Speakers

Prof Noha   Adly
Head of SIMAR, Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Biography:

Dr. Adly is currently Head of SIMAR “Serageldin Institute for Multi-disciplinary Advanced Research” at Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), Egypt. Dr. Adly is also a Professor of Computer and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. She has obtained her PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University, UK, in 1995. She has served in several positions since 1988 locally and abroad. Until  February 2013, Dr. Adly served as Head of ICT sector at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) where she was responsible for the BA's overall ICT strategy and the design and implementation of its digital initiatives then she was appointed as First Deputy to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology until 2016. She is author/co-author of more than 50 publications in peer reviewed journals and scientific conferences.

"Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Social Media"

Sentiment analysis refers to discovering the opinions or sentiments expressed in a given  text, which allows drawing insights on a certain topic. In this work, we build a platform for applying sentiment analysis on social media in Arabic. Sentiment classification is obtained through machine learning techniques. Since the colloquial language used in the Egyptian social media is not a standard language, we applied the neural word embedding techniques for feature extraction. The system is being built and tuned for a case study addressing the extraction of the opinion of social media users on products Made in Egypt.