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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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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