Farzana Rashid
Lecturer, Computer Science
University of North Carolina, Asheville
Office	RRO 224
Office Hours	Mon/Wed/Fri 11:00am-noon (remote)
Email	frashid@unca.edu
Mailing address	Dept. of Computer Science
	University of North Carolina, Asheville
	One University Heights
	Asheville, NC 28804

News

• Recently got a paper accepted at Findings of EMNLP 2020
• Got paper accepted at CSERC 2020
• Started as a lecturer at University of North Carolina, Asheville in August 2020

Research Interests

• Natural language processing, computational semantics
• Information extraction, relationship extraction
• Sociolinguistics etc.
• Natural Language Processing in Bangla
• Computer Education

Education

• Ph.D. (Summer 2020), Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, USA
• Master of Science (June 2010), Information Technology (Bioinformatics and Systems Biology), Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Bachelor of Science (Fall 2004), Computer Science , University of North Texas, USA

Publications

1. Farzana Rashid and Fahmida Hamid. 2021. Detecting the Presence of Named Entities in Bengali: Corpus and Experiments. In Proceedings of the 34th International FLAIRS Conference, Accepted, To Appear.
2. Farzana Rashid, Tommaso Fornaciari, Dirk Hovy, Eduardo Blanco and Fernando Vega-Redondo. 2020. Helpful or Hierarchical? Predicting the Communicative Strategies of Chat Participants, and their Impact on Success. In Findings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings of EMNLP), Short Papers. [pdf]
3. Fahmida Hamid and Farzana Rashid. 2020. Adjusting to The New Normal: Perspectives from An Introductory Programming Sequence Course. In Computer Science Education Research Conference, Accepted, To Appear.
4. Farzana Rashid and Eduardo Blanco. 2018. Characterizing Interactions and Relationships between People. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Brussels, Belgium. [pdf]
5. Farzana Rashid and Eduardo Blanco. 2017. Dimensions of Interpersonal Relationships: Corpus and Experiments. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Copenhagen, Denmark. [pdf]

Teaching

• CSCI 431- Organization of Programming Languages (Spring 2021)
• CSCI 182.001/002- Introductory Programming for Media Applications (Spring 2021, Fall 2020)
• CSCI 185- Introduction to Programming: Web Development (Fall 2020)