Funded Research Projects

  • Dimension-Specific Automated Scoring of Arabic Language Writing Proficiency

    Dimension-Specific Automated Scoring of Arabic Language Writing Proficiency

    Building the first automated scoring system for Arabic articles written by high-school and first-year university students

    Funded by: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
    Project no.: NPRP14S-0402-210127
    Role: Lead-PI
    Awarded Amount: $529,099.20 
    Collaborators: Dr. Houda Bouamor (CMUQ) Dr. Walid Massoud (Qatar University)
    Start Date: Mar 2023
    End Date:     Mar 2026

  • FakeDet: Early Detection of Fake News over Arabic Social Media

    FakeDet: Early Detection of Fake News over Arabic Social Media

    Building a real time system to detect fake news over Arabic Twitter

    Funded by: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
    Project no.: NPRP11S-1204-170060
    Role: Lead-PI
    Awarded Amount: $580,015
    Collaborators: Dr. Walid Magdy (University of Edinburgh) and Dr. Abdulaziz Alali (Qatar University)
    Start Date:     June 2019
    End Date:     December 2022

  • ArTest: Efficient and Scalable Evaluation for Searching Massive Arabic Social Media and Web Collections

    ArTest: Efficient and Scalable Evaluation for Searching Massive Arabic Social Media and Web Collections

    Building test collections for Arabic search on the Web and social media.

    Funded by: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
    Project no.: NPRP 7 – 1313 – 1 – 245
    Role: Lead-PI
    Awarded Amount: $883,846.90
    Collaborator: Dr. Matt Lease (University of Texas-Austin)
    Start Date: 01-Apr-2015
    End Date: 05-Jul-2018

  • Big Graphs: Scalable Analytics Engine for Big Graphs on the Cloud

    Big Graphs: Scalable Analytics Engine for Big Graphs on the Cloud

    Scalable Analytics Engine for Big Graphs on the Cloud

    Funded by: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
    Project no.: NPRP 7 – 1330 – 2 – 483
    Role: PI
    Title: Scalable Analytics Engine for Big Graphs on the Cloud
    Collaborator: Dr. Mohammad Hammoud (CMU, Qatar)
    Start Date: 01-Dec-2015
    End Date: 01-Dec-2018

  • ArQAT: Answering Real-time Questions from Arabic Social Media

    ArQAT: Answering Real-time Questions from Arabic Social Media

    Helping users finding answers to their real-time questions in Arabic tweet stream.

    Funded by: Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
    Project no.: NPRP 6 – 1377 – 1 – 257
    Role: Lead-PI
    Awarded Amount: $1,045,432.80
    Collaborators: Prof. Doug Oard (UMD, US), Mark Sanderson (RMIT, Australia)
    Start Date: 10-Feb-2014
    End Date: 10-Feb-2017