मनालफ़ारूक़ी                      ManaalFaruqui                      منال فاروقی

"A year spent in Artificial Intelligence is enough to make one believe in God" - Alan Perlis

Research Interests

• Computational Linguistics
• Natural Language Processing
• Information Retrieval
• Machine Learning

Research Internships

• Yahoo! labs India, Guide: Dr. N. L. Dhamidipati, May-July 2011

• University of Stuttgart, Germany, Guide: Prof. Sebastian Padó, May-July 2010

• Simon Fraser University, Canada, Guide: Prof. Anoop Sarkar, May-July 2009

Professional Service

• Reviewer, Semantics Track, EACL-2012

Publications

2012

• Manaal Faruqui & Sebastian Padó : Towards a model of formal and informal address in English. In proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2012, Avignon, France.
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• Parin Chheda, Manaal Faruqui & Pabitra Mitra : Handling OOV words in Indian-language--English CLIR. In proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2012, Barcelona, Spain.
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2011

• Manaal Faruqui, Prasenjit Majumder & Sebastian Padó : Soundex-based Translation Correction in Urdu–English Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access (CLIA), IJCNLP 2011, Chiang-Mai, Thailand.
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• Manaal Faruqui & Sebastian Padó : “I thou thee, thou traitor”: Predicting formal vs. informal address in English literature. In proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2011, Portland, USA.
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• Manaal Faruqui & Sebastian Padó : Acquiring Positive Entailment pairs across Languages and Domains: A data analysis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) 2011, Oxford, UK.
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• Anshuman Tripathi & Manaal Faruqui : Gender prediction of Indian names. In Proceedings of the IEEE Students' Technology Symposium (TechSym) 2011, Kharagpur, India.
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2010

• Manaal Faruqui & Sebastian Padó : Training and Evaluating a German Named Entity Recognizer with Semantic Generalization. In Proceedings of the Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS) 2010, Saarbrücken, Germany.
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