Experience

AraData

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Oct 2021 - Present



Qalam.ai

• Saudi Arabia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Linguistic Research Manager

  • Sep 2020 - Sep 2021

  Leading the development of the core features in Qalam, the first Arabic smart writing assistant (similar to Grammarly). Tasks include: - Developing rules for Grammatical Mistakes Correction. - Working closely with data scientists to develop the best GMC services. - Conducting different types of researches to develop and enhance Qalam core services/features like Spellchecking, Grammar Checking, Diactratization (Tashkeel) and Phrasing Enhancement. - Analysing potential (big)… Show more Leading the development of the core features in Qalam, the first Arabic smart writing assistant (similar to Grammarly). Tasks include: - Developing rules for Grammatical Mistakes Correction. - Working closely with data scientists to develop the best GMC services. - Conducting different types of researches to develop and enhance Qalam core services/features like Spellchecking, Grammar Checking, Diactratization (Tashkeel) and Phrasing Enhancement. - Analysing potential (big) clients' needs to tailor suitable customised features. - Reviewing customer feedback and finding solutions. - Leading the linguist team in Qalam. - Designing and supervising the creating of testing datasets for different services/features. - Preparing data annotation tasks for data linguists. For example, corpus annotation, dictionary revisions, etc. - Creating the full content of Qalam feature catalogue. Show less Leading the development of the core features in Qalam, the first Arabic smart writing assistant (similar to Grammarly). Tasks include: - Developing rules for Grammatical Mistakes Correction. - Working closely with data scientists to develop the best GMC services. - Conducting different types of researches to develop and enhance Qalam core services/features like Spellchecking, Grammar Checking, Diactratization (Tashkeel) and Phrasing Enhancement. - Analysing potential (big)… Show more Leading the development of the core features in Qalam, the first Arabic smart writing assistant (similar to Grammarly). Tasks include: - Developing rules for Grammatical Mistakes Correction. - Working closely with data scientists to develop the best GMC services. - Conducting different types of researches to develop and enhance Qalam core services/features like Spellchecking, Grammar Checking, Diactratization (Tashkeel) and Phrasing Enhancement. - Analysing potential (big) clients' needs to tailor suitable customised features. - Reviewing customer feedback and finding solutions. - Leading the linguist team in Qalam. - Designing and supervising the creating of testing datasets for different services/features. - Preparing data annotation tasks for data linguists. For example, corpus annotation, dictionary revisions, etc. - Creating the full content of Qalam feature catalogue. Show less



Mawdoo3.com

• Jordan
• Internet Publishing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Linguistic Research Manager at AI Department

  • Feb 2019 - Aug 2020

  I was in charge of establishing a team of linguists that contains linguistic researchers, proofreaders, and lexicographers to feed different projects and AI models with well-designed data and give linguistic support. Tasks include: - Provide training to linguists in different areas. - Manage the linguist team both in strategic planning and day-to-day tasks. - Manage the in-house data creation for different projects and AI models including: TTS ASR (for Personal… Show more I was in charge of establishing a team of linguists that contains linguistic researchers, proofreaders, and lexicographers to feed different projects and AI models with well-designed data and give linguistic support. Tasks include: - Provide training to linguists in different areas. - Manage the linguist team both in strategic planning and day-to-day tasks. - Manage the in-house data creation for different projects and AI models including: TTS ASR (for Personal Assistant) in MSA, Gulf Arabic, and Egyptian Arabic. Arabic spell checker Arabic vowelisation (Tashkeel) - Manage in-house creation of evaluating/testing data sets for different AI models. - Manage in-house creation of a big general annotated corpus to support various NLP and NLU projects. Annotations include fine-grained morphological features, named entities (NEs), lemmatization, and other features. - Manage in-house creating of an Arabic lexical database (MSA). - Manage creating phonetic lexicons for MSA, Hejazi Arabic and Jordanian Arabic. - Manage validating and correcting acquired data sets to guarantee high standards. Show less I was in charge of establishing a team of linguists that contains linguistic researchers, proofreaders, and lexicographers to feed different projects and AI models with well-designed data and give linguistic support. Tasks include: - Provide training to linguists in different areas. - Manage the linguist team both in strategic planning and day-to-day tasks. - Manage the in-house data creation for different projects and AI models including: TTS ASR (for Personal… Show more I was in charge of establishing a team of linguists that contains linguistic researchers, proofreaders, and lexicographers to feed different projects and AI models with well-designed data and give linguistic support. Tasks include: - Provide training to linguists in different areas. - Manage the linguist team both in strategic planning and day-to-day tasks. - Manage the in-house data creation for different projects and AI models including: TTS ASR (for Personal Assistant) in MSA, Gulf Arabic, and Egyptian Arabic. Arabic spell checker Arabic vowelisation (Tashkeel) - Manage in-house creation of evaluating/testing data sets for different AI models. - Manage in-house creation of a big general annotated corpus to support various NLP and NLU projects. Annotations include fine-grained morphological features, named entities (NEs), lemmatization, and other features. - Manage in-house creating of an Arabic lexical database (MSA). - Manage creating phonetic lexicons for MSA, Hejazi Arabic and Jordanian Arabic. - Manage validating and correcting acquired data sets to guarantee high standards. Show less



Amazon

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Arabic linguistic consultant (contract)

  • Jan 2018 - Jun 2019

  (Hired by Appen) Giving linguistic support for building Amazon TTS text-to-speech service (Amazon Polly) in Arabic language. Tasks include: - Normalizing textual resources - Creating natural language test cases for natural language processing modules - Labeling texts with semantic, syntactic and morphological features - Annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines - Managing annotation process and supervising a team of linguists/annotators. -… Show more (Hired by Appen) Giving linguistic support for building Amazon TTS text-to-speech service (Amazon Polly) in Arabic language. Tasks include: - Normalizing textual resources - Creating natural language test cases for natural language processing modules - Labeling texts with semantic, syntactic and morphological features - Annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines - Managing annotation process and supervising a team of linguists/annotators. - Producing/validating phonetic transcriptions - QA of TTS voices and linguistic data - Translating/proofreading different contents - Proof-listening of recordings to assure sound-text/phonetic representation matching - Corpus related tasks including: tag scheme validation, unifying tag schemes of different corpora, enhancing tag schemes, validating data of different corpora, finding resources to enrich existing corpus, etc. - Voice coaching and supervising recording sessions. Show less (Hired by Appen) Giving linguistic support for building Amazon TTS text-to-speech service (Amazon Polly) in Arabic language. Tasks include: - Normalizing textual resources - Creating natural language test cases for natural language processing modules - Labeling texts with semantic, syntactic and morphological features - Annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines - Managing annotation process and supervising a team of linguists/annotators. -… Show more (Hired by Appen) Giving linguistic support for building Amazon TTS text-to-speech service (Amazon Polly) in Arabic language. Tasks include: - Normalizing textual resources - Creating natural language test cases for natural language processing modules - Labeling texts with semantic, syntactic and morphological features - Annotating lexicon entries according to guidelines - Managing annotation process and supervising a team of linguists/annotators. - Producing/validating phonetic transcriptions - QA of TTS voices and linguistic data - Translating/proofreading different contents - Proof-listening of recordings to assure sound-text/phonetic representation matching - Corpus related tasks including: tag scheme validation, unifying tag schemes of different corpora, enhancing tag schemes, validating data of different corpora, finding resources to enrich existing corpus, etc. - Voice coaching and supervising recording sessions. Show less



busuu

• London, United Kingdom

• Content Creator and Arabic Language Expert (freelance)

  • Mar 2017 - Feb 2018

  - Editing and proofreading the existing Arabic language course. - Creating course content for the Arabic language course, including different types of language exercises. - Editing and proofreading the existing Arabic language course. - Creating course content for the Arabic language course, including different types of language exercises.



University of Jordan

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer of Arabic as a Second Language

  • Feb 2017 - May 2017

  - Teaching Arabic to non-Arabic adult speakers at university level. - Teaching Modern Standard Arabic and Jordanian (Levantine) dialect. - Developing course materials. - Writing exams and assessing students - Teaching Arabic to non-Arabic adult speakers at university level. - Teaching Modern Standard Arabic and Jordanian (Levantine) dialect. - Developing course materials. - Writing exams and assessing students



Lingvist

• Estonia
• E-Learning Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Language Expert

  • Dec 2015 - Nov 2016

  Lingvist is an adaptive language-learning platform that uses new technology to teach languages online. ▪ Translating the Arabic-English module content including vocabulary, example sentences, grammar hints, website pages, etc. ▪ Finding test users for Arabic-English module; organising feedback sessions; developing customer relations. ▪ Finding suitable corpora and setting criteria to analyse them in order to build the language modules. Lingvist is an adaptive language-learning platform that uses new technology to teach languages online. ▪ Translating the Arabic-English module content including vocabulary, example sentences, grammar hints, website pages, etc. ▪ Finding test users for Arabic-English module; organising feedback sessions; developing customer relations. ▪ Finding suitable corpora and setting criteria to analyse them in order to build the language modules.



INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LONDON (SURREY) LTD

• Old Woking, Surrey, UK

• Arabic Language and Literature Teacher

  • Aug 2015 - Dec 2015

  ▪ Teaching Arabic language and literature to Grade 4-10 students at PYP and MYP programs affiliated with the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme. ▪ Teaching Arabic as a second language. ▪ Writing exams and assessing students. ▪ Teaching Arabic language and literature to Grade 4-10 students at PYP and MYP programs affiliated with the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme. ▪ Teaching Arabic as a second language. ▪ Writing exams and assessing students.



GlobeTech

• Ireland
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Siri Data Administrator (Contract)

  • Jul 2015 - Aug 2015

  Testing Siri in Arabic language. Testing Siri in Arabic language.



Babylon School of Languages

• United Kingdom
• Professional Training and Coaching

• Arabic Language Teacher and Course Coordinator

  • Mar 2014 - Apr 2015

  ▪ Teaching Arabic to non-Arabic adult speakers. ▪ Teaching Modern Standard Arabic, Levantine Arabic and Gulf Arabic. ▪ Developing course materials. ▪ Writing exams and assessing students. ▪ Teaching Arabic to non-Arabic adult speakers. ▪ Teaching Modern Standard Arabic, Levantine Arabic and Gulf Arabic. ▪ Developing course materials. ▪ Writing exams and assessing students.



SUMMITSOFT LIMITED

• Program Development

• Arabic Linguistics Consultant (Contract)

  • Dec 2013 - Apr 2014

  Summitsoft is a professional software company providing advanced bilingual solutions. During my contract with Summitsoft I was responsible for: 1) Providing linguistic consulting for the IT projects in the company to maintain high level of accuracy in all lingual aspects. 2) Testing and QA for the Arabic Editor Pro which is the newest version of the Arabic Editor software. 3) Proofreading some educational materials developed at the company for Arabic language standards. Summitsoft is a professional software company providing advanced bilingual solutions. During my contract with Summitsoft I was responsible for: 1) Providing linguistic consulting for the IT projects in the company to maintain high level of accuracy in all lingual aspects. 2) Testing and QA for the Arabic Editor Pro which is the newest version of the Arabic Editor software. 3) Proofreading some educational materials developed at the company for Arabic language standards.



Jordan TV

• Jordan

• News Editor and Arabic Language Proofreader

  • Mar 2006 - Oct 2013

  Editing news stories and proofreading different types of news stories in Modern Standard Arabic. Editing news stories and proofreading different types of news stories in Modern Standard Arabic.



Qasid Institute (http://www.qasid.com)

• Amman, Jordan

• Teacher of Arabic as a Second Language (part time)

  • Jan 2012 - Dec 2012

  ▪ Teaching Arabic to non-Arabic speakers at different levels. ▪ Teaching literature and cultural courses to non-Arabic speakers. ▪ Teaching Modern Standard Arabic, Classical (Quranic) Arabic. ▪ Preparing teaching materials, writing exams and evaluating students. ▪ Both group teaching and 1:1 tutoring. ▪ Teaching Arabic to non-Arabic speakers at different levels. ▪ Teaching literature and cultural courses to non-Arabic speakers. ▪ Teaching Modern Standard Arabic, Classical (Quranic) Arabic. ▪ Preparing teaching materials, writing exams and evaluating students. ▪ Both group teaching and 1:1 tutoring.



Al-Qistas IT company

• Jordan

• Language Analyst

  • Aug 2010 - Apr 2011

  Qistas ( https://qistas.com) is the first and the only search engine in Arabic language in the legal field. I was responsible for: 1) Analyzing the legal texts linguistically in order to improve the semantic level of search. This involved both morphological and syntactic analysis. 2) Analyzing the legal information ( laws, legislation, court decisions, .. etc) from ontological point of view, in order to design semantic networks to help the smart search. 3) Depending on both the… Show more Qistas ( https://qistas.com) is the first and the only search engine in Arabic language in the legal field. I was responsible for: 1) Analyzing the legal texts linguistically in order to improve the semantic level of search. This involved both morphological and syntactic analysis. 2) Analyzing the legal information ( laws, legislation, court decisions, .. etc) from ontological point of view, in order to design semantic networks to help the smart search. 3) Depending on both the linguistic and ontological analysis, designing special tools to help improving the legal search in Arabic language. Special characteristics of Arabic language were taken into consideration. Show less Qistas ( https://qistas.com) is the first and the only search engine in Arabic language in the legal field. I was responsible for: 1) Analyzing the legal texts linguistically in order to improve the semantic level of search. This involved both morphological and syntactic analysis. 2) Analyzing the legal information ( laws, legislation, court decisions, .. etc) from ontological point of view, in order to design semantic networks to help the smart search. 3) Depending on both the… Show more Qistas ( https://qistas.com) is the first and the only search engine in Arabic language in the legal field. I was responsible for: 1) Analyzing the legal texts linguistically in order to improve the semantic level of search. This involved both morphological and syntactic analysis. 2) Analyzing the legal information ( laws, legislation, court decisions, .. etc) from ontological point of view, in order to design semantic networks to help the smart search. 3) Depending on both the linguistic and ontological analysis, designing special tools to help improving the legal search in Arabic language. Special characteristics of Arabic language were taken into consideration. Show less



Arabic Textware

• Research Manager

  • Jan 2008 - Aug 2010

  Planning, arranging, supervising all Arabic LRs and advising how they can be implemented.

• Linguistic Researcher

  • Mar 2005 - Dec 2007

  - Conducting linguistic researches and creating rules/methods/etc to be implemented by development team. - Projects: 1) Arabic Morph: a complete morphological analyser and synthesizer. 2) Search engine with features supporting Arabic language characteristics.