Amr Keleg
The university of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland
Hello (أهلًا وسهلًا)! 👋👋
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 supervision of Walid Magdy and Sharon Goldwater. I am currently studying the variation across and between the Arabic dialects, their mutual intelligibility, and the implications of this variation on the creation of multi-dialect Arabic datasets.
Additionally, I am interested in Arabizi (the Romanized form of Arabic). I developed a rule-based tool transliterating Arabizi into Arabic script. Ping me if you are interested in sharing ideas related to Arabizi (identification/transliteration/…), and/or collaborating on that!
Multilingualism is another field/cause that I am becoming more and more interested in!
As an undergraduate student, I was a competitive programming addict (lots of fun experiences 😄). I am also an advocate of open-sourcing data/models/projects (twice a Google Summer of Code student for Apertium, and GNU Octave + contributor to other projects like Facebook/Duckling).
News
Aug 14, 2024 | Our paper “Estimating the Level of Dialectness Predicts Inter-annotator Agreement in Multi-dialect Arabic Datasets” got an Outstanding Paper Award 🎖️🎖️🎖️ |
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Jul 1, 2024 | Gave an online talk to the ARBml community under the title Distinguishing between the Varieties of Arabic: Dialect Identification is nether Solved nor the Solution.. Check the slides: here. |
May 15, 2024 | Had a short paper “Estimating the Level of Dialectness Predicts Inter-annotator Agreement in Multi-dialect Arabic Datasets” accepted to ACL 2024 🎉🎉 See you in Thailand! |
Feb 1, 2024 | Co-organizing the NADI 2024 shared task as part of the ArabicNLP 2024 conference. |
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 🎉🎉 |