English | عربي Sina Institute at Birzeit University, with the Centre for Cultural Heritage Preservation (CCHP) and University of Trento from Italy through its spin-off company OKKAM s.r.l, have deployed an innovative and pioneering electronic tourist guide for heritage sites in Bethlehem, using QR technologies. The initiative is part of the EU FP7 funded SIERA […]
English | عربي Prof. Nizar Habash, a world-class scientist in the field of natural language processing, was recently appointed as an adjunct associate professor as Sina Institute for Knowledge Engineering and Arabic Technologies, at Birzeit University. Prof Habash will be involved research project and academic activities at Sina institute and the faculty of information technology. Prof. […]
English | عربي Sina Institute for Knowledge Management and Arabic Technologies organized the 3rd Palestinian Symposium on Computational Linguistics and Arabic Content, iArabic, on April 12th. Dr Safa’a Nasser Eldin, the minister of the Palestinian Telecommunication and Information Technology Ministry, inaugurated the symposium, with the participation of many researchers of various Palestinian universities, institutes and companies, […]
English | عربي Sina Institute for Knowledge Engineering and Arabic Technologies organized a workshop on proposal writing skills and the new European research funding program, Horizon 2020, on Wednesday April 2nd. The workshop was presented by highly experienced professionals in managing EU funded projects; Mr. Ruben Riestra from Spain, the evaluator and consultant for many EU […]
English | عربي Dr. Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, the chair of Law and Technology Department at the Law Faculty in Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia, and the consultant at the Estonian e-Governance Academy, visited Sina Institute and Faculty of Law at Birzeit University to discuss joint cooperation opportunities. Dr. Metcalf first met Dr. Khalil Hindi the president […]
People who are interested to contribute to the Symposium are encouraged to submit a short abstract (300-600 words) to sina@birzeit.edu by 1/4/2014. Submissions can be research-oriented, applications and use cases, or problem specification. Welcoming work in progress and not only completed work. The best submissions will be then selected for presentation. All abstracts and presentations will […]
English | عربي A master thesis “On Constructing the top levels of the Arabic Ontology” was defended in Thursday (13/2/2014) by Ms. Rana Rishmawi, which was under the supervision of Dr. Mustafa Jarrar, and committee members Dr. Bassem Sayrafi, Dr. Mahdi Arar, and Dr. Mudar Qassis. The Arabic Ontology is a classification of the concepts […]
Sina Institute, in cooperation with its SIERA partners (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) and University of Milano-Bicocca (UniMiB)) have organized a discussion panel on Cross-Lingual Mapping Semantics at the 7th Global WordNet conference, in Tartu, Estonia in January 25th, 2014. A refereed article on this topic was also authored and presented at the conference, in […]
