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Walid Magdy

Computational Social Science (CSS) Natural Language Processing (NLP) Computational Social Science Industrial Applications Of NLP Language And Computation
The University of Edinburgh School of Informatics

About

I am a faculty member at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC), part of the School of Informatics, the Univeristy of Edinburgh. My main expertise is in computational social science (CSS) and natural language processing (NLP). I hold my PhD degree from the School of Computing, Dublin City University (DCU). I have been a faculty fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. I have large industrial background from working earlier for Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Microsoft, and IBM.

Research Performance Summary

165
Total Papers
6379
Total Citations
44
H-Index
2006-2026
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Arabic OCR error correction using character segment correction, language modeling, and shallow morphology

Year: 2006

Citations: 51

Venue: Proceedings of the 2006 conference on empirical methods in natural language

Latest Recorded Paper

Validating Automatic Evaluation of Controllable Counterspeech Generation: Rankings Matter More Than Scores

Year: 2026

Citations: 0

Venue: Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2026
4
2025
8
2024
5
2023
7
2022
19
2021
10
2020
18
2019
10
2018
9
2017
6
2016
6

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 82
Journal 4
Book 0

Top Coauthors

Magdy Darwish Jones

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 12
Citations 99
Avg. Citations / Paper 8.2
H-Index 6

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 59
Citations 2454
Avg. Citations / Paper 41.6
H-Index 23

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 44
Citations 2411
Avg. Citations / Paper 54.8
H-Index 24

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 36
Citations 1214
Avg. Citations / Paper 33.7
H-Index 16

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 14
Citations 201
Avg. Citations / Paper 14.4
H-Index 7

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

wmagdy@inf.ed.ac.uk

Detected Research Keywords

Arabic Social Media Community Question Answering Pseudo Relevance Feedback Offensive Language Detection Hate Speech Detection Ocr Error Correction Workshop Open Source Open Source Arabic Source Arabic Corpora Arabic Corpora Processing