Reseach Interests
Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
I am interested in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics, and the application of Machine Learning methods in these areas. My current active research area is Relation Extraction. I have also worked on Markov Logic Networks for Persian Language Understanding as my M.Sc. thesis
Experiences
Seminars and Workshops
Invited lecturer, Seminar on Deep Learning for NLP, AmirKabir University of Technology, Tehran, 2017
Invited speaker, Workshop on Computational Linguistics, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, 2015.
Professional Experience
Senior Researcher and Developer at Iran University of Science and Technology: Developing an Information Extraction system as a part of a Knowledge Graph for the Persian language (2017)
Researcher and Developer: Designing and implementing a multi-domain dialogue system in Persian, Working as a member of the R&D team (2015)
Projects
Development of a Persian Semantically Labeled Corpus of 1000 utterances in ATIS domain (Fall 2014)
Implementing a Persian POS-tagger using Genetic Algorithm (Spring 2014)
Extracting a Confusion Matrix for Persian Language Letters for the use of Spell-checkers (Winter 2013)
Development of a POS-tagger for Persian Language using C4.5 Decision Trees (Winter 2013)
Implementation of a rule-based Malt Parser for Persian Language (Winter 2013)
Implementation of a Natural Language Generator for generating formal letters (Winter 2013)
Extracting the mental Formant table for Persian vowels using Praat (Fall 2013)
Extracting an N-gram Language Model (up to 4-gram) for words and Parts-of-Speech of Persian Language (Summer 2013)
Implementation of a Chart Parser for Persian Language (Spring 2013)
Persian Text Topic Clustering System (Spring 2013)
Persian Semantic Information Retrieval Using Ontologies (Spring 2013)
Teaching Assistantships
Programming (Python), Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2012
Data Structures and Algorithms, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Spring 2011
Data Structures and Algorithms, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Fall 2010
Programming (C++), Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Spring 2010