Muhammad Helmy


2025

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Sebaweh at AraGenEval Shared Task: BERENSE - BERt based ENSEmbler for Arabic Authorship Identification
Muhammad Helmy | Batool Najeh Balah | Ahmed Mohamed Sallam | Ammar Sherif
Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks

2017

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Exploiting and Evaluating a Supervised, Multilanguage Keyphrase Extraction pipeline for under-resourced languages
Marco Basaldella | Muhammad Helmy | Elisa Antolli | Mihai Horia Popescu | Giuseppe Serra | Carlo Tasso
Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2017

This paper evaluates different techniques for building a supervised, multilanguage keyphrase extraction pipeline for languages which lack a gold standard. Starting from an unsupervised English keyphrase extraction pipeline, we implement pipelines for Arabic, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian, and we build test collections for languages which lack one. Then, we add a Machine Learning module trained on a well-known English language corpus and we evaluate the performance not only over English but on the other languages as well. Finally, we repeat the same evaluation after training the pipeline over an Arabic language corpus to check whether using a language-specific corpus brings a further improvement in performance. On the five languages we analyzed, results show an improvement in performance when using a machine learning algorithm, even if such algorithm is not trained and tested on the same language.