Saif M. Mohammad
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About Saif M. Mohammad
Researcher in Computational Linguistics, National
Research Council Canada
Email: saif.mohammad@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
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Bio:
Dr. Saif M. Mohammad is a Senior Research
Scientist at the National
Research Council Canada (NRC). He received his Ph.D.
in Computer Science from the University of
Toronto. Before joining NRC, Saif was a Research Associate at the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests are in Computational
Linguistics and Natural
Language Processing, especially Lexical
Semantics, Emotion and Sentiment Analysis, Computational Creativity, Fairness in Natural Language Processing, Social Media Analysis, and Information Visualization. Saif is a co-organizer of WASSA (a sentiment analysis workshop) and co-chair of SemEval (the largest platform for semantic evaluations). He has also served on the program committees of journals such as the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) and conferences such as ACL and EMNLP (both as area chair and reviewer). His team has
developed a sentiment
analysis system which ranked first in recent shared
task competitions. His word-emotion resources, such as the NRC
Emotion Lexicon, are widely used for for analyzing affect in text. His work has garnered widespread media attention, including
articles in Time, SlashDot,
LiveScience, io9, The
Physics arXiv Blog, PC
World, and Popular
Science.
Further details of Saif's work can be found in his CV.
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