Dr. Bayan Abu Shawer

Personal Information 

Name:	Bayan Aref Abu Shawar
Job Title:	Staff  Tutor
Rank:	Assistant Professor
Work Start Date:	24/9/2005
Address:	P.O.Box 1339, AMMAN 11593, Jordan
Office Tel.:	962 6 5514851 Ext. (208)
Email:	b_shawar@aou.edu.jo
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Research

• Abu Shawar B. 2009. Learning Management System and its Relationship with Knowledge Management. In Proceedings of ICICIS2009: Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems. Pp. 738-741 (PDF).
• Al-Sadi J., and Abu Shawar B. 2009. m-Learning: the usage of WAP technology in e-learning. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 3 (3), pp. 10-16 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B.; Al-Sadi J.; and Sarie T. 2009. An Online Math Module at Arab Open University: the present and future. The 2009 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'09), USA, pp 115-119 (PDF).
• Atwell E., and Abu Shawar  B. 2008. An AI-inspired intelligent agent/student architecture to combine language resources research and teaching in: Proceedings of LREC'08: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. 2008 (PDF).
• Atwell E.; Abbas N.; Abu Shawar B.; Alsaif A.; Al-Sulaiti L.; Roberts A.; Sawalha M. 2008. Mapping Middle Eastern and North African diasporas: Arabic corpus linguistics research at the University of Leeds in: Proceedings of BRISMES Conference 2008 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. 2008. Developing an Online Library System for AOU as a Knowledge Management Tool. The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'08), USA, pp 427-431 (PDF).
• Al-Sadi J.; Abu-Shawar B.; and Sarie T. 2008. The Relationship between Knowledge Management and e-Learning. The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'08), USA, pp. 14-17, 2008 (PDF).  
• Abu Shawar B. 2008. Chatbots are natural web interface to information portals. In proceedings of INFOS2008, Pp. NLP101-NLP107(PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. and Atwell E. 2007 .Chatbots: Sind Sie wirklich nu"tzlich? (are they really useful?) LDV-Forum Journal for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, 22(1) pp.29-49. 2007 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. 2007. Utilizing AOU’VLE with other computerized systems. International Journal of computer Science and Security (IJCSS). Volume 1, issue 4, pp 13-24 (PDF).
• Abu-Shawar B.,  Al-Sadi J., and Khan, H. 2007. Arab Open University (AOU) Experience In Applying E-Learning Strategy. Proceedings Of The Fourth MIT LINK 2007 Conference, The Dead Sea, Jordan, October, pp. 28-30 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. and Atwell E. 2007. Fostering language learner autonomy via adaptive conversation. Proceeding of  Corpus Linguistic CL2007 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B., Al-Sadi J., and Sarie T. 2007. Integrating the Learning Management System with Mobile Technology. The 2007 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'07), USA, pp 31-36 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. and Atwell E. 2007. Different measurement metrics to evaluate a chatbot system. in Proceedings of the NAACL'07 Workshop: Bridging the Gap: Academic and Industrial Research in Dialog Technologies. Pp.89-96, ACL (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B., Al-Sadi J., and Sarie T. 2006. Quality Assurance Procedures: New Enhancements to the Learning Management System at AOU. Proceedings of The 2006 Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, EIS, e-Gov. & Outsourcing (EEE'06), USA, pp. 265-271 (PDF).
• Abu shawar B. and Atwell E. 2005.  Using corpora in machin-learning chatbot systems. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10:4, pp. 489-516 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. and Atwell E. 2005. Modelling turn-taking in a corpus-trained chatbot. In Fisseni B., Schmitz H., Schröder B. and Wagner P. (eds.),  Sprachtechnologie, Mobile Communication und Linguistische Ressourcen (GLDV05). Peter Lang Verlag, Bonn, pp. 549-561 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B., Atwell E. and Roberts, A. 2005. FAQchat as an information retrieval system. To appear in Proceeding of the 2nd Language & Technology Conference. [Online]:  www.ltc.amu.edu.pl (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. and Atwell E. 2005. A chatbot system as a tool to animate a corpus. ICAME Journal. Vol. 29, pp. 5-23 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar, B. and Atwell E. 2004. An Arabic chatbot giving answers from the Qur'an in Bel, B & Marlien, I (eds.) Proceedings of TALN04: XI Conference sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Vol. 2, pp. 197-202 (PDF).
• Atwell E.; Al-Sulaiti L.; Al-Osaimi S.; Abu Shawar B. 2004. A review of Arabic corpus analysis tools. In: Bel, B & Marlien, I (eds.) Pproceedings of TALN04: XI Conference sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Vol. 2, pp. 229-234 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. 2004. The NWCL Research Training Programme. ELSnews: The Newsletter of the European Network in Human Language Technologies. Vol. 13.1, pp. 14-15 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. and Atwell E. 2004. A chatbot as a novel corpus visualization tool. In Lino, M.T., Xavier, M.F., Ferreira, F., Costa, R.,  Silva, R., Pereira, C., Caevalho, F., Lopes, M., Catarino, M. and Barros, S. (eds.) Proceedings of  Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04). Vol. IV, pp. 2057-2060 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. and Atwell E. 2004. Evaluation of chatbot Information systems. In Proceedings of Eight Maghrebian Conference on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. and Atwell E. 2004. Accessing an information system by chatting. In Meziane, F. and Metais, E. (eds.) Proceedings of  9th International conference on the Application of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2004 Salford, UK. LNCS Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 396-401 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. and Atwell E. 2003. Machine Learning from dialogue corpora to generate chatbots. Expert Update journal, Vol. 6, No 3, pp 25-30 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. and Atwell E. 2003. Using dialogue corpora to retrain a chatbot system. In Archer, D., Rayson, P., Wilson, A. and McEnery, T. (eds.) Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2003 conference. Lancaster University, UK, pp. 681-690 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. and Atwell E. 2003. Using the Corpus of Spoken Afrikaans to generate an Afrikaans chatbot. SALALS Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. Vol. 21, pp. 283-294 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. 2003. Review of CL2003, the International Conference on Corpus Linguistics”, ELRA newsletter. Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 4-6 (PDF).
• Abu Shawar B. and Atwell E. 2002.  A comparison between ALICE and Elizabeth chatbot systems. School of Computing research report 2002.19, University  of  Leeds.