Saif M. Mohammad
Senior Research Scientist
Research Themes: Evolving Language in an Information Economy
Dr. Saif M. Mohammad is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Research Council Canada (NRC).
He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. Before joining NRC, Saif was a Research Associate at the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests are in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially Lexical Semantics, Emotions in Language, Sentiment Analysis, Computational Creativity, Fairness in NLP, Psycholinguistics, and Information Visualization.
He has published over 100 scientific articles (journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers). He has served in various capacities at prominent journals and conferences, including: action editor for Computational Linguistics, chair of the Canada--UK symposium on Ethics in AI, co-chair of SemEval 2017-19 (the largest platform for semantic evaluations), workshops co-chair for ACL 2020, co-organizer of WASSA 2017 and 2018 (a sentiment analysis workshop), and area chair for ACL, NAACL, and EMNLP (in the areas of sentiment analysis, lexical semantics, and fairness in NLP). His team developed a sentiment analysis system which ranked first in shared task competitions. His word--emotion resources, such as the NRC Emotion Lexicon, are used for analyzing affect in text.
His work has garnered media attention, including articles in Time, SlashDot, LiveScience, io9, The Physics arXiv Blog, PC World, and Popular Science.
