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Shahbaz Syed

NEC Laboratories Europe
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The Twitter pandemic: The critical role of Twitter in the dissemination of medical information and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic

H Rosenberg, S Syed, S Rezaie - Canadian journal of emergency …, 2020 - cambridge.org
As the world finds itself in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has become
inundated with content associated with the virus. Although all social media platforms (eg, …

Dose and duration of nerve growth factor (NGF) administration determine the extent of behavioral recovery following peripheral nerve injury in the rat

SWP Kemp, AA Webb, S Dhaliwal, S Syed… - Experimental …, 2011 - Elsevier
Nerve growth factor (NGF) has been previously shown to support neuron survival and direct
neurite outgrowth in vitro, and to enhance axonal regeneration in vivo. However, a …

Tl; dr: Mining reddit to learn automatic summarization

M Völske, M Potthast, S Syed… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - aclanthology.org
Recent advances in automatic text summarization have used deep neural networks to
generate high-quality abstractive summaries, but the performance of these models strongly …

Retrieval of the best counterargument without prior topic knowledge

H Wachsmuth, S Syed, B Stein - … of the 56th Annual Meeting of the …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
Given any argument on any controversial topic, how to counter it? This question implies the
challenging retrieval task of finding the best counterargument. Since prior knowledge of a …

Collagen nerve conduits promote enhanced axonal regeneration, schwann cell association, and neovascularization compared to silicone conduits

SWP Kemp, S Syed, SK Walsh… - … Engineering Part A, 2009 - liebertpub.com
Peripheral nerve regeneration within guidance conduits involves a critical association
between regenerating axons, Schwann cells (SCs), and neovascularization. However, it is …

Overview of touché 2022: argument retrieval

A Bondarenko, M Fröbe, J Kiesel, S Syed… - … Conference of the Cross …, 2022 - Springer
This paper is a condensed report on the third year of the Touché lab on argument retrieval
held at CLEF 2022. With the goal to foster and support the development of technologies for …

Canadi EM: Accessing a virtual community of practice to create a canadian national medical education institution

…, A Thomas, S Syed… - AEM education and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background The rise of free open‐access medical education ( FOAM ) has led to a wide
range of online resources in emergency medicine. Canadian physicians have been active …

Target inference in argument conclusion generation

M Alshomary, S Syed, M Potthast… - Proceedings of the 58th …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
In argumentation, people state premises to reason towards a conclusion. The conclusion
conveys a stance towards some target, such as a concept or statement. Often, the conclusion …

Abstractive snippet generation

WF Chen, S Syed, B Stein, M Hagen… - Proceedings of The Web …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
An abstractive snippet is an originally created piece of text to summarize a web page on a
search engine results page. Compared to the conventional extractive snippets, which are …

Exploiting personal characteristics of debaters for predicting persuasiveness

K Al Khatib, M Völske, S Syed… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
Predicting the persuasiveness of arguments has applications as diverse as writing
assistance, essay scoring, and advertising. While clearly relevant to the task, the personal …