Publications

• Understanding Financial Information Seeking Behavior from User Interactions with Company Filings
  Mozhdeh Ariannezhad, Mohamed Yahya, Edgar Meij, Sebastian Schelter, and Maarten de Rijke
  FinWeb 2022
  
• ComQA: A Community-sourced Dataset for Complex Factoid Question Answering with Paraphrase Clusters
  Abdalghani Abujabal, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Mohamed Yahya and Gerhard Weikum
  NAACL 2019
  Dataset: http://qa.mpi-inf.mpg.de/comqa/
• Semantically Driven Auto-completion
  Konstantine Arkoudas, Mohamed Yahya
  CIKM 2019 (pre-print)
• Spec-QP: Speculative Query Planning for Joins over Knowledge Graphs
  Madhulika Mohanty, Maya Ramanath, Mohamed Yahya and Gerhard Weikum
  EDBT 2019
  
• Auto-completion for Question Answering Systems at Bloomberg
  Konstantine Arkoudas, Mohamed Yahya
  SIGIR 2018 - Symposium on IR in Practice (SIRIP)
  Tech At Bloomberg article
  presentation: pdf
• Never-Ending Learning for Open-Domain Question Answering over Knowledge Bases
  Abdalghani Abujabal, Mohamed Yahya, Rishiraj Saha Roy and Gerhard Weikum
  WWW 2018
  Tech At Bloomberg article
• Automated Template Generation for Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs
  Abdalghani Abujabal, Mohamed Yahya, Mirek Riedewald and Gerhard Weikum
  WWW 2017
• QUINT: Interpretable Question Answering over Knowledge Bases
  Abdalghani Abujabal, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Mohamed Yahya and Gerhard Weikum
  EMNLP 2017 - demo
• Knowledge Questions from Knowledge Graphs
  Dominic Seyler, Mohamed Yahya and Klaus Berberich
  ICTIR 2017
• Exploratory Querying of Extended Knowledge Graphs
  Mohamed Yahya, Klaus Berberich, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum
  VLDB 2016 - demo
• Automated Question Generation for Quality Control in Human Computation Tasks
  Dominic Seyler, Mohamed Yahya, Omar Alonso, and Klaus Berberich
  ACM WebSci 2016 - extended abstract
• Relationship Queries on Extended Knowledge Graphs
  Mohamed Yahya, Denilson Barbosa, Klaus Berberich, Qiuyue Wang, Gerhard Weikum
  WSDM 2016
• Generating Quiz Questions from Knowledge Graphs
  Dominic Seyler, Mohamed Yahya, and Klaus Berberich
  WWW 2015 - poster
• ReNoun: Fact Extraction for Nominal Attributes
  Mohamed Yahya, Steven Whang, Rahul Gupta, and Alon Halevy
  EMNLP 2014
  presentation: animated pdf • unanimated pdf • video
• Robust Question Answering over the Web of Linked Data
  Mohamed Yahya, Klaus Berberich, Shady Elbassuoni, and Gerhard Weikum
  CIKM 2013 Honorable mention
• On the SPOT: Question Answering over Temporally Enhanced Structured Data
  Mohamed Yahya, Klaus Berberich, Maya Ramanath, and Gerhard Weikum
  TAIA 2013, in conjunction with SIGIR 2013
• Natural Language Questions for the Web of Data
  Mohamed Yahya, Klaus Berberich, Shady Elbassuoni, Maya Ramanath, Volker Tresp and Gerhard Weikum
  EMNLP 2012
  presentation: pptx • animated pdf • unanimated pdf
• Deep Answers for Naturally Asked Questions on the Web of Data
  Mohamed Yahya, Klaus Berberich, Shady Elbassuoni, Maya Ramanath, Volker Tresp and Gerhard Weikum
  WWW 2012 - demo paper
  poster: pdf
• D2R2: Disk-oriented Deductive Reasoning in a RISC-style RDF Engine
  Mohamed Yahya and Martin Theobald
  RuleML 2011
  presentation: pdf
• Time-Aware Reasoning in Uncertain Knowledge Bases
  Yafang Wang, Mohamed Yahya, and Martin Theobald
  MUD 2010, in conjunction with VLDB 2010

Teaching

• Teaching assistant, Graduate Seminar: Massive-Scale Graph Analysis. SS15.
• Teaching assistant, Graduate Seminar: Frontiers in Web Search. SS13.
• Teaching assistant, Information Retrieval and Data Mining by Dr. Martin Theobald and Dr. Pauli Miettinen. WS11/12.
• Teaching assistant, Database Systems by Prof. Jens Dittrich. WS09/10.

Education

• 11.2010 - 04.2016: Ph.D. student in Computer Science
  Max Planck Institute for Informatics & Computer Science Department, Saarland Univeristy, Germany.
  Supported by the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS-CS).
• 10.2008 - 09.2010: M.Sc. in Computer Science
  Computer Science Department, Saarland Univeristy & Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany.
  Supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
• 09.2003 - 02.2008: B.Eng. in Computer Systems Engineering
  Computer Systems Engineering Department, Birzeit University, Palestine.

Experience

• 08.2016 - present: Senior Software Engineer & Research Scientist
  AI Group, Bloomberg
  London, UK
• 10.2013 - 02.2014: Research Intern
  Structured Data Group, Google Research
  Mountain View, USA
• 05.2012 - 06.2012: Research Intern
  Siemens Corporate Research and Technology
  Munich, Germany
• 06.2006 - 08.2006: Intern
  Artificial Intelligence Group, University of Koblenz-Landau.
  Koblenz, Germany

Activities

• ACL: PC Member: 2018, 2019
• COLING: Reviewer - 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020
• EMNLP: PC Member - 2020
• CoNLL: Reviewer - 2018
• LREC: PC Member - 2018
• NAACL: PC Member - 2019
• Journal of Web Semantics: Reviewer - Special Issue on Semantic Search, 2013
• Knowledge and Information Systems Journal (KAIS): Reviewer - 2014

Talks

• Developing Selective Question Answering @ Bloomberg
  Search Solutions — British Computer Society's Information Retrieval Specialist Group,
  London, UK. November, 2022.
• Discovery in the Bloomberg Terminal
  International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) - Industry Sessions,
  Stavanger, Norway. September 2020.
• Auto-completion for Question Answering Systems at Bloomberg
  SIGIR Symposium on IR in Practice (SIRIP),
  Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. July 2018.
• Question Answering at Bloomberg,
  • Web Intelligence Summer School,
    Saint-Étienne, France. July, 2017.
  • Edinburgh University Artificial Intelligence and Computer Society (CompSoc),
    Edinburgh, UK. November, 2017.
• Question Answering & Query Processing over Knowledge Graphs,
  Yahoo Labs,
  London, UK. December, 2015.
• Question Answering over the Web of Linked Data,
  Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Talks, University of Maryland,
  College Park, Maryland, USA. February, 2014.
• DEANNA: Natural Language Questions for the Web of Data,
  given remotely to Samsung Electronics Research Institute (SERI),
  Middlesex, UK. September, 2012.
• Deep Answers for Naturally Asked Questions on the Web of Data,
  Siemens Corporate Research and Technology,
  Munich, Germany. December, 2011.
• Natural Language Question Answering over Knowledge Bases,
  Siemens Corporate Research and Technology,
  Munich, Germany. March, 2011.

More...elsewhere...

• Photos @ flickr
• Profile @ Linkedin

Misc.

• Erdős number: 3
  Mohamed Yahya → Gerhard Weikum → Patrick Eugene O'Neil → Paul Erdős.
• ترجمة لمقال بيتر نورفيچ: علم نفسك البرمجة في عشرة أعوام [الأصل بالإنجليزية]
• Building a Pipelined ML Product? Start Breadth-first
• Why I Switched to TiddlyWiki for Note-taking