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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Reader (associate prof) @InfAtEd Fellow @turinginst Director of @SMASH_Edin . Interests: Computational social science & NLP

Edinburgh, Scotland

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

7 months

An apology to my academic followers, Recently, I might've spammed you with pro-Palestine content instead of tech. I never planned this, but when the entire world let them down, I decided to part of their unheard voice. Thus, my academic updates are on pause till further notice!

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

4 months

This came to my notice lately! I didn’t know that the “Ethics” section in papers could be used this way! If so, many papers can state the “heinous” genocide of over 25,000 Palestinians, majority children & women! @aclmeeting @emnlpmeeting What do you think about this? 🧵

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I was the one who disabled these papers (in my role as @aclanthology director) in response to a request from the EMNLP chair(s). The issue has now been referred to the ACL Executive Committee and in the meantime I have re-enabled them. What follows is an explanation.

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I am delighted to announce that my university has recognised my ability to read, and decided to call me "Reader". In the rest-of-the-world English, I've been promoted to "Associate Professor" @InfAtEd @EdinburghUni 😊 #Alhamdulillah

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

3 years

#reviewer2

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

1 year

Dear @WANLP_Ar community, #chatGPT is now solving almost all the NLP tasks we have been working on for years and in all dialects! #ArabicNLP

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Since 2019, I got 8 papers accepted in the top CSS conf: @ACM_CSCW , @icwsm & @acm_chi Below a snapshot of submission system of the 3 conf, showing how many rejections it took to get these in! To PhD students, Rejection = opportunity to learn & improve It happens to all of us!

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Thanks @aclmeeting for hosting the conference in Canada while ignoring all nationalities who won't be able to participate due to the strict visa procedure! Given this, kindly stop claiming too much about the importance of diversity, equity & inclusion! #ACL2023 #ACL2023NLP

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Dear @elonmusk , Do whatever you want with @Twitter but please don't touch the @TwitterAPI , unless you will allow more free stream. Signature: Computational social science researchers P.s: check the number of results on G-Scholar when search for "Twitter Api" to get what we mean

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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As someone worked for both industry & academia, I think: Academia: X salary, Y workload, Z freedom Industry: >2X salary, <0.8Y workload, <0.4Z freedom Joy of Job = w1 salary - w2 workload + w3 freedom Based on your weights for each factor, you decide which you'll enjoy more!

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Next year, I'm supposed to pay around £20,000 ILR application fees for me & my family to stay in UK. The @EdinburghUni & @InfAtEd don't contribute a penny to this. This is a serious issue in #Academia in UK that needs to change, especially with their low pay! #AcademicChatter

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Over 2 months since this was noticed & it seems @aclmeeting execs find it optional, since 6 papers of the 10 removed the section, while 4 insisted to keep it. It even propagated to @NeurIPSConf with 2 papers used similar wording! Just remember who is setting the standards! 🧵

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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This came to my notice lately! I didn’t know that the “Ethics” section in papers could be used this way! If so, many papers can state the “heinous” genocide of over 25,000 Palestinians, majority children & women! @aclmeeting @emnlpmeeting What do you think about this? 🧵

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Happy to announce that I have been appointed a Turing fellow @turinginst starting from 1 September 2018. I look forward to working more closely with colleagues there on projects related to computational social science and NLP applications.

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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All material of my course "Text Technologies for #DataScience " @InfAtEd is made publicly available this year, including recorded lectures, slides, and labs. New content is added every week. Feel free to follow & share with anyone interested. #OpenScience

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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I've been playing with #ChatGPT for a while and I can guess how its impressive answers might be generated from training data. But this example below is scary to me! An initial silly mistake, followed by an impressive correction when I gave it a hint! Is this reasoning? How?

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Big congratulations to @i_abufarha (and myself 😊) for winning the best paper award at @WANLP_Ar An excellent award to conclude his last piece of research of his PhD. #EMNLP2022 #WANLP2022 #ArabicNLP

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4 months

This "Ethical" statement is repeated in 10 papers at EMNLP! @aclmeeting @emnlpmeeting you need to let the NLP community know if this is allowed so we do the same in our papers, and if not, be transparent to us about why those papers were taken away then added back? #NLProc

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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For 2024, as an academic, I have a new year wish: Give a lecture in Gaza University, even as rubbles, but after Palestine is free from occupation. Not sure if it can happen within 2024, but it will be a continuous wish to visit Gaza and lecture there. #FreePalestine #NewYear

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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@biodilarastro @AcademicChatter You can enjoy your life while doing any job, including PhD. If doing PhD (or any other job) means cancelling your life, then don't do it! No career worth cancelling your life for it.

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Why I continue in my low-pay high-workload academic job? Answer: 👇👇 #AcademicChatter

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Both @emnlp2020 & @ACM_CSCW extended their deadlines because of the unrest in US. Since it's the first time to happen in a world full of unstoppable unrest, this will be well noted, to see in the future if it was for the sake of "humanity" or the sake of "American privilige"

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Our paper "Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications" has been accepted at @lrec2020 Authors: @SteveWilsonNLP , @walid_magdy , @BarbaraMcGilli , @gvrkiran , @Gareth_Tyson Link to our embeddings to be released soon. #LREC2020

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

1 year

I don’t mind sharing nothing about the technical details of your model, but at least rename the company from ⁦ @OpenAI ⁩ to ClosedAI! #GPT4

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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I am specifically excited about this piece of work. Not all Arabic dialect sentences are at the same level. We introduce a new measure and tool to estimate the "Arabic Level of Dialectiness" ALDi. Test it live here: #EMNLP2023 #ArabicNLP

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@Amrkeleg

عمرو قلج (🙏🇵🇸)

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I can not express how grateful I am for having our paper “ALDi: Quantifying the Arabic Level of Dialectness of Text” accepted to #EMNLP2023 ! Special thanks to my supervisors ( @Walid_Magdy and Sharon Goldwater) at the University of Edinburgh @EdinburghNLP @Edin_CDT_NLP 🧵 (1/6)

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Congratulations to Dr. @dilarakkl for successfully passing her PhD viva with minor corrections 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks for @kaniea for the co-supervision, and big thanks to @Norahak & @bjoernross for serving as examiners 😊

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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"I want to thank you for your excellent guidance for this year. Thank you for giving me suggestions when I encounter difficulties. I wish to express my deepest gratitude to you" An email from a student in my course. Messages like this are my pay-off in #Academia #AcademicChatter

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Where do humor detection and offensive speech overlap? Presenting #HaHackathon at SemEval 2021: 10K texts annotated for *both* humor and offense. Join the competition + build system to predict which texts are funny, offensive, and controversial: #NLProc

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It seems I will continue to be a Turing fellow for another year. Really honoured to continue to be part of the @turinginst . I look forward to meeting my colleagues again in London after a year and half of lockdown 😊

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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I'm now going through one of the most constructive reviews on a paper I've ever seen. Thanks to R1 for the clear, direct & brilliant suggestions to improve our paper. If this wasn't a blind submission, I'd have offered adding you as a co-author. and as usual, for R2, go to hell!

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Some person decided to lose his own life to bring attention to the ongoing genocide in Palestine that the whole world is complicit in, while many people are "afraid" to lose their "job" if they only "tweeted" about it! #AaronBushnell #GazaHoloucast #FreePalestine

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Based on multiple requests, we've decided to release our Arabic word embeddings that is used in our tool Mazajak sentiment analyser by @i_abufarha There are 4 versions: trained on 100M/250M unique Arabic tweets and using SG/CBOW. Link: #ArabicNLP

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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I wish PDF files would enable playing videos in documents, so I can add this video among many others in the "Ethics" section of my @aclmeeting & @emnlpmeeting papers. But photos will do for now! #NLProc #Ethics #BroaderImpact

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

4 years

Excellent news from @ACM_CSCW Our paper "Holy Tweets: Exploring the Sharing of the Quran on Twitter" got accepted to #CSCW2020 Authors: @Norahak , @arelmadany & myself. We explore how Arabs share #Quran on Twitter, the topics covered by the shared verses & the most popular ones

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@Walid_Magdy

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So proud of my PhD student @dilarakkl for having her recent paper @WebSciConf being featured in Turkish press with many attention to it 😊

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

4 years

Congratulations to @_silviu_oprea_ for getting his long paper "iSarcasm: A Dataset of Intended Sarcasm" accepted at #acl2020nlp The paper releases a new dataset that will potentially change the game of sarcasm detection. More details to come soon. #nlproc

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Huge congratulations to Dr. @i_abufarha for successfully passing his viva with minor corrections. Thanks a lot for the examining committee @nyhabash and Adam Lopez for their large effort 😊 Yet, another graduate of @SMASH_Edin @InfAtEd 🎉🎉🥳🥳

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I'm happy to announce that our R&R submissions to @ACM_CSCW got rejected after all changes we did to please the reviewers. We're excited to resubmit them again in the next cycle after addressing the new comments, then get new set of reviewers who have totally different opinion 😏

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

4 years

Yay! Our paper "The Effect of User Psychology on the Content of Social Media Posts: Originality and Transitions Matter" got accepted to @FrontPsychol . Authors: @LushiChenLucia , @Walid_Magdy , @mariawolters An excellent example of using #DataScience in the field of #Psychology

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Interested in Arabic NLP? Attend this event happening in 10 hours. Registration is free. Keynotes by the leading scientists in #ArabicNLP , including @nyhabash , @welhajj , and Mona Diab; and I will also give a talk on Arabic social media analysis.

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I realised that not so many people are aware of how Palestinians homes are systematically stolen over years since 1940s. Here is just one example from a couple of years ago! Just understand the real situation! It didn't start on Oct 7th!

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A THIEF NEVER BECOMES AN OWNER..

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As an academic, I will not join politicians in the oppression of Palestinians and the coverage of war crimes against them. Palestinians have the right to be free, resist occupation, and fight apartheid. The world let them down, we won't! #FreeSpeech

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

1 year

Jumaa Prayer at #EMNLP2022 ❤

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

4 months

I wake up on my comfy bed, they wake up in their wet tent. I get my breakfast, they spend days with no food. I check my kids, they grieve their lost ones. My kids get ready to school, they lost all schools. My kids jump & play, their kids lost their limbs. #Gaza #DontForgetThem

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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When my students ask me about an advice, I find advising them about things I tried and didn't work are way more useful than advices about things that I tried and worked. Our failures and mistakes are the most valuable experiences we gain in life.

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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It's interesting that the terrorist Israeli occupation doesn't claim misfired Hamas missiles anymore! They do whatever massacres they want to complete their genocide. These photos can be an excellent content for the "ethics" section of my next @aclmeeting paper!

@swilkinsonbc

Sarah Wilkinson

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Journalist Hossam Shabat on Al-Shifa: bodies in horrific conditions; hands & legs tied behind their backs, flattened by israeli bulldozers

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Since its deadline is approaching, I thought it worth discussing the Types of ICWSM papers @icwsm #ICWSM

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I've to say, it's a blessing that I really enjoy my research with my students. I know working in #academia comes at a price on your work/life balance and income, but every while I get this meeting discussing some very interesting findings of our research, so I say "it's worth it"

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Our paper "Chandler: An Explainable Sarcastic Response Generator" has been accepted to @emnlpmeeting as a demo paper. Work by @_silviu_oprea_ , @SteveWilsonNLP & myself. Preprint and demo link to be provided soon 😊 #EMNLP2021

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

4 years

Great news for our @SMASH_Edin team: 3/3 full papers accepted to @WebSciConf . Congrats to: @dilarakkl for your first PhD paper. @LushiChenLucia for your third PhD paper. & @SteveWilsonNLP for your 3rd paper in the first 6 months of your post-doc @InfAtEd #WebSci2020 #WebSci '20

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

2 years

Congratulations to Dr. @YoussefHariri1 for passing his PhD viva 😊 Thesis title: Spriritual Polarisation on Social Media, The Case of Arab Atheists on Twitter Supervisors: myself & @mariawolters . Big thanks to the examining committee @ingmarweber & @cbarrie for their help

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Interested in #ArabicNLP ? Three shared-tasks available: 1. Sarcasm detection, deadline: 31 Jan 2. Quran QA, deadline: 29 Mar 3. Hate-speech detection, deadline: 29 Mar @osact_workshop @WANLP_Ar

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

5 years

Our paper "A Practical Guide for the Effective Evaluation of Twitter User Geolocation" has been accepted in ACM Transactions on Social Computing (TSC). Great to work with @ahsmourad , Falk Scholer, and @IR_oldie .

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

3 months

Then someone comes and ask me when I will share updates about my academic research!!! Everything in life is insignificant as long as this is happening!

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

2 years

10 months ago, Facebook restricted my account for showing support to Palestine. Today, FB announces allowing violence content against Russians! We've a study on FB censorship behaviour during the Palestinian conflict last year. Hopefully, I'll share soon

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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I became one of the victims of @Facebook , where they deleted one of my posts that #SupportPalestine & restricted my account! It seems so many people are down rating it, since the rating of @facebookapp dropped to 2.5 in less than 15hrs! #FreedomofExpression #FreedomOfSpeech

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Congratulations to @Amrkeleg for getting his 1st PhD paper accepted at #ACL2023 The first of many to come inshaAllah 😊

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عمرو قلج (🙏🇵🇸)

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My paper (under the supervision of @Walid_Magdy ) "DLAMA: A Framework for Curating Culturally Diverse Facts for Probing the Knowledge of Pretrained Language Models" got accepted to #ACL2023NLP findings. * Main finding: Factual Knowledge benchmarks can be biased as well! يالااا!

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Please join me in Congratulating Dr. @_silviu_oprea_ for passing his PhD Viva with "no corrections" required 😊 Big thanks for @radamihalcea and @alexandrabirch1 for serving as the examiners Another graduate of @SMASH_Edin @EdiDataScience @InfAtEd 🎉🎉🥳🥳

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Happy to announce Mazajak, the first Online Arabic sentiment analyser! Our tool analyses dialect Arabic text online or through API that you can download from our webpage! Paper is published @Arabic_NLP workshop #WANLP @ACL2019_Italy

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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We are excited to announce our multilingual sarcasm detection task #iSarcasmEval at #SemEval2022 : - 3 subtasks for detecting sarcasm & its type - Data labeled directly by their authors - 2 languages: English & Arabic Full details: #NLProc

or email us at: [email protected]

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History has seen genocides, but it's the 1st time to witness one live while the world stands watching! Killing children & women. Bombing homes & hospitals. Blockade with people starving. All comes at your hand on your device as it happens. Please enjoy the show! #GazaGenocide

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It never started Oct 7th. It is 75 years of oppression, occupation, killing, and ethnic cleansing. Same criminal Same victim Same silent world #FreePalestine

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When this all ends, never forget about all the brave and free Jews who stood with Palestinians, and made it clear for the world that Jews and Zionists are not the same. The history and the whole world will never forget your stand with justice ❤️

@jvpliveNY

Jewish Voice for Peace NYC

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JUST NOW AT THE STATUE OF LIBERTY: 500 Jews and allies took over the island to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. Just like Palestinians, so many of our ancestors yearned to breathe free — and we took over the Statue of Liberty to say never again, for anyone. #CeasefireNOW #LetGazaLive

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Working on Sarcasm Detection? Check our preprints of papers at #CSCW2020 & #acl2020nlp . We study sarcasm communication online and release a new dataset (iSarcasm) that models sarcasm as intended by author. Paper 1: Paper 2:

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iSarcasm: A Dataset of Intended Sarcasm

We consider the distinction between intended and perceived sarcasm in the context of textual sarcasm detection. The former occurs when an utterance is sarcastic from the perspective of its author,...

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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We are hosting summer school in computational social science in Edinburgh for the first time! More info about the school and applications to be announced later 😊

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Christopher Barrie

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Some 🎉 inbox news this morning. @claudiakincaid @TVGsociologist @Walid_Magdy @bjoernross and I will be hosting the very first SICSS-Edinburgh. The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science had a massive influence on me. Can’t wait to pay some of it back

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Double-standards explained in 10 secs by the British secretary of state for foreign affairs

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David Cameron: Iran attacking Israel was "reckless" Journalist: What would Britain do if our consulate was flattened? David Cameron:

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. @Amrkeleg presenting our paper: ALDi: Quantifying the Arabic Level of Dialectness of Text Test ALDi here: Read paper here: #EMNLP2023 #ArabicNLP

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I am really proud of my group this past year. Couldn't be more productive, and this during very tough times during the pandemic and lockdown! I am really grateful to the great achievements. #Alhamdulillah

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While 2020 was a tough year for everyone, we are grateful that it was still very productive for our group: - 20 publications - 4 new members - 2 projects well-concluded & 3 new ones initiated We hope 2021 will be an easier/safer year for everyone 😊

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My US visa application to attend @ACM_CSCW is still under processing for over a month now. Sadly, I won't be able to attend! A cost of over £400 (fees + travel to London) & many hours for application are kind-of wasted! I wish conferences are held in visa-friendly countries!

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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4 months after I tweeted this, and I never expected it will take that long! My apology continues. As long as genocide and ethnic cleansing continue, my academic work and even my whole career are insignificant! My dedication to support Palestine continues! #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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An apology to my academic followers, Recently, I might've spammed you with pro-Palestine content instead of tech. I never planned this, but when the entire world let them down, I decided to part of their unheard voice. Thus, my academic updates are on pause till further notice!

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Ramadan Mubarak to Gaza 😊 May Allah make it a blessed month for you and give you resilience, resistance, and victory inshaAllah #Ramadan

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You keep overloaded in #academia and you are not paid enough, so you say "I should quit". Then you get those students graduating and you see how you helped in building a successful person, so you say, "Nah, I'm staying!". #AcademicTwitter @AcademicChatter

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Getting MSc students born in the 2000s makes me feel too old!

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Our paper accepted @WebSciConf ! We managed to expand LIWC to 140K words including slang words & phrases from @urbandictionary We hope our new LIWC-UD will boost textual data analysis with more significant coverage than the existing LIWC versions including the recent 2022 one

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Glad to have our paper "LIWC-UD: Classifying Online Slang Terms into LIWC Categories" accepted at WebSci22 with @SteveWilsonNLP and @Walid_Magdy

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

1 year

Very exciting keynote speech by @nazneenrajani at @emnlpmeeting about more than 75K models at @huggingface ! I think they should change their emoji from 🤗 to 😱 #EMNLP2022

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

5 years

A season of submissions has just ended! Got some acceptances/rejections already, and still waiting others (hopefully positives). Thanks for all my students and collaborators for the hard work and the fun research 😊

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Double-standards has been seen clearly in politics, sports, and entertainment industry. However, it is sad that it can be also in the scientific community. I'm hoping @aclmeeting & @emnlpmeeting will prove very soon it is not. Let's see! #DoubleStandards #EthicsInScience

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What the media hides.

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Any questions?

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

4 years

I think it is time to announce our #HaHackathon task at SemEval 2021. Our task will be about detecting jokes using #NLProc methods, and measuring how much each joke might be humorous and/or offensive to different groups of audience. More details:

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

5 years

A two-years post-doc position available @InfAtEd on our project "Fake news detection" in collaboration with @AlJazeera and @QatarUniversity . The post will focus on images in fake news. Come to speak to me at #SocInfo2019 , or apply directly at:

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

3 years

Wondering which Arabic transformer-based LM to use for classification tasks? Check our study @WANLP_Ar . We compare all existing 24 Arabic BERT & GPT2 models on their effectiveness & speed. Findings: - MARBERT is the best. - AraElectra is effective & efficient. #ArabicNLP

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Ibrahim Abu Farha

3 years

Our paper titled “Benchmarking Transformer-based Language Models for Arabic Sentiment and Sarcasm Detection” has been accepted in #WANLP2021 . It provides a comparison between 24 different models on Arabic sarcasm detection and sentiment analysis tasks.

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Nothing important, just an additional couple of burnt and shattered Palestinian kids while Israel is exercising its right to defend itself! Continue scrolling and sharing your career achievements.

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

4 years

Finally, some good news from @icwsm after 3 straight rejections this morning for 2 long papers and a demo 🤬 Our short paper "Towards Using Word Embedding Vector Space for Better Cohort Analysis" has been accepted to #ICWSM2020 co-authored by M. Bahgat & @SteveWilsonNLP 😌

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

3 months

It takes a lot of courage to write this thread. Lee Mordechai, and Israeli academic writes: "I believe that Israel is currently committing genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza"

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Lee Mordechai

3 months

1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is too silent about the ongoing war in Gaza. Here is how I see things based on reading hundreds of articles and watching thousands of videos and images about the war. This tweet chain contains my conclusions as a sort of executive summary.

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

4 months

Yes, the language is vulgar & impolite, but I still find that if no transparent action & statement by @aclmeeting about this use of "Ethics" section, then authors of @aclanthology papers are free to use it this way regardless people like it or not! Ban all or allow for all!

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Tamer Elsayed

4 months

Re: unethical "Ethics" sections at EMNLP! This is a follow-up of one of the authors of those papers. I'm shocked of the language, and shocked of mocking a great ACL/NLP community! @emnlpmeeting

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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It is not a war between Palestine & Israel. It is a long fight between people around the world who have been treated for centuries as slaves, and govs who think they have the right to control them, their land, and their wealth. It is a fight against colinisation & slavery!

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

5 years

Get ready for our 4th workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT4) that has been accepted at @LREC2020 , co-organised with @hend_alkhalifa , @kareem2darwish , @tamer_elsayed , & @Hamdy_Mubarak . Details to be announced soon! Stay tuned🙂 #ArabicNLP

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

3 months

It never started October the 7th! Note: this is the acknowledgement section of a PhD thesis 15 years ago, not the ethics section of an @aclmeeting @emnlpmeeting paper.

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Tamer Elsayed

3 months

15 years ago, I dedicated my PhD dissertation (my biggest-ever academic achievement at the time) to people of Gaza. Fast forward to 2024, the dedication still holds -- they are still teaching me (and the entire world!) strength and patience! May ALLAH grant them a near victory!

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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EMNLP is witnessing one of rarest moments you can experience in the Gulf area ... RAIN 🌧️🌧️⚡ #EMNLP2022

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

4 months

If you still cannot see the bias of Western major news outlets, then be aware that you are living happily biased more than them! Research should study "bias" beside "misinformation".

@AssalRad

Assal Rad

4 months

Four major Western news outlets covering the story of Hind Rajab, *none* of them use the word “killed” or “Israel.” This is not an accident, it’s a systematic effort to whitewash the crimes of Israel. And it’s complicity in those crimes.

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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It feels all Western govs act like a dummy rule-based ChatBot when answering questions on the conflit! If Q has "Israel" OR "Palestine": Print "Israel has the right to defend itself" Response has no account to other words #children #civilians #hospitals #genocide #WarCrimes

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

3 years

Anything you need about Arabic sentiment analysis is in this paper. It is available for free for only 50 days, please download and share with anyone interested. #ArabicNLP

@i_abufarha

Ibrahim Abu Farha

3 years

Check out my paper w/ @Walid_Magdy “A Comparative Study of Effective Approaches for Arabic Sentiment Analysis”, published in IP&M (IF=4.78). It compares all methods for Arabic SA on multiple benchmark datasets & highlights the gaps/challenges. #ArabicNLP

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

3 years

So proud of @i_abufarha presenting the overview paper on our shared-task on Sarcasm detection @WANLP_Ar in collaboration with @wzaghouani . For the task, we received: 120 registrations, 27 submissions, and 17 papers. #ArabicNLP

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

3 years

The academic system is BROKEN! The total time reviewers globally spent in 2020 on peer-review was >100M hrs = 15,000 yrs! The estimated value of the time for US, UK & China reviewers spent on reviews was over 2.5B USD. Paper: #AcademicChatter

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Poor Israeli occupation! They did every evil in the world against those people, and they still cannot break them 🙂 Congratulations for the bride and groom 😊 InshaAllah long happy life for you and your children in a #freePalestine

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wedding in one of the shelter centres in gaza 🇵🇸🤍

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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Only 19% of the UK Parliament voted for ceasefire! The vote wouldn’t have change anything anyway, but now we know that 81% of the members implicitly agree with IDF that Palestinians are inhuman animals, where the killing of 5,000 children of them so far is not enough! #Shame

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

7 months

There is always hope in people I love Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Chloe Reilly

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People of Palestine, you’ll never walk alone 🇵🇸🫶🏻💚

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🚨 Job Alert 🚨 Faculty position @EdinburghUni @InfAtEd is hiring a "Permanent" Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Social Science to join @SMASH_Edin & work closely with @EdinburghNLP & @uoessps Deadline: 25 Apr 2023 Share the word 📢📢

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Lecturer or Reader in Computational Social Science

Applications are invited for a Lecturer/Reader position (comparable to Assistant/Associate Professor) in Computational Social Science in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, as...

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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. @cbarrie is kicking off the summer school in computafional social science in Edinburgh #SICSS ! Great to see diverse set of participants!

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

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People around the world are still not aware of the daily life of Palestinians in the past 100 years getting their land stolen! This is a sample happening now, from West bank, where there is no Hamas or resistance!

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SaveGazanLives

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settler stealing Palestinian’s home hands the man his own milk

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

4 years

Tomorrow, we are presenting our Tutorial @icwsm : "Detection and Characterization of Stance on Social Media" by @AldayelAbeer , @kareem2darwish , & myself. Tutorial time: 8:30 EDT/GMT-4 Please stay tuned for the tutorial material, that we will release later.

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@Walid_Magdy

Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

7 months

Thanks to all the brave Jewish people who stands against the terrorism of the state of Israel. Thanks for standing against #genocide , killing children, and a new #Holocaust against Palestinians. Thanks for making it clear that Israel does not represent Jewish people

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"Nazi Israel (where I was born) wants YOU to be complicit in the FINAL SOLUTION of Gaza" @YaelKahn whose Jewish family suffered under the Nazis, was arrested in London yesterday for speaking up against the neo-Nazi State of Israel which commits genocide right in front of our eyes

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Walid Magdy 🇵🇸

4 years

In Copenhagen to deliver a keynote to #InfoSec conference about how our privacy is highly vulnerable in the era of social media and data science. More details about my talk & free registration to watch it live on the following link: #DataScience #Privacy

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