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Walid Magdy
Computational Social Science (CSS)
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Computational Social Science
Industrial Applications Of NLP
Language And Computation
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
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
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Publication Venues and Collaboration
Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown
Top Coauthors
Magdy
Darwish
Jones
Research Impact by Period
Papers
12
Citations
99
Avg. Citations / Paper
8.2
H-Index
6
Papers
59
Citations
2454
Avg. Citations / Paper
41.6
H-Index
23
Papers
44
Citations
2411
Avg. Citations / Paper
54.8
H-Index
24
Papers
36
Citations
1214
Avg. Citations / Paper
33.7
H-Index
16
Papers
14
Citations
201
Avg. Citations / Paper
14.4
H-Index
7
Contact and Professional Links
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