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Mohamed Amir Yosef

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HYENA: Hierarchical Type Classification for Entity Names PDF
Mohamed Amir Yosef, Sandro Bauer, Johannes Hoffart, Marc Spaniol, Gerhard Weikum
Proceedings of the 24^th Intl. Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012),
Mumbai, India, December 8-15, 2. pp: 1361-1370.
Big Data Methods for Computational Linguistics PDF
Gerhard Weikum, Johannes Hoffart, Ndapa Nakashole, Marc Spaniol, Fabian Suchanek, Mohamed Amir Yosef
In IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin Special Issue on Data Management beyond Database Systems,
Vol. 35, No. 3, September 2012, pp: 46-55.

AIDA: An Online Tool for Accurate Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text and Tables PDF
Mohamed Amir Yosef, Johannes Hoffart, Ilaria Bordino, Marc Spaniol, Gerhard Weikum
Proceedings of the 37^th Intl. Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2011),
Seattle, WA, USA, August 29 - September 3. pp: 1450-1453.
Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text PDF
Johannes Hoffart, Mohamed Amir Yosef, Ilaria Bordino, Hagen Fürstenau, Manfred Pinkal, Marc Spaniol, Bilyana Taneva, Stefan Thater, Gerhard Weikum
Proceedings of EMNLP 2011: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing,
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 27-31. pp: 782-792.

GAC: Energy-Efficient Hybrid GPS-Accelerometer-Compass GSM Localization
Moustafa Youssef, Mohamed Amir Yosef, Mohamed El-Derini
Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010),
Miami, FL, USA, December 6-10. pp: 1-5.

Teaching Assistant at the University of Alexandria, Egypt. (Since September 2006)
Software Engineering Intern at Google, Mountain View (Summer 2007, Summer 2008).

April 2010 - present:
Ph. D. student in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany and the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
January 2007 - April 2010:
Masters in Computer Science at the University of Alexandria, Egypt
Title of Master's Thesis: Energy-Aware Location Provider for the Android Platform (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Mohamed Nazih El Derini, and, Dr. Moustafa Amin Youssef) (PDF)
September 2001 - June 2006:
Bachelor in Computer Science at the University of Alexandria, Egypt