SamirTartir

= Dr. Samir Tartir =


 * Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems at Philadelphia University (Jordan).

Dr. Samir Tartir is a researcher in the areas of Ontologies, Semantic Web, NLP, and Big Data analysis.

He has a PhD in Computer Science degree from the University of Georgia (2009), a Master's in Computer Science degree from the University of Jordan (2002) and a BSc in Computer Science degree from the University of Jordan (1998).

Dr. Tartir worked as a database developer and analyst in different locations, including CCS Jordan, Integrant (Jordan & USA) and Padgett Business Services (USA).

Contact

 * Email:
 * Business: startir [at] philadelphia.edu.jo
 * Personal: samir.tartir [at] gmail.com
 * Phone:
 * Cell: +962-77-662-4646
 * Office: +962-6-479-90000 ext: 2515
 * VOIP: +1-706-363-8679.

Publications

 * Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar and Bobby McKnight. SemanticQA: Exploiting Semantic Associations for Cross-Document Question Answering. The Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Innovation in Information Communication Technology (ISIICT 2011). Amman, Jordan. November 2011.


 * Bilal Gonen and Samir Tartir. Annotation of Hyperlinks with Semantic Meaning. The 2011 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 2011


 * Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar and Amit P. Sheth. Ontological Evaluation and Validation. In R. Poli (Editor): Theory and Applications of Ontology (TAO), volume II: Ontology: The Information-science Stance. Springer, June-2010.


 * Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar and Mustafa Nural. Question Answering in Linked Data for Scientific Exploration. In the 2nd Annual Web Science Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, April 26-27, 2010.


 * Samir Tartir, Bobby McKnight, and I. Budak Arpinar. SemanticQA: Web-Based Ontology-Driven Question Answering. In the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 8-12, 2009.


 * Samir Tartir and I. Budak Arpinar. Ontology Evaluation and Ranking using OntoQA. Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, September 17-19, 2007, Irvine, California, USA. (On the recommended reading list for the Semantic Web)


 * Satya S. Sahoo, Christopher Thomas, Amit P. Sheth, William S. York, and Samir Tartir. Knowledge modeling and its applications in life sciences: A case study of GlycO and ProPreO. The 2006 World Wide Web Conference. May 22-26, 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland. (Acceptance rate: 11%)


 * Samir Tartir and Ayman Issa. SQLFlow: PL/SQL Multi-Diagrammatic Source Code Visualization. International Arab Conference on Information Technology ACIT'2005. Al-Isra Private University, Jordan. December 6-8, 2005.


 * Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar, Michael Moore, Amit P. Sheth, Boanerges Aleman-Meza. OntoQA: Metric-Based Ontology Quality Analysis. IEEE ICDM 2005 Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition from Distributed, Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous Data and Knowledge Sources. Houston, Texas, November 27, 2005.

see: http://www.philadelphia.edu.jo/academics/startir/