Mag. Ing. Omar Siam

Telephone
(+43 1) 51581 – 7295

E-Mail
omar.siam(at)oeaw.ac.at

… is a member of the ACDH's technical team. As a graduate of a technical college (HTL) for telecommunications engineering and of the Department
 of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Vienna, he has a strong interest in both programming languages and natural languages, especially Arabic.

His fields of activity include software development, web development, server management, containerization, virtualization, Kubernetes clusters, and self-hosted AI. He has contributed to the development of several digital humanities publication projects. Currently, his primary projects are VICAV, SHAWI, WIBARAB, and TEI-Enricher. In addition, Omar Siam is responsible for the smooth operation of the institute's servers, Kubernetes infrastructure, and automated deployment processes, as well as for evaluating and operating self-hosted AI models. He is a member of the research unit DH Research & Infrastructure.

Publications

  • VOICE Frontend: A web based user interface for accessing and searching the VOICE 3.0 corpus.Siam, Omar (Autor:in); Breuer, Hans-Christian (Entwickler:in); Pirker, Hannes (Entwickler:in) et al.. 2021.
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  • Towards a diatopic dictionary of spoken Arabic varieties: challenges in compiling the VICAV dictionaries. / Mörth, Karlheinz; Schopper, Daniel; Siam, Omar.
    11th Conference of AIDA - Association Internationale de Dialectologie. Bucharest, 2016.
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