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About

I'm Hosein Rezaei, a third year PhD student at the University of York.
My research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP), with a particular interest in Grounded Language Learning.
I've also been a web developer since 2013, though the start of my journey with computers and programming goes back to around 2004.

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In the world of NLP:

I am primarily interested in Grounded Language Learning, which is an approach to semantics that views the meaning of a word as a kind of agreement between speakers about how to use that word. This contrasts with traditional GOFAI approaches to semantics, where meaning is derived from expert-created lexicons like WordNet, and with distributional semantics, where meaning is inferred from patterns of word co-occurrence in large text corpora.

For example, when people begin using a word in a new way—like how “google” became a verb—a chatbot using Grounded Language Learning could potentially pick up this new meaning through interaction, without needing to be trained on massive amounts of text. With this long-term goal in mind, I focus on exploring and developing such learning capabilities within Large Language Models (LLMs). Currently, my project involves placing LLMs as agents in text-based games to study if and how they can learn language by grounding it in actions and perceptions (read more).

Resume

Summary

Blockchain developer

2021 - 2022

RedAcre, Remote

  • Development of web services to provide cryptographic operations such as signing and publishing transactions for downstream blockchain applications.
  • Contributing to several cryptographic libraries written with Rust to improve their functionality with regard to threshold signature scheme (TSS) using HD on the curves Secp256k1 and Curve25519 to support various cryptocoins that use ECDSA and EdDSA.
  • Developing a fiat payment gateway in a microservice structure to support seamless integration with various payment service providers.

Education

Master of Science & Computer Engineering, Software

2016 - 2018

Isfahan University of Technology, Iran

GPA 16.42 out of 20. Best scores in Data Mining, Text mining, and Statistical Pattern Recognition courses. Six projects are done, one in Databases, one for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), and others for Text summarization.

Bachelor of Science & Computer Science

2004 - 2011

Payam-e Noor University of Shahreza, Isfahan, Iran

GPA 14.12 out of 20. Best scores in Data Structures and Algorithms, Algorithm Design and Analysis, General Mathemeatics, Linear Algebra, and Theory of Computattion.
Part-time distant education, simultaneous with serveral part-time jobs. It was a hell of time really!

Professional Experience

Research Collaborator

July 2017 - December 2017

IT Center of Isfahan University of Technology, Iran

  • R&D about data integration from various resources of the university into a central data warehouse for facilitating reporting and data analysis for high-level decision-makers.
  • R&D about automatic software and hardware inventory, to help IT managers in the center having an updated, overall, and yet detailed view of the latest software and hardware in use all over the university.
  • Worked with: Pentaho Business Analysis platform, PostgreSQL, OCSInventory, Drupal, etc.

Research collaborator

2016 - 2017

NLP Institute of Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

  • R&D about ISO LMF and its dialects. Designing an XML DTD for the FarsNet according to LMF standard.
  • Developing a Java code to transfom FarsNet to the ISO LMF format.
  • Contribution to the semi-automatic expansion of FarsNet.
  • Worked with: Java, MySQL, SPARQL, etc.

Senior Web Developer

2013 - 2016 & 2018 - 2021

Partotech.com, Isfahan, Iran

  • Development of several enterprise web applications in the brand-monitoring business. Our mission was to extract text, image, video, etc from web, social networks (e.g. Telegram, Twitter, and Instagram), TV signals, and newspapers and to inform our customers as immediately as possible whenever any content related to them are published.
  • Maintenance of Khabarfarsi.com -- the first of its kind news search engine(just for Persian so far)-- and its backend projects including web crawler, news storage, and image storage. The latter is implemented by me from ground up.

Publications

Large Language Models

Interactive Text Games: Lookahead Is All You Need! Introducing three variations of LLMs that predict not only the next immidiate token but also the second, third, ... up to K future tokens. Read more

Text Classification

Improving performance by incorporating structural information of the texts using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and graph representations like AMR.

Extractive Text Summarization

Features in extractive supervised single-document summarization: case of Persian news.View on LREV

Word Embeddings

Word Embeddings Are Capable of Capturing Rhythmic Similarity of Words. View on Arxiv

Contact

Location:

Department of Computer Science
University of York
York, YO10 5GH
United Kingdom