housam ziad
I am a Research Associate working mainly on Teanga [1], a Linked Data based Natural Language Processing platform, which enables interoperability among NLP services.
In addition to that, I work on data and knowledge visualisation in the context of several projects, designing and developing working demos and software for knowledge presentation, exploration and discovery.
[1] http://teanga.io/
Responsibilities
- Research and development for Teanga and the interoperability among NLP services.
- Development of front-end services enabling knowledge navigation, by use of text mining and Linked Data based technologies.
- 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.
- Web applications development using modern frameworks like NodeJS.
- Expert with JavaScript/HTML/CSS, front-end frameworks (AngularJS, jQuery, and Twitter Bootstrap), SVG and HTML5 Canvas.
- Database technologies like SQL and NoSQL.
Education
- Master's degree in Software Engineering and Database Technologies (MSCSED) from NUI Galway, Ireland.
- BA in Linguistics and Literature from Damascus University, Syria.
Contact
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