Nizar Habash

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Nizar Habash

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Program Head of Computer Science at NYUAD, Director of the Computational Approaches to Modeling Language (CAMeL) Lab

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1831-3457

  • NYUAD Saadiyat Campus, A2-189

    00000 Abu Dhabi

    United Arab Emirates

1998 …2025

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Research Interests

Aritificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Arabic, Dialects, Computational Morphology, Syntactic Parsing, Machine Translation, Linguistic and Aritificial Intelligence Resource Development. 

Research and Resources are on the Computational Approaches to Modeling Language (CAMeL) Lab page.

Personal profile

Nizar Habash is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Professor Habash specializes in natural language processing and computational linguistics. Before joining NYUAD, he was a research scientist at Columbia University's Center for Computational Learning Systems. His research includes extensive work on machine translation, morphological analysis, and computational modeling of Arabic and its dialects. Professor Habash has been a principal investigator or co-investigator on over 20 grants. And he has over 150 publications including a book entitled "Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing". His website is www.nizarhabash.com.

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Expertise

Aritificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Arabic Language Processing. 

 

Education/Academic qualification

Computer Science, PhD, Generation-Heavy Hybrid Machine Translation, University of Maryland, College Park

Sep 1 1997 → May 31 2003

Award Date: May 31 2003

Computer Engineering, B.S., Old Dominion University

Jan 1 1992 → May 31 1997

Award Date: May 31 1997

Linguistics and Languages, B.A., Old Dominion University

Jan 1 1992 → May 31 1997

Award Date: May 31 1997

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  • A Derivational Chain Bank for Modern Standard Arabic

    Marzouk, R., Krouna, S. & Habash, N., 2025, 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2025 - AbjadNLP 2025 - 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script, Proceedings of the Workshop. El-Haj, M., Haddad, A., Amol, C., Ahmadi, S., Paterson III, H., Ezeani, I., Ezzini, S. & Rayson, P. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 78-87 10 p. (Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • A Survey of Code-switched Arabic NLP: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions

    Hamed, I., Sabty, C., Abdennadher, S., Vu, N. T., Solorio, T. & Habash, N., 2025, Main Conference. Rambow, O., Wanner, L., Apidianaki, M., Al-Khalifa, H., Di Eugenio, B. & Schockaert, S. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 4561-4585 25 p. (Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING; vol. Part F206484-1).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • From Multiple-Choice to Extractive QA: A Case Study for English and Arabic

    Lynn, T., Altakrori, M. H., Magdy, S. M., Das, R. J., Lyu, C., Nasr, M., Samih, Y., Chirkunov, K., Aji, A. F., Nakov, P., Godbole, S., Roukos, S., Florian, R. & Habash, N., 2025, Main Conference. Rambow, O., Wanner, L., Apidianaki, M., Al-Khalifa, H., Di Eugenio, B. & Schockaert, S. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 2456-2477 22 p. (Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING; vol. Part F206484-1).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • GenAI Content Detection Task 1: English and Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection: AI vs. Human

    Wang, Y., Shelmanov, A., Mansurov, J., Tsvigun, A., Mikhailov, V., Xing, R., Xie, Z., Geng, J., Puccetti, G., Artemova, E., Su, J., Ta, M. N., Abassy, M., Elozeiri, K., El Dine Ahmed, S., Goloburda, M., Mahmoud, T., Tomar, R. V., Aziz, A. & Laiyk, N. & 7 others, Afzal, O. M., Koike, R., Kaneko, M., Aji, A. F., Habash, N., Gurevych, I. & Nakov, P., 2025, GenAIDetect 2025 - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on GenAI Content Detection, Proceedings of the Workshop - 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2025. Alam, F., Nakov, P., Habash, N., Gurevych, I., Gurevych, I., Chowdhury, S., Shelmanov, A., Wang, Y., Artemova, E., Kutlu, M. & Mikros, G. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 244-261 18 p. (Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Message from the Local Chairs

    Nakov, P., Habash, N., Kementchedjhieva, Y., Choudhury, M., Dabbagh, A., Kochmar, E., Aji, A. F. & Lynn, T., 2025, In: Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING. Part F206484-1, p. x-xi

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

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