Dr Jamal Nasir

M.Sc., PhD

Contact Details

Assistant Professor
Computer Science Building
South Campus
University of Galway
E: jamal.nasir@universityofgalway.ie
 
researcher
 

Biography

I am a Lecturer-above-the-bar at School of Computer Science. I received my PhD from  Computer Science Department of Syed Baber Ali School of Science and Engineering (LUMS), under the supervision of Professor Dr. Asim Karim. My PhD Thesis is titled: Semantic Smoothing Strategies for Improved Text Classification and Clustering.  I am interested in data mining and machine learning algorithms and applications.
I have worked as a 
Post Doctoral Researcher at Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway. I was working at Unit for Linguistic Data (ULD) unit at DSI. ULD is concerned with the creation, improvement, and maintenance of linguistic data (also known as language resources) through a variety of methods. The term linguistic data refers to a range of data types that are of use to researchers in linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). Principally, linguistic data can be split into four major categories: firstly, lexical data contains descriptions of words and their meanings, syntax, and relations; secondly, corpora consist of collections of texts made for a particular purpose; thirdly, language descriptions document typological properties of language to enable comparative studies; and finally, metadata about language resources and their availability.
Other than Knowledge Graphs and Linked Open Data, I am doing research in text categorisation and clustering, text summarisation, sentiment analysis, edge computing, and blockchain
Please feel free to contact me if you want to initiate research collaboration.

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing
Linked Open Data
Knowledge Graphs
Blockchain
Data Science

Research Projects

  Project Start Date End Date
Horizon EU AI4Debunk 01-JAN-24 31-DEC-27

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
(2020) MEPDaW'20 - Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web
Nasir, Jamal A and McCrae, John P (2020) iLOD: InterPlanetary File System based Linked Open Data Cloud⋆ MEPDaW'20 - Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web [Details]
(2020) Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Declerck, Thierry and McCrae, John Philip and Hartung, Matthias and Gracia, Jorge and Chiarcos, Christian and Montiel-Ponsoda, Elena and Cimiano, Philipp and Revenko, Artem and Sauri, Roser and Lee, Deirdre and others (2020) Recent developments for the linguistic linked open data infrastructure Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference , pp.5660-5667 [Details]
(2016) CLT 2016
Khan, Wahab and Daud, Ali and Nasir, Jamal A and Amjad, Tehmina (2016) Named Entity Dataset for Urdu Named Entity Recognition Task CLT 2016 Lahore, Pakistan, [Details]
(2014) Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
Nasir, Jamal A and G\"ornitz, Nico and Brefeld, Ulf (2014) An off-the-shelf approach to authorship attribution Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers , pp.895-904 [Details]
(2014) Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
Tzouridis, Emmanouil and Nasir, Jamal Abdul and Brefeld, Ulf (2014) Learning to Summarise Related Sentences Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers [Details]
(2011) International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval
Nasir, Jamal Abdul and Karim, Asim and Tsatsaronis, George and Varlamis, Iraklis (2011) A knowledge-based semantic kernel for text classification International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval , pp.261-266 [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2021) 'Fake news detection: A hybrid CNN-RNN based deep learning approach'
Jamal Abdul Nasir and Osama Subhani Khan and Iraklis Varlamis (2021) 'Fake news detection: A hybrid CNN-RNN based deep learning approach'. International Journal of Information Management Data Insights, 1 (1) [DOI] [Details]
(2019) 'Urdu part of speech tagging using conditional random fields'
Khan, Wahab and Daud, Ali and Nasir, Jamal Abdul and Amjad, Tehmina and Arafat, Sachi and Aljohani, Naif and Alotaibi, Fahd S (2019) 'Urdu part of speech tagging using conditional random fields'. Language Resources and Evaluation, :1-32 [Details]
(2019) 'A knowledge-based semantic framework for query expansion'
Jamal Abdul Nasir and Iraklis Varlamis and Samreen Ishfaq (2019) 'A knowledge-based semantic framework for query expansion'. Information Processing & Management, 56 (5):1605-1617 [DOI] [Details]
(2019) 'Part of Speech Tagging in Urdu: Comparison of Machine and Deep Learning Approaches'
Khan, Wahab and Daud, Ali and Khan, Khairullah and Nasir, Jamal Abdul and Basheri, Mohammed and Aljohani, Naif and Alotaibi, Fahd S (2019) 'Part of Speech Tagging in Urdu: Comparison of Machine and Deep Learning Approaches'. IEEE Access, [Details]
(2018) 'Latent Dirichlet Allocation and POS Tags Based Method for External Plagiarism Detection: LDA and POS Tags Based Plagiarism Detection'
Daud, Ali and Khan, Jamal Ahmad and Nasir, Jamal Abdul and Abbasi, Rabeeh Ayaz and Aljohani, Naif Radi and Alowibdi, Jalal S (2018) 'Latent Dirichlet Allocation and POS Tags Based Method for External Plagiarism Detection: LDA and POS Tags Based Plagiarism Detection'. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 14 (3):53-69 [Details]
(2017) 'Who will cite you back? Reciprocal link prediction in citation networks'
Daud, Ali and Ahmed, Waqas and Amjad, Tehmina and Nasir, Jamal Abdul and Aljohani, Naif Radi and Abbasi, Rabeeh Ayaz and Ahmad, Ishfaq (2017) 'Who will cite you back? Reciprocal link prediction in citation networks'. Library Hi Tech, 35 (4):509-520 [Details]
(2016) 'A survey on the state-of-the-art machine learning models in the context of NLP'
Khan, Wahab and Daud, Ali and Nasir, Jamal A and Amjad, Tehmina (2016) 'A survey on the state-of-the-art machine learning models in the context of NLP'. Kuwait journal of Science, 43 (4) [Details]
(2013) 'Semantic smoothing for text clustering'
Nasir, Jamal A and Varlamis, Iraklis and Karim, Asim and Tsatsaronis, George (2013) 'Semantic smoothing for text clustering'. Knowledge-Based Systems, 54 :216-229 [Details]

Professional Associations

  Association Function From / To
Oracle Academy University Head 01-MAR-17 /

Employment

  Employer Position From / To
National University of Ireland Galway Lecturer Above The Bar 01-SEP-21 /
DSI, NUI Galway Post Doc Researcher 23-JAN-20 / 31-AUG-21

Education

  Year Institution Qualification Subject
2014 Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan PhD Computer Science

Reviews

  Journal Role
Information Processing & Management Reviewer
Knowledge Based Systems Reviewer

Teaching Interests

Natural Language Processing
Databases
Cloud Computing
Web Programming
Enterprise Application Programming

Current Postgraduate Students (Research)

  Student Degree Type Type
Samira Korani Doctorate - Structured Ph.D (Engineering) Co-supervisor (1)

Modules Taught

  Term/Year Module Title Module Code Subject / Desc
Semester 1/2022-23 Database Technologies MS218
Semester 2/2023-24 Secure DevOps CT5192
Semester 1/2022-23 Database Systems MS805
Semester 2/2022-23 Java Enterprise Programming CT5168
Semester 1/2021-22 Statistical Techniques for Business Analytics MS5105
Semester 2/2021-22 Applied Customer Analytics MS5108
Semester 2/2020-21 Applied Customer Analytic MS5108
Semester 1/2022-23 Advanced Database Technologies MS322
Semester 2/2023-24 Introduction to Modelling CT248
Semester 2/2023-24 Enterprise Java Programming CT5168
Semester 2/2020-21 Web Application Development CT2104
Semester 1/2023-24 Applied Cybersecurity CT5174
Semester 1/2021-22 Networks and Communications MS216
Semester 2/2021-22 Cloud Computing MS5118
Semester 1/2021-22 Database Technologies MS218