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• 2016

• 1.     Emotion, Intensity, and Urgency. (2016) DARPA LORELEI Site Visit, Columbia University, New York NY, USA, Jul.
  
  2.     Committed Belief Tagging. (2016) DARPA DEFT Site Visit, Columbia University, New York NY, USA, Jul.
  
  3.     Named Entity Linking & Event Detection. (2016) DARPA DEFT Site Visit, Columbia University, New York NY, USA, Jul.

• 2014

  
  4.     Arabic Dialect Tools. (2014) DARPA BOLT Site Visit, March, Columbia University, New York NY, USA, Mar.
  
  5.     Perspective, Novelty and Belief in Streaming data and informal genres. (2014) DARPA DEFT Site visit, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, Feb.
  

• 2011

• 6.     Arabic Dialect Processing under BOLT. Invited Presentation. (2011) DARPA BOLT Kick-off Meeting, Tampa FL, USA, Oct.
  
  7.     Arabic Language Modeling for OCR. (With Nizar Habash) Invited Presentation. (2011) DARPA MADCAT PI Meeting. Boston MA, USA, Jul.
  
  8.     Arabic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis: System & Resources. Invited Poster. (2011) DARPA BOLT Kick-off Meeting, Tampa FL, USA, Oct.  
  
  9.     CADIM Arabic MSA NLP Tools. (With Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow) Invited Poster, (2011) DARPA BOLT Kick-off Meeting, Tampa FL, USA, Oct.  
  
  10.  COLABA Tools and Resources. (With Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow) Invited Presentation (2011) DARPA BOLT Kick-off Meeting, Tampa FL, USA, Oct.  
  
  11.  COLABA Tools and Resources. (With Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow) Invited Presentation. (2011) Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City UT, USA, Aug 11.  
  
  12.  Conventionalized Dialectal Arabic. (CODA): Guidelines and Tools. (With Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow) Invited Poster. (2011) DARPA BOLT Kick-off Meeting, Tampa FL, USA, Oct.  
  
  13.  Multilayered Semantic Annotation and challenges of Interoperability. Invited Presentation. (2011) NSF-funded SILT/FLaReNet Forum on Sustainable Interoperability for Language Technologies. Brandeis University, Boston MA, USA, Apr.  
  
  14.  Power Shifts & Rifts in Social Communications. (With Kathleen McKeown, Owen Rambow, Dragomir Radev) Invited Presentation. (2011) IARPA SCIL PI Meeting. Washington DC, USA, May.  
  
  15.  Power Shifts & Rifts in Social Communications. (With Kathleen McKeown, Owen Rambow, Dragomir Radev) Invited Presentation. (2011) IARPA SCIL PI Meeting. Washington DC, USA, Nov 11.  

• 2010

  
  16.  Arabic Dialect Processing within the Context of Social Media. (With Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow) Invited Presentation. (2010) COLABA Review Day, MITRE Corporation. McLean VA, USA, Apr 10.  
  
  17.  Arabic Language Modeling for OCR. (With Nizar Habash) Invited Presentation. (2010) DARPA MADCAT PI Meeting. Boston MA, USA, Sep.  
  
  18.  COLABA Annotation, Tools, Resources. (With Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow) Invited Presentation. (2010) Government Day AMTA 10. Denver CO, USA, Oct.  
  
  19.  Power Shifts & Rifts. (With Kathleen McKeown, Owen Rambow, Dragomir Radev) Invited Presentation. (2010) IARPA SCIL PI Meeting. Washington DC, USA, May.  

• 2009

  
  20.  Arabic Language Modeling for OCR. (With Nizar Habash) Invited Presentation. (2009) DARPA MADCAT PI Meeting. Boston MA, USA, Sep.  
  
  21.  Power Shifts & Rifts. (With Kathleen McKeown, Owen Rambow, Dragomir Radev) Invited Presentation. (2009) IARPA SCIL PI Meeting. Washington DC, USA, Oct.  

• 2008

  
  

  • 22.  CADIM: Natural Language Processing for Arabic and its dialects. (With Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow) Invited Presentation. (2008) CASL, University of Maryland. College Park MD, USA, Jun.  

  • 23.  Columbia CCLS: Committed Belief and Dialog Acts. (With Owen Rambow and Becky Passaneau) Invited Presentation. (2008) Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, University of Maryland. College Park MD, USA, Sep.  
  • 24.  Factivity Annotations. (With Owen Rambow, Lori Levin, and Teriku Mitamura) Invited Presentation. (2008) JHU Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, University of Maryland. College Park MD, USA, May.

  
  25.  SALAMAT: Sense Assignment Leveraging Alignments, Monolingual And Translation.(With Weiwei Guo) Invited Demo/Poster. (2008) NSF sponsored symposium on Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use, NYU. New York NY, USA, Nov.  
  
  26.  Tools for Arabic Morphological Analysis, Disambiguation and Tokenization. (With Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow) Invited Presentation. (2008) Technology Forum, DIA and TSWG. McLean VA, Jul.  
  
  27.  Impact of Partial Arabic Diacritization on Statistical Machine Translation. (With Mahmoud Ghoneim and Nizar Habash) Invited Presentation. (2007) DARPA GALE PI Meeting. San Francisco CA, USA, May.  
  
  28.  Semi-Automatic Error Analysis of the NIGHTINGALE Machine Translation System. (With Katrin Kirchhoff, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Evgeny Matusov) Invited Presentation. (2007) DARPA GALE PI Meeting. San Francisco CA, USA, May.  
  
  29.  Modern Standard Arabic Verb Alternations. (With Neal Snider) (2006) Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Arabic Linguistics Society. (ALS) Conference. Kalamazoo MI, USA, Mar.  
  
  30.  NLP Tools for Arabic. (With Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow) Invited Presentation (2006) DARPA GALE PI Meeting. Boston MA, USA, May.  
  
  31.  Treebank Transduction. Arabic Dialect Parsing. (With Owen Rambow, Nizar Habash, Khalil Simaan, David Chiang, Rebecca Hwa, Roger Levy, Vincent Lacey, Saif-Allah Shareef) (2005) Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop Final Presentation Symposium. Baltimore MD, USA, Aug.  
  
  32.  An Unsupervised method for Word Sense Tagging using Parallel corpora. (2001) Poster Session: UMIACS Research Day, University of Maryland. College Park MD, USA, Mar.  
  
  33.  A Statistical Model of Word-Level Mapping for Comparable Corpora. (2000) UMIACS Computational Linguistics Colloquium, University of Maryland. College Park MD, USA, Spr.  
  
  34.  An Unsupervised Method for Word Sense Tagging using Parallel corpora. (2000) North East Scholars NLP workshop: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne NY, USA, Oct.  
  
  35.  MADLIBS: An LCS based Translingual Information Retrieval System. (With Maria Katsova)  (2000) Demonstration: NAACL2000. Seattle WA, USA, May.  
  
  36.  Statistical Methods and Linguistics. (With Elixabete Murguia) (2000) LingFest, Linguistics Department University of Maryland. College Park MD, USA, Nov.  
  
  37.  Cross Language Information Retrieval: An LCS based approach for Spanish queries and English Documents. (With Maria Katsova) (1999) Poster Session: UMIACS Research Day, University of Maryland. College Park MD, USA, Feb.  
  
  38.  Word Sense Disambiguation: Lexical Ambiguity Resolution within a Selection Preference Model. (1999) Linguistics Student Conference, Linguistics Dept., University of Maryland. College Park MD, USA, Fall.  
  
  39.  A Preliminary Statistical Investigation into the Impact of Using an N-Gram Analysis for the Purposes of Text Author Identification/Classification. (1997) Linguistics Student Conference, Linguistics Dept., University of Maryland. College Park MD, USA. Fall.