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