Wednesday, November 25, 2020
12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
On Zoom
CEMSE, in partnership with Women to Impact (WTI), is inviting you to attend the Machine Learning Webinar 2020 starting today, November 25 at 12:00 p.m.
The webinar is on key ideas in Machine Learning, focusing on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Arabic language. It will host exceptional keynote speakers in the Machine Learning domain, followed by the Arabic Sentiment Analysis challenge’s kick-off. Don’t miss out on the chance to winning valuable prizes with ML online Quiz during the event!
The Machine Learning – Arabic NLP Webinar will be delivered by a group of distinguished keynote speakers as outlined below:
| Time | Title | Keynote Speaker |
| 12:00 p.m. | Event Opening | By Dr. Omar Knio, KAUST, Saudi Arabia |
| 12:10 p.m. | A Short Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing | By Dr. Nizar Habash, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE |
| 1:00 p.m. | Advances in Natural Language Processing | By Dr. Wassim El Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon |
| 1:50 p.m. | Understanding the Arabic Region from Social Media. What can we learn? | By Dr. Walid Magdy, The University of Edinburgh, UK |
| 3:30 p.m. | Introduction of the Arabic Tweets Sentiment Analysis Competition | By Dr. Xiangliang Zhang, KAUST, Saudi Arabia |
| 5:00 p.m. | Featured Speech | By Dr. David Keyes, KAUST, Saudi Arabia |
| 5:10 p.m. | Addressing Low Resource Scenarios through an Arabic Microcosm Lense: Challenges and Opportunities | By Dr. Mona Diab, The George Washington University, U.S. |
Do you want to put your technical skills to good use? Click here and join us now at the Machine Learning Webinar and learn more about participating in the Arabic NLP challenge.
For more information about the keynote speakers, please visit our website .
Looking forward to your participation.
WTI Team