Valerie Novak is a senior faculty research specialist at ARLIS. She received her BA in Arabic at Georgetown University, a BS in Computer Science at the University of Maryland Global Campus, and a MA in History at the University of Maryland, College Park, focusing on Middle Eastern history. Valerie's research interests include computational linguistics and natural language processing. Her recent work has focused on social media data in various languages.
EDUCATION:
B.S. in Computer Science at University of Maryland University College (2019) M.A. in History at University of Maryland, College Park (2012) B.A. in Arabic Language and Literature at Georgetown University (2009)
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Papers
Williams, E., Rodrigues, P., & Novak, V. (2020). Accenture at CheckThat! 2020: If you say so: Post-hoc fact-checking of claims using transformer-based models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.02431.
Rodrigues, P., Novak, V., Rytting, C. A., Yelle, J., & Boutz, J. (2018, May). Arabic Data Science Toolkit: An API for Arabic Language Feature Extraction. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018).
Rytting, C. A., Rodrigues, P., Buckwalter, T., Novak, V., Bills, A., Silbert, N. H., & Madgavkar, M. (2014, June). ArCADE: An Arabic Corpus of Auditory Dictation Errors. In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (pp. 109-115)
Rodrigues, P., Novak, V., Rytting, C. A., Yelle, J., & Boutz, J. (2018, May). Arabic Data Science Toolkit: An API for Arabic Language Feature Extraction. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018).
Rytting, C. A., Rodrigues, P., Buckwalter, T., Novak, V., Bills, A., Silbert, N. H., & Madgavkar, M. (2014, June). ArCADE: An Arabic Corpus of Auditory Dictation Errors. In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (pp. 109-115)