Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Prof. Magdy’s expertise areas are:
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Computational Social Science
Social content analysis, political bias detection, polarisation, and users' behavior analysis/prediction, with more focus on understudied communities. -
Natural Language Processing
Social NLP (sentiment, sarcasm, hate-speech detection) with special focus on underserved languages (e.g. Arabic and its dialects and Persian).
Biography
Walid Magdy is a professor at the school of Informatics, the University of Edinburgh (UoE) and the founder and director of the social media analysis and support for humanity (SMASH) group. His main research interests include natural language processing (NLP) and computational social science (CSS). He has an extensive industrial background from working earlier for IBM, Microsoft, and QCRI. Walid has over 150 peer-reviewed published articles in top tier conferences and journals and a set of 9 patents filed under his name. Some of his work was featured in popular press, such as CNN, BBC, Washington Post, National Geographic, and MIT Tech reviews.
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Revisiting common assumptions about Arabic dialects in NLP
Keleg, A., Goldwater, S. & Magdy, W., 1 Aug 2025, Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1: Long Papers. Che, W., Nabende, J., Shutova, E. & Pilehvar, M. T. (eds.). Kerrville, TX, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 3309-3327 19 p. (Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Fabricating Holiness: Characterizing Religious Misinformation Circulators on Arabic Social Media
Fawzi, M., Ross, B. & Magdy, W., 15 Jul 2025, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Curran Associates Inc, 16 p. (International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Proceedings of the).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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"The Prophet said so!": On exploring Hadith presence on Arabic social media
Fawzi, M., Magdy, W. & Ross, B., 2 May 2025, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. Nichols, J. (ed.). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 1-23 23 p. CSCW192. (Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction; vol. 9, no. 2).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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TwiXplorer: An interactive tool for narrative detection and analysis in historic Twitter data
Al Hariri, Y., Chausson, S., Ross, B. & Magdy, W., 13 Nov 2024, CSCW Companion '24: Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 83-86 4 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Estimating the level of dialectness predicts interannotator agreement in multi-dialect Arabic datasets
Keleg, A., Magdy, W. & Goldwater, S., 16 Aug 2024, Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Ku, L.-W., Martins, A. & Srikumar, V. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics, Vol. 2. p. 778-789 12 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Projects
- 17 Finished
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Finding Adversary Narratives: Topic and Momentum (FANToM)
Ross, B. (Principal Investigator) & Magdy, W. (Co-investigator)
20/05/24 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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SoMNaDAT: A Social Media Narrative Detection and Analysis Tool
Magdy, W. (Principal Investigator) & Ross, B. (Co-investigator)
1/06/23 → 31/03/24
Project: Research
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SoMNaDAT: A Social Media Narrative Detection and Analysis Tool
Magdy, W. (Principal Investigator) & Ross, B. (Co-investigator)
1/06/23 → 31/03/24
Project: Research
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Social Intelligent Insight for UEO (User Experience Optimization) Project
Magdy, W. (Principal Investigator)
1/02/21 → 31/07/22
Project: Research
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Social Intelligent Insight for UEO (User Experience Optimization) Project
Magdy, W. (Principal Investigator)
Huawei Technologies (Ireland) Co. Ltd
1/02/21 → 31/07/22
Project: Research
Press/Media
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Modified skin tone emojis promote diversity on social media, finds Walid Magdy (Informatics)
10/04/18 → 16/04/18
27 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Walid Magdy (Informatics) tracks viral tweets to assess their impact on US election result
12/07/17 → 18/07/17
12 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Labour and Brexit dominated Twitter talk about General Election, finds Walid Magdy (Informatics)
8/06/17
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Fake online profiles easier to fish out with new tool developed by Walid Magdy
21/06/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Walid Magdy (Informatics) builds programme to help identify online sex groomers and fraudsters
8/06/17
7 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research