Ramy Eskander

SLSA: A Sentiment Lexicon for Standard Arabic

2015

Sentiment analysis has been a major area of interest, for which the existence of highquality resources is crucial. In Arabic, there is a reasonable number of sentiment lexicons but with major deficiencies. The paper presents …

Surprise Languages: Rapid-Response Cross-Language IR

2019 · Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh)

Sixteen years ago, the first "surprise language exercise" was conducted, in Cebuano. The evaluation goal of a surprise language exercise is to learn how well systems for a new language can be quickly built. This …

Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation for Low-Resource Polysynthetic Languages

2019

Polysynthetic languages pose a challenge for morphological analysis due to the rootmorpheme complexity and to the word class "squish". In addition, many of these polysynthetic languages are low-resource. We propose unsupervised approaches for morphological segmentation …