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Hello! I’m Samir, a third-year PhD student in the Natural Language Processing Group at the University of British Columbia. My research is supported by a Doctoral Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). I'm broadly interested in applied and theoretical aspects of multilingual natural language processing, and I work with both text and audio modalities. Before I came to UBC, I completed my MSc in the Computational Linguistics group at the University of Toronto. Prior to graduate school, I completed my Bachelor of Science (Honours Computer Science) at the University of Toronto.
For the 2023-2024 academic year, I’m visiting the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, where I’m fortunate to be working with Prof. Yulia Tsvetkov’s group.
The taste of IPA: Towards open-vocabulary keyword matching and forced alignment in any language
NAACL 2024 [to appear]
Jian Zhu, Changbing Yang, Farhan Samir, Jahurul Islam
Understanding compositional data augmentation in typologically diverse morphological inflection
EMNLP 2023 [oral presentation] [🏆 outstanding paper award]
Farhan Samir, Miikka Silfverberg
[preprint]
One Wug, Two Wug+s Transformer Inflection Models Hallucinate Affixes
ComputEL @ ACL 2022 [oral presentation]
Farhan Samir, Miikka Silfverberg
[paper]
Quantifying cognitive factors in lexical decline
TACL
David Francis, Ella Rabinovich, Farhan Samir, David Mortensen, Suzanne Stevenson
A formidable ability: Detecting adjectival extremeness with Distributional Semantic Models
ACL Findings 2021
Farhan Samir, Barend Beekhuizen, Suzanne Stevenson
Summer 2023, Sunnyvale CA
Applied Scientist Intern @ Amazon Science.
Summer 2022, Toronto ON
Worked with Griffin Lacey and Graham Taylor on developing scalable Transformer-based Graph Neural Networks.
I'm interested in advising undergraduate students (or applied master's students) on doing high-quality multilingual NLP research, specifically students who have no prior NLP research experience. I'm open to working with students from any disciplinary background.
I don't have any more capacity for the upcoming term (January - April), but I will be looking for new mentees to work with in the Spring/Summer. Feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] to discuss opportunities.
Current mentees:
Angela Li (UBC; co-advised with Prof. Miikka Silfverberg)
David Zhang (UBC; co-advised with Prof. Jian Zhu)
Alexa Gogoescu (UBC; co-advised with Prof. Vered Shwartz)
Nathan Roll (UCSB BA 2023; co-advised with Prof. Jian Zhu)