International Visualization, Informatics & Technology Conference (IVIT2022)
1st & 2nd November 2022 at UniKL MIIT City Campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Keynote Speakers
#IVIT2022 speakers
Prof. Dr. Eric Atwell
Professor, Ph.D.,
Research Interests
Contact
Email: E.S.Atwell@leeds.ac.uk
Phone: +44(0)113 343 5761
Website
Prof Eric’s research speciality is Artificial Intelligence for Language research: AI applied in corpus linguistics and text analytics: Machine Learning and Data Mining analysis of a CORPUS of text – in English, Arabic, or other languages – to analyse the text and detect “interesting” and “useful” features or patterns. For example:
- Understanding religious texts such as the Quran, to find links and patterns in the Quran verses and chapters whcih are of interest to religious scholars and the general public.
- Detecting terrorist activities, by analysis of documents from terrorist suspects, to highlight suspicious parts of the text.
- AI intelligent personal assistants for university students or lecturers, to advise students on courses, or write exam questions and answers from lecture transcripts,
- Detecting cause of death from verbal autopsy text documents describing the circumstances of the death.
Prof Eric has led research projects, including EPSRC-funded project Natural language processing working together with Arabic and Islamic Studies , EPSRC/ESRC/CPNI-funded research project IDEAS factory – detecting terrorist activities: making sense , JISC-funded project e-Health GATEwayto the Clouds , HEA-funded project web-based resources for teaching and research in Islamic Studies .
He works with the Artificial Intelligence Research Theme and and LIDA Leeds Institute for Data Analytics.
Prof Eric is a proud of over 60 research students and Research Fellows that he has supervised, who went on to work in a range of careers, including web search, banking and finance, text analytics, translation and language consulting, online news, voice-to-text, the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, and university researchers and professors.
- EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Science Research Council) Peer Review College
- AHRC (Arts and Humanties Research Council) Peer Review College
Director of Research PostGraduate Studies, Programme Leader for development of new online MSc in AI; plus:
COMP2121 Data Mining 172 students), COMP5840M Data Mining and Text Analytics (230 students), XJCO2121 Data Mining (73 students), LISS1031 Data Mining and Text Analytics (20 students), OCOM5204 Data Mining and Text Analytics (new module development for new online MSc in AI) 12 BSc and MSc student research projects, 32 personal tutees;
Supervision: 10 PhD students, 2 Research Fellows;
PLUS: writing publications, research project proposals etc; Peer Review College for AHRC, EPSRC, Qatar-QNRF, HongKong-RGC, Irish-RC, Poland-NCRD, EU-H2020; PhD and MSc external examiner; journal and conference reviewer; Arabic-L and AI4L research networks administrator.
2013 – 2017: Associate Professor, U of Leeds: Research, Teaching within AI group
1996 – 2013: Senior Lecturer, U of Leeds: Research, Teaching, NLP group leader
1994 – 1996: Director, JISC CALAS NTI: JISC UK R&D programme leader
1991 – 1994: National Coordinator, JISC KBSI: JISC UK R&D programme leader
1990 – 1991: SERC Advanced Research Fellow: SERC/MoD network coordinator
1984 – 1990: Lecturer, U of Leeds: Teaching, Research, leading NLP within AI team
1981 – 1984: Research Associate, University of Lancaster: Research, grant applications
- EDUBOTS chatbots for university education (ERASMUS+ £94K, 2019-2021)
- FoodShock 2020 (Science and Technology Facilities Council, £8K, 2020-2021)
- Artificial Intelligence Networking (Leeds University Academic Development Fund, £2K, 2017)
- Natural Language Processing Working Together With Arabic And Islamic Studies (Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, £337K, 2013-2015)
- Web-based resources for Islamic Studies (Higher Education Academy, £13K, 2011)
- Detecting Terrorist Activities: Making Sense (Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, £2185K (£195K Leeds), 2010-2013)
- Copying-Identifier for Biomedical Science Reports (Higher Education Funding Council, £60K, 2002)
- ISLE – Interactive Spoken Language Education (European Union, £720K (£64K Leeds), 1998-2001)
- Information extraction from air traffic control (Visionair International, £21K, 1994-1997)
- Mapping between corpus annotation schemes (Nuffield Foundation, £6K, 1994)
- Computer based resources in KBS & SALT (Higher Education Funding Council, £92K, 1994-1996)
- Knowledge based timetable information (Higher Education Funding Council, £39K, 1994-1995)
- Mapping AMALGAM corpus (Science and Engineering Research Council, £176K, 1993-1997)
- Computer analysis of language and speech (Higher Education Funding Council, £79K, 1993-1995)
- Pilot project for CCALAS (Leeds University Research Support, £20K, 1993-1994)
- A speech-oriented stochastic parser (Ministry of Defence, £178K, 1992-1993)
- Knowledge-Based Systems Initiative (Joint Information Systems Committee, £149K, 1991-1994)
- Neural network parsers trained with realistic corpora (British Telecom, £10K, 1990-1991)
- Advanced Fellowship in IT (Science and Engineering Research Council, £220K, 1990-1994)
- COMMUNAL Convivial man machine understanding (Ministry of Defence, £83K, 1987-1989)
- Cancer patient records analysis (PinPoint, £52K, 2019-2020)
- e-Health GATEway to the Clouds (Joint Information Systems Committee, £52K, 2012)
- ABC Arabic By Computer (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, £26K, 1989-1990)
- A simulated annealing parser for authentic English (Ministry of Defence, £117K, 1986-1989)
- M Aleedy, due 2024, Chat and chatbots for university education
- A Alsaleh, due 2024, Semantic similarity in Arabic text understanding
- Z Almugbel, due 2023, English and Arabic medical patient information leaflets
- S Altammami, due 2022, Parallel corpus and knowledge-base for Islamic Hadith
- T Tarmom, due 2022, Classifying Arabic Hadith
- M Alshammeri, due 2022, Deep learning and distributional semantics for the Quran
- M Alamr, due 2022, Authorship Attribution and Online Identity in Najdi Arabic Tweets
- J Alasamari, due 2021, Arabic and English verb systems in the Quran corpus
- N Ahmad, due 2021, Malay natural language processing for retrieval from Malay Qur’an
- A Alshutayri, 2019, Arabic dialects classification
- L Aldhubayi, 2019, Corpus-based methods and to extend Arabic WordNet
- A Alghamdi, 2018, Arabic corpus-informed lexicon of formulaic sequences
- M Alqahtani, 2019, Quranic Arabic semantic search tool based on ontology of concepts
- A Alosaimi, 2018, Ensemble morphosyntactic analyser for classical Arabic
- S Alrehaili, 2018, Ontology concept and relation learning from the Qur’an corpus
- J Jaafar, 2018, Data mining and machine learning to predict acute coronary illness
- A Alfaifi, 2016, Arabic learner corpus and a system for Arabic error annotation
- S Danso, 2016, Text analytics to predict time and cause of death from verbal autopsies
- K Dukes, 2013, Statistical parsing by machine learning from a Classical Arabic treebank
- S Hina, 2013, Semantic tagging of medical narratives using SNOMED CT
- A Muhammad, 2012, Annotation of conceptual co-reference and similarity in the Qur’an
- J Washtell, 2011, Distributional meaning in text: distance, expectation, and composition
- M Sawalha, 2011, Open-source resources and standards for Arabic word structure analysis
- C Brierley, 2011, Prosody resources for automated phrase break prediction
- O Nancarrow, 2011, Tagging of adverbs in modern English corpora
- F Su, 2010, Computational modelling of word sense sentiment
- N Abbas, 2009, Qurany ‘Search for a Concept’ tool and website
- A Roberts, 2008, Unsupervised machine learning for grammatical inference
- D Elliott, 2006, Corpus-based machine translation evaluation via automated error detection
- B AbuShawar, 2005, A corpus based approach to generalise a chatbot system
- L Al-Sulaiti, 2004, Designing and developing a Corpus of Contemporary Arabic
- T Oba, 2003, HTK to analyse prosody in the ISLE corpus of spoken learner’s English
- J Elliott, 2003, Natural language learning for SETI Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
- X Duan, 2001, Lexical Semantic Association Between Web Documents
- G Churcher, 1997, Speech dialogue analysis using linguistic knowledge
- G Demetriou, 1997, Lexical semantics for human-computer speech communication.
- M Schillo, 1996, Working while driving: corpus-based in-car personal assistant
- X Zhang, 1996, MIRTH Chinese and English search engine: a multilingual retrieval tool
- C Souter, 1996, A corpus-trained parser for systemic-functional syntax
- A Bull, 1996, Aerobic dance exercise: a corpus-based computational linguistics approach
- U Jost, 1994, Probabilistic language modeling for speech recognition
- S Arnfield, 1994, Prosody and syntax in corpus-based analysis of spoken English
- J Hughes, 1993, Automatically acquiring a classification of words
- T O’Donoghue, 1993, Reversing the process of generation in Systemic Grammar