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Leila Kosseim is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University, co-directing the CLaC (Computational Linguistics @Concordia) lab. She holds a PhD from the University of Montreal (1995) and has conducted postdoctoral research at Druide informatique inc. and the RALI group. Her academic leadership roles include Vice-President (2017-2019), President (2019-2021), and Past-President (2021-2023) of the Canadian AI Association (CAIAC), and current Graduate Program Director for the PhD Programs in CSSE.
Her research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence, with particular emphasis on discourse analysis, computational linguistics, and text generation. Notable projects include automated analysis of argumentative essays, clinical trial inference, and meme persuasion detection. Her work integrates deep learning, neural networks, and transformer models to address challenges in text coherence, discourse parsing, and multilingual NLP.
Leila has supervised 8 PhD and over 20 Master’s students, contributing to the next generation of computational linguists. Her CLaC lab has participated in multiple international challenges (SemEval, TREC, DEFT) and produced influential tools like TIMBERT and the Concordia NLG Surface Realizer.
