Shahida Jabeen

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Biography

I am a computer scientist with four years of research and three years of university teaching experience. I did B.Sc. Computer Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan in 2006. Then I completed my MS (Software Engineering) from the same university in 2010. Before commencing my PhD at Victoria University of Wellington in April 2011, I worked as Lecturer in Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Pakistan for three years.

Research Interest

Natural language Processing, Text Mining, Computational linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Web Mining

PhD Thesis

Semantic association computation is the process of automatically quantifying the strength of a semantic connection between two textual units based on various lexical and semantic relations such as hyponymy (car and vehicle) and functional associations (bank and manager). Humans have an innate ability to infer implicit relationships between two textual units based on their knowledge about the world and their ability to reason about that knowledge. Automatically imitating this behaviour is limited by restricted domain specific knowledge, poor ability to infer hidden relations and lack of common sense. My PhD research aimed at exploiting semantic capabilities of Wikipedia in automatically computing semantic associations of words and using these associations in supporting natural language processing applications.

Publications

• Jabeen Shahida, GAO Xiaoying, Andreae Peter, Exploiting Asymmetric Word Associations in Natural Language Processing Applications, submitted in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (IEEE TKDE’2014), 2014.

• Jabeen Shahida, GAO Xiaoying, Andreae Peter, Using Asymmetric Associations for Commonsense Causality Detection, accepted in the 13th Pacific Rim InternationalConference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI’2014), 2014.

• Jabeen Shahida, GAO Xiaoying, Andreae Peter, A Hybrid Model for Learning Semantic Relatedness based on feature extraction from Wikipedia, accepted in the 15th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE’2014)., 2014.

• Jabeen Shahida, GAO Xiaoying, Andreae Peter, Probabilistic Associations as Proxy of Semantic Relatedness, accepted in the 15th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE’2014), 2014.

• Jabeen Shahida, GAO Xiaoying, Andreae Peter, Directional Context Helps: Guiding Semantic Relatedness Computation by Asymmetric Word Associations , accepted in Web Information System Engineering (WISE’ 2013), 2013.

• Jabeen Shahida, GAO Xiaoying, Andreae Peter, CPRel: Semantic Relatedness Computation Using Wikipedia based Context Profiles, Journal of computing Science, Vol. 70, PP 55-66, 2013.

• Jabeen Shahida, GAO Xiaoying, Andreae Peter, Using Wikipedia as an External Knowledge Source for Supporting Contextual Disambiguation, Journal of Software Engineering and Applications (ISSN: 1945 -3124), PP. 175-180, Vol.5 No.12B, 2012.

• Bruce Carson, GAO Xiaoying, Andreae Peter, Jabeen Shahida: Query Expansion Powered by Wikipedia Hyperlinks. Australasian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’12), volume 7691 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 421-432, 2012.

• Jabeen Shahida, GAO Xiaoying and Andreae Peter, Harnessing Wikipedia for Computing Contextual Relatedness, 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence(PRICAI’12), Volume 7458, pp 861-865, 2012.

• Jabeen Shahida, GAO Xiaoying and Zhang Mengjie, Leveraging Wikipedia Semantics for Computing Contextual Relatedness, New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference (NZCSRSC’12), Dunedin, 2012.

• Worawitphinyo Phiradit, Jabeen Shahida and GAO Xiaoying, Improving suffix tree clustering with new ranking and similarity measures, In Proceedings of 7thInternational Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA’11), Volume 7121, PP 55-68, 2011.

• Shoaib, M. Arshad , Jabeen Shahida and Tariq M. P., Software Quality Metrics for Rhetorical Structure Theory Based Information Retrieval Systems , Pakistan Journal of Science, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 177-184, 2010.

• Muhammad Yasir, Jabeen Shahida., Muhammad Aslam., Martinez A., Awareness Elements in Web Based Cooperative Writing Applications, Computational Intelligence and Industrial Applications, (PACIIA’09), Vol. 2, Page(s) 345-348, 2009.

Presentations

• 2014 - Presentation in the IEEE Postgraduate Research Presentation Competition at Victoria University, Wellington New Zealand

• 2013 - Presentation at the WISE Conference in Nanjing, China

• 2013 - Presentation at the IEEE Postgraduate Research Presentation Competition in Palmerston North, New Zealand

• 2013 - Presentation at the WISE Conference in Nanjing, China

• 2012 - Presentation at the IEEE Postgraduate Research Presentation Competition in Wellington, New Zealand

• 2012 - Presentation at the Three Minutes Thesis Competition in Wellington, New Zealand

• 2012 - Poster at the PRICAI Conference in Kuching Sarawak, Malaysia

• 2011 - Presentation at NZCSRSC conference in Dunedin, New Zealand

Achievements

• 2014 - Winner of Victoria PhD Submission Scholarship, Victoria University of Wellington,New Zealand

• 2014 - Participant of IEEE Postgraduate students presentation competition, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• 2013 - Winner of Faculty Strategic Research Grant (FSRG-Round I), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• 2013 - Winner of Faculty Strategic Research Grant (FSRG-Round II), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• 2013 - Participant of IEEE Postgraduate students presentation competition, Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand

• 2012 - 1st runner up in IEEE Postgraduate students presentation competition, Wellington, New Zealand

• 2012 - Participated in VUW PGSA three minutes thesis competition (faculty round), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• 2011 - Winner of Victoria University Doctoral Scholarship, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• 2006 - Ranked among top ten students in UET Lahore 2002 CS session, Pakistan

• 1996 - Ranked among top ten students in Multan Secondary Education Board, Pakistan
  
  

Professional Associations

2014- IEEE Graduate Student membership
2013- IEEE Graduate Student membership
2013- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society membership
2013- IEEE Communication Society membership
2012- IEEE Graduate Student membership
2009- Pakistan Engineering Council student membership (PEC)

Education

• 2014–2011, Doctor of Philosophy—Ph.D. (Natural Language Semantics), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, (Thesis submitted).
• 2010–2007, Masters of Science—MS(Software Engineering), University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore, Pakistan.
• 2002–2006, Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering—B.Sc. (Computer Science and Engineering), University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore, Pakistan.

Research

PhD Thesis
Exploiting Wikipedia Semantics for computing Word Associations
Research Area: Natural language Semantics, Text Mining, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence
Supervisor: Dr. Xiaoying Gao and Dr. Peter Andreae
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

MS Thesis
Software Metrics for Rhetorical Structure Theory Based Information Retrieval Systems
Research Area: Information Retrieval, Software Metrics and Measurements
Supervisor: Dr. Mohammad Shoaib
University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Lahore , Pakistan.

Work Experience

• Research Assistant (2011–To date) School of Computer Science and Engineering, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• University Tutor (2012–To date) School of Computer Science and Engineering, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• University Lecturer (2008–2011 ) University College of Engineering and Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Pakistan