Sameer Alrehaili
Sameer is an Assistant Professor of Intelligent Systems in the College of Science and Computer Engineering, Yanbu, Taibah University. He joined the University in 2005 as a computer programmer in Information Technology Centre of Taibah University (as it was known) and has undertaken a wide range of roles during his time at that job, including development of Taibah evaluation system, the University portal, and others can be found in achievement section. He works extensively across disciplinary boundaries, applying AI in linguistics, cognitive Science, semantic web, Ontologies and data mining.
Research Interests
Sameer’s general research area is Natural Language Processing and he is particularly interested in ontology learning, text mining and analysis for understanding and extracting meaning knowledge from textual resources in domains such as religious text and Classical Arabic text. My recent work focuses on learning the ontological elements from the Arabic text of the Qur’an. The main components of this work include: identifying concepts; learning hierarchical relations among the learned concepts and . Machine learning techniques were applied for identifying the concepts and for finding interrelationships among them.
NLP
NLP enables computers to understand textual or speech information of natural languages. I implemented morphological andpart-of-speech analysis, and other NLP techniques in order to structure textual data in chronological order.
Ontology Learning
Ontologies are a key component of the Semantic Web. I presented a methodology for constructing the key concepts for a given piece of text. Then another method was proposed to extract the taxonomic relationships.
Machine Learning
I used a number of machine learning approaches to improve the results of concepts extraction and to find taxonomic relations. One of recent work, Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) method was applied to train our recognition model which is able to classify emotional features from given speech.
Teaching
Currently, I am teaching the following modules:
- Fall 2022-CS211(Algorithms & Data Structures)
- Spring 2022-CS112(Programming II)
- Fall 2021-CS211(Algorithms & Data Structures)
- Spring 2021-CS112(Programming II)
- Fall 2020-CS103(Discrete Structures)
- Fall 2020-CS211(Algorithms & Data Structures)
- Fall 2020-CSP221(Database I)
- Summer 2019-CS211(Algorithms & Data Structures)
- Summer 2019-CS456(Computer programs Design)
- Spring 2019-CS362(Intelligent Systems)
- Fall 2019-CS111(Programming I)
- Fall 2019-CSP112(Computer Programming)
- Fall 2019-CSP213(Web Application Development I)
- Spring 2018-CSP213(Web Application Development I)
- Spring 2018-IS252(Database Management System II)
- Fall 2018-CSP214(Web Application Development II)
- Fall 2018-CS407(Selective Topics I)
Qulifications
University of Leeds
University of Leeds
Taibah University
Experience
Assistant Professor
Lecturer
Web Developer
Playing a pivotal role in the design, development and implementing of Taibah evaluation system. Collaborating with my professionals in the department of Internet services to analyse and design the university's portal. (see http://www.taibahu.edu.sa).
Software Developer
Produced successful software such as Telebook, warehouses, Hospital Information System and an online system for Postgraduate applicants.
Cooperative teacher
Assisting with the delivery of lecture and laboratory sessions to undergraduates in the following modules: CS102 INTRO TO COMPUTER SCIENCE, CS111 DIGITAL LOGIC, CS313 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAMING, CS453 DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT and CS461 OPERATING SYSTEM.
Skills
- C/C++
- Python
- Java
- PHP
- MATLAB
- JavaScript
Awards & Commendations
- Excellence award from Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau in London.
- Letter of Appreciation, Deanship of Parallel and continuing Education for giving training courses.
- Letter of Appreciation, Deanship of Graduate Studies for developing a system that allows applicants to fill their information and attach their documents through the university website which significantly improved overall efficiency.
- Letter of Appreciation, College of Computer Science & Engineering for providing technical support during the Security Information Symposium.
- Letter of Appreciation. Information Technology Centre of Taibah University for successfully developing online services in the University.
Professional memberships
- Saudi Computer Society
- IEEE
- ACM
- BCS
Publications
- A Hybrid Methods of Aligning Arabic Qur’anic Semantic Resources. In 2018 IEEE 2nd International Workshop on Arabic and Derived Script Analysis and Recognition (ASAR), pages 108-113, 3 2018. IEEE
- Discovering Qur’anic Knowledge through AQD: Arabic Qur’anic Database, a Multiple Resources Annotation-level Search.
- Extraction of Multi-Word Terms and Complex Terms from the Classical Arabic Text of the Quran. International Journal on Islamic Applications in Computer Science And Technology, 5(3): 15-27. 2017.
- Unsupervised method for Ontology Learning from the Quran. In the 9th saudi students conference, 2016.
- معجم المفردات الشائعة لمتعلمي العربية "شائع". , 2016.
- A comparison of 12 Quran ontologies. In The 4th UK Ontology Network Meeting, April 14th 2015, 2015.
- The QURAN: an ideal data-set and knowledge source for ontology research. In The 4th UK Ontology, 2015.
- Unifying QURAN ontologies for semantic search. In The 4th UK Ontology, 2015.
- Combining and extending ontologies for the Quran. In Language Data Analytics Workshop (LDA’15), 2015.
- Computational ontologies for semantic tagging of the Quran: A survey of past approaches. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts, pages 19-23, 2014.
- Linguistics features to confirm the chronological order of the Quran. In Second Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-2), pages 62-65, 2013.