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Last updated: April 2021.
Moved to hibaarnaout.com

Research Interests

  • Information Extraction & Retrieval
  • Semantic Web

Publications

  • Negative Statements Considered Useful
    Hiba Arnaout, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum, and Jeff Z. Pan
    In Journal of Web Semantics (JWS 2021 - to appear)
  • Negative Knowledge for Open-world Wikidata
    Hiba Arnaout, Simon Razniewski, Gerhard Weikum, and Jeff Z. Pan
    The Web Conference Companion (WWW Companion 2021)
    [PDF]
  • Enriching Knowledge Bases with Interesting Negative Statements
    Hiba Arnaout, Simon Razniewski, and Gerhard Weikum
    People's Choice Award
    In Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC 2020)
    [LINK]
  • Effective Searching of RDF Knowledge Graphs
    Hiba Arnaout and Shady Elbassuoni
    In Journal of Web Semantics (JWS 2018)
    [LINK]
  • Top-k Keyword Search over Wikipedia-based RDF Knowledge Graphs
    Hrag Yoghourdjian,Shady Elbassuoni, Mohamad Jaber, and Hiba Arnaout
    In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2017)
    [LINK]
  • Result Diversity for RDF Search
    Hiba Arnaout and Shady Elbassuoni
    In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2016)
    [LINK]

PC member:
2021: ISWC, ACL, IJCAI, EMNLP;
2020: ACL, CIKM, ISWC.

Teaching

  • IT Instructor
    Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service(American University of Beirut) and World Food Program(United Nations), 2017 (Beirut, Lebanon)
  • Teaching Assistant
    Computer Science Department, American University of Beirut, 2014-2017 (Beirut, Lebanon)
    Databases and Information Systems Department, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, 2019 (Saarland, Germany)

Recent Positions

  • Visiting Researcher
    School of Informatics, The Unviersity of Edinburgh 2020 (Scotland, United Kingdom)
  • Document Control Administrator
    Office of the Provost, American University of Beirut, 2016-2018 (Beirut, Lebanon)
  • Research Assistant
    Computer Science Department, American University of Beirut, 2014-2017 (Beirut, Lebanon)
  • Software Developer (Summer Internship)
    Allied Computer Incorporation International, 2012 (Beirut, Lebanon)

Education

Private

Hobbies

  • Satire TV
  • Reading (mostly biographies)
  • Basketball