Dr Mo El-Haj
Senior LecturerResearch Overview
Natural Language Processing (NLP); Financial NLP, Arabic NLP, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, Text Summarization, NLP for under-resourced languages, multilingual NLP, Financial NLP, FinTech, information extractionl, question answering, text classification, crowd-sourcing, and creation of NLP resources.
PhDs Examined
PhD External Examiner for:
- Dr Fatimah Al-Qahtani (King's College London (KCL), England, UK)
- Dr Taghreed Tarmom (University of Leeds, England, UK)
- Dr Alaa Alqahtani (University of Birmingham, England, UK)
- Dr Chatrine Qwaider (University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden)
- Dr Mohammed Hamed Altamimi (Bangor University, Wales, UK)
- Dr Maher Itani (Sheffield Hallam University, England, UK)
PhD Internal Examiner:
- Dr Matthew Coole (Lancaster University, England, UK)
- Dr Edward Dearden (Lancaster University, England, UK)
- Dr Lama Alsudias (Lancaster University, England, UK)
- Dr Ronghui Mu (Lancaster University, England, UK) [Chair]
Web Links
PhD Supervision Interests
Click here for information on how to apply for a PhD under my supervision
I am interested in supervising PhD students on research topics related to:
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Arabic and multilingual NLP
- Financial Narratives Processing and Financial NLP Technologies
- Automatic Text Summarization (Extractive, Abstractive)
- Text Machine Learning
- Text Classification and Clustering
- Corpus and Computational Linguistics
- Language and dialect identification
- Under-resrouced Languages
DSI: A Small Welsh Language Model Pilot for Sentiment Analysis Testing
01/07/2024 → 28/02/2025
Research
DSI: Welsh Digital Grid
01/07/2023 → 29/03/2024
Research
ThACC – Thesawrws Ar-lein Cymraeg Cyfoes: Using Word Embeddings to Create a Thesaurus of Contemporary Welsh
01/06/2022 → 10/06/2023
Research
The Canadian Annual Report Extractor Project (CARE) - Accelerate International
01/05/2022 → 14/02/2024
Research
The Canadian Annual Report Extractor Project (CARE)
26/04/2022 → 30/04/2023
Research
DSI: FreeTxt: supporting bilingual free-text survey and questionnaire data analysis
01/03/2022 → 31/10/2023
Research
DSI: Welsh Automatic Text Summarisation
01/05/2021 → 30/09/2022
Research
Welsh Summary Creator
01/05/2021 → 01/05/2022
Research
An Assessment of Corporate Disclosures of IFRS 15: Revenue from Contracts with Customers
27/04/2020 → 01/07/2022
Research
BioTM Project
01/05/2018 → 31/03/2019
Research
SenseSourcing
01/12/2014 → 01/07/2015
Other
Understanding Corporate Communications
01/12/2014 → 01/10/2016
Other
VardSourcing
01/12/2014 → 01/07/2015
Other
Understanding the Influences of Financial Reporting, Corporate Disclosure and financial media on the Corporate Financial Information Environment
01/12/2012 → 30/11/2014
Research
The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4)
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
IndoNLP: The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The 1st International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources (Nakba-NLP 2025)
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The Joint Workshop of the 9th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP), the 6th Financial Narrative Processing (FNP), and the 1st Workshop on Large Language Models for Finance and Legal (LLMFinLegal)
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
LLM for Low Resource Languages
Invited talk
Financial NLP: Challenges and Recent Development
Invited talk
Advancing Arabic NLP: From Financial Texts to Legal Constitutions and Educational Readability
Invited talk
Celtic Languages in the Digital Age
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The 5th Financial Narrative Processing (FNP 2024)
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The 4th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Event)
Publication peer-review
Financial Narrative processing conference 2021
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The 1st Joint Workshop on Financial Narrative Processing and MultiLing Financial Summarisation
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Event)
Publication peer-review
The 2nd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
MultiLing 2019 summarization workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The 3rd Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
The 1st Financial Narrative Processing Workshop in LREC 2018
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
SCC (Data Science), UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language
SCC (Data Science), UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language
SCC (Data Science), UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language
- Digital Health Group
- DSI - Foundations
- SCC (Data Science)
- UCREL - University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language