Nizar Habash
Scholar

Nizar Habash

Google Scholar ID: DGb-sBwAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science, New York University Abu Dhabi
Natural Language ProcessingComputational LinguisticsArtificial Intelligence
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
9,000
 
H-index
48
 
i10-index
172
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
174
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Awarded the 2024 ELRA Antonio Zampolli Prize for 'Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Language Resources and Language Technology Evaluation'
  • Published numerous research papers on Arabic NLP
  • Delivered an invited talk at Grammarly titled 'Arabic Natural Language Processing: Challenges and Solutions'
  • Published a bilingual (Arabic/English) article in Majarra (2024): 'My Journey from the Arts to Artificial Intelligence and Arabic Language Processing'
  • Featured in media outlets such as The National for dialectal Arabic projects at CAMeL Lab
Background
  • Professor of Computer Science at New York University Abu Dhabi
  • Director of the Computational Approaches to Modeling Language (CAMeL) Lab
  • Research focus: artificial intelligence, specifically natural language processing and computational linguistics
  • Primarily works on Arabic and Arabic dialect language processing, covering orthography, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicons, and corpora
  • Active in machine translation and dialogue systems