Abdel-rahman Mohamed

I am a PhD student in the Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing research group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
My supervisor is Gerald Penn. You may also search for me as "Abdurrahman Samir" (this explains my name in the URL!).
you can email me at (asamir at department name dot university name dot edu).

Bachground

I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. From Electronics and Communication Engineering department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in 2004 and 2007. From 2004 I was working in the speech reseach group at RDI Company, Egypt. Then I joined the ESAT-PSI speech group at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. At Septemper 2008 I started my PhD at the University of Toronto.

Research interests

• Automatic Speech Recognition.
• Computer Aided Pronunciation Learning, Reading Tutors.

Publications

Journal publications

• Jacques Duchateau, Yuk On Kong, Leen Cleuren, Lukas Latacz, Jan Roelens, Abdurrahman Samir, Kris Demuynck, Pol Ghesquiere, Werner Verhelst and Hugo Van hamme. "Developing a Reading Tutor: Design and Evaluation of Dedicated Speech Recognition and Synthesis Modules". Speech Communication, 2009. Accepted for publication.

Conference publications

• Abdurrahman Samir, Jacques Duchateau, Hugo Van hamme (2008): "Discriminative Model Combination and Language Model Selection in a Reading Tutor for Children", In INTERSPEECH-2008, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 2795-2798.[pdf]
• Abdurrahman Samir, Sherif Mahdy Abdou, Ahmed Husien Khalil, Mohsen Rashwan (2007): "Enhancing usability of CAPL system for qur'an recitation learning", In INTERSPEECH-2007, Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 214-217.[pdf]
• Sherif Mahdy Abdou, Salah Eldeen Hamid, Mohsen Rashwan, Abdurrahman Samir, Ossama Abdel-Hamid, Mostafa Shahin, Waleed Nazih (2006): "Computer aided pronunciation learning system using speech recognition techniques", In INTERSPEECH-2006, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pp. 1888-1891.[pdf]