Highlighted News
27-March-2024: Dr. Tamer and Fatima received "Outstanding Reviewer Awards" at ECIR 2024!
26-March-2024: A full paper accepted at SIGIR 2024!
20-Feb-2024: A full paper accepted at LREC-COLING 2024!
20-Dec-2023: Fatima got her second PhD journal accepted at SNAM!
24-Nov-2023: bigIR group is sponsoring the FIRST ArabicNLP Conference!
13-June-2023: Dr. Tamer received "Dean's Award for Excellence in Research"!
03-June-2023: Watheq got his MSc journal accepted at IP&M!
22-May-2023: Dr. Reem, our 3rd PhD graduate, distinctly defended her PhD!
10-May-2023: Reem is *leading* the distinguished students honored in QU!
2-May-2023: A full paper accepted at the TOP NLP conference!
23-Apr-2023: A new journal article that is made in bigIR
2-Apr-2023: Fatima is bigIR's representative at ECIR 2023
Welcome to bigIR website!
This is the home of the bigIR research group at Qatar University (QU)!
The group (whose name stands for “Big Data and Informational Retrieval” research group) was founded (back in 2012) and led by Dr. Tamer Elsayed. The team has expanded since then to include PIs, postdocs, graduate students, research assistants, and undergraduate students.
We conduct research at the intersection of Information Retrieval (IR), Big Data, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and applied Machine Learning (ML), with emphasis on Arabic language and social media analytics. For a quick overview, check our research work at our Google Scholar.
We aim at advancing the state-of-the-art on several fronts, especially Arabic IR, working on a number of internally- and externally-funded research projects by QU and Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).
Our network of collaborators span several local and international institutes, including Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, University of Edinburgh, University of Maryland, RMIT University, University of Texas-Austin, Università di Bologna, AlJazeera Network, and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI).