Mustafa Abusalah Blog

Faculty of Information Technology at Birzeit University is pleased to invite you to attend the lecture entitled: Arabic-English Automatic Ontology Mapping Based on Machine Readable Dictionary Presented by: Dr. Mustafa Abu Salah Senior Knowledge Management Specialist – Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) Abstract: Ontologies are the backbone of the semantic web and allow software agents to interoperate effectively. An ontology is able to represent and to clarify concepts and inter-concept relationships and can be used as a framework to represent underlying domain concepts expressed in many different languages. One way to do this is by mapping Ontologies in different languages using an inter-lingual index. In this presentation I will present a new methodology for ontology mapping in different script human languages (Arabic/English). Alo I will identify the steps of extracting concepts on both ontologies and automatically mapping them based on Machine Readable Dict...

I have really enjoyed reading this book, here is some words that describes what is this book about: It's a book about change. In particular, it's a book that presents a new way of understanding why change so often happens as quickly and as unexpectedly as it does. For example, why did crime drop so dramatically in New York City in the mid-1990's? How does a novel written by an unknown author end up as national bestseller? Why do teens smoke in greater and greater numbers, when every single person in the country knows that cigarettes kill? Why is word-of-mouth so powerful? What makes TV shows like Sesame Street so good at teaching kids how to read? I think the answer to all those questions is the same. It's that ideas and behavior and messages and products sometimes behave just like outbreaks of infectious disease. They are social epidemics. The Tipping Point is an examination of the social epidemics that surround us.

A wiki is a software tool designed for publishing web pages by enabling anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative web platform and to power community websites. Wikis are used in businesses to provide affordable and effective intranets and for Knowledge Management. Wiki was named by Cunningham ( the author of the first wiki), who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the "Wiki Wiki" shuttle bus that runs between the airport's terminals. According to Cunningham, "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web.” [1] [2] An example of wiki use is Wikipedia which became the largest knowledge repository over the Web. And the reason behind that is allowing web users to be authors, so anyone who is able to access and read articles published on Wikipedia can also publish t...