Prof. Dr. Abdelhadi Soudi

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsImage and Language Processing, Computer Graphics and Visualisation, Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing
KeywordsSign language research, Deaf Education
Honours and awards

2020: German-African Innovation Incentive Award (BMBF)

2019: Ibn Khaldoun Research Award - Moroccan National Center for Scientific and Technical Research

2019: Research Grant (National Center for Scientific and Technical Research)

2015: Literacy Research Innovation Award (USAID, World Vision, Australian Aid)

2014: PEER Science Research Grant (USA National Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation, USAID)

2013: First Prize in the ICT and Computing regular session, Qatar Annual Research Conference, Qatar Foundation

2012: PEER Science Research Grant (USA National Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation, USAID)

2007: Fulbright Scholar Grant

Current contact address

CountryMorocco
CityAgdal, Rabat
InstitutionEcole Nationale de l'Industrie Minerale
InstituteCentre de Langues et Communication
Homepagehttps://sites.google.com/site/abdelhadisoudi/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Günter NeumannForschungsbereich Sprachtechnologie, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Berlin
Prof. Dr. Anette FrankInstitut für Computerlinguistik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Claudia BeckerInstitut für Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Eckehard SchulzOrientalisches Institut, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Christian RathmannInstitut für Deutsche Gebärdensprache und Kommunikation Gehörloser, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Kristof Van LaerhovenFachgruppe Technische Informatik, Universität Siegen, Siegen
Prof. Dr. Abdelhadi SoudiCentre de Langues et Communication, Ecole Nationale de l'Industrie Minerale, Agdal, Rabat
Dr. Aljoscha BurchardtDFKI-Projektbüro Berlin, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI), Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2003

Programme(s)

2003Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme
2023Georg Forster Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Soudi is internationally known for his contributions in the research fields of applied and theoretical linguistics on language technology, computational linguistics, machine translation, computer-assisted language learning and question-answering. He works on developing assistive technologies to empower and help with the integration of deaf and hard of hearing persons. His contributions on Arabic computational morphology led to new directions in the processing of Arabic Morphology from the classical root-and-pattern approach to the lexeme/stem based approach. In Siegen, Professor Soudi will focus on creating technologies for improving communication between Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Deaf-Blind people, who rely on sign language and/or Braille and non-sign language.

Publications (partial selection)

2007Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Abdelhadi Soudi: Arabic Computational Morphology: A trade-off between multiple operations and multiple stems. In: Abdelhadi Soudi, Antal van den Bosch, Guenter Neumann, Arabic Computational Morphology: Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Kluwer/Springer, 2007. 89-114
2007Abdelhadi Soudi, Antal van den Bosch, Guenter Neumann: Arabic Computational Morphology: Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Kluwer/Springer, 2007
2007Antal van den Bosch, Erwin Marsi, Abdelhadi Soudi: Memory-based Morphological Analysis and Part-of-speech Tagging of Arabic. In: Abdelhadi Soudi, Antal van den Bosch, Günter Neumann, Arabic Computational Morphology: Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Springer/Kluwer, 2007. 201-219
2007Nizar Habash, Abdelhadi Soudi, Timothy Buckwalter: On Arabic Transliteration. In: Abdelhadi Soudi, Antal van den Bosch, Günter Neumann, Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods.. Springer/Kluwer, 2007. 15-22