Qualifications:

1. Master’s degree in Computational Linguistics (with distinction) from the University of Essex, England on 27/3/1996. The Master’s dissertation title was:

   “Chart Parsing using Feature Structures”

2. PhD degree in Computational Linguistics from the University of Essex, England on 6/8/1998. The PhD thesis title was:

   “Computational Approaches to Arabic Morphology”

   The thesis was published as a chapter in the following book:

    

   Al-Najem, S. R. (2007). Inheritance-based approach to arabic verbal Root-and-Pattern morphology. In Arabic computational morphology (pp. 67-88). Springer, Dordrecht.

Major:

Computational Linguistics

Full Professor of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing at the Department of Arabic, College of Arts, Kuwait University (from 1998 until present). 

He worked as a Consultant in the Office of Consultative Studies and Research at the Amiri Diwan (Royal Court) (from 2000 until 2015). He worked also as a Consultant at the Central Agency for Information Technology (from 2006 until 2015). Prof. Salah also worked as a consultant at the National Assembly (Kuwaiti Parliament) (From 2015 till 2017). He also worked as a consultant at the Ministry of Information (From 2016 until 2018), and as an advisor for the Minster of Education (From 2020 till 2021). He also worked as a consultant for the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Kuwait University (from 2004 till 2016 and from 2013 till 2015). He worked also as a consultant in a project for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (from 2013 till 2014). He also worked as a member of the several high-level committees at the Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA) including the Technical Committee of the Board of Directors of the General Authority for Communications and Information Technology (from 2014 till 2024). Prof. Salah also worked as a producer and host of Information Technology shows at Kuwait TV (from 2004 till 2018). 

Prof. Salah Al-Najem won the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prize 2017 in the E-Learning Category for his project (E-Learning and Virtual Classroom). The award is offered by the United Nations through the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Prof. Alnajem received the prize on the 13th of June 2017 from the International Telecommunication Union Secretary General in the award ceremony held in Geneva during the WSIS forum organized by the ITU in collaboration with the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the UN Development Program (UNDP). 

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) selected the project of Prof. Salah Alnajem “Social Intelligence” as WISIS Prizes 2019 Champion during WSIS Prizes 2019 event at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2019. Prof. Alnajem received the certificate on the 12 April 2019 from the International Telecommunication Union Secretary General in the WSIS Forum organized in Geneva by the ITU. The project of Prof. Salah was a Social Media Analytics system which utilizes various Natural Language Processing techniques. The system provides content analysis and sentiment analysis of social media posts written in Modern Standards Arabic and Kuwaiti dialect.

During his work in the Central Agency for Information Technology, he worked as a member in a number of committees supervising a number of Information Technology and E-Government projects. These committees include: Steering Committee for Designing and Developing the Official Portal of Kuwait (e.gov.kw), Committee for Establishing and Administrating Comprehensive and Self Service Centers in Kuwait Governates, Committee for Refurbishing Personal Computers used in the Governmental Sector, and the Committee for Media Awareness and National Human Capacity Building in the Field of Information Technology. He also worked as a member of the technical committee for the board of the Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA).

He also worked as a member in a number of committees supervising the implementation of projects related to E-Learning. These committees include, Committee for Using Information and Communication Technology in Education (Ministry of Education), Academic Committee for E-Learning (Kuwait University) and the Committee for Establishing Smart Classes used in Applying E-Learning (Kuwait University). 

Consultative Work: 

During my work as a consultant in several governmental organizations, I delivered the following consultative tasks in the field of Information Technology: 

The Amiri Diwan (Royal Court):

1- Designing and implementing a number of web applications used in the work of the Office of Consultative Studies and Research at the Amiri Diwan.

2- Designing and implementing a Documenat Management System using Microsoft Share Point platform which was used in the work of the Office of Consultative Studies and Research.

Kuwait National Assembly (The Kuwaiti Parliament):

1- Providing consultations and implementation in the field of social media analytics.

2- Providing consultations and implementation in the field of social media strategies and policies.

3- Implementing interactive dashboards for social media and YouTube analytics.

Ministry of Education:

1- Implementation of a virtual classroom system using Microsoft educational systems (Office 365 for Education) and cloud services (Microsoft Cloud Services) to apply distance education.

2- Designing and Implementing an E-Collaboration and E-Messaging system using the applications of Office 365 for Education and the Cloud Services of Microsoft.

3- Big Data Analytics and Visualization for the data related to students and the educational process using data analysis and visualization systems.

4- Designing real-time and historic analytics dashboards used to monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and data trends related students and the educational process.

5- Providing consultation and training regarding E-Learning and its applications.

6- Providing consultations and training regarding Office 365 for Education applications and Microsoft Cloud Services.

7- Providing consultations and implementation in the field of social media analytics.

My E-Learning efforts have been featured in a case study published in March 2021 by Microsoft headquarters in the U.S.A. and posted on the official web site of Microsoft. The study highlighted my efforts to implement Distance Education at the the Ministry of Education (Kuwait) during Covid-19 pandemic using Microsoft technologies and Cloud Computing. You can read this study on the folloawing URL:

https://information-age-consulting.com/pdf/Kuwait-MoE-FY21-Reprint.pdf

The Central Agency for Information Technology (Council of Ministers):

1- Participated in the implementation of the official portal of the State of Kuwait (e.gov.kw)

2- Supervised and participated in the implementation of a web based system used for the electronic submission and evaluation of IT projects. The system has been used for the submission and evaluation of IT projects which have been submitted to the the second Gulf E-Government Award competition. The competition was organized during the second Gulf Countries Council E-Government conference which was held in November 2011 in Kuwait.

3- Participated in the planning and execution of the ICT media awareness campaign.

4- Provided consultations in the field of social media analytics and web analytics.

5- Provided consultations in the field of social media strategies and policies.

Ministry of Information:

1- Providing consulting in the field of social media analytics. The News and Political Programs Sector at Kuwait TV utilized my social media analytics consulting services to prepare news material for the social media segment that aired daily on Kuwait TV as part of the 9:00 PM newscast. 

2- Providing consultations in the field of social media analytics.

3- Providing consultations in the field of social media strategies and policies

United Nations (Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia):

Worked as a consultant for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in 2013 to write the National I.T. Profile of the State of Kuwait. The report was published on the United Nations web site. You can download a copy of this report from this link:

http://information-age-consulting.com/pdf/Kuwait-2013-Ar.pdf

His scientific interests and research papers are focused on the following main areas: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Text Processing, Text Mining, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics and Visualization, Information Retrieval, E-Government, and E-Learning. 

Courses taught at Kuwait University:

• Programming for Engineers using C Language (College of Engineering)
• Participated in teaching Computational Intelligence (College of Engineering, Post-Graduate Level)
• Computational Linguistics (College of Arts)
• Introduction to Linguistics (College of Arts)
• Syntax (College of Arts)
• Semantics (College of Arts)
• Sociolinguistics (College of Arts)
• Arabic Language Processing (College of Arts, Post-Graduate Level)
• Contemporary Trends in Linguistics (College of Arts, Post-Graduate Level)

Research:

Alnajem, Salah. (2004). A Finite-State Approach to Arabic Verbal Derivation. In Bulletin of the College of Arts (Literature & Linguistics), 64(1), pages 59-96. Publishing Unit, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, Egypt.

Alnajem, Salah. (2005). A Computational Approach to Arabic Orthographic Relaxation. In Arab Journal for the Humanities, 89(23), pages 189-206. The Academic Publication Council, Kuwait University, Kuwait.

Alnajem, Salah. (2005). A Computational Approach to the Variations in Arabic Verbal Orthography. In Computer Speech and Language, 3 (2005) pages 275–299. Elsevier, Exeter.

Al-Mutawwa, Abdullah, Alnajem, Salah, and Al-Zohuri, Fadi (2008).  An HPSG Approach to Arabic Nominal Sentences. In the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59 (3), pages 422-434. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 

Alajmi, Nasser, Safa’ai bin Deris, and Alnajem, Salah (2008). Computational Approach to Arabic Broken Derived Nouns Morphology. In Proceeding of 2008 International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering, pages 704-708. IEEE Computer Society, Washington.

S.Alnajem, A.M. Mutawa and A.A.Al-Houti (2010), A Finite State Approach to Arabic Triliteral Nominal Morphology. In  Kuwait Journal of Science and Engineering, 37(2B), pages 123-142. The Academic Publication Council, Kuwait University, Kuwait.

Alnajem, Salah, et al. "A Prolog-based approach to Arabic syntax and semantics." Journal of Engineering Research 9.3A (2021).

Alsharhan, Iman and Salah Alnajem. “Developing a Stress Prediction Tool for Arabic Speech Recognition Tasks”. Scientific Journal of King Faisal University (Humanities and Management Sciences), Vol. 22 No. 2, pages 119-125, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia, 2020.

الناجم، صلاح.  "منهج حاسوبي للتعامل مع إسناد الأفعال إلى الضمائر." مجلة دراسات الخليج والجزيرة العربية، مجلس النشر العلمي، جامعة الكويت، الكويت، 2004، العدد  114، السنة 30، الصفحات 40-9.

الناجم، صلاح و الشرهان، إيمان. "منهج التحليل المقطعي لظاهرة الإعلال بالتعويض."  المجلة العربية للعلوم الإنسانية، مجلس النشر العلمي، جامعة الكويت، الكويت، 2012، العدد 118، الصفحات 85-57.

الناجم، صلاح. "منھج حاسوبي للتعامل مع ظاھرة الإعلال بالتعویض." مجلة كلیة الآداب، المجلد 72، العدد 108، الصفحات 1-34 جامعة الإسكندریة، الإسكندریة، 2022. 

الناجم، صلاح. "منهج التحليل المقطعي لظاهرة الإعلال بالحذف."، مجلة كلية دار العلوم، المجلد 38، العدد 134،  الصفحات 754-727  ، كلية دار العلوم، جامعة القاهرة، القاهرة، 2021. 

الناجم، صلاح. "منهج حاسوبي للتعامل مع ظاهرة الإعلال بالحذف." مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب (اللغات وآدابها)، المجلد 22، العدد 5، الصفحات 26-57، كلية البنات، جامعة عين شمس، القاهرة، 2021.

الناجم، صلاح. " اكتشاف الموضوعات المهيمنة باستخدام تقنية التنقيب في النصوص في تغريدات الناخبين والمرشحين خلال انتخابات مجلس الأمة الكويتي نموذجًا." مجلة البحث العلمي في الآداب (اللغات وآدابها)، المجلد 23، العدد 1، الصفحات 94-123، كلية البنات، جامعة عين شمس، القاهرة، 2022.

الناجم، صلاح. "تصميم نظام لتحليل المزاج العام للغة العربية الفصحى باستخدام معجم حاسوبي." مجلة كلية دار العلوم، المجلد 39، العدد 138،  الصفحات353-327 ، كلية دار العلوم، جامعة القاهرة، القاهرة، 2022. 

الناجم، صلاح. "نظام للتدقيق الإملائي للغة العربية للشبكة العنكبوتية باستخدام معجم حاسوبي وقوانين إملائية وصوتية." مجلة كلية الآداب، المجلد 72، العدد 110،  الصفحات 24-1  جامعة الإسكندرية، الإسكندرية، 2022.

One of his academic publications is a chapter in book about Arabic language processing:

Al-Najem, Salah R. "Inheritance-based approach to Arabic verbal Root-and-Pattern morphology." Arabic computational morphology. Springer, Dordrecht, 2007. 67-88.