Saif M. Mohammad

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Dr. Saif M. Mohammad is a Principal Research Scientist at the National Research Council Canada (NRC). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. Before joining NRC, he was a Research Associate at the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests are in Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially Lexical Semantics, Computational Affective Science, AI Ethics, and Computational Social Science. He is currently an associate editor for Computational Linguistics and TACL, and Senior Area Chair for ACL Rolling Review. His word–emotion resources, such as the NRC Emotion Lexicon and VAD Lexicon, are widely used for analyzing emotions in text. His work has garnered significant media attention, including articles in Time, SlashDot, LiveScience, io9, The Physics arXiv Blog, PC World, and Popular Science. 
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