housam ziad
I am working in the Unit for Natural Language Processing (UNLP) under supervision of Dr. Paul Buitelaar, working mainly on data and knowledge visualisation in the context of several projects [1], designing and developing user interfaces for knowledge presentation, exploration and discovery.
Responsibilities:
- Development of frontend services enabling knowledge navigation, by use of text mining and Linked Data based technologies such as topic extraction, taxonomy generation, entity linking, and sentiment analysis.
- Assisting in experiments at understanding usability and user behaviour with Saffron and other relevant tools and prototypes.
- Applying technologies related to Data Visualization, web-based knowledge presentation, exploration and discovery, Semantic Web and Linked Data.
- Designing and architecture of software prototypes for data and knowledge visualization.
Skills:
- UI/UX and Human-computer interaction.
- Software development (Python, PHP)
- Expert with JavaScript/HTML/CSS, front-end frameworks (jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap), SVG and HTML5 Canvas.
- SQL.
- Familiar with D3 JS and Google Web Toolkit.
Education:
I am studying a Masters Degree (MScSED) in Software Engineering & Database Technologies in NUI Galway.
[1] The projects are concerned with the application and extension of our text mining platform Saffron (http://saffron.deri.ie/) to a variety of use cases, including eCommerce and news editing.
Personal website: http://hmz.ie
Publications
- Conference Name: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference ,AuthorsPublication DetailsType:Date: 2018Location: Japan,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding
- Journal: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia,Authors
Paul Buitelaar, Ian Wood, Sapna Negi, Mihael Arcan, John McCrae, Andrejs Abele, Cécile Robin, Vladimir Andryushechkin, Housam Ziad, Hesam Sagha, Maximilian Schmitt, Bjorn W. Schuller, J. Fernando Sanchez, Carlos A. Iglesias, Carlos Navarro, Adreas Giefer, Nicolaus Heise, Vincenzo Masucci, Francesco A. Danza, Ciro Caterino, Pavel Smrz, Michal Hradis, Filip Povolny, Marek Klimes, Pavel Matejka, Giovanni Tummarello
Publication DetailsConference Name:Type:Date: 2018Refereed Original Article - Conference Name: International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Demo Track ,Authors
Mihael Arcan, Kartik Asooja, Housam Ziad, Paul Buitelaar
Publication DetailsType:Date: 2015Location: United States of America,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding - Conference Name: 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015) ,Publication DetailsType:Date: 2015Location: Italy,Refereed Conf./Meeting Proceeding