School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Heshaam Faili

School of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Assistant Professor

Email: hfaili [AT] ut.ac.ir

Personal Website: -

Education

Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence, Sharif University of Technology, 2006
MS , Software Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 1999
BS , Software Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 1997 (top student in Software Engineering).

Courses

1. Natural Language Processing, 2006-now (see http://ece.ut.ac.ir/Classpages/F88/ECE573/index.html)
2. Data Structure and Algorithms, 2002-now (see http://www.datastructure.ir)
3. Artificial Intelligence, 2006-now (see http://ece.ut.ac.ir/Classpages/S87/ECE397/index.html - see also http://www.artificialintelligence.ir )
4. Advanced Algorithms - (fall 2010)

Publications

2011

37. Pilervar, T., Faili, H,, Pilevar, A., TEP: Tehran English-Persian Parallel Corpus, CICLING 2011, Part 2, LNCS 6608, pp. 68-79, pdf.

36. Faili, H., Basirat, A.,:An Unsupervised Approach for Linking Automatically Extracted and Manually Crafted LTAGs, CICLING 2011, Part 1, LNCS 6608, pp. 68-81, pdf .

2010

35.barkhoda, bahram pour, akhlaghian, Faili: Kurdish Text to Speech System, Iranian journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol 8, no 2, 2010 (in Persian), pdf.

34. Rahimtoroghi, E.; Faili, H.; Shakery, A.: A structural rule-based stemmer for Persian. In Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Telecommunication (IST 2010), 4-6 Dec, 2010, pp. 574-578, link.

33. Homa Baradaran Hashemi, Azadeh Shakery, Heshaam Faili: Creating a Persian-English Comparable Corpus. CLEF 2010: 27-39, pdf.

32. M. Montazeri, H. Faili, Automatic Persian WordNet Learning, In the proceeding of 23rd International conference on computational linguistics (COLING 2010), august 2010, pp. 846–850.

31. H. Faili, Detection and Correction of Real-Word Spelling Errors in Persian Language, In the 6th IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE'10), ,August 2010, pp. 533-536.

30. M. Vosoughpour, H. Faili, Generating English-Persian Parallel Corpus Using an Automatic Anchor Finding Sentence Aligner, In the 6th IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE'10), August 2010, pp. 578-583, pdf.

29. N. Ehsan, H. Faili, Towards Grammar Checker Development for Persian Language , In the 6th IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE'10), August 2010, pp. 150-157.

28. H. Faili, H. Ravanbakhsh, Affix Augmented Stem Based Language Model for Persian, In the 6th IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE'10), August 2010, pp. 250-253, pdf.

27. H. Faili, M. Azadnia, The First Persian Context Sensitive Spell Checker, International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, Vol 2, No. 2, July 2010 pp. 51-59.

26. H. Faili, A. Basirat, Augmenting the Automated Extracted Tree Adjoining Grammars by Semantic Representation, In the 6th IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE'10), August 2010, pp. 584-590, pdf.

25. M. Soltani, H. Faili, English to Persian Word Sense Disambiguation Using Graph-based methods, CSICC 2010.

24. T. Pilehvar, H. Faili, Statistical English-Persian Machine Translation, CSICC 2010.

23. M. Soltani, H. Faili, Unsupervised Graph-Based English to Persian Word Sense Disambiguation, Infos, 2010.

22. T. Pilehvar, H. Faili, Persian SMT: A First Attemp to English-Persian Statistical Machine Translation, JADT 2010.

2009

21. H. Faili, Building Deep Structure From Partial Parses, 2nd International IEEE conference on Computer Science, ICSICC2009.

20. M. Arabsorkhi, H. Faili, M. Zolghadri Jahroumi, Using Genetic Algorithm for Persian Grammar Induction, 4rd IEEE Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Natural Language Processing, NLP-KE, 2009.

19. T. Pilehvar, H. Faili, M. Soltani, Classification of Persian textual documents using Learning Vector Quantization, 4rd IEEE Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Natural Language Processing, NLP-KE, 2009.

18. H. Faili, From Partial toward Full Parsing, Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2009), 21-23 Sep. 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria.

17. H. Faili, M. Arabsorkhi, Persian Text Classification using supervised approach, CSI Computer Conference (CSICC'2009), Tehran, Iran, (in poster, in Persian).

16. M. Soltani, H. Faili, Word Sense Disambiguation using cross-language information, CSI Computer Conference (CSICC'2009), Tehran, Iran, (in poster, in Persian).

2008

15. H. Faili, An Experiment in Word Sense Disambiguation in Persian, 3rd IEEE Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Natural Language Processing, NLP-KE, 2008.

14. H. Faili, M. Arabsorkhi, Using SuperTags in Parsing based on TAG model, Proceedings of 12th Annual Int. CSI Computer Conference (CSICC'2007), 20-22 Feb. 2007, Tehran, Iran, (in Persian).

2007

13. M. Arabsorkhi, H. Faili, M. Azadnia, An Expert System for Correcting Syntax Error for Persian, Proceedings of 12th Annual Int. CSI Computer Conference (CSICC'2007), 20-22 Feb. 2007, Tehran, Iran, (in Persian).
12. M. Arabsorkhi, M. ZolGhadri, H. Faili, Using Genetic Algorithm to Extract Persian Grammar, Proceedings of 12th Annual Int. CSI Computer Conference (CSICC'2007), 20-22 Feb. 2007, Tehran, Iran, (in Persian).

2006 - before

11. H. Faili and G. Ghassem-Sani, History Based Inside-Outside Algorithm, Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006), 29 Aug. - 1st Sep. 2006, Riva Del Garda, Italy, pp. 558-562
10. H. Faili and G. Ghassem-Sani, Using Tree Adjoining Grammar in English-Persian Translation, The CSI Journal on Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Society of Iran, Volume 3, Issue 1(a), Spring 2006, pp. 23-31 (in Persian).
9. H. Faili and G. Ghassem-Sani, Unsupervised Grammar Induction using History Based Approach, Compute÷r Speech and Language, Elsevier ltd, Volume 20, Issue 4, October 2006, pp. 644-658.

8. M. Arabsorkhi, H. Faili, Using Bayesian Model to Persian Text Classification, in the 2nd Workshop on Persian Language and Computer, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, 2006.

7. H. Faili and G. Ghassem-Sani, One Step Toward a Richer Model of Unsupervised Grammar Induction, Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2005), 21-23 Sep. 2005, Borovets, Bulgaria, pp. 197-203.

6. H. Faili and G. Ghassem-Sani, Using a Decision Tree Approach for Ambiguity Resolution in Machine Translation, Proceedings of 10th Annual Int. CSI Computer Conference (CSICC'2005), 15-17 Feb. 2005, Tehran, Iran, Vol. II, pp. 252-256.

5. H. Faili and G. Ghassem-Sani, Using Unification Grammars in English-Persian Translation, Proceedings of 10th Annual Int. CSI Computer Conference (CSICC'2005), 15-17 Feb. 2005, Tehran, Iran, Vol. I, pp. 936-944 (in Persian).

4. H. Faili and G. Ghassem-Sani, An Application of Lexicalized Grammars in English-Persian Translation, Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2004), 24-27 Aug. 2004, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, pp. 596-600.

3. H. Faili, Using Synchronous grammar for English to Persian Translation, in the 9th annual computer society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC), 2004,

2. H. Faili, English to Persian Machine Translation Using Probabilistic model, in the 1st Workshop on Persian Language and Computer, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, May 25-26 2004 (in Persian).

1. H. Faili and G. Ghassem-Sani, Using Tree Adjoining Grammar in English-Persian Translation, Proceedings of 9th Annual Int. CSI Computer Conference (CSICC'2004), 17-19 Feb. 2004, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Vol. I, pp. 639-647 (in Persian).

Projects

1. VafaSpellChecker: The First total spell checker for Persian. (see http://ece.ut.ac.ir/nlp/projects.html ) - to download the software see www.vafaspellchecker.ir - 2009-2010

2. Rule based MT based on TAG model (see http://mt.douran.com )

3. The First Statistical English-Persian MT (see nlp lab)

4. Persian Text Classifier

5. Automatic Persian Wordnet Generation (see nlp lab)

6. Persian Word Sense Disambiguation (see nlp lab)

for more information see nlp lab in UT (http://ece.ut.ac.ir/nlp)

Laboratory

. Director of "Natural Language and Text processing Laboratory" (see http://ece.ut.ac.ir/nlp) from Jan. 2009-now.