Mr. Sohail Akhtar
Category: Faculty
Published on: March 16, 2022
Personal Information
Name Sohail Akhtar
Email sakhtar.buic@bahria.edu.pk
Phone 9260002 ext 1341
Research Area Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis and Text Classification, Opinion Polarization
Number of Publications Conferences = 3,Journals = 2
Affiliation
Designation Lecturer
Department Computer Science
University Bahria University Islamabad Campus
Qualification
Degree Passing Year Majors University
PhD (CS) 2022 NLP, Text Analysis, Opinion Polarization, Online Abuse Detection University of Turin, Italy
M.Sc in Media Informatics 2012 Multimedia and Image Processing, HCI RWTH Aachen University, Germany
BS (IT) 2005 Information Technology AIOU, Pakistan
Teaching Experience
Designation From To Organization
Lecturer March 2022 Date Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Industrial Experience
Designation From To Organization
Research Assistant September 2008 December 2009 Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology, Germany
       
Publications

Journals:

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1 Akhtar, S., Basile, V., & Patti, V. (2021). Whose Opinions Matter? Perspective-aware Models to Identify Opinions of Hate Speech Victims in Abusive Language Detection. Accepted (with revisions) in Elsevier Information Processing and Management Journal on 23-12- 202. {IF: 6.222}
2 Ayub, M.,Tilwanti A., S., Qadeer A., Batool, M., Akhtar, S. (2021). Genetics and Human Language: A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Father and a Daughter’s Language. In LINGUISTICA ANTVERPIENSIA, 2021 Issue-1, ISSN: 0304-2294, Pages: 1948-1965. {IF: 0.81}

Conferences:

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1 Fell, M., Akhtar, S., Basile, V. (2021). Mining Annotator Perspectives from Hate Speech Corpora. Published in NL4AI Workshop at AIxIA Conference 2021(The 20th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence) on 30-10-2021
2 Akhtar, S., Basile, V., & Patti, V. (2020). Modeling Annotator Perspective and Polarized Opinions to Improve Hate Speech Detection. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing, 8(1), 151-154
3 Akhtar, S.; Basile, V.; and Patti, V. 2019. A new measure of polarization in the annotation of hate speech. In  Alviano, M.; Greco, G.; and Scarcello, F., eds., AI*IA 2019 – Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 588–603. Cham: Springer International Publishing