Education
Ph.D. (2023 - present) Computer Science-Applied NLP
from University of Ottawa
Master's degree (2018 - 2021) Computer Science-Artificial Intelligence
from Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), former National University of Iran. My master thesis was "A Knowledge-based Approach for Answering Complex Questions in Persian".
Bachelor's degree (2014 - 2018) Computer Engineering-Software
from Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), former National University of Iran.
Experience
Dadmatech Company (May 2021 - Sep 2022)
Dadmatech is a company that develops AI systems for the industry with an emphasis on natural language processing.
Projects title:
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Harassment: Detecting harmful, aggressive, or abuse contents in chats using multi-modal methods (1th place in the
competition held by Divar company).
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DadmaTools: NLP toolkit - Building efficient toolkit for Persian (github repo)
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ChatBot project (Chatyar): intelligent assistant for HamrahAval Company (website).
Organizing Committee (2021)
NLP-Talk series conducted by SBU NLP Lab at Shahid Beheshti University.
2022
Etezadi, Romina, and Mehrnoush Shamsfard. "The state of the art in open domain complex question answering: a survey." Journal Of Applied Intelligence (2022): 1-21. [paper]
Romina Etezadi, Mohammad Karrabi, Najmeh Zare, Mohamad Bagher Sajadi, and Mohammad Taher Pilehvar. 2022. DadmaTools: Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Persian Language. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: System Demonstrations, pages 124–130, Hybrid: Seattle, Washington + Online. Association for Computational Linguistics. [paper, github]
2021
Moein Salimi Sartakhti, Romina Etezadi, and Mehrnoush Shamsfard. 2021. Improving Persian Relation Extraction Models By Data Augmentation. In Proceedings of The Second International Workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages (NSURL 2021) co-located with ICNLSP 2021, pages 32–37, Trento, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics. [paper]
Etezadi, Romina, and Mehrnoush Shamsfard. "A knowledge-based approach for answering complex questions in persian." arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.02040 (2021). [paper]
2020
Etezadi, Romina, and Mehrnoush Shamsfard. "PeCoQ: A Dataset for Persian Complex Question Answering over Knowledge Graph." 2020 11th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Technology (IKT). IEEE, 2020. [paper, github]
