Contact: murhaffifi.uio.no

Murhaf Fares

I am a master's student at the Department of Informatics in the University of Oslo. My program is MSc in Informatics: Language and Communication, with the Language Technology Group.

My master's thesis is mainly concerned with tokenization and lexical categorization, under the supervision of Stephan Oepen.

From 2006 to 2011, I was studying at the Faculty of Informatics Engineering in Damascus University where I received a Bachelor of Engineering in Informatics.

Research interests

Natural language processing, machine learning and information retrieval.

Some science

• Murhaf Fares, Stephan Oepen & Yi Zhang (2013) Machine Learning for High-Quality Tokenization Replicating Variable Tokenization Schemes
• List of free part-of-speech taggers.
• Online, offline plagiarism detection. No More Plagiarism. Research poster [JPG]
  April 2011, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Links

Science:

• Google {research, scholar}
• Coursera

Fun:

• Google {Insights, Art project}