LEAD Graduate School & Research Network

Soroosh Akef

As a computational linguist who has experience with language teaching, I am particularly interested in how language technologies can be utilized to enhance the language learner’s learning experience. My Ph.D. project is concerned with the development of an intelligent tool that fosters the language acquisition of Portuguese heritage language learners. As this is a multidisciplinary project, being a member of LEAD allows my work to be scrutinized by researchers who have different areas of expertise, which can give me insights I otherwise would not have been able to gain.

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Akef, S., Bokaei, M., Sameti, H. (2020). Thematic similarity multiple-choice question answering with Doc2Vec: A step toward metaphorical language processing. IJICTR, 12(2), 46-53. https://ijict.itrc.ac.ir/article-1-459-en.pdf
  • Akef, S., Bokaei, M., & Sameti, H. (2020). Training Doc2Vec on a corpus of Persian poems to answer thematic similarity multiple-choice questions. The 2020 International Symposium on Telecommunications. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9345918

 

Conference Contributions

  • Akef, S., Bahrani, M. (2021) Fine-tuning BERT for Persian poet identification. 20th International Conference on Recent Research in Science and Technology, Kerman, Iran.  https://civilica.com/doc/1412278/
  • Akef, S., & Bokaei, M. (2020). Answering poetic verses’ thematic similarity multiple-choice questions with BERT. 28th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, Tabriz, Iran. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9260736

Curriculum Vitae

since Oct 2022
Ph.D. in Linguistics

University of Lisbon, Portugal

Sep 2018 – Feb 2021
Master’s degree in Computational Linguistics

Sharif University of Technology, Iran

Nov 2020- Jan 2021
NLP engineering internship

Asr Gooyesh Pardaz, Iran

Sep 2014 – Jun 2018
Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018
Teaching English to Intermediate level learners

Kish Novin Language Institute, Iran

Jun 2012 – Sep 2016
Teaching English to elementary to advanced level learners

Shokouh English Institute, Canada