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  1. Alghizzawi, M., Habes, M., Salloum, S., Abd Ghani, M., Mhamdi, C., Shaalan, K. The effect of social media usage on students’ e-learning acceptance in higher education: A case study from the United Arab Emirates, International Journal of Information Technology and Language Studies (IJITLS), 3(3):13-26, 2019. http://journals.sfu.ca/ijitls
  2. Juma, H., Shaalan, K., Kamel, I., A Survey on Using Blockchain in Trade Supply Chain Solutions, IEEE Access, 7(1):184115-184132, IEEE, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/1109/ACCESS.2019.2960542
  3. Alshurideh, M., Salloum, S., Al Kurdi, B., Abdel Monem, A., Shaalan, K. Understanding the Quality Determinants that Influence the Intention to Use the Mobile Learning Platforms: A practical study, International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), International Association of Online Engineering, Austria, 13(11): 157-183, June 2019. eISSN: 1865-7923 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v13i11.10300
  4. Salloum, S., AlHamad, A., Al-Emran, M., AbdelMonem, A., Shaalan, K. Exploring Students’ Acceptance of E-learning through the Development of a Comprehensive Technology Acceptance Model, IEEE Access, 7(1):128445-128462, IEEE, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2939467
  5. Ghoniem, R.M., Alhelwa, N., Shaalan, K. A Novel Hybrid Genetic-Whale Optimization Model for Ontology Learning from Arabic Text. Algorithms, 12, 182, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/a12090182
  6. Ghoniem, R.M., Algarni, A.D., Shaalan, K. Multi-Modal Emotion Aware System Based on Fusion of Speech and Brain Information. Information, MDPI, 10 (7), 239, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/info10070239
  7. Salloum, S., Al-Emran, M., Khalaf, R., Habes, M., Shaalan, K. An Innovative Study of E-Payment Systems Adoption in Higher Education: Theoretical Constructs and Empirical Analysis, International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 13(6):68-83, International Association of Online Engineering, Austria, June 2019. DOI: http://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v13i06.9875
  8. Alsheikh, S., Shaalan, K., Meziane, F. Exploring the Effects of Consumers’ Trust: A Predictive Model for Satisfying Buyers’ Expectations Based on Sellers’ Behavior in the Marketplace, IEEE Access, 7(1):73357-73372, IEEE, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2917999
  9. Abu Saa, A., Al-Emran, M., Shaalan, K. Factors Affecting Students’ Performance in Higher Education: A Systematic Review of Predictive Data Mining Techniques, Technology, Knowledge and Learning, Springer, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-019-09408-7
  10. Khalifa, M., Shaalan, K. Character Convolutions for Arabic Named Entity Recognition with Long Short-Term Memory Networks, Computer Speech & Language, Elsevier, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2019.05.003
  11. Alkhatib, M., El Barachi, M., Shaalan, K. An Arabic Social Media Based Framework for Incidents and Events Monitoring in Smart Cities, Journal of Cleaner Production, 220:771-785, Elsevier, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.063
  12. Samy, H., Hassanein, E., Shaalan, K. Arabic Question Answering: A Study on Challenges, Systems, and Techniques. International Journal of Computer Applications 181(44):6-14, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5120/ijca2019918524
  13. Nassif, A. B., Shahin, I., Attili, I. Azzeh, M., Shaalan, K. Speech Recognition Using Deep Neural Networks: A Systematic Review, IEEE Access, 7(1):19143-19165, IEEE, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2896880
  14. Salloum, S., Al-Emran, M., Shaalan, K., Tarhini, A. Factors affecting the E-learning acceptance: A case study from UAE, Education and Information Technologies, 24(1):509-530, Springer, ISSN 1573-7608, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-018-9786-3
  15. Albarghothi, A., Saber, W., Shaalan, K. Automatic Construction of E-Government Services Ontology from Arabic Webpages, Procedia Computer Science, Arabic Computational Linguistics, 142:104-113, Elsevier (ISSN: 1877-0509), 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2018.10.465
  16. Al-Zoghby, A., Shaalan, K. Ontological Optimization for Latent Semantic Indexing of Arabic Corpus, Procedia Computer Science, Arabic Computational Linguistics, 142:206-213, Elsevier (ISSN: 1877-0509), 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2018.10.477
  17. Alkhatib, M., Shaalan, K. Paraphrasing Arabic Metaphor with Neural Machine Translation, Procedia Computer Science, Arabic Computational Linguistics, volume 142:308-3014, Elsevier (ISSN: 1877-0509), 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2018.10.493
  18. Abdel Wahab, R., Hamdan, D., Shaalan, K. Advances in Knowledge Management: A systematic review of big data perspective, International Journal of Information Technology and Language Studies (IJITLS), 2(3):25-35, 2018. http://journals.sfu.ca/ijitls
  19. Salloum, , Maqableh,  W., Mhamdi, C., Al Kurdi, B., Shaalan, K. Studying the Social Media Adoption by university students in the United Arab Emirates, International Journal of Information Technology and Language Studies (IJITLS), 2(3):83-95, 2018. http://journals.sfu.ca/ijitls
  20. Salloum, , Mhamdi, C., Al Kurdi, B., Shaalan, K. Factors affecting the Adoption and Meaningful Use of Social Media: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach, International Journal of Information Technology and Language Studies (IJITLS), 2(3):96-109, 2018. http://journals.sfu.ca/ijitls
  21. Al-Emran, M., Mezhuyev, V., Kamaludin, A., & Shaalan, K. (2018). The Impact of Knowledge Management Processes on Information Systems: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Information Management, 43:173-187, Elsevier, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.08.001
  22. Alhammadi, Z., Shaalan, K. Lean Transformation in Information Technology: The Case of IT Services in Financial Firms, International Journal of Information Technology and Language Studies (IJITLS), 2(2):28-47, 2018. http://journals.sfu.ca/ijitls
  23. Hamdy, M., Shaalan, K. A Hybrid Framework for Applying Semantic Integration Technologies to Improve Data Quality, International Journal of Information Technology and Language Studies (IJITLS), 2(1):27-44, 2018. http://journals.sfu.ca/ijitls
  24. Alkhatib, M., Abdel Monem, A., Shaalan, K. A Rich Arabic WordNet Resource for Al-Hadith Al-Shareef, Procedia Computer Science, Arabic Computational Linguistics, volume 117, PP. 101-110, ELSEVIER (ISSN: 1877-0509), 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.10.098
  25. Siyam, B., Abu Saa, A., Alqaryouti, O. Shaalan, K. Arabic Arithmetic Word Problems Solver, Procedia Computer Science, Arabic Computational Linguistics, volume 117, PP. 153 – 160, ELSEVIER (ISSN: 1877-0509), 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.10.104
  26. Ali Albarghothi, A., Khater, F., Shaalan, K. Arabic Question Answering Using Ontology, Procedia Computer Science, Arabic Computational Linguistics, volume 117, PP. 183 – 191, ELSEVIER (ISSN: 1877-0509), 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.10.108
  27. Ghoniem, R., Shaalan, K. A Novel Arabic Text-independent Speaker Verification System based on Fuzzy Hidden Markov Model, Procedia Computer Science, Arabic Computational Linguistics, volume 117, PP. 274 – 286, ELSEVIER (ISSN: 1877-0509), 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.10.119
  28. Salloum, S., Mhamdi, C., Al-Emran, M., Shaalan, K. Analysis and Classification of Arabic Newspapers’ Facebook Pages using Text Mining Techniques, International Journal of Information Technology and Language Studies (IJITLS), 1(2):8-17, 2017. http://journals.sfu.ca/ijitls
  29. Salloum, S., Al-Emran, M., Shaalan, K. Mining Text in News Channels: A Case Study from Facebook, International Journal of Information Technology and Language Studies (IJITLS), 1(1):1-9, 2017. http://journals.sfu.ca/ijitls
  30. Oudah, M., Shaalan, K. Studying the impact of language-independent and language-specific features on hybrid Arabic Person name recognition, Language Resources & Evaluation, 51(2):351-378, Springer, 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-016-9376-1
  31. Oudah, M., Shaalan, K. NERA 2.0: Improving coverage and performance of rule-based named entity recognition for Arabic, Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE), 23(3):441-472, Cambridge University Press, UK, May 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/1017/S1351324916000097
  32. Salloum, S., Al-Emran, M., Abdel Monem, A., Shaalan, K. A Survey of Text Mining in Social Media: Facebook and Twitter Perspectives, Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, 2(1):127-133, ISSN: 2415-6698, 2017. Link: http://www.astesj.com/publications/ASTESJ_020115.pdf
  33. Salloum, S., Al-Emran, M., Shaalan, K. Mining Social Media Text: Extracting Knowledge from Facebook, International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems (IJCDS), 6(2): 73-81, University of Bahrain, Bahrain, March 2017. Link: http://journals.uob.edu.bh/IJCDS/contents/volume-1082/issue-186
  34. Al-Emran, M., Shaalan, K. Academics’ Awareness Towards Mobile Learning in Oman, International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems (IJCDS), 6(1): 45-50, University of Bahrain, Bahrain, January 2017. http://journals.uob.edu.bh/IJCDS/contents/volume-1082/articles/article-2649
  35. Ray, S., Shaalan, K. A Review and Future Perspectives of Arabic Question Answering Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 28(12): 3169 – 3190, IEEE, 2016, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2016.2607201
  36. Al Suwaidi, H., Soomro, T. R., Shaalan, K. Sentiment Analysis for Emiriti Dialects in Twitter, Sindh University Research Journal (SURJ), Science Series, 48 (4): 707-710, 2016.
  37. Alqaryouti, O., Alqudah, A., Shaalan, K. Effective Knowledge Management in Projects: Characteristics and Integration, Information and Knowledge Management Journal, IISTE, 6(8):27-33, 2016.
  38. Salloum, S., Al-Emran, M., Shaalan, K. A Survey of Lexical Functional Grammar in the Arabic Context, International Journal of Computing and Network Technology, 4(3): 141-146, University of Bahrain, Bahrain, Sept. 2016. http://journals.uob.edu.bh/IJCNT/contents/volume-1074/articles/article-2577
  39. Al-Emran, M., Elsherif, H., Shaalan, K. Investigating Attitudes Towards the Use of Mobile Learning in Higher Education, Computers in Human Behavior, Elsevier, 56:93-102, 2016.
  40. Al Hassan, L., Soomro, T., Shaalan, K. Business Continuity Perspective: A Study of IT Enabled Services, International Journal of Computer Applications (ICJA), 142(4):20-26, Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), USA, May 2016. DOI: 10.5120/ijca2016909749
  41. Attia, M., Pecina, P., Samih, Y., Shaalan, K., Van Genabith, J. Arabic Spelling Error Detection and Correction, Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE), 22(5):751-773, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2016. DOI: 10.1017/S1351324915000030
  42. Al-Emran, M., Shaalan, K. Attitudes Towards the Use of Mobile Learning: A Case Study from the Gulf Region, International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 9(3):75-78, International Association of Online Engineering, Austria, July 2015. DOI: 10.3991/ijim.v9i3.4596
  43. Shaalan, K., Magdy, M., Fahmy, A. Analysis and Feedback of Erroneous Arabic Verbs, Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE), 21(2):271-323, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2015.
  44. Shaalan, K., A Survey of Arabic Named Entity Recognition and Classification, Computational Linguistics, 40 (2): 469-510, MIT Press, USA, 2014.
  45. El-taher, A., Abo Bakr, H., Zidan, I., Shaalan, K., An Arabic CCG approach for determining constituent types from Arabic Treebank, Special Issue on Arabic NLP, Journal of King Saud University (JKSU) – Computer and Information Sciences, Elsevier, 26(4):441 – 449, 2014.
  46. Shaalan, K., Al-Mansoori, M., Tawfik, H. An Awareness-Raising E-Learning Approach for Children Living in a High Diabetic Population, Informatics for Health and Social Care, 39(2): 81-103, Informa, Taylor & Francis, UK, 2014.
  47. Shaalan, K., Oudah, M., A Hybrid Approach to Arabic Named Entity Recognition, Journal of Information Science (JIS), 40(1): 67-87, SAGE Publications Ltd, UK, 2014. DOI:10.1177/0165551513502417
  48. Ghazal, T., Soomro, T., Shaalan K. Integration of Project Management Maturity (PMM) Based on Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), European Journal of Scientific Research, 99(3): 418 – 428, Scientific Research Platform (SRP), Seychelles, 2013.
  49. Owayid, A. M., Alrawi, K., Shaalan K. Strategic Change in Knowledge Management and E-Learning: Enhancing Workplace Learning, European Journal of Scientific Research, Seychelles, 100(2): 230-240, 2013.
  50. Shaalan, K., Hendam, A. Rafea, A., Rapid Development and Deployment of Bi-Directional Expert Systems using Machine Translation Technology, Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA): An International Journal, Elsevier Science Ltd, 39(1): 1375-1380, 2012.
  51. Shaalan, K., Rule-based Approach in Arabic Natural Language Processing, Special Issue on Advances in Arabic Language Processing, the International Journal on Information and Communication Technologies (IJICT), Serial Publications, New Delhi, India, 3(3):11-19, June 2010.
  52. Farghaly, A., Shaalan, K. Arabic Natural Language Processing: Challenges and Solutions, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 8(4):1-22, December 2009.
  53. Shaalan, , Raza, H., NERA: Named Entity Recognition for Arabic, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., NJ, USA, 60(8): 1652–1663, July 2009.
  54. Abdel Monem, A., Shaalan, , Rafea, A., Baraka, H., Generating Arabic Text in Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation Framework, Machine Translation, Springer, Netherlands, 22(4): 205-258, December 2009.
  55. Shaalan, K., Talhami H., and Kamel I., Automatic Morphological Generation for the Indexing of Arabic Speech Recordings, The International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (IJCPOL), World Scientific Publishing Company, 20(1)1:14, 2007.
  56. Chang, C., Kayed, M., Girgis, M., Shaalan, K., A Survey of Web Information Extraction Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), IEEE Press, 18(10): 1411-1428, October 2006.
  57. Shaalan, , Talhami, H., Arabic Error Feedback in an Online Arabic Learning System, Advances in Natural Language Processing, Research in Computing Science (RCS) Journal, National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, ISSN  1665-9899, 18: 203-212, 2006.
  58. Shaalan K. Arabic GramCheck: A Grammar Checker for Arabic, Software Practice and Experience, John Wiley & sons Ltd., UK, 35(7):643-665, June 2005.
  59. Shaalan K. An Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning System for Arabic Learners, Computer Assisted Language Learning: An International Journal, Taylor & Francis Group Ltd., 18(1 & 2): 81-108, February 2005.
  60. Abo Khozium M., Hassan H., Shaalan K., jRiad M., A Prototype for an Intelligent Information System for Jamming and Anti-jamming Applications of Electromagnetic Spectrum, Egyptian Informatics Journal, Faculty of Computers & Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University, 5(2): 116-135, December 2004.
  61. Shaalan K., El-Badry M., Rafea, A. A Multiagent Approach for Diagnostic Expert Systems via the Internet, Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA): An International Journal, Elsevier Science Ltd, 27(1):1-10, 2004.
  62. Shaalan, K., Rafea, A., Abdel Monem, A., Baraka, H., Machine Translation of English Noun Phrases into Arabic, The International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (IJCPOL), World Scientific Publishing Company,  17(2):121-134, 2004.
  63. Shaalan, K., Rizk M., Abdelhamid Y., Bahgat, R. An Expert System for the Best Weight Distribution on Ferryboats, Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA): An International Journal, Elsevier Science Ltd, 26(3):397-411, 2004.
  64. Ibraheem A., Shaalan K., Riad M., Darwish G., A Model and Supporting Mechanism for Item Evaluation in Distance Learning-Based Environment, Egyptian Informatics Journal, Faculty of Computers & Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University, 4(2): 169-188, December 2003.
  65. Shaalan, K., Development of Computer Assisted Language Learning System for Arabic Using Natural Language Processing Techniques, Egyptian Informatics Journal, Faculty of Computers & Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University, 4(2):131-155, December 2003.
  66. El-Sedeek, M., Shaalan, K., Mabrouk, S., Rafea, A., A Hybrid Analogical Learning System and Its Application in Employment Accidents Domain, Scientific Bulletin, Part III: Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, 38(2):445-467, June 2003.
  67. Shafic, S., Shaalan, K., Rafea, A. Macro Association Rule Discovery: Impact of Environmental Indicators Changes on Life Assurance Business, Egyptian Informatics Journal, Faculty of Computers & Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University, 3(2):96-114, December 2002.
  68. Shaalan, K., Riad, M., Amer, A., Baraka, H., Speculative Work in Neural Network Forecasting: An application to Egyptian Cotton Production, The Egyptian Computer Journal, Faculty of Graduate Studies for Statistical Research, Cairo University, 27(1):58-79, 1999.
  69. Shaalan, K., Rafea, M., and Rafea, A., KROL: A Knowledge Representation Object Language on Top of Prolog, Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, Elsevier Science Ltd., 15:33–46, 1998.
  70. El-Korany A., Shaalan K., Baraka H., Rafea A., An Approach for Automating the verification of KADS-based Expert Systems, New Review of Applied Expert Systems, Taylor Graham, 4:107-124, 1998.
  71. Rafea A., Shaalan K., Using Expert Systems as a Training Tool in the Agriculture Sector in Egypt, Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, Elsevier Science Ltd., 11(3):343-349, 1996.
  72. Shaalan K., Haridi S., El-Gamal S., Rafea A., AKL+: A Concurrent Language Based on Object-Oriented and Logic Programming Paradigms, The Egyptian Computer Journal, Faculty of Graduate Studies for Statistical Research, Cairo University, 23(1): 30-51, 1995.
  73. Rafea A., Shaalan K., Lexical Analysis of Inflected Arabic words using Exhaustive Search of an Augmented Transition Network, Software Practice and Experience, John Wiley & sons Ltd., UK,23(6):567-588, June 1993.
Book Chapters
  1. Juma, H., Shaalan, K., Kamel, I. Customs-Based Distributed Risk Assessment Method. In: Shen, H., Sang, Y. (eds). Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming (PAAP 2019). Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), vol 1163. Springer, Singapore, 2020. DOI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-2767-8_37
  2. Juma, H., Shaalan, K., Kamel, I. Customs-Based Blockchain Solution for Exportation Protection. In: Shen, H., Sang, Y. (eds). Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming (PAAP 2019). Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), vol 1163. Springer, Singapore, 2020. DOI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-2767-8_36
  3. Areed, S., Alqaryouti, O., Siyam, B., Shaalan K. Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Government Reviews. In: Abd Elaziz M., Al-qaness M., Ewees A., Dahou A. (eds) Recent Advances in NLP: The Case of Arabic Language. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 874, PP. 143-162, Springer, Cham, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34614-0_8
  4. Saa, A.A., Al-Emran, M., Shaalan, K. Mining Student Information System Records to Predict Students’ Academic Performance. In: Hassanien A., Azar A., Gaber T., Bhatnagar R., F. Tolba M. (eds). The International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications (AMLTA2019). AMLTA 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 921. pp 229-239, Springer, Cham, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14118-9_23
  5. Salloum, S., Al-Emran, M., Habes, M., Alghizzawi, M., Abd. Ghani, M., Shaalan, K. Understanding the Impact of Social Media Practices on E-Learning Systems Acceptance. In: Hassanien A., Shaalan K., Tolba M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2019. AISI 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 1058:360-369, Springer, Cham, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31129-2_33
  6. Al-Maroof, R., Salloum, S., AlHamad, A., Shaalan, K. A Unified Model for the Use and Acceptance of Stickers in Social Media Messaging. In: Hassanien A., Shaalan K., Tolba M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2020. AISI 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 1058:3370-381, Springer, Cham, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31129-2_34
  7. Juma, M., Shaalan, K. Cyber-Physical Systems in Smart City: Challenges and Future Trends for Strategic Research. In: Hassanien A., Shaalan K., Tolba M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2019. AISI 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 1058:855-865, Springer, Cham, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31129-2_78
  8. Alqaryouti, O., Siyam, N., Shaalan, K. A Sentiment Analysis Lexical Resource and Dataset for Government Smart Apps Domain. In: Hassanien A., Tolba M., Shaalan K., Azar A. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2018. AISI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 845:230-240. Springer, Cham, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99010-1_21
  9. Salloum S. A., Shaalan, K. Factors Affecting Students’ Acceptance of E-Learning System in Higher Education Using UTAUT and Structural Equation Modeling Approaches. In: Hassanien A., Tolba M., Shaalan K., Azar A. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2018. AISI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 845: pp 469-480. Springer, Cham, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99010-1_43
  10. Salloum S.A., Shaalan K. Adoption of E-Book for University Students. In: Hassanien A., Tolba M., Shaalan K., Azar A. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2018. AISI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 845: 481-494. Springer, Cham, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99010-1_44
  11. Shaalan, K., Siddiqui, S., Alkhatib, M., Abdel Monem, A., Challenges in Arabic Natural Language Processing, Series on Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Intelligent Systems, Volume 4, PP. 59–83, Computational Linguistics, Speech and Image Processing for Arabic Language, Eds. Neamat El Gayar, Ching Y Suen, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813229396_0003
  12. Ahmed, A., Hifny, Y., Shaalan K., Toral, S. End-to-End Lexicon Free Arabic Speech Recognition Using Recurrent Neural Networks, Series on Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Intelligent Systems, Volume 4, PP. 231–248, Computational Linguistics, Speech and Image Processing for Arabic Language, Eds. Neamat El Gayar, Ching Y Suen, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813229396_0011
  13. Salloum, S. A., Al-Emran, M., Shaalan, K. The Impact of Knowledge Sharing on Information Systems: A Review. In: Uden L., Hadzima B., Ting IH. (eds) Knowledge Management in Organizations (KMO 2018), Communications in Computer and Information Science series, 877: 94-106, Springer, Cham, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95204-8_9
  14. Alomari, K. M., Ncube, C., Shaalan, K. Predicting Success of a Mobile Game: A Proposed Data Analytics-Based Prediction Model. In: Mouhoub M., Sadaoui S., Ait Mohamed O., Ali M. (eds), Recent Trends and Future Technology in Applied Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10868, PP. 127-134, Springer, Cham, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92058-0_12
  15. Salloum, S., Al-Emran, M., Abdel Monem, A., Shaalan, K. Using Text Mining Techniques for Extracting Information from Research Articles, In: Shaalan K., Hassanien A., Tolba F. (eds) Intelligent Natural Language Processing: Trends and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 740, pp. 373-397, Springer, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67056-0_18
  16. Ahmed, A., Hifny, Y., Toral, S., Shaalan, K., A Call Center Agent Productivity Modeling using Discriminative Approaches, In: Shaalan K., Hassanien A., Tolba F. (eds) Intelligent Natural Language Processing: Trends and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 740, pp. 501-520, Springer, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67056-0_24
  17. Siddiqui, S., Abdel Monem, A., Shaalan, K. Evaluation and Enrichment of Arabic Sentiment Analysis, In: Shaalan K., Hassanien A., Tolba F. (eds) Intelligent Natural Language Processing: Trends and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 740, pp. 17-34, Springer, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67056-0_2
  18. Alkhatib, M. Shaalan, K. The key Challenges for Arabic Machine Translation, In: Shaalan K., Hassanien A., Tolba F. (eds) Intelligent Natural Language Processing: Trends and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 740, pp. 139-156, Springer, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67056-0_8
  19. Ray, S. Ahmad, A., Shaalan, K. A Review of the State of the Art in Hindi Question Answering Systems, In: Shaalan K., Hassanien A., Tolba F. (eds) Intelligent Natural Language Processing: Trends and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 740, pp. 265-292, Springer, 2018.
  20. Said, S., AlHamad, A., Al-Emran, M., Shaalan, K., A Survey of Arabic Text Mining, In: Shaalan K., Hassanien A., Tolba F. (eds) Intelligent Natural Language Processing: Trends and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 740, pp. 417-431, Springer, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67056-0_20
  21. Alqaryouti, O., Khwileh, H., Farouk, T., Nabhan, A., Shaalan, K., Graph-Based Keyword Extraction, Graph-Based Keyword Extraction. In: Shaalan K., Hassanien A., Tolba F. (eds) Intelligent Natural Language Processing: Trends and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 740, pp. 159-172, Springer, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67056-0_9
  22. Ghoniem, R., Shaalan, K. FCSR – Fuzzy Continuous Speech Recognition Approach for Identifying Laryngeal Pathologies Using New Weighted Spectrum Features. In: Hassanien, A., Shaalan K., Gaber T., Tolba, M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2017 (AISI 2017), Volume 639 of the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, PP. 384-395, Springer, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64861-3_36
  23. Salloum, S. A., Al-Emran, M., Abdallah, S., Shaalan, K. Analyzing the Arab Gulf Newspapers Using Text Mining Techniques. In: Hassanien, A., Shaalan, K., Gaber, T., Tolba, M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2017 (AISI 2017), Volume 639 of the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp 396-405, Springer, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64861-3_37
  24. Salem Al Mukhaiti, A. J., Siddiqui, S., Shaalan, K. Dataset Built for Arabic Sentiment Analysis. In: Hassanien, A., Shaalan, K., Gaber, T., Tolba, M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2017 (AISI 2017), Volume 639 of the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp 406-416, Springer, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64861-3_38
  25. Ezzeldin, K., Siddiqui, S., Shaalan, K. Evaluating Arabic Parser and Recommending Improvements. In: Hassanien, A., Shaalan, K., Gaber, T., Tolba, M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2017 (AISI 2017), Volume 639 of the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp 417-428, Springer, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64861-3_39
  26. Juma M., Monem, A.A., Shaalan, K. Development of an Arabic Questions Answering App for Android Smartphones. In: Hassanien, A., Shaalan K., Gaber, T., Tolba, M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2017 (AISI 2017), Volume 639 of the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp 511-524, Springer, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64861-3_48
  27. Alomari, K., ElSherif, H., Shaalan, K. Arabic Tweets Sentimental Analysis using Machine Learning. IEA/AIE: 30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems. In: Benferhat S., Tabia K., Ali M. (eds), Advances in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice, Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 10350), PP. 602–610, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60042-0_66, Springer, Cham, 2017.
  28. Samrah R.A., Shaalan, K., Ali A.A. System Dynamics Modeling for the Complexity of Knowledge Creation Within Adaptive Large Programs Management. In: Rocha Á., Correia A., Adeli H., Reis L., Costanzo S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 569. Springer, Cham. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-56535-4_1, 2017.
  29. Siddiqui, S., Abdel Monem, A., Shaalan, K. Towards Improving Sentiment Analysis in Arabic, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2016, Volume 533 of the Series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Eds., Aboul Ella H., Shaalan, K. Gaber, T., Ahmad, A., Tolba, F., PP. 114-123, Springer, 2017.
  30. Alkhatib, M. Shaalan, K. Natural Language Processing for Arabic Metaphors: A Conceptual Approach, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2016, Volume 533 of the Series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Eds., Aboul Ella H., Shaalan, K. Gaber, T., Ahmad, A., Tolba, F., PP. 170-1819, Springer, 2017.
  31. Ahmed, A., Yasser, H., Shaalan, K. Toral, S. Lexicon Free Arabic Speech Recognition Recipe, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2016, Volume 533 of the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Book, Eds., Aboul Ella H., Shaalan, K. Gaber, T., Ahmad, A., Tolba, F., PP. PP. 147-159, Springer, 2017.
  32. Ahmed, A., Toral, S., Shaalan, K. Agent Productivity Measurement in Call Center Using Machine Learning, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2016, Volume 533 of the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Book, Eds., Aboul Ella H., Shaalan, K. Gaber, T., Ahmad, A., Tolba, F., PP. 160-169, Springer, 2017.
  33. Abou Samra, R., Shaalan, K. A Conceptual Model of the Relationship Between Aligned Innovations and Sustainable Development for Project-Based Organizations, In Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurship as Driving Forces of the Global Economy: Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Leadership, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ICLIE), Eds. Benlamri, R. and M. Sparer, PP. 211-222, Springer, 2017.
  34. Alomari, K., Soomro, T., Shaalan, K., Mobile Gaming Trends and Revenue Models, Trends in Applied Knowledge-Based Systems and Data Science. The 29th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, (IEA/AIE 2016), August 2-4, Morioka, Japan, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI 9799), Eds. Hamido, F., Moonis, A., Selamat, A., Jun, S., Masaki, K., PP. 671-683, Springer, Switzerland, 2016.
  35. Nabhan, A., Shaalan, K., Keyword identification using text graphlet patterns, Natural Language to Information Systems: 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2016), Eds. Métais, E. Meziane, F. Saraee, M., Sugumaran, V., and Vadera, S., Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 9612), Chapter 13, ISBN 978-3-319-41753-0, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2016.
  36. Siddiqui, S., Abdel Monem, A., Shaalan, K., Sentiment Analysis in Arabic, Natural Language to Information Systems: 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2016), Eds. Métais, E. Meziane, F. Saraee, M., Sugumaran, V., and Vadera, S., Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 9612), Chapter 41, ISBN 978-3-319-41753-0, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2016.
  37. Abou Samrah, R., Shaalan, K. The Relationship between Knowledge Sharing Climate and Conflict Resolution Styles, Knowledge Management in Organizations, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Eds. Uden, L. and HeriÄ Ko, M. and Ting, I., 224:176-189, Springer, 2015.
  38. Al-Zoghby, A., Shaalan, K., Conceptual Search for Arabic Web Content, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing), 9042: 405-416, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2015.
  39. Meselhi, M. and Abo Bakr, H., and Ziedan, I., Shaalan, K. A Novel Hybrid Approach to Arabic Named Entity Recognition, Machine Translation: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Eds. Shi, Xiaodong and Chen, Yidong, 493: 93-103, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2014.
  40. Owayid, A. M., Alrawi, K., Shaalan K. Effectiveness of Information Systems Infrastructure and Team Learning in Integrating Knowledge Management and e-Learning Technologies, The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations (KMO 2014), Chapter 45, Springer Proceedings in Complexity, Eds. Uden, Lorna and Wang, Leon S.L. and Corchado Rodríguez, Juan Manuel and Yang, Hsin-Chang and Ting, I-Hsien, PP. 557-566, Springer, Netherlands, 2014.
  41. Oudah, M., Shaalan, K., Person Name Recognition Using the Hybrid Approach, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, 7934: 237-248, Eds., Métais, E., Meziane, F., and Saraee, M., Sugumaran, V., Vadera, S., Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.
  42. Shaalan, K., Al-Sheikh, S., Oroumchian, F., Query Expansion based-on Similarity of Terms for Improving Arabic Information Retrieval, Eds: Shi, Z., Leake, D., Vadera, S., Intelligent Information Processing VI, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (AICT 385), Springer, Boston, PP 167-176, 2012.
  43. Shaalan, K., Hossny, A., Automatic rule induction in Arabic to English machine translation framework, In Eds., Soudi, A., Ali Farghaly, A., Neumann, G., Zbib, R., Challenges for Arabic Machine Translation, John Benjamins Publishing Company, PP. 135-154, 2012.
  44. Abdallah, S., Shaalan, K., Shoaib, M., Integrating Rule-based System with Classification for Arabic Named Entity Recognition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing), 7181: 311-322, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
  45. Shaalan, K., Magdy, M., Fahmy, A., Morphological Analysis of Ill-formed Arabic Verbs for Second Language Learners, Chapter 22, In Eds. McCarthy P., Boonthum, C., Applied Natural Language Processing: Identification, Investigation and Resolution, PP. 383-397, IGI Global, PA, USA, 2012.
  46. Shaalan, K., Hendam, A. Rafea, A., An English-Arabic Bi-Directional Machine Translation Tool in the Agriculture Domain: A Rule-based transfer approach for translating expert systems, In Z. Shi et al. (Eds.), Intelligent Information Processing V, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Advances in Information and Communication Technology (AICT) Volume 340, pp. 281-290, Springer Boston, USA, 2010. (Also appeared in the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing, October 13-16, Manchester, UK, 2010).
  47. Damankesh, A., Oroumchian, F., Shaalan, K., Multilingual Information Filtering by Human Plausible Reasoning, Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I, Text Retrieval Experiments, 10th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2009, Corfu, Greece, September 30 – October 2, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Editors: Carol Peters, Giorgio Di Nunzio, Mikko Kurimo, Thomas Mandl, Djamel Mostefa, Anselmo Peñas, Giovanna Roda, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 6241, PP. 366-373, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Germany, 2010.
  48. Shaalan, K., Raza H., Arabic Named Entity Recognition from Diverse Text Types, In Eds. Nordström, B., and Ranta, A., (Eds.) GoTAL 2008: 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 25-27, Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI): Advances in Natural Language Proceedings, Vol. 5221, PP. 440-451, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2008.
  49. Shaalan, K., Monem, A. Rafea, A., Arabic Morphological Generation from Interlingua: A Rule-based Approach, in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Vol. 228, Intelligent Information Processing IIP, eds. Z. Shi, Shimohara K., Feng D., (Boston:Springer), USA, PP. 441-451, 2007. (Also appeared in the Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing, September 20-23, Adelaide, Australia, 2007).
Papers in Fully Refereed Conference & Workshop Proceedings
  1. ElSherif, H. Alomar, K. AlHamad, A., Shaalan, K. Arabic Rule-based Named Entity Recognition System Using GATE, 16th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, MLDM 2019, Volume 1, PP. 1-15, ibai publishing July July 20-24, 2019,New York, USA.
  2. Alkhatib, M., AleAhmad, A., El Barachi, M., Oroumchian, F., Shaalan, K., Analysing the Sentiments of Opinion Leaders in Relation to Smart Cities’ Major Events, 4th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies, SpliTech, IEEE, June 2019.
  3. Alkhatib, M., El Barachi, M., Shaalan, K., Using Arabic Social Media Feeds for Incident and Emergency Management in Smart Cities, 3rd International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies, SpliTech, IEEE, Split, Croatia, June 2019.
  4. AlSheikh S., Shaalan, K. and Meziane, F. Consumers’ trust and popularity of negative posts in social media: A case study on the integration between B2C and C2C business models, The 2017 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, Socio-cultural Computing (BESC2017), University of Science and Technology, Krakó, POLAND, PP. 1-6, IEEE, 16-18 October, 2017.
  5. Dali, H., Shaalan, K. Knowledge Sharing Through E-Government Portal, The 11th International Knowledge Management in Organizations Conference (KMO ’16): The Changing Face of Knowledge Management Impacting Society, 25-28 July, Hagen, Germany, PP. 34:1-34:8, ACM, New York, USA, 2016.
  6. Al Attar, F., Shaalan, K., Enablers and Barriers of Knowledge Spiral: A Case Study, The 11th International Knowledge Management in Organizations Conference (KMO ’16): The Changing Face of Knowledge Management Impacting Society, 25-28 July, Hagen, Germany, PP. 52:1-52:8, ACM, New York, USA, 2016.
  7. Abou Samra, R., Shaalan, K., Exploring Chaotic Performance in Projects and Its Relationship with Knowledge Creation Process, The 11th International Knowledge Management in Organizations Conference (KMO ’16): The Changing Face of Knowledge Management Impacting Society, 25-28 July, Hagen, Germany, PP. 27:1-27:8, ACM, New York, USA, 2016.
  8. Ray, S., Shaalan, K., Using Freeware Resources to Analyse Sentiments in Social Media, International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DESE’15), Dubai, UAE, PP. 204-209, 13-14 December, 2015.
  9. Al Hassan, M., Soomro, T., Shaalan, K., Information Sharing Framework for National Resilience, The 26th International Business Information Management Association (IBIMA) Conference, IBIMA, PP. 2831-2844, Madrid, Spain, November 11-12, 2015.
  10. Al-Emran, M., Shaalan, K., Learners and Educators Attitudes Towards Mobile Learning in Higher Education: State of the Art, International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), IEEE, PP. 907-913, Kochi, India, 10-13 August, 2015.
  11. Al-Zoghby, A., Shaalan, K., Semantic Search for Arabic, The 28th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-28), Semantic, Logic, Information Extraction and Artificial Intelligence Track, AAAI Press, PP. 524-529, Hollywood, Florida, USA, May 18 – 20, 2015.
  12. Al-Emran, M., Zaza, S., Shaalan, K., Parsing Modern Standard Arabic using Treebank Resources, The International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Research (ICTRC 2015), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 17-19 May, 2015.
  13. Al Chalabi, H., Ray, S., Shaalan, K., Question Classification for Arabic Question Answering Systems, The International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Research (ICTRC 2015), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 17-19 May, 2015.
  14. Al-Chalabi, H., Ray, S., Shaalan, K. Semantic Based Query Expansion for Arabic Question Answering Systems, The First International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics (ACLing), Cairo, Egypt, pp. 127-132, April 17–20, 2015.
  15. Atia, S., Shaalan, K., Increasing the Accuracy of Opinion Mining in Arabic, The First International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics (ACLing), Cairo, Egypt, pp. 106-113, April 17–20, 2015.
  16. Meselhi, M., Abo Bakr, H., Ziedan, I., Shaalan, K., Hybrid Named Entity Recognition – Application to Arabic Language, The 9th International Conference on Computer Engineering & Systems (ICCES), Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt, December 22nd – 23rd, 2014.
  17. Al Emran, M., Shaalan K., A Survey of Intelligent Language Tutoring Systems, In the Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI’14), September 24-27, PP. 393-399, Delhi, India, 2014.
  18. Al Emran, M., Shaalan K., E-podium Technology: A medium of managing Knowledge at Al Buraimi University College via M-learning, In the Proceedings of The 2nd BCS International IT Conference, 9-10 March, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2014.
  19. Owayid, A. M., Alrawi, K., Shaalan K. The Effect of Information Systems Infrastructure and Staff Involvement in the Integration of Knowledge Management and E- Learning Technologies in Academic Institutions, In Proceedings of The Cambridge Business & Economics Conference (CBEC 2013), Cambridge, UK, 2013.
  20. Oudah, M., Shaalan, K., A Pipeline Arabic Named Entity Recognition Using a Hybrid Approach, In the Proceedings of The International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), PP. 2159-2176, Mumbai, India, 8-15 December, 2012.
  21. Attia, M., Samih, Y., Shaalan, K., Genabith, J., The Floating Arabic Dictionary: An Automatic Method for Updating a Lexical Database through the detection and lemmatization of the Unknown Words, In the Proceedings of The International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), PP. 83-96, Mumbai, India, 8-15 December, 2012.
  22. Attia, M., Pecina, P., Samih, Y., Shaalan, K., Genabith, J., Improved Spelling Error Detection and Correction for Arabic, In the Proceedings of The International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), PP. 103-112, Mumbai, India, 8-15 December, 2012.
  23. Shaalan, K., and Attia, M. Handling Unknown Words in Arabic FST Morphology. In the Proceedings of The 10th edition of the International Workshop on Finite State Methods and Natural Language Processing (FSMNLP 2012), Donostia – San Sebastian, Spain, July 23-25, 2012.
  24. Shaalan, K., Samih, Y., Attia, M., Pecina, P., Genabith, , 2012. Arabic Word Generation and Modelling for Spell Checking, In the Proceedings of The eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12), PP. 719-725, Istanbul, Turkey, 21-27 May 2012.
  25. Attia, M., Shaalan, K., Tounsi, L., Genabith, J., Automatic Extraction and Evaluation of Arabic LFG Resources, In the Proceedings of The eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’12), PP. 1947-1954, Istanbul, Turkey, 21-27 May 2012.
  26. Al-Nuaimi, M., Shaalan, K., Barriers to Electronic Government Citizens’ Adoption a Case of Municipal Sector in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, In the Proceedings of The International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE’11), PP. 398-403, 6th-8th December, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), 2011.
  27. Shaalan, K., Al-Mansoori, M., Tawfik, H., Mohammed, A., Evaluation of an E-Learning Diabetes Awareness Prototype, In the Proceedings of The International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE’11), PP.74-80, 6th-8th December Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), 2011.
  28. Shaalan, K., Magdy, M., Adaptive Feedback Message Generation for Second Language Learners of Arabic, International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2011), PP. 752-757, September 12-14, Augusta, Hissar, Bulgaria, 2011.
  29. Al-Mansoori, M., Shaalan, K., Tawfik, H., Using E-Learning for Helping Children with Diabetes, In the Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations’11), April 25-27, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2011.
  30. Anya, O., Tawfik, H., Amin, S., Nagar, A., Shaalan, K., Context-Aware Knowledge Modelling for Decision Support in E-Health, In the Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2010), 18-23 July, Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
  31. Shaalan, K., Magdy, M., Samy, D., Towards Resolving Morphological Ambiguity in Arabic Intelligent Language Tutoring Framework, In the Proceedings of The seventh international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’10) Workshop on Supporting eLearning with Language Resources and Semantic Data, 12-17, May 22nd, Valletta, Malta, 2010.
  32. Shaalan, K., Magdy, M., Fahmy, A., Morphological Analysis of Ill-formed Arabic Verbs in Intelligent Language Tutoring Framework, The 23rd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-23), Applied Natural Language Processing Track, 277-282, May 19-21, Florida, USA, 2010.
  33. Shaalan, K., Aref, R., Fahmy, A., An Approach for Analyzing and Correcting Spelling Errors for Non-native Arabic learners, In the Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on Informatics and Systems, INFOS2010, the special track on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Mining, 28-30 March, Cairo, Egypt, 2010.
  34. Hossny A., Shaalan, K., Fahmy, A., Machine Translation Model using Inductive Logic Programming, In the Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE’09), PP. 103-110, Sept. 24-27, Dalian, China, 2009.
  35. Shaalan, K., Abdel Monem, A., Rafea, A., Baraka, H., Syntactic Generation of Arabic in Interlingua-based Machine Translation Framework, Third workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (CAASL3), Machine Translation Summit XII, August 26, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2009.
  36. Abo Bakr, H., Shaalan, K., and Ziedan, I., A Statistical Method for Detecting the Arabic Empty Category, Eds Khalid Choukri and Bente Maegaar, The Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools, The MEDAR Consortium, 22-23 April, Cairo, Egypt, 2009.
  37. Shaalan, K., Abo Bakr, H., Ziedan, I., A Hybrid Approach for Building Arabic Diacritizer, In the Proceedings of the 12th European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009) Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, Association for Computational Linguistics, PP. 27-35, 31 March, Athens, Greece, 2009.
  38. Abo Bakr, H., Shaalan, K., Ziedan, I., A Statistical Method for Adding Case Diacritics for Arabic Text, In the Proceedings of The Eighth Conference on Language Engineering, Egyptian Society of Language Engineering (ELSE), PP. 225-234, 17-18 December, Cairo, Egypt, 2008.
  39. Hossny, A., Shaalan, K., Fahmy, A., Automatic Morphological Rule Induction for Arabic, In the Proceedings of The sixth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08) workshop on HLT & NLP within the Arabic world: Arabic Language and local languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects, PP. 97-101, 31st May, Marrakech, Morocco, 2008.
  40. Abo Bakr, H., Shaalan, K., Ziedan, I., A Hybrid Approach for Converting Written Egyptian Colloquial Dialect into Diacritized Arabic, In the Proceedings of The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems, INFOS2008, the special track on Natural Language Processing, 27-29 March, Cairo, Egypt, 2008.
  41. Farouk, A., Rafea, A., Shaalan, K., Analysis of Spoken Arabic into Interlingua Representation using Automatic Classification Approach, In the Proceedings of the 3rd International Computer Engineering Conference: Smart Applications for the Information Society, Cairo University, December 25-27, Cairo, Egypt, 2007.
  42. Farouk, A., Rafea, A., Shaalan, K., Recognizing Semantic Concepts of Spoken Arabic Utterances using Genetic Technology, In the Proceedings of The Seventh Conference on Language Engineering, Egyptian Society of Language Engineering (ELSE), Egypt, 5-6 December, Cairo, Egypt, 2007.
  43. Shaalan, K., Othman, E., Issues in the Morphological Analysis of the Arabic Passive Verb, In the Proceedings of The Seventh Conference on Language Engineering, Egyptian Society of Language Engineering (ELSE), 5-6 December, Cairo, Egypt, 2007.
  44. Magdy M., Shaalan, K., Fahmy, A., Lexical Error Diagnosis for Second Language Learners of Arabic, In the Proceedings of The Seventh Conference on Language Engineering, Egyptian Society of Language Engineering (ELSE), 5-6 December, Cairo, Egypt, 2007.
  45. Kayed, M., Chang, C., Shaalan, K., Girgis, M., FiVaTech: Page-level Web Data Extraction from Template Pages, In the Proceedings of International Workshop on Data Mining in Web 2.0 Environments held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2007), 28 October, Omaha, United States, 2007.
  46. Shaalan, K., Abo Bakr, H., Ziedan, I., Transferring Egyptian Colloquial into Modern Standard Arabic, International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP – 2007), PP. 525-529, September 27-29, Borovets, Bulgaria, 2007.
  47. Shaalan, K., Abdel Monem, A., Rafea, A., Baraka, H., Generating Arabic Text from Interlingua, In the Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages, CAASL-2, Linguistic Institute, PP. 137-144, July 21-22, Stanford, California, USA, 2007.
  48. Shaalan, K., Raza, H., Person Name Entity Recognition for Arabic, In the Proceedings of the ACL 2007 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources, Association for Computational Linguistics, PP. 17–24, 28-29th June, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.
  49. Ezzat M., Shaalan K., Fahmy A., Component Composition Analysis for Arabic Natural Language Processing, the 6th Conference on Language Engineering, Egyptian Society of Language Engineering (ELSE), Egypt, PP. 170-180, Dec. 6-7, 2006.
  50. Shaalan K., Abdel Monem, A., Rafea, A., Baraka, H., Mapping Interlingua Representations to Feature Structures of Arabic Sentences, The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT International Conference, organised by the British Computer Society, PP. 149-159, 23 October, London, UK, 2006.
  51. Al Shamsi, S., Talhami, H., Shaalan, K., Teaching Children with Down Syndrome Pronunciations Using Speech Recognition, The IASTED International conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2006), PP. 146-153,October 4-6, Lima, Peru, 2006.
  52. Shaalan, K., Talhami, H., Error Analysis and Handling in Arabic ICALL Systems, IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2006), PP. 109-114, 13-16 February, Innsbruck, Austria, 2006.
  53. Talhami, H., Shaalan, K., An Arabic/English Switch for Audio Indexing and Dialogue Management, IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA 2006), PP. 189-192, 13-15 February, Innsbruck, Austria, 2006.
  54. Shaalan, K., Talhami H., and Kamel I., A Morphological Generator for the Indexing of Arabic Audio, In the Proceedings of The IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC), PP. 307-312, September 12-14, Benidorm, Spain, 2005.
  55. Nabhan, A., Rafea, A., Shaalan, K., Enhancing Phrase Extraction from Word Alignments Using Morphology, In Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Language Engineering, Egyptian Society of Language Engineering (ELSE), PP. 57-65, September 14-15, Egypt, 2005.
  56. Chang, C., Kayed M., Girgis M., Shaalan K., Criteria for Evaluating Information Extraction Systems, In the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Informatics and Systems, INFOS2005, 19-22 March, Cairo University, Egypt, 2005.
  57. El-Beltagy S., Said M., and Shaalan K., A Framework for Information Extraction, Storage and Retrieval, In the Proceedings of the 1st International Computer Engineering Conference: New Technologies for the Information Society (ICENCO’2004), Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, December 27-30, Cairo, Egypt, 2004.
  58. Othman E., Shaalan K., and Rafea A., Towards Resolving Ambiguity in Understanding Arabic Sentence, In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools, NEMLAR, PP. 118-122, 22nd–23rd, Egypt, 2004.
  59. Rafea A., Shafik S., Shaalan K., An Interactive System for Association Rule Discovery for Life Assurance, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies (CCCT), PP. 32-37, The University of Texas at Austin, August 14-17, Texas, USA, 2004
  60. Abdel Monem, A., Shaalan K., Rafea, A., Baraka, H., A Proposed Approach for Generating Arabic from Interlingua in a Multilingual Machine Translation System, In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Language Engineering, Egyptian Society of Language Engineering (ELSE), PP. 197-206, Oct. 21-22, Cairo, Egypt, 2003.
  61. Shaalan K., Allam A., Gomah A. Towards Automatic Spell Checking for Arabic, In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Language Engineering, Egyptian Society of Language Engineering (ELSE), PP. 240-247, Oct. 21-22, Cairo, Egypt, 2003.
  62. Othman E., Shaalan K., and Rafea A. A Chart Parser for Analyzing Modern Standard Arabic Sentence, In proceedings of the MT Summit IX Workshop on Machine Translation for Semitic Languages: Issues and Approaches, September, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2003.
  63. Shaalan K., Machine Translation of Arabic Interrogative Sentence into English, In Proceedings of the 8th International conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, PP. 473-483, Egyptian Computer Society (EGS), Cairo, Egypt, 2000.
  64. Shaalan K., Farouk A., Rafea, A., Towards An Arabic Parser for Modern Scientific Text, In Proceeding of the International Conference on Artificial and computational Intelligence for Decision, Control and Automation in Engineering and Industrial Applications (ACIDCA’2000), 228-235, 22-24 March, Monastir, Tunisia, 2000.
  65. Shaalan K., Extending Prolog for Better Natural Language Analysis, In Proceeding of the 1st Conference on Language Engineering, Egyptian Society of Language Engineering (ELSE), PP. 225-236, March 14-15, Cairo, Egypt,1998.
  66. Rafea, M., Shaalan, K., and Rafea, A., Towards a Knowledge Representation Language Based on Open Architecture Model (OAM), In Proceeding of the 5th International conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, Egyptian Computer Society (EGS), PP. 241-250, Feb. 27- March 3, Cairo, Egypt, 1997.
  67. Rafea A., Shaalan K., A Frame-Based Lexicon for Arabic Language, In Proceeding of the 24th Annual conference on Statistics, Computer Science & Operation Research, Cairo University, PP. 23-25, December, Cairo, Egypt, 1989.
Research grants
  • PI & Co-PI to lead a diverse set of funded research projects in machine translation, named entity recognition, information retrieval, parsing, intelligent language tutoring systems, health informatics, and expert systems.
  • The external fund body in these projects, include Microsoft/FAST search & Transfer Inc., Oslo, Norway, National Science Foundation, USA/MoHE Egypt, British Council Funded PMI 2 Connect – Research Co-operation in the Gulf States, UK, and National Research Foundation (NRF), UAE.
  • The international collaborators and external organisations, include Dr Petra Maier-Meyer, Microsoft/FAST search & Transfer, Germany, Dr Lori Levin, CMU, USA, and Dr Hissam Tawfik, Liverpool Hope University, UK, Dr Josef van Genabith, the Dublin City University, Ireland, Dr Pavel Pecina, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, Younes Samih, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Germany, and Prof. Ali Farghaly, Stanford University, USA.

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