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Dr. Majdi Owda

 

Dr. Majdi Owda a lecturer in Computer Science in the department of computing and mathematics at Manchester Metropolitan University. He gained a BSc in Computer Science from the Arab American University in 2004, and an MSc by research in Computer Science with distinction from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2005. During the BSc Majdi specialised in Software Engineering and Web Applications Development, and in the MSc he concentrated on Artificial Intelligence with a thesis titled “Cased-Based Reasoning and Pattern Matching for Automatic Email Response”.  His Ph.D. research was in Conversational Relational Databases.

His main research interests are Natural Language Interfaces to Relational Databases, Conversational Informatics, Conversational Agents, Knowledge Trees, Decision Trees, Knowledge Engineering, Information Extraction, and Web/Data/Text Mining.

Majdi has solid experience in building E-Learning Systems and Web Portals for Academia and Industry.


Selected Publications

 Owda, M. Crockett, K., Bandar, Z, Conversation-Based Natural Language Interface to Relational Database. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2007, USA, pp 363-367, ISBN 0-7695-3028-1/07 , DOI 10.1109/WI-IATW.2007.60

 Owda, M. Crockett, K., Bandar, Z. Guided Conversational Agents and Knowledge Trees for Natural Language Interfaces to Relational Databases. Annual Research Student Conference MMU Proceedings, (ISBN 978-1-905476-23-7), September 2007.

Personal Web Pages
http://www.docm.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/M.Owda/