Conference: The 7th Conference on Digital Health Authors: Chadi Helwe, Shady Elbassuoni, Mirabelle Geha, Eveline Hitti, Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer Abstract: A standard procedure in the medical domain is to code discharge diagnoses into a set of manageable categories known as the CCS codes. This is typically done by first manually coding the discharge diagnoses
Month: April 2017
Methodical Evaluation of Arabic Word Embeddings
Conference: The 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Authors: Mohammed Elrazzaz, Shady Elbassuoni, Khaled Shaban, Chadi Helwe Abstract: Many unsupervised learning techniques have been proposed to obtain meaningful representations of words from text. In this study, we evaluate these various techniques when used to generate Arabic word embeddings. We first build
Reconfigurable and Adaptive Spark Applications
Conference: The 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science Authors: Bilal Abi Farraj, Wael Al Rahal Al Orabi, Chadi Helwe, Mohamad Jaber, Mohamad Omar Kayali, Mohamed Nassar Abstract: The contribution of this paper is two-fold. First, we propose a Domain Specific Language (DSL) to easily reconfigure and compose Spark applications. For each