Diana Inkpen's research webpage: Natural Language Processing

 

Publications
                                                                                                                                                                          Version française

 

Diana in the news: CBC article NSERC Strategic Project: Social media data could be goldmine for predicting mental illness 

Inspiring Women in Engineering  Technology Transfer  Video about text mining  More on Text Mining Ottawa Citizen article


Current students
     Ph.D.:

Arya Rahgozar (2015 - ) (E-business)

            Prasadith Buddhitha Kirinde Gamaarachchige (2015 - ) (E-business)

            Haifa Alharthi (2015 - )

            Parinaz Sobhani (2013 - ) (co-supervision)

Ehsan Amjadian (2013 - ) (co-supervision)

Fadi Abu-Sheika (2011 - )

     M.Sc.:

            Vaibhav Kesarwani (2016 -)

Alex Plachkov (2014 - ) (co-supervision)
    Postdoc:

Varada Kolhatkat (2015 - )

Mohamed Mouine (2014 - )

    Undergraduate students:

            Bryan Paget (2015)

Blair Robert Drummond (2014-2015)


 Former students

     Postdoc:            

Amir H. Razavi (2012 - 2014), now Data Scientist at Bell Canada

Soumaya Chaffar (2010 - 2011), now Assistant Professor at Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia

Maria Fernanda Caropreso (2008-2009), now Defence Scientist, Valcartier, QC
     Ph.D:  

Martin Scaiano  (2009 - 2016) now Research Scientist at Privacy Analytics

Diman Ghazi (2009 - 2015) (co-supervision) now Research Scientist at IBM

Falah Hassan Al-akashi (2009 - 2014) now Assistant Professor at University of Kufa

Oana Frunza  (2007 - 2012) now Research Scientist at Nuance Communications, Montreal

Iustina Ilisei (2008 - 2013) (co-supervision, University of Wolverhampton)

Fazel Keshtkar (2006 - 2011), now Assistant Professor at St John’s University NYC

Aminul Islam (2006 - 2011), now at Assistant Professor at University of Louisiana

Peyman Nojoumian (2006 - 2011) (co-supervision, linguistics), now at Assistant Professor at University of Southern California

Muath Alzghool (2004 - 2009), now Assistant Professor at Al Balqa University, Jordan

     M.Sc.:

Colette Joubarne (2010 - 2015), now at Privacy Analytics

            Hamid Pousepanj (2012 - 2015) (co-supervision), now at GlobalIQX

David Carter (2011 - 2015), now at NRC

Rajiv Karki (2014 - 2015) (intensive project)

Ji Li (2013 - 2014) (E-business), now at Blackberry

Josh Weissbock (2012 - 2014), now at Canadian Forces

Chris Fournier (2010 - 2013), now at MediaMiser

            Anis Noor Ali (2012 - 2013) (intensive project)

            Tanveer Ali (2012 - 2013) (intensive project) (co-supervision)

Fadi Abu-Sheika (2008 - 2010), now doing Ph.D.

Martin Scaiano   (2007 - 2009), now at Privacy Analytics
Darren Kipp (2005 - 2007) (co-supervisor), now at Pythian Group

Aurel Constatinescu (2006 - 2007) (intensive project), now at Calian Technologies

Oana Frunza  (2004 - 2006), now at Nuance Communications

Aminul Islam  (2004 - 2006), now at University of Louisiana

Isabela Pasca  (2004 -2006 ) (co-supervisor)
    Undergraduate students:

Andres Lou (2014)

Sean Billings (2013)

Nada Ashraf Radhaf Mohsen (2013)

Yusi Fan  (2013)

Caroline Paulino Ferreira (2013)

Arthur Silva Freire (2013)

Caio Ceccon Bolognani (2013)

Ashish Darji (2012)

Brandon Bay (2012)

Cristian Dimitriu (2012) 

Luan Wang (2007)

Raphaëlle Martin (2006)

Yazeed Al-Awwad (2006)

Jay Balasingham (2006)

Elena Ward -  Carleton University (2004-2005)

Apoorve Chokshi (2004)

Darren Kipp (2004)

Mei-Yi Chan (2004)

Olga Feiguina - University of Toronto (2002-2003)

Research projects

 

I was program co-chair for Canadian AI 2012

I was local arrangements co-chair for AI 2010.

I presented a tutorial at EMNLP 2015, on Applications of Social Media Text Analysis
I co-organized:

     EACL 2014 Workshop on Language in Social Media (LASM 2014)

     NAACL/HLT Workshop on Language Analysis in Social Media (LASM 2013)

     EACL 2012 Workshop on Semantic Analysis in Social Networks

     NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Analysis and Generation of Emotion in Text

     RANLP 2007 Workshop on Acquisition and Management of Multilingual Lexicons

     EACL 2006 Workshop on Cross-Language Knowledge Induction

     EuroLAN 2005 Workshop on Cross-Language Knowledge Induction

Organizer for the 2009 Intelligent Systems Challenge

Organizer for local editions of the NACL Olympiad for high-school students, 2016-2008

Associate Editor:  Computational Intelligence

                              Natural Language Engineering

                  Journal of Interesting Negative Results in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
Reviewer for journals: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Natural Language Engineering, ACM TKDD, IEEE TKDE, Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, Language Learning and Technology, ACM TSLP
Membership in professional organizations: ACL, AAAI, AILIA, IEEE

Membership in program committees

·       ACL 2016-2008, ACL 2007

·       EACL 2014-2009

·       HLT-NAACL 2016-2008, HLT-NAACL 2007, HLT-NAACL 2006

·       EMNLP 2015-2008, EMNLP 2007, EMNLP 2004

·       IJCAI 2016-2009, IJCAI 2007

·       CICLing 2015-2008, CICLing 2007, CICLing 2006, CICLing 2003

·       FLAIRS 2016-2008, FLAIRS 2007, FLAIRS 2006, FLAIRS 2005

·       Canadian AI 2016-2008, Canadian AI 2007, Canadian AI 2006, Canadian AI 2005

·       ACL 2005, Interactive Poster and Demonstration Session

·       ELECTRA 2005: Methodologies and Evaluation of Lexical Cohesion Techniques in Real-World Applications

·       FINEXIN 2005 Workshop on the Analysis of Informal and Formal Information Exchange during Negotiations, 2005

·       Senseval-3 Workshop, ACL 2004

·       SPECOM 1997

 

Collaborators

·       Mathieu Roche, Université de Montpellier, France

·       Joel Martin, Peter Turney, Alain Desilets, and their colleagues at NRC / IIT and CLTR

·       Graeme Hirst, Gerald Penn, University of Toronto

·       Stan Matwin, Stan Szpakowicz, Iluju Kiringa, Emil Petriu,  University of  Ottawa / SITE

·       Marie-Claude Hamel, Lise Duquette, University of Ottawa, Second Language Institute

·       Greg Kondrak, University of Alberta

·       Atefeh Farzindar, NLP Technologies and Universite de Montreal

 

 

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