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ArabicNLP Dataset
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A list of resources for Arabic NLP.
Particle Swarm Optimization: Python Tutorial
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A simple Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) implementation in Python, a follow up on the Heuristics post.
Heuristics: the art of good guessing
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Heuristics explained with a simple numeric minimization problem using Particle swarm optimization technique.
Extracting and Mapping Location Mentions From Texts To The Ground
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In this post, I write about the importance of location name extraction and the common techniques to extract them from texts.
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publications
Optimizing cloudlet scheduling and wireless sensor localization using computational intelligence techniques
Published in The University of Toledo, 2014
Recommended citation: Al-Olimat, Hussein "Optimizing Cloudlet Scheduling and Wireless Sensor Localization using Computational Intelligence Techniques." Electronic Thesis or Dissertation. University of Toledo, 2014. https://etd.ohiolink.edu/ https://etd.ohiolink.edu/pg_10?0::NO:10:P10_ACCESSION_NUM:toledo1403922600
Semi-Supervised Approach to Monitoring Clinical Depressive Symptoms in Social Media
Published in ASONAM '17 Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017, 2017
Recommended citation: Amir Hossein Yazdavar, Hussein S. Al-Olimat, Monireh Ebrahimi, Goonmeet Bajaj, Tanvi Banerjee, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Jyotishman Pathak, and Amit Sheth. 2017. Semi-Supervised Approach to Monitoring Clinical Depressive Symptoms in Social Media. In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017 (ASONAM '17), Jana Diesner, Elena Ferrari, and Guandong Xu (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1191-1198. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3110025.3123028
Feature engineering for twitter-based applications
Published in CRC Press, 2018
Recommended citation: Wijeratne, Sanjaya, Amit Sheth, Shreyansh Bhatt, Lakshika Balasuriya, Hussein S. Al-Olimat, Manas Gaur, Amir Hossein Yazdavar, and Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan. "Feature engineering for twitter-based applications." Feature Engineering for Machine Learning and Data Analytics (2017): 35. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315181080/chapters/10.1201/9781315181080-14
Location Name Extraction from Targeted Text Streams using Gazetteer-based Statistical Language Models
Published in COLING 2018, 2018
Recommended citation: Hussein S. Al-Olimat, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Valerie Shalin, and Amit Sheth. 2018. Location Name Extraction from Targeted Text Streams using Gazetteer-based Statistical Language Models. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), pages 1986–1997. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/papers/C/C18/C18-1169/
A Practical Incremental Learning Framework For Sparse Entity Extraction
Published in COLING 2018, 2018
Recommended citation: Hussein S. Al-Olimat, Steven Gustafson, Jason Mackay, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Amit Sheth. 2018. A practical incremental learning framework for sparse entity extraction. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2018), pages 700–710. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/papers/C/C18/C18-1059/
D-record: Disaster Response and Relief Coordination Pipeline
Published in ARIC'18 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Advances on Resilient and Intelligent Cities, 2018
Recommended citation: Shruti Kar, Hussein S. Al-Olimat, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Valerie L. Shalin, Amit Sheth, and Srinivasan Parthasarathy. 2018. D-record: Disaster Response and Relief Coordination Pipeline. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Advances on Resilient and Intelligent Cities (ARIC'18), Bandana Kar, Olufemi A. Omitaomu, Shima Mohebbi, and Guangtao Fu (Eds.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13-16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3284566.3284572 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3284572
Machine assisted learning of entities
Published in Google Patents, 2019
Recommended citation: Elkholy, Alexander Hussam, Balasubramanian Kandaswamy, Steven Matt Gustafson, and Hussein S. Al-Olimat. Machine assisted learning of entities. U.S. Patent Application 10/242,320, filed March 26, 2019. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/42/2f/14/1e93380493d76c/US10242320.pdf
A Pipeline for Disaster Response and Relief Coordination
Published in SIGIR'19 Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2019
Recommended citation: Maneriker, Pranav, Nikhita Vedula, Hussein S. Al-Olimat, Jiayong Liang, Omar El-Khoury, Ethan Kubatko, Desheng Liu et al. A Pipeline for Disaster Response and Relief Coordination. In Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 1337-1340. ACM, 2019. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3331405
Towards Geocoding Spatial Expressions (Vision Paper)
Published in SIGSPATIAL 2019, 2019
Recommended citation: Hussein S. Al-Olimat, Valerie Shalin, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Joy Prakash Sain. 2019. Towards Geocoding Spatial Expressions (vision paper). In Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3347146.3359356 https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04960
Knowledge-enabled Entity Extraction
Published in Wright State University, 2019
Recommended citation: Al-Olimat, Hussein "Knowledge-enabled Entity Extraction." Electronic Dissertation. Wright State University, 2019. https://etd.ohiolink.edu/ https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_olink/r/1501/10?p10_etd_subid=183572&clear=10
Leveraging machine learning technology to efficiently identify and match patients for precision oncology clinical trials
Published in ASCO 2021, 2021
Recommended citation: Laura Sachse, Smriti Dasari, Marc Ackermann, Emily Patnaude, Stephanie OLeary, Hussein Al-Olimat, Alexander Grigorenko, Andrew Stewart, AnnaJane Ward, Annie Darmofal, Sowmya Ballakur, William Bennett, Amy Franzen, Sibel Blau, Abhinav Binod Chandra, Petros Nikolinakos, James Michael Orsini, Julio Antonio Peguero, Kimberly L. Blackwell, and Matthew M. Cooney. Leveraging machine learning technology to efficiently identify and match patients for precision oncology clinical trials. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2021 39:15_suppl, e13588-e13588 https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2021.39.15_suppl.e13588
GazPNE Annotation-free Deep Learning for Place Name Extraction from Microblogs Leveraging Gazetteer and Synthetic Data by Rules
Published in International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2021
Recommended citation: Hu, Xuke, Hussein S. Al-Olimat, Jens Kersten, Matti Wiegmann, Friederike Klan, Yeran Sun, and Hongchao Fan. GazPNE: annotation-free deep learning for place name extraction from microblogs leveraging gazetteer and synthetic data by rules. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 36, no. 2 (2022): 310-337. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13658816.2021.1947507?journalCode=tgis20
Natural language processing-optimized case selection for real-world evidence studies
Published in ASCO 2022, 2022
Recommended citation: Jacob Koskimaki, Jenny Hu, Yiduo Zhang, Jose Mena, Nehanda Jones, Elizabeth Lipschultz, Vivek Prabhakar Vaidya, Gabriel Altay, Vance Andrei Erese, Krishna Kumar Swaminathan, Emma Mendonca, Tarun Dutt, Kuldeep Singh, Tian King, Vinay Phani Santosh Lakkimsetty, Hussein Al-Olimat, Brittany Manning, George Anthony Komatsoulis, Simon Chu, and Jeff Ottens. Natural language processing-optimized case selection for real-world evidence studies. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2022 40:16_suppl, 1556-1556 https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2022.40.16_suppl.1556
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Geosemantics
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Location Extraction and Georeferencing in Social Media: Challenges, Techniques, and Applications
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