XMODEL: An XML-based Morphological Analyzer for Arabic Language
Mourad Gridach and Noureddine Chenfour. (2010). "XMODEL: An XML-based Morphological Analyzer for Arabic Language." International Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCL). 1(2).
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Education
- B.S. in Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Fez.
- M.S. in Computer Science, High Institute of Technology, Fez.
- Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence (Computational Linguistics), Faculty of Science, Fez.
Work experience
- 2024: Senior AI Scientist
- IQVIA, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- 2021: Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
- University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- 2019: Visiting Researcher
- University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher
- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA
- 2016: Assistant Professor
- National School of Applied Sciences, Agadir
- 2015: Assistant Professor
- High Institute of Technology, Agadir
Skills
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Medical Imaging
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
- Neural Networks
- Programming Languages: C/C++, Java (J2SE, J2EE and J2ME), Python, Matlab, Octave, Javascript/HTML/CSS, Theano, TensorFlow, PyTorch
Program Committee and Reviewer Member of Conferences
- Reviwer for BMC Bioinformatics Journal - 2019.
- Reviewer at ACL, Melbourne, Australia, 15-20 July 2018.
- Advisory Board at WiNLP (Widening Natural Language Processing).
Awards
- Titan Xp GPU from NVidia, October, 2017.
- Travel Grant. Self-Organizing Conference on Machine Learning (SOCML), Sunnyvale, CA, USA, November 2017.
- EMNLP 2017 Grant which hold in Copenhagen, Denmark. I will be a student volunteer during the conference.
- Travel Grant. WiNLP workshop 2017 in the co-allocation with Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vancouver, Canada, 30 July to 4 August 2017.
- Runner up system in the competition about Named Entity Recognition in French Tweets at CAp, Grenoble, France, 28-30 June 2017.
- Travel Grant. Self-Organizing Conference on Machine Learning, OpenAI. San Francisco, California, USA, October 2016.
Participation
- Deep Learning for Machine Translation (DL4MT) Winter School, October 2015, Dublin, Ireland.
Publications
An XML Approach of Coding a Morphological Database for Arabic Language
Mourad Gridach and Noureddine Chenfour. (2011). "An XML Approach of Coding a Morphological Database for Arabic Language." Advances in Human-Computer Interaction. 1(1).
An Improved Method for Arabic Morphological Analysis and Generation
Mourad Gridach and Noureddine Chenfour. (2011). "An Improved Method for Arabic Morphological Analysis and Generation." In the 1st International Workshop on Eternal Systems, Budapest, Hungary..
A Computational Feature-Based Morphological Analysis and Generation of Modern Standard Arabic
Mourad Gridach and Noureddine Chenfour. (2011). "A Computational Feature-Based Morphological Analysis and Generation of Modern Standard Arabic." International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research.
Design and Realization of an Arabic Morphological Automaton: New Approach for Arabic Morphological Analysis and Generation
Mourad Gridach and Noureddine Chenfour. (2011). "Design and Realization of an Arabic Morphological Automaton: New Approach for Arabic Morphological Analysis and Generation." International Journal of Computer Science Issues. 8(3).
Developing a New System for Arabic Morphological Analysis and Generation
Mourad Gridach and Noureddine Chenfour. (2011). "Developing a New System for Arabic Morphological Analysis and Generation." Proceedings of IJCNLP.
Deep Learning Approach for Arabic Named Entity Recognition
Mourad Gridach.. (2016). "Deep Learning Approach for Arabic Named Entity Recognition." In the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics.
Character-Aware Neural Networks for Arabic Named Entity Recognition for Social Media
Mourad Gridach.. (2016). "Character-Aware Neural Networks for Arabic Named Entity Recognition for Social Media." Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Osaka, Japan.
Arabic Named Entity Recognition: A Bidirectional GRU-CRF Approach
Mourad Gridach and Hatem Haddad. (2017). "Arabic Named Entity Recognition: A Bidirectional GRU-CRF Approach." In the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Budapest, Hungary.
Character-level neural network for biomedical named entity recognition
Mourad Gridach. (2017). "Character-level neural network for biomedical named entity recognition." Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Elsevier. (70). Impact factor: 3.233
Polarity analysis of non figurative tweets : Tw-StAR participation on DEFT 2017
Authors: Hala Mulki, Hatem Haddad and Mourad Gridach. (2017). "Polarity analysis of non figurative tweets : Tw-StAR participation on DEFT 2017." In DEFT/TALN, Orleans, France.
FNER-BGRU-CRF at CAp 2017 NER challenge: Bidirectional GRU-CRF for French Named Entity Recognition in Tweets
Mourad Gridach, Hatem Haddad and Hala Mulki. (2017). "FNER-BGRU-CRF at CAp 2017 NER challenge: Bidirectional GRU-CRF for French Named Entity Recognition in Tweets." In CAp.
Tw-StAR at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Sentiment Classification of Arabic Tweets
Hala Mulki, Hatem Haddad, Mourad Gridach and Ismail Babaoglu. (2017). "Tw-StAR at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Sentiment Classification of Arabic Tweets." In the Proceedings of SemEval, Vancouver, Canada.
Convolutional Neural Networks for Churn Prediction in Microblogs
Mourad Gridach. (2017). "Convolutional Neural Networks for Churn Prediction in Microblogs." In WiNLP, ACL, Vancouver, Canada.
Churn Identification in Microblogs using Convolutional Neural Networks with Structured Logical Knowledge
Mourad Gridach, Hatem Haddad and Hala Mulki. (2017). "Churn Identification in Microblogs using Convolutional Neural Networks with Structured Logical Knowledge." In Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT), EMNLP, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Empirical Evaluation of Word Representations on Arabic Sentiment Analysis
Mourad Gridach, Hatem Haddad and Hala Mulki. (2017). In the 6th International Conference on Arabic Language Processing, Springer, Fez, Morocco.
Talks
Recent Advances in Deep Neural Networks.
Talk at Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics, Agadir, Morocco
Artificial Intelligence for Astronomy
Talk at Universiapolis, Agadir, Morocco
Deep Neural Networks for Natural Language Processing
Talk at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
Deep Neural Networks for Computer Vision
Talk at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
Deep Learning for NLP. Deep learning in Africa: Competitivity and challenges for Africans working in ML
Talk at IndabaX Tunisia, Tunis, Tunisia