Publications

Novel Feature Discovery for Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

Vinh Thinh Ho, Mohamed Soliman and Abdalghani Abujabal
EACL, 2023.

Continuous Model Improvement for Language Understanding with Machine Translation

Abdalghani Abujabal, Claudio Delli Bovi, Sungho Ryu, Turan Gojayev, Yannick Versley and Fabian Triefenbach
NAACL, 2021.

Identifying and Resolving Annotation Changes for Natural Language Understanding

Jose Garrido Ramas, Giorgio Pessot, Abdalghani Abujabal and Martin Rajman
NAACL, 2021.

Look before you Hop: Conversational Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs Using Judicious Context Expansion

Philipp Christmann, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Abdalghani Abujabal, Jyotsna Singh and Gerhard Weikum
CIKM, 2019. Demo

Answering Complex Questions by Joining Multi-Document Evidence with Quasi Knowledge Graphs

Xiaolu Lu, Soumajit Pramanik, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Abdalghani Abujabal, Yafang Wang and Gerhard Weikum
SIGIR, 2019.
Amazon Alexa article - TechCrunch article - VentureBeat article

ComQA: A Community-sourced Dataset for Complex Factoid Question Answering with Paraphrase Clusters

Abdalghani Abujabal, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Mohamed Yahya and Gerhard Weikum
NAACL, 2019. Poster
Webpage: http://qa.mpi-inf.mpg.de/comqa/

Neural Named Entity Recognition from Subword Units

Abdalghani Abujabal and Judith Gaspers
Interspeech, 2019. Slides

Never-Ending Learning for Open-Domain Question Answering over Knowledge Bases

Abdalghani Abujabal, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Mohamed Yahya and Gerhard Weikum
WWW, 2018. Tech At Bloomberg article - Slides

TEQUILA: Temporal Question Answering over Knowledge Bases

Zhen Jia, Abdalghani Abujabal, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Jannik Strötgen and Gerhard Weikum
CIKM, 2018

TempQuestions: A Benchmark for Temporal Question Answering

Zhen Jia, Abdalghani Abujabal, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Jannik Strötgen and Gerhard Weikum
Hybrid QA Workshop, WWW, 2018. Slides

Automated Template Generation for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs

Abdalghani Abujabal, Mohamed Yahya, Mirek Riedewald and Gerhard Weikum
WWW, 2017. Slides

Interpretable Question Answering over Knowledge Bases

Abdalghani Abujabal, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Mohamed Yahya and Gerhard Weikum
EMNLP, 2017. Demo - Poster

Query-Driven On-The-Fly Knowledge Base Construction

Dat Ba Nguyen, Abdalghani Abujabal, Nam Khanh Tran, Martin Theobald and Gerhard Weikum
PVLDB 10(13), 2017

Efficiency-aware Answering of Compositional Questions using Answer Type Prediction

David Ziegler, Abdalghani Abujabal, Rishiraj Saha Roy and Gerhard Weikum
IJCNLP, 2017

FINET: Context-Aware Fine-Grained Named Entity Typing

Luciano Del Corro, Abdalghani Abujabal, Rainer Gemulla and Gerhard Weikum
EMNLP, 2015. Slides - Video

Important Events in the Past, Present, and Future

Abdalghani Abujabal, Klaus Berberich
TempWeb Workshop at WWW, 2015

Activities

PC Member

2021: NAACL, ACL, EMNLP
2020: AAAI, ACL, AACL, EMNLP, CIKM
2019: ACL, EMNLP

Education

Ph.D. student in Computer Science

2015 - 2018

Max Planck Institute for Informatics & Computer Science Department , Saarland University , Germany.
Supported by the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS-CS).

M.Sc. in Computer Science

2012 - 2015

Computer Science Department , Saarland University & Max Planck Institute for Informatics , Germany.
Supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

B.Eng. in Computer Systems Engineering

2006 - 2011

Computer Systems Engineering Department, The Islamic University, Palestine.

Experience

Scientist

03.2024 - Present

Leading ALLaM pretraining & alignment data teams
Nation Center for AI, SDAIA

Manager, Applied Science

04.2023 - 03.2024

Led the LLM pretraining data team

Amazon AGI

Senior Applied Scientist

04.2022 - 04.2023

Natural Language Understanding
Amazon Alexa AI / AGI

Applied Scientist

11.2018 - 03.2022

Natural Language Understanding
Amazon Alexa AI

Applied Scientist Intern

10.2017 - 01.2018

Natural Lnaguage Understanding
Amazon Alexa AI

Research Assistant

01.2014 - 07.2014

Databases and Information Systems group, Max Planck Institut für Informatik.
Saarbrücken, Germany.

Element 14

Element 14, a popular science Youtube channel in Arabic.