SAMER H NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING ADDICT



Welcome to my homepage. I am currently working as software engineer at Google. I have an interest in Natural Language Processing with a focus on Semantics, Question Answering, Deep QA, and Deep Learning.

Interesting News/Articles

  • "5 Nobel Prize-Winning Economic Theories You Should Know About" [link]
  • "Excitement Open Platform for Recognizing Textual Entailment" [link]
  • Carmen Banea et al. (UMich team) system "SimCompass" outperformed participating systems in Task#3 SemEval 2014. Results can be seen here
  • Random Image Experiment Reveals The Building Blocks of Human Imagination [link]
  • Robert Sapolsky: The Uniqueness of Humans [link]
  • Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence [link] 
  • The Story of One [link]

Recent Relevant Publications

  • Erbs, Nicolai, Iryna Gurevych, and Torsten Zesch. "Sense and Similarity: A Study of Sense-level Similarity Measures."
    Lexical and Computational Semantics (* SEM 2014) (2014): 30. APA

  • Omer Levy and Yoav Goldberg "Dependency-Based Word Embeddings"
    Proceedings of ACL 2014