Talks
Tamer Elsayed. IR for Arabic, Islam, and Social Good, Invited Talk, QU CSE Seminar, Mar 2024.
Reem Suwaileh. Artificial intelligence and its relationship to charitable and humanitarian work, Invited talk, Regulatory Authority for Charitable Activities, Nov 2023.
Tamer Elsayed. Tahaqqaq: A Real-Time System for Assisting Twitter Users in Arabic Claim Verification, Invited Talk, Doha Data Forum, Oct 2023.
Tamer Elsayed. Research Issues You MUST Know! Invited Talk, Graduate Seminar at the Environmental Sciences Department, Qatar University, Sep 2023.
Tamer Elsayed. 10 Years of Research at QU: 10 Lessons Learned. Invited Talk, Sharing Experience Day, College of Engineering, Qatar University, Sep 2023.
Fatima Haouari. Overview of the CLEF-2023 CheckThat! lab task 5 on authority finding in Twitter, Organizer’s Talk, CLEF conference, Sep 2023.
Tamer Elsayed. Scientific Publishing and Unethical Practices, Invited Talk, the “Academic Integrity and Challenges of Scientific Publishing” symposium hosted online by Birzeit University, July 2023.
Zien Sheikh Ali. Tahaqqaq: a real-time system for assisting twitter users in Arabic claim verification, SIGIR conference, July 2023.
Fatima Haouari. Finding and exploiting authorities for rumor verification in Twitter. Invited Talk, IEEE Women in Engineering in Canada, July 2023.
Fatima Haouari. Detecting Stance of Authorities towards Rumors in Arabic Tweets: A Preliminary Study. ECIR conference, April 2023.
Rana Malhas. Arabic Question Answering on the Holy Qur'an. Invited talk, The KINDI center, March 2023.
Rana Malhas. Arabic Machine Comprehension on the Holy Qur'an using CL-AraBERT. Invited talk, Leeds university, Feb 2023.
Tamer Elsayed. bigIR: Research, Resources, and Where to Go from There!, Invited Talk, Birzeit University, Online, Feb 2023.
Zien Sheikh Ali. Detecting Users Prone to Spread Fake News on Arabic Twitter. The 5th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT), June 2022.
Tamer Elsayed. Qur’an QA 2022 Shared Task Overview, Organizer’s Talk, OSACT 2022 Workshop, May 2022.
Tamer Elsayed. FakeDet: Early Detection of Fake News over Arabic Social Media. International Workshop on Arabic Big Data and AI (IWABigDAI), May 2022.
Fatima Haouari. Evidence-based Early Rumor Verification in Social Media, ECIR, April 2022.
Watheq Mansour. Did I See it Before? Detecting Previously Checked Claims over Twitter, ECIR, April 2022.
Tamer Elsayed. What it means to be a PhD Student Workshop. Webinar, Online, Mar 2022.
Marwa Essam. Unsupervised Methods for Efficient yet Effective News Background Linking, RMIT University-Centre for Information Discovery & Data Analytics, February 2022.
Watheq Mansour. Retrieving Previously-Checked Claims over Twitter, Learned Lessons and Practices, Invited talk in Seminar in Computing Course, February 2022.
Tamer Elsayed. FakeDet: Early Detection of Fake News over Arabic Social Media. Webinar, ROS, QNRF, Apr 2022.
Tamer Elsayed. Introduction to AI. Invited Talk, National Olympiad for Creativity in Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Feb 2022.
Marwa Essam. Adopting Transfer Learning for News Background Linking. TREC 2021.
Tamer Elsayed. Introduction to AI. Invited Talk, Opening Ceremony of AI Organization at QU, QU, Oct 2021.
Tamer Elsayed. Information Retrieval (in Arabic), 10 lectures, Open Online Course, June 2021.
Fatima Haouari. Information Retrieval Labs (in Arabic), 5 lectures, Open Online Course, June 2021.
Watheq Mansour. Information Retrieval Labs (in Arabic), 3 lectures, Open Online Course, June 2021.
Maram Hasanain. Information Retrieval Labs (in Arabic), 1 lecture, Open Online Course, June 2021.
Fatima Haouari. ArCOV-19: The First Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with Propagation Networks . WANLP 2021. (Workshop paper). April 2021.
Fatima Haouari. ArCOV19-Rumors: Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset for Misinformation Detection. WANLP 2021. (Workshop paper). April 2021.
Zien Sheikh Ali. AraFacts: The First Large Arabic Dataset of Naturally Occurring Claims. WANLP 2021. (Workshop paper). April 2021.
Tamer Elsayed. Arabic Information Retrieval: Tasks, Resources, and Challenges, Webinar, Arabic Artificial Intelligence Summit (AAIS) 2021, April 2021.
Tamer Elsayed. AI 101. Webinar, AI week at QU Computing Club, QU, Feb 2021.
Tamer Elsayed. FakeDet: Early Detection of Fake News over Arabic Social Media. Webinar, AI ROS, QNRF, Nov 2020.
Tamer Elsayed. What it means to be a PhD Student. Webinar, CIS-HBKU, Sep 2020.
Tamer Elsayed. FakeDet: Research on Fake News Detection at Qatar University. Webinar, AI Symposium, CSE, QU, Sep 2020.
Tamer Elsayed. CheckThat! 2020: Enabling the Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims in Social Media. Webinar, CLEF 2020, Sep 2020.
Tamer Elsayed. What it means to be a PhD Student. Webinar, Egypt Scholars, July 2020.
Tamer Elsayed. Panel of “The Future of AI Economy in MENA”. Phi Research and Innovation Summit (PRIS’20), July 2020.
Tamer Elsayed. What it means to be a PhD Student. Webinar, Phi Research and Innovation Summit (PRIS’20), July 2020.
Tamer Elsayed. ArCOV-19: The First Arabic COVID-19 Twitter Dataset with Propagation Networks. Webinar, Apr 2020.
Reem Suwaileh. Time-Critical Geolocation for Social Good. ECIR 2020 (Doctoral Consortium), Apr 2020.
Tamer Elsayed. FakeDet: Research on Fake News Detection at Qatar University, Keynote Talk in "Bias, Misinformation, and Propaganda" Workshop, SocInfo 2019, Nov 2019.
Tamer Elsayed. What it means to be a PhD Student - Part II: Quality, Skills, and Support, "What it means to be a PhD Student" Workshop, Qatar University, Nov 2019.
Tamer Elsayed. What it means to be a PhD Student - Part I: Mentality, Objectives, and Quality, "What it means to be a PhD Student" Workshop, Qatar University, Nov 2019.
Tamer Elsayed. Research Issues You MUST Know! QU CSE Seminar, Mar 2019.
Maram Hasanain. Query Performance Prediction for Microblog Search. Invited Talk in “Graduate Seminar” graduate class, QU. Feb 2019.
Tamer Elsayed. Machine Learning 101 – Part II: Getting a bit “Deep”er! Workshop at QU-IEEE Student Branch, Qatar University, Feb 2019.
Tamer Elsayed. Machine Learning 101 – Part I: Hello “Machine Learning”. Workshop at QU-IEEE Student Branch, Qatar University, Feb 2019.
Tamer Elsayed. Low-Cost Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems. Invited Talk at Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, Nov 2018.
Tamer Elsayed. When Rank Order isn’t Enough: New Statistical-Significance-Aware Correlation Measures. CIKM 2018, Turin, Italy, Oct 2018.
Tamer Elsayed. Supporting Arabic IR in the Era of Big Data: Resources, Tasks, and Venues. Invited Talk at HBKU, Qatar, Apr 2018.
Tamer Elsayed. Supporting Arabic IR in the Era of Big Data: Resources, Tasks, and Venues. QU CSE Seminar, Mar 2018.
Maram Hasanain. Automatic Ranking of Information Retrieval Systems. WSDM 2018 (Doctoral Consortium), LA, California, USA. Feb 2018
Tamer Elsayed. MapReduce 101. Invited Talk in “CMPT 523 Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing” graduate class, QU, Oct 2017.
Tamer Elsayed. How to Give a Good (Research) Talk. QU CSE Seminar, May 2017.
Tamer Elsayed. Big Data Analytics. Invited Talk at “Special Topics in Data Science” graduate course, Qatar University, Apr 2017.
Maram Hasanain. Query Performance Prediction for Microblog Search. Invited Talk in “Graduate Seminar”graduate class, QU. Apr 2017.
Tamer Elsayed. Lightweight, Conservative, yet Effective: Scalable Real-time Tweet Summarization. TREC Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov 2016.
Tamer Elsayed. Real, Live, and Concise: Answering Open-Domain Questions with Word Embedding and Summarization. TREC Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov 2016.
Tamer Elsayed. Research Issues You MUST Know, Guest lecture, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Oct 2016.
Tamer Elsayed. What Questions Do Journalists Ask on Twitter?, The Social Media in the Newsroom Workshop (SMNews’16), International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), May 2016.
Tamer Elsayed. bigIR: When Big Data meets Information Retrieval, Big Data Management workshop organized at QU. Apr 2016.
Maram Hasanain. Real-Time Tweet Filtering, Big Data Management workshop organized at QU. Apr 2016.
Tamer Elsayed. MapReduce 101, Guest Lecture in “CMPT 523 Distributed Systems” graduate class, QU, Mar 2016.
Tamer Elsayed. Detecting Automatically-Generated Arabic Tweets, AIRS 2015, Dec 2015.
Tamer Elsayed. Researcher 101: Issues You Would Like to Know, QU CSE Seminar, Feb 2015.
Tamer Elsayed. QU @ TREC-2014: Online Clustering for Tweet Timeline Generation, TREC Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov 2014.
Tamer Elsayed. Pairwise Document Similarity in Large Collections, Guest Lecture in “CMPT 571 Advanced Algorithms” graduate class, QU CSE Seminar, Oct 2014.
Tamer Elsayed. Research Issues You Must Know, Research 101 Workshop, QU Seminar, Oct 2014.
Maram Hasanain. LaTeX: Writing Professional Scientific Documents, Research 101 Workshop, QU Seminar. Oct 2014.
Tamer Elsayed. How to Read a Research Paper, Research 101 Workshop, QU Seminar, Oct 2014.
Tamer Elsayed. Research? A Gentle Introduction, Research 101 Workshop, QU Seminar, Oct 2014.
Maram Hasanain. Query Performance Prediction for Microblog Search: A Preliminary Study, the First ACM International Workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis (SoMeRA'14), ACM SIGIR 2014, Gold Coast, Australia. Jul 2014.
Tamer Elsayed. MapReduce 101, Guest Lecture in “CMPT 507 Advanced Operating Systems” graduate class, QU, May 2014.
Tamer Elsayed. Researcher 101: Issues You Would Like to Know, QU CSE Seminar, Apr 2014.
Tamer Elsayed. IR in a Nutshell: Applications, Research, and Challenges, QU CSE Seminar, Feb 2014.
Tamer Elsayed. TREC-2013: QU Taking the “Fast Lane” to IR Research, QU CSE Seminar, Oct 2013.
Tamer Elsayed and Maram Hasanain. LaTeX: Writing Professional Scientific Documents, OFID EduTech Day 2013, QU, June 2013.
Tamer Elsayed. How to Read a Research Paper, QU CSE Seminar, May 2013.
Tamer Elsayed. IR in a Nutshell: Applications, Research, and Challenges, QU CSE Seminar, Feb 2013.
Tamer Elsayed. On Large-Scale Retrieval Tasks with Ivory and MapReduce, QU CSE Seminar, Nov 2012.