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ZINA SAADI

Woodside, California

+1-650-***-****

ado3t1@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zina-saadi/

Triple major in Mathematics, Computer Science and Linguistics from Northeastern University with 16+ year experience in data management, text analytics and computational linguistics plus 2 years in sales as solutions engineer. Developed multi-lingual and search engine solutions for various platforms/customers, including Microsoft Bing, Emc2, and more.

PATENT

US9665560: Information retrieval system based on a unified language model Main inventor - Assignee: Oracle International

EXPERIENCE

DECEMER 2019 – PRESENT

LINGUISTIC PROJECT MANAGER, GOOGLE VIA ASK STAFFING (MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA)

• Working on the NLU component of the Google Assistant for Arabic (Algerian, Jordanian, Saudi, and Egyptian) including building the grammar for intents development.

• Training and assisting new Associate Linguists for EN-US.

• Analyzing logs data, testing the interface and debugging the system according to the findings. NOVEMBER 2019 – PRESENT

VOLUNTEER TRANSLATOR, GOOGLE TRANSLATE COMMUNITY (REMOTE)

• Translates and validates parallel queries for ENGLISH <> FRENCH & FRENCH <> ENGLISH and ENGLISH <> ARABIC & ARABIC <> ENGLISH

MARCH 2020 – JANUARY 2021

CO-FOUNDER & CTO, JAWLA INC (PART-TIME REMOTE)

• Took courses on CMS and Web development online

• developed first RTL oriented landing page for Jawla

• Conducted R&D and wrote monthly reports to Google News Initiative. FEBRUARY 2018 – DECEMER 2019

LINGUISTIC PROJECT MANAGER, GOOGLE VIA ADECCO (MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA)

• Worked on the Natural Language Understanding NLU component of the Google Assistant for Arabic, English, and French by building grammar for relevant intents.

• Developed, quality assured, debugged and evaluated the French & Arabic queries.

• Evaluated the Google Assistant performance and wrote linguistic metric reports. 2

MARCH 2014 – OCTOBER 2014

MEA SOLUTIONS ENGINEER, ATTIVIO INC (NEWTON, MA)

Created linguistic stories, demos and solutions using the company’s set of products and tools for solving NLP problems (Hands on POC’s/ Pilots in UAE) 2011 – 2013

SENIOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST, ORACLE AMERICA INC (WASHINGTON, DC)

Created, tested, validated & maintained morphological and semantic lexicons.

Lead Linguist & Language Developer including: Product & Linguistic Development, Data Analysis, Text Mining, and QA for Arabic, Catalan, Farsi, French, and Romanian.

Drafted and maintained linguistic guidelines and documentation for native languages contractors to communicate linguistic tasks remotely.

Researched and evaluated tokenization, morphological, and higher-level analysis techniques 2005 – 2011

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST PROGRAMMER, BASIS TECHNOLOGY (CAMBRIDGE, MA)

Developer/Lead Linguist/Lead Engineer/QA for various Text Analytics projects

Project Lead Engineer for Search Relevance Improvement for Microsoft-Bing & EMC

Created Arabic marketing collaterals as presentations, press releases, & verticals solutions analysis documents, lead generation, market research, and accounts management

Computational Linguist/Middle Eastern Languages Specialist

Developer/Linguist for Named Entity Extraction and Arabic Chat Transliteration Projects

Lead Engineer for top Arabic Scripts Languages Morphological Analysis Products

Lead Linguist in major projects for Middle Eastern, and North African Languages/Dialects QA/Software Engineer, Sales Support, and Arabic/Farsi Linguist: Analyze, develop, and test linguistic software targeting Modern Standard Arabic as well as dialects in the fields of: Transliteration, Stemming, Entities Extraction, Part-of-Speech Tagging and Text Normalization. 2000 – 2005

TEACHING ASSISTANT, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY (BOSTON, MA) College of Computer Science - Java & C++

Assisted students in the UNIX and Windows NT computer labs

Assisted students by leading lab hours as well as holding 1:1 tutoring session

Lead review sessions for the midterm and final exams Linguistics Department

Intro to Syntax

Intro to Linguistics

EDUCATION

2007 - 2011

INCOMPLETE MASTER’S DEGREE, TUFTS UNIVERSITY (MEDFORD, MA) Completed 7 courses out of 10:

Art & Design of Speech Recognition

Machine Learning & Data Mining

Time Series and Digital Audio

3

Protein Bioinformatics

Information Retrieval

Unix Administration

Chemical and Biology Engineering

2000-2005

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY (BOSTON, MA) College of Computer and Information Science

B.S. in Computer Science and Math with Highest Honor College of Arts and Science

B.S. in Linguistics with Highest Honor

PUBLICATIONS AND TALKS

Careers in Linguistics (Guest Speaker, Linguistics Club Panel Discussion, Northeastern Univ. 06 & 15)

"Afghanistan’s Languages & Culture: A Challenge for Security" (Government Users Conference

(GUC) in Chantilly, VA in 2010)

"Linguistics 101: The Conceptual Base of NLP" (GUC at Chantilly, VA in 2010)

"The Impact of Arabic Dialects on Full-Text Search" (Foreign Language Technology Forum: Arabic Dialects on in 2008 at the MITRE 3 Auditorium in McLean, VA)

"Next Generation of Arabic Search: Linguistically Intelligent Retrieval" (GUC at College Park, MD in 2008)

"What’s in a Persian Name?" (GUC, Washington D.C. in 2007)

"Arabic, Farsi & Urdu Text Normalization for Natural Languages Processing” (GUC, D.C. in ‘07)

"Arabic Unicode Variations in Natural Language Processing" (21st Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics Conference in Provo, Utah in 2007)

"Behind the Name: Etymology of Arabic Names" (GUC, Washington D.C. in 2006) TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Scripting: R, Python & Perl, Scheme, Ruby

Operating Systems: Unix & Windows NT

Languages: English, Native: Algerian and

Palestinian Arabic, French

Linguistics: Catalan, Chinese, Farsi, Romanian,

Thai and Urdu

Software: Salesforce, Jira, Perforce, Bugzilla,

Buganizer, Slack, Subversion,

Computer: SQL, Python, Perl, DOM/SAX

Parsers, MATLAB, C, C++, Java, HTML, XML,

CSS, VXML,

Interests: Publishing in Arabic Wikipedia,

Swimming, Singing, playing flute and piano, oil

painting, event organizing and cooking.

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