Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad

Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad

PhD Candidate in Computer Science

University of Porto, Portugal

Hello!

I am a PhD candidate at MAPi joint Doctoral Program in Computer Science offered by the University of Minho, the University of Aveiro, and the University of Porto. I am also a researcher at the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support. LIAAD-INESTEC.

My current research interest focus on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. I am also interested in creating language resource for low-resource languages (especially Hausa). I received Master’s degree from the University of Manchester, UK, and a Batchelor’s Degree from Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. I am also a faculty member at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Bayero University, Kano-Nigeria. I spend my time reading books and playing table tennis.

Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Machine Learning
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Low-resource language

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, (2018 - ongoing)

    University of Porto , Portugal

  • MSc in Computer Science, 2013

    University of Manchester , UK

  • BSc in Computer Science, 2008

    Bayero University ,Kano, Nigeria

Recent Posts

How to Tidy Messy Data Part 1)

Data scientist often spent about 80% of data analysis process on cleaning and preparing data1. Worst still, cleaning and preparing the data is an iterative process. Hadley Wickham refer to this process of cleaning and preparing data as data tidying: structuring datasets to facilitate analysis.
Last updated on Mar 31, 2021 8 min read
How to Tidy Messy Data Part 1)

Why I start a blog

Over a few years, I’ve been holding off writing blog posts consistently. I started in 2018 and stopped after two blog posts. Recently, I read a blog post by the co-founder of fast.
Last updated on Jan 4, 2021 5 min read
Why I start a blog

Recent Publications

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MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages

We take a step towards addressing the underrepresentation of the African continent in NLP research by creating the first large publicly available high­quality dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in ten African languages, bringing together a variety of stakeholders.
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Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets

With the success of large-scale pre-training and multilingual modeling in Natural Language Processing (NLP), recent years have seen a proliferation of large, web-mined text datasets covering hundreds of languages. However, to date there has been no systematic analysis of the quality of these publicly available datasets, or whether the datasets actually contain content in the languages they claim to represent.
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A survey on machine learning techniques in movie revenue prediction

With the growing number of literature on movie revenue prediction using machine learning techniques in recent years, a systemic review will help in strengthening the understanding of this research domain. Therefore, this article is aimed at determining the sources of data, the techniques, the features, and the evaluation metrics used in movie revenue prediction.
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Incremental Approach for Automatic Generation of Domain-Specific Sentiment Lexicon

Sentiment lexicon plays a vital role in lexicon-based sentiment analysis. The lexicon-based method is often preferred because it leads to more explainable answers in comparison with many machine learning-based methods. But, semantic orientation of a word depends on its domain.
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Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages

Research in NLP lacks geographic diversity, and the question of how NLP can be scaled to low-resourced languages has not yet been adequately solved. "Low-resourced"-ness is a complex problem going beyond data availability and reflects systemic problems in society.
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Academic Positions

 
 
 
 
 

Doctoral Research Fellow

Faculty of Science, University of Porto

Aug 2020 – Present Porto, Portugal
 
 
 
 
 

Researcher

INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science

May 2019 – Present Porto, Portugal
 
 
 
 
 

Lecturer

Bayero University , Kano

Apr 2012 – Present Kano, Nigeria

Responsibilities include:

  • Teaching
  • Research
 
 
 
 
 

Lecturer

Saadatu Rimi College of Education

Oct 2010 – Apr 2012 Kano States

Responsibilities include:

  • Teaching
  • Research

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