-838 Geneva, Switzerland. BibTex

2009

Farag Ahmed and Andreas Nürnberger, Evaluation of n-gram conflation approaches for arabic text retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Volume 60, issue 7 (July 2009) USA. pp. 1448-1465. BibTex
Farag Ahmed, Ernesto William De Luca, and Andreas Nürnberger. Revised N-Gram Based Automatic Spelling Correction Tool to Improve Retrieval Effectiveness, In: Research journal on computer science and computer engineering with applications (Polibits) , volume 40, pp. 39-48 , 2009. BibTex
Farag Ahmed, Andreas Nürnberger, und Ernesto William De Luca. A Corpus-based Approach to Improve Arabic/English Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In: Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics Conference, Liverpool, 2009. BibTex
Ernesto William De Luca, Farag Ahmed und Andreas Nürnberger. Annotating Arabic Words with English WordNet SynSets: An Arabic WordNet Interface. In: Proceedings of the Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology 2009 (GSCL), Potsdam, pp. 61-68, 2009. BibTex

2008

Farag Ahmed and Andreas Nürnberger, Corpora based Approach for Arabic/English Word Translation Disambiguation. Journal of Speech and Language Technology, Volume 11, pp. 195-213, 2008. BibTex
Farag Ahmed and Andreas Nürnberger, Arabic/English Word Translations Disambiguation using Parallel Corpus and Matching Schemes, In: Proceedings of the 12th European Machine Translation Conference (EAMT08) 22-23 September 2008 at University of Hamburg, Germany. pp. 6-11. BibTex
Farag Ahmed and Andreas Nürnberger, Arabic/English Word Translation Disambiguation Approach based on Naive Bayesian Classifier, In: Proceedings of the 3th IEEE International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IMCSIT08) 20-22 October 2008 at Wisla, Poland. pp. 331-338. BibTex
Farag Ahmed and Andreas Nürnberger, araSearch: Improving Arabic text retrieval via detection of word form variations, In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information Systems and Economic Intelligence (SIIE'2008) 14-16 february 2008 at Hammamet in Tunisia, pp. 309-323. (Best Paper Award) BibTex
Farag Ahmed, Naoum Jamous and Andreas Nürnberger, Evaluations of Unsupervised String Similarities Approaches for Arabic Text Searching, In: Proceedings of the 1st International Engineering Science Conference (IESC'2008) 02-04 November 2008 at Aleppo in Syria.

2007

Farag Ahmed and Andreas Nürnberger, N-Grams Conflation Approach for Arabic Text, In:Proceedings of the International Workshop on improving Non English Web Searching iNEWS07) In conjunction with The 30th Annual International (ACM SIGIR Conference).Amsterdam City, Netherlands,2007. pp. 39-46. BibTex
Farag Ahmed, Ernesto William De Luca and Andreas Nürnberger, MultiSpell: an N-Gram Based Language-Independent Spell Checker, In: Poster Postproc of Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2007), Mexico City, 2007.