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AI; NLP; Translation Alignment; Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics
Denmark, Germany

Biography

Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, working on NLP, Digital Humanities, Data Science, and Visualization

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Employment (10)

SDU: N/A, DK

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University of Southern Denmark

University of Southern Denmark: Odense, South Denmark, DK

2025-02-15 to present | Associate Professor (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science)
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Tariq Yousef

University of Southern Denmark: Odense, Syddanmark, DK

2023-09-01 to 2025-02-14 | Assistant Professor (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science)
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Universität Hamburg: Hamburg, DE

2022-11-01 to 2023-08-31 | Postdoctoral Researcher
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Universität Leipzig: Leipzig, Sachsen, DE

2019-01-01 to 2022-10-31 | Research Assistant (NLP Group)
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Instituts für Angewandte Informatik (InfAI) an der Universität Leipzig: Leipzig, DE

2019-01 to 2022-03-31 | Research Assistant
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Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz: Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, DE

2018-04-01 to 2018-12-31 | Research Assistant
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Universität Leipzig: Leipzig, Sachsen, DE

2015-09-01 to 2018-03-31 | Research Assistant (Digital Humanities)
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Universität Leipzig: Leipzig, Sachsen, DE

2014-01-01 to 2015-08-31 | Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (NLP)
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Al Baath University: Homs, Homs Governorate, SY

2009-10-01 to 2011-12-17 | Research Assistant (Computer Science)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Universität Leipzig: Leipzig, Sachsen, DE

2017 to 2023-06 | PhD (Dr. rer. nat) (Computer Science )
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Universität Leipzig: Leipzig, Sachsen, DE

2012-10-01 to 2015-08-22 | Master of Science (Computer Science )
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Al Baath University: Homs, Homs Governorate, SY

2004-10-01 to 2009-07-16 | Bachelor of Computer Science (Computer Science)
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Funding (1)

E-Rhetoric: a Handwritten Text Recognition infrastructure for Medieval Greek

2025-02 to 2026-01 | Grant
Carlsberg Foundation (Copenhagen, DK)
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Works (34)

Development of robust NER Models and Named Entity Tagsets for Ancient Greek

3rd Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages, LT4HALA 2024 at LREC-COLING 2024 - Workshop Proceedings
2024 | Conference paper | Author
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2-s2.0-85195165537

Part of ISBN: 9782493814463
Contributors: Chiara Palladino; Tariq Yousef
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University of Southern Denmark

Classical Philology in the Time of AI: Exploring the Potential of Parallel Corpora in Ancient Languages

Proceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop
2023 | Conference paper | Author
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978-954-452-087-8.2023_021

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2-s2.0-85185007822

Part of ISBN: 978-954-452-087-8
Contributors: Tariq Yousef; Chiara Palladino; Farnoosh Shamasian
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University of Southern Denmark

Enhancing State-of-the-Art NLP Models for Classical Arabic

Ancient Language Processing Workshop
2023 | Conference paper | Author
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2-s2.0-85184990085

Part of ISBN: 978-954-452-087-8
Contributors: Tariq Yousef; Lisa Mischer; Hamid Reza Hakimi; Maxim Romanov
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University of Southern Denmark

EVALIGN

Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2023 | Conference paper | Author
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2-s2.0-85159856273

Part of ISBN: 9781959429456
Contributors: Tariq Yousef; Gerhard Heyer; Stefan Jänicke
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University of Southern Denmark

Similarity-Based Clustering of Pre-Modern Arabic Names.

Digital Humanities 2023, Graz, Austria, 10/07/2023
2023 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Tariq Yousef; Daniel Kinitz
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University of Southern Denmark

Transformer-Based Named Entity Recognition for Ancient Greek.

Digital Humanities 2023, Graz, Austria, 10/07/2023
2023 | Conference paper | Author
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7ffce2a1-b432-4656-a19d-0e3b53f4052f

Contributors: Tariq Yousef; Chiara Palladino; Stefan Jänicke
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University of Southern Denmark

Translation Alignment for Ancient Greek: Annotation Guidelines and Gold Standards

Journal of Open Humanities Data
2023-11-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Chiara Palladino; Farnoosh Shamsian; Tariq Yousef; David J. Wright; Anise d’Orange Ferreira; Michel Ferreira dos Reis
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To say almost the same thing? A study on cross-linguistic variation in ancient texts and their translations

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
2023-08-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Chiara Palladino; Tariq Yousef
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Translation Alignment Applied to Historical Languages

Universität Leipzig
2023-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Tariq Yousef
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Named Entity Annotation Projection Applied to Classical Languages

Proceedings of the 7th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
2023-05 | Conference paper | Author
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2-s2.0-85175483859

Part of ISBN: 9781959429548
Contributors: Tariq Yousef; Chiara Palladino; Gerhard Heyer; Stefan Jänicke
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University of Southern Denmark

An automatic model and Gold Standard for translation alignment of Ancient Greek

Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
2022 | Conference paper
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.634

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Automatic Translation Alignment for Ancient Greek and Latin

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages
2022 | Conference paper
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.lt4hala2022-1.14

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Tariq Yousef

Embodied Metarepresentations.

Frontiers in Neurorobotics
2022 | Journal article | Author
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2-s2.0-85130291083

Contributors: Nicolás Hinrichs; Maryam Foradi; Tariq Yousef; Elisa Hartmann; Susanne Triesch; Jan Kaßel; Johannes Pein
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University of Southern Denmark

One Step Beyond: Keyword Extraction in German Utilising Surprisal from Topic Contexts

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
2022 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783031104633
Part of ISBN: 9783031104640
Part of ISSN: 2367-3370
Part of ISSN: 2367-3389
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Uniform Density in Linguistic Information Derived from Dependency Structures

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence
2022 | Conference paper
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Tariq Yousef

Visual Evaluation of Translation Alignment Data

EuroVis 2022 - Short Papers
2022 | Conference paper
Part of ISBN: 978-3-03868-184-7
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Tariq Yousef
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An automatic model and Gold Standard for translation alignment of Ancient Greek.

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
2022-06 | Conference paper | Author
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2-s2.0-85144450963

Part of ISBN: 9791095546726
Contributors: Tariq Yousef; Chiara Palladino; Farnoosh Shamsian; Anise d’Orange Ferreira; Michel Ferreira dos Reis
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University of Southern Denmark

Automatic Translation Alignment for Ancient Greek and Latin

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages
2022-06 | Conference paper | Author
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38c7d1cd-d61e-44da-8b5b-2f05fda320f3

Contributors: Tariq Yousef; Chiara Palladino; David J. Wright; Monica Berti
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University of Southern Denmark

Automatic Translation Alignment for Ancient Greek and Latin

2022-04-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Tariq Yousef; Chiara Palladino; David J. Wright; Monica Berti
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Beyond the Failure of Direct-Matching in Keyword Evaluation: A Sketch of a Graph Based Solution

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
2022-03-24 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2624-8212
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Translation Alignment with Ugarit

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2022-01-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Tariq Yousef; Chiara Palladino; Farnoosh Shamsian; Maryam Foradi
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Press Freedom Monitor: Detection of Reported Press and Media Freedom Violations in Twitter and News Articles.

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
2021 | Conference paper | Author
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2-s2.0-85127235870

Contributors: Tariq Yousef; Antje Schlaf; Janos Borst; Andreas Niekler; Gerhard Heyer
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University of Southern Denmark

Summary explorer visualizing the state of the art in text summarization

arXiv
2021 | Other
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2-s2.0-85113678529

Part of ISSN: 23318422
Contributors: Syed, S.; Yousef, T.; Al-Khatib, K.; Jänicke, S.; Potthast, M.
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Summary Explorer: Visualizing the State of the Art in Text Summarization.

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
2021 | Conference paper | Author
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EID:

2-s2.0-85127268720

Contributors: Shahbaz Syed; Tariq Yousef; Khalid Al Khatib; Stefan Jänicke; Martin Potthast
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University of Southern Denmark

The Semantic Level of Shannon Information: Are Highly Informative Words Good Keywords? A Study on German

Studies in Computational Intelligence
2021 | Book
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2-s2.0-85107353627

Part of ISSN: 18609503 1860949X
Contributors: Kölbl, M.; Kyogoku, Y.; Philipp, J.N.; Richter, M.; Rietdorf, C.; Yousef, T.
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Translation Alignment for Historical Language Learning

Digital Humanities Quarterly
2021 | Journal article | Author
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2-s2.0-85124081806

Contributors: Chiara Palladino; Maryam Foradi; Tariq Yousef
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University of Southern Denmark

Press Freedom Monitor: Detection of Reported Press and Media Freedom Violations in Twitter and News Articles

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
2021-11 | Conference paper
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-demo.18

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Tariq Yousef

Summary Explorer: Visualizing the State of the Art in Text Summarization

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
2021-11 | Conference paper
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-demo.22

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Tariq Yousef

A Survey of Text Alignment Visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
2020 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1077-2626
Contributors: Tariq Yousef; Stefan Janicke
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How to Read All Languages: Translation Alignment with Ugarit.

2020 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Chiara Palladino; Anna Zhang; Maryam Foradi; Tariq Yousef
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University of Southern Denmark

Keyword extraction in German: Information-theory vs. Deep learning

ICAART 2020 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence
2020 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85083218731

Contributors: Kölbl, M.; Kyogoku, Y.; Philipp, J.N.; Richter, M.; Rietdorf, C.; Yousef, T.
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Predicting default and non-default aspectual coding: Impact und density of information features

Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Natural Language Processing, KONVENS 2019
2020 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85103468967

Contributors: Richter, M.; Yousef, T.
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Predicting default and non-default aspectual coding: Impact and density of information features

CEUR Workshop Proceedings
2019 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85077506667

Part of ISSN: 16130073
Contributors: Richter, M.; Yousef, T.
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Ancient Greek WordNet meets the Dynamic Lexicon: The example of the fragments of the Greek Historians

Proceedings of the 8th Global WordNet Conference, GWC 2016
2016 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84962815224

Contributors: Berti, M.; Crane, G.R.; Yousef, T.; Bizzoni, Y.; Boschetti, F.; Del Gratta, R.
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