Education

PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, 2012, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Msc. in Computer and Information Systems, 2004, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan

Bsc. in Computer Science, 2001, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan

Research Interests

• Arabic Natural Language Processing
• Artificial Intelligence for the Quran and Islamic Studies
• Arabic Morphological and Synatactic Analysis
• Arabic Corpus Linguistics
• Arabic Computational Lexicography
• Arabic WordNets

Selected Publications

[01] Bayan Abu Shawar, Majdi Sawalha, Mohammed Ghazi Al-Obeidallah, and Abdallah Alshdaifat (2024). “A Mobile Application for Harmonized Recitation and Text Display”, Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences, 18, No. 3, 505-512. https://doi.org/10.18576/amis/180302     

[02] Mustafa-Awad, Z., Sawalha, M., Kirner-Ludwig, M. (2023). “Framing Gender in the Coverage of Protests: Arab Women’s Uprisings in English and German Press”. Int J Semiot Law 36, 2501–2521. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-023-10013-2

[03] Awwad, Hasna; Sawalha,Majdi; Allawzi, Areej; Yagi, Sane (2023) “Building English-Arabic Physics Glossary from Domain Corpus Based on ATE Approach” International Journal of Speech Technology. 26, 151–162, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10772-022-10001-0

[04] Sawalha, Majdi (2019) “The Design and Construction of the Traditional Arabic Lexicons Corpus (The TAL-Corpus)”, Modern Applied Science. Vol. 13, No. 2 (2019).  https://doi.org/10.5539/mas.v13n2p95 

[05] Brierley, Claire; Sawalha, Majdi; Islam, Tajul; Dickins, James; Atwell, Eric (2018) “Automatic Extraction of Quranic Lexis Representing Two Different Notions of Linguistic Salience: Keyness and Prosodic Prominence”, Journal of Semitic Studies, Volume 63, Issue 2, 1 October 2018, Pages 407–456, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgy005

[06] Hussein, Riyad; Sawalha, Majdi (2016) A Corpus-based Study of Similes in British and American English. Arab World English Journal, Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2016. Pp. 49-60 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/vol7no2.4

[07] Brierley, Claire; Sawalha, Majdi; Heselwood, Barry; Atwell, Eric. (2016) A Verified Arabic-IPA Mapping for Arabic Transcription Technology, Informed by Quranic Recitation, Traditional Arabic Linguistics, and Modern Phonetics.  Journal of Semitic Studies, (Spring 2016) 61 (1): 157-186. https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgv035. Oxford Journals.

[08] AlMaayah, Manal; Sawalha, Majdi; Abushariah, Mohammed (2016) Towards an automatic extraction of synonyms for Quranic Arabic WordNet. International Journal of Speech Technology,  Volume 19, Issue 2, pp 177–189, June 2016,https://doi.org/10.1007/s10772-015-9301-9 

[09] Sawalha, Majdi; Atwell, Eric (2013). A standard tag set expounding traditional morphological features for Arabic language part-of-speech tagging, Word Structure 6 (1), 43-99, Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/word.2013.0035

[10] Sawalha, Majdi; Brierley, Claire; Atwell, Eric (2012). Prosody Prediction for Arabic via the Open-Source Boundary-Annotated Qur’an Corpus, Journal of Speech Sciences 2 (2), 175-191. https://doi.org/10.20396/joss.v2i2.15038 

Teaching Courses

• Artificial Intelligence – 3^rd-year undergraduate course.
• Natural Language Processing (NLP) – 3^rd-year undergraduate course.
• Compilers Design - 4^th-year undergraduate course.
• Formal Languages and Automata - 3^rd-year undergraduate course.
• Computer Organization and Design -  3^rd-year undergraduate course.
• Database Management Systems – 3^rd-year undergraduate course.
• Systems Analysis and Design - 3^rd year undergraduate course.
• Web Development - 2^nd-year undergraduate course.
• Computer Ethics - 2^nd-year undergraduate course.
• AI programming  – 1^st-year undergraduate course.

 

Memberships

CTO – Chief Technology Officer - The International Computing Institute for Quran and Islamic Sciences
A Nonprofit Corporation formed in the State of Delaware, USA. https://qurancomputing.org/

 

 

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