UBC Library Open Education Impact & Activity Report
Learn how UBC Library’s Open Education program has supported faculty, students and staff in their open practices in the 2021/2022 academic year.
TURJUMAN: A Public Toolkit for Neural Arabic Machine Translation
Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed along with Postdoctoral fellows Dr. El Moatez Billah Nagoudi and Dr. AbdelRahim Elmadany have received the Best Paper Award for their work “TURJUMAN: A Public Toolkit for Neural Arabic Machine Translation“. The paper was published in the 5th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and […]
Balancing Intellectual Freedom and Medical Disinformation in Canadian Libraries
The study, led by UBC iSchool alumni and faculty, aims to understand the experiences of library workers in responding to situations related to medical disinformation.
Decay No More: A Persistent Twitter Dataset for Learning Social Meaning
Congratulations to PhD candidate Chiyu Zhang, Dr. Abdul-Mageed and Postdoc ElMoatez Billah Nagoudi on receiving the Best Paper Award for this work!
Understanding Community-University Knowledge Exchange
This OER is a useful tool for infusing community perspectives in discussions of scholarly communication; promoting ethical research practices, and supporting librarians working with diverse communities.
Dr. Abdul-Mageed named Canada Research Chair in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
His research focuses on Natural Language Processing, a field aiming at teaching machines to understand and generate human language.
Dr. Abdul-Mageed Launches a New Platform for Deep Learning Training
Learnera.ai offers free-to-access hands-on Deep Learning (DL) training. Its main goal is to support individuals with basic or no prior knowledge of machine learning.
Can Blockchain Technology Be Used as a Tool for Social Good?
Learn more about 400 Drums and My Personal Health Wallet, two stories that show the socially beneficial potential of Blockchain and Web3 technologies.
Web 3.0 – A Decentralized Internet that Could Be Based on Blockchain Technology
In this podcast, Dr. Lemieux talks about how blockchain could have profound implications on the way the internet works, particularly the attention economy.