Social Computing and the Law: Uses and Abuses in Exceptional Circumstances

Khurshid Ahmad is Professor of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin. He specializes in artificial intelligence with research interests in information extraction from images and texts, fuzzy logic, sentiment analysis, neural networks, and terminology and ontology. Ahmad holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from the University of Surrey (1975). He is an elected Fellow of the British Computer Society and of Trinity College, as well as a Chartered Engineer. He has taught at the Universities of Karachi and Surrey and has been a Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School. Ahmad has published over 250 research papers. His books include Computers, Language Learning and Language Teaching (Cambridge, 1985), Translator's Workbench: Tools and Terminology for Translation and Text Processing (1995), and Affective Computing and Sentiment Analysis: Emotion, Metaphor, and Terminology (2011).