Papers by Noorhan Abbas
The candidate confirms that the work submitted is her own and that appropriate credit has been gi... more The candidate confirms that the work submitted is her own and that appropriate credit has been given where reference has been made to the work of others. ii
HCI International Conference 2021 Learning and Collaboration Technologies- Chatbots in Education., 2021
Predefined web surveys are often used to collect course evaluations from students in higher educa... more Predefined web surveys are often used to collect course evaluations from students in higher education institutions. These institutions use the evalua-tions to adjust their courses’ pedagogical standards and lecture style to cope with an increasingly uncertain and complex world. Many limitations to us-ing web surveys have been reported such as low response rates and low-quality responses to open questions. To overcome these limitations, artifi-cial intelligence conversational agents (CAs) or ‘chatbots’ are used to play the interviewer role, facilitating the enhancement of the quality of respons-es. This is accomplished by mimicking human-human conversations; by ask-ing questions in a friendly, casual way and pursuing high-quality responses. This study aims to explore the opportunities and the obstacles of using CAs in collecting course evaluations in three European universities (UK, Spain and Croatia) and one Centre of excellence in Cyprus. The transcripts collect-ed have been analyzed using statistical data analysis methods and qualitative data analysis techniques. Our findings reveal that the use of CAs in collect-ing course feedback from students has a positive impact on response quality and can boost students’ enjoyment levels. Furthermore, gender differences and student age have been identified as important factors that can influence the depth of the conversation with the CA.
Inspired by the Oxford Children's Corpus, we have developed a prototype corpus of Arabic texts wr... more Inspired by the Oxford Children's Corpus, we have developed a prototype corpus of Arabic texts written and/or selected for children.
Our Arabic Children's Corpus of 2950 documents and nearly 2 million words has been collected manually from the web during a 3-
month project. It is of high quality, and contains a range of different children's genres based on sources located, including classic tales
from The Arabian Nights, and popular fictional characters such as Goha. We anticipate that the current and subsequent versions of our
corpus will lead to interesting studies in text classification, language use, and ideology in children's texts.
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/ Research on Arabic at the University of Leeds is not confined... more http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/ Research on Arabic at the University of Leeds is not confined to the Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies; the Language research group in the School of Computing has an ongoing interest in corpus-based research on Arabic. Language research in Computing is also known as Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, or Language Engineering. Central to our research is the computational modelling of language data; a CORPUS is a text dataset representative of the language to be analysed. We have developed a new Arabic corpus, the Corpus of Contemporary Arabic, freely downloadable from our website (Al-Sulaiti and Atwell 2006. Our survey of the needs of teachers of Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) and Arabic language engineers showed that existing corpora are too narrowly limited in source-type and genre, and that there is a need for a freely-accessible corpus of contemporary Arabic covering a broad range of text-types. We used the World Wide Web to gather a representative selection of contemporary Arabic texts from a wide range of Middle Eastern and North African countries, approximately one million words in total.
Thesis Chapters by Noorhan Abbas
Conference Presentations by Noorhan Abbas
Although Cumbria Constabulary has invested £1.8 million in buying 1500 new mobile devices and tab... more Although Cumbria Constabulary has invested £1.8 million in buying 1500 new mobile devices and tablets to save £3.3 million per annum (Cumbria Constabulary website, 2015), the data collected so far suggest that more work needs to be done to ensure all officers and staff are using their mobile devices regularly and efficiently.
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Papers by Noorhan Abbas
Our Arabic Children's Corpus of 2950 documents and nearly 2 million words has been collected manually from the web during a 3-
month project. It is of high quality, and contains a range of different children's genres based on sources located, including classic tales
from The Arabian Nights, and popular fictional characters such as Goha. We anticipate that the current and subsequent versions of our
corpus will lead to interesting studies in text classification, language use, and ideology in children's texts.
Thesis Chapters by Noorhan Abbas
Conference Presentations by Noorhan Abbas
Our Arabic Children's Corpus of 2950 documents and nearly 2 million words has been collected manually from the web during a 3-
month project. It is of high quality, and contains a range of different children's genres based on sources located, including classic tales
from The Arabian Nights, and popular fictional characters such as Goha. We anticipate that the current and subsequent versions of our
corpus will lead to interesting studies in text classification, language use, and ideology in children's texts.