Amr Keleg
The university of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland
My name is Amr Keleg عمرو قلج (/ʕamr/ /kɯˈɫɯtʃ/). I am a PhD student (CDT in NLP) at the University of Edinburgh, working under the supervison of Walid Magdy and Sharon Goldwater. I am studying the differences between the Arabic dialects, and the mutual intelligiblity of them. I come from Egypt where I completed my undergraduate and masters degrees, and worked as a teaching assistant at Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University.
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Dec 7, 2023 | Presented my EMNLP 2023 paper ALDi: Quantifying the Arabic Level of Dialectness of Text, and my ArabicNLP 2023 paper Arabic Dialect Identification under Scrutiny: Limitations of Single-label Classification in Singapore 🎉🎉 |
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Jul 8, 2023 | Attended the Oxford MLx Finance & NLP summer school |
Jun 13, 2023 | Presented my ACL 2023 finding paper DLAMA: A Framework for Curating Culturally Diverse Facts for Probing the Knowledge of Pretrained Language Models at SLT CDT’s annual conference and ACL 2023 - virtual poster |
Mar 7, 2023 | Served as a Publicity Chair for ArabicNLP 2023 co-located with EMNLP 2023. |
Jun 20, 2022 | Presented SMASH at Qur’an QA 2022: Creating Better Faithful Data Splits for Low-resourced Question Answering Scenarios - OSACT 2022 Workshop, LREC 2022. |