Welcome to Sina Ahmadi's Personal Page

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich, where I work with Prof. Rico Sennrich’s group on advancing natural language processing (NLP) for linguistically diverse communities. My research lies at the intersection of computational linguistics, machine learning, and language preservation, with a particular focus on developing scalable solutions for languages with limited digital resources. Prior to this position, I conducted research on the same theme at Dr. Antonios Anastasopoulos’s group within the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University.

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Recent Posts

A Minimalistic Guide to Clusters (and SLURM)

28 Jan 2023

SLURM Tutorial

In the previous lab where I used to work, I used to manage training neural network models on a GPU server without any job scheduler. ssh, create a virtual environment in Python and train in a screen! That simple. I have recently changed my lab and suddenly, found myself working with a cluster requiring considerably more preparation to train models. However, as I gradually learnt more about it, it became clearer that it is actually...

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SPARQL query generator for lexicographical data

04 Oct 2021

SPARQL Linked Data Lexicography

✴️ This project is moved to https://sinaahmadi.github.io/SPARQLify/! Following one of my previous posts on the 10 basic but essential SPARQL queries for lexicographical data on Wikidata, I decided to create a simple SPARQL query generator that helps non-experts get more familiar with SPARQL and also, create queries to look up words in Wikidata and Dbnary quickly on their endpoints (Wikidata’s endpoint, Dbnary’s endpoint). Please note that the translation option is only available for headwords. Also,...