Profile
Mossaab Bagdouri
Ph.D., Senior Data Scientist
Address:
Walmart Labs,
860 W California Ave,
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
860 W California Ave,
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Email:mossaab.bagdouri
walmartlabs.com
walmartlabs.com Expertise in: Information Retrieval, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.
Education
Professional Experiences
- Deep query understanding for e-commerce.
- Thesis topic: Cross-platform question answering in social networking services.
- Use of CLIR to answer non-factoid questions from multilingual social media.
- Optimal allocation of annotated data for training and testing text classifiers.
- Deep networks for ranking user-generated answers to non-factoid questions. Tools: Keras, Theano.
- Integration of the Internet and Lineline Information Systems (BSCS).
- Project management of offers and promotions for enterprise products.
- BSCS interfacing with external applications.
Design and implementation of an E-gov web site realizing the dematerialization of the invitations to tender procedure. Tools: JEE, JSF, MySQL.
Projects
Papers in Conference Proceedings
Building Bridges across Social Platforms:
Answering Twitter Questions with Yahoo! Answers
Bagdouri, Mossaab and Douglas W. Oard (August 2017)
In: Proceedings of the
40th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
.
Tokyo, Japan, pp.1181–1184.
Pearson Rank: A Head-Weighted Gap-Sensitive Score-Based Correlation Coefficient
Gao, Ning, Mossaab Bagdouri, and Douglas W. Oard (July 2016)
In: Proceedings of the
39th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
.
Pisa, Italy, pp.941–944.
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Journalists and Twitter:
A Multidimensional Quantitative Description of Usage Patterns
Bagdouri, Mossaab (May 2016)
In: Proceedings of the
10th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
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Cologne, Germany, pp.22–31.
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What Questions Do Journalists Ask on Twitter?
Hasanain, Maram, Mossaab Bagdouri, Tamer Elsayed, and Douglas W. Oard (May 2016)
In: Proceedings of the
First Social Media in the Newsroom workshop
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Cologne, Germany, pp.127–134.
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Profession-Based Person Search in Microblogs:
Using Seed Sets to Find Journalists
Bagdouri, Mossaab and Douglas W. Oard (Oct. 2015)
In: Proceedings of the
24rd Annual International ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
.
Melbourne, Australia, pp.593–602.
On Predicting Deletions of Microblog Posts
Bagdouri, Mossaab and Douglas W. Oard (Oct. 2015)
In: Proceedings of the
24rd Annual International ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
.
Melbourne, Australia, pp.1707–1710.
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Cross-Platform Question Routing for Better Question Answering
Bagdouri, Mossaab (Aug. 2015)
In: Proceedings of the
38th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
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Santiago, Chile, p.1053.
CLIR for Informal Content in Arabic Forum Posts
Bagdouri, Mossaab, Douglas W. Oard, and Vittorio Castelli (Nov. 2014)
In: Proceedings of the
23rd Annual International ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
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Shanghai, China, pp.1811-1814.
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Towards Minimizing the Annotation Cost of Certified Text Classification
Bagdouri, Mossaab, William Webber, David D Lewis, and Douglas W Oard (Oct. 2013)
In: Proceedings of the
22nd Annual International ACM CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
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San Fransisco, CA, USA, pp.933-936.
Sequential Testing in Classifier Evaluation Yields Biased Estimates of Effectiveness
Webber, William, Mossaab Bagdouri, David D Lewis, and Douglas W Oard (July 2013)
In: Proceedings of the 36th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
Dublin, Ireland, pp.989-998.
Language identification for creating language-specific Twitter collections
Bergsma, Shane, Paul McNamee, Mossaab Bagdouri, Clayton Fink, and Theresa Wilson (June 2012)
In: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language in Social Media.
Montreal, Canada, pp.65-74.
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“Beacons of hope” in decentralized coordination: learning from on-the-ground medical twitterers during the 2010 Haiti earthquake
Sarcevic, Aleksandra, Leysia Palen, Joanne White, Kate Starbird, Mossaab Bagdouri, and Kenneth Anderson (Feb. 2012)
In: Proceedings of the
ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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Seattle, WA, USA, pp.47-56.
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Blogs as a collective war diary
Mark, Gloria, Mossaab Bagdouri, Leysia Palen, James Martin, Ban Al-Ani, and Kenneth Anderson (Feb. 2012)
In: Proceedings of the
ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
.
Seattle, WA, USA, pp.37-46.
Book Chapters
[Chapter]
Promoting Structured Data in Citizen Communications During Disaster Response: An Account of Strategies for Diffusion of the ‘Tweak the Tweet Syntax’
Starbird, Kate, Leysia Palen, Sophia B Liu, Sarah Vieweg, Amanda Hughes, Aaron Schram, Kenneth M Anderson, Mossaab Bagdouri, Joanne White, Casey McTaggart, and Chris Schenk (2011)
Ed. by C. Hagar. Chandos information professional series. Chandos.