Nizar Habash

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

  • NYUAD Saadiyat Campus, A2-189

    00000 Abu Dhabi

    United Arab Emirates

1998 …2024

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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 1997May 31 2003

Award Date: May 31 2003

Computer Engineering, B.S., Old Dominion University

Jan 1 1992May 31 1997

Award Date: May 31 1997

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

Jan 1 1992May 31 1997

Award Date: May 31 1997

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  • CAMELMORPH MSA: A Large-Scale Open-Source Morphological Analyzer for Modern Standard Arabic

    Khairallah, C., Khalifa, S., Marzouk, R., Nassar, M. & Habash, N., 2024, 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings. Calzolari, N., Kan, M.-Y., Hoste, V., Lenci, A., Sakti, S. & Xue, N. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 2683-2691 9 p. (2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Computational Morphology and Lexicography Modeling of Modern Standard Arabic Nominals

    Khairallah, C., Marzouk, R., Khalifa, S., Nassar, M. & Habash, N., 2024, EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of EACL 2024. Graham, Y., Purver, M. & Purver, M. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 1071-1084 14 p. (EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of EACL 2024).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • Cross-Lingual Transfer from Related Languages: Treating Low-Resource Maltese as Multilingual Code-Switching

    Micallef, K., Habash, N., Borg, C., Eryani, F. & Bouamor, H., 2024, EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. Graham, Y., Purver, M. & Purver, M. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 1014-1025 12 p. (EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference; vol. 1).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • EMAD: A Bridge Tagset for Unifying Arabic POS Annotations

    Kallas, O., Inoue, G. & Habash, N., 2024, 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings. Calzolari, N., Kan, M.-Y., Hoste, V., Lenci, A., Sakti, S. & Xue, N. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 5637-5643 7 p. (2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

  • M4: Multi-Generator, Multi-Domain, and Multi-Lingual Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection

    Wang, Y., Mansurov, J., Ivanov, P., Su, J., Shelmanov, A., Tsvigun, A., Whitehouse, C., Afzal, O. M., Mahmoud, T., Sasaki, T., Arnold, T., Aji, A. F., Habash, N., Gurevych, I. & Nakov, P., 2024, EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. Graham, Y., Purver, M. & Purver, M. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 1369-1407 39 p. (EACL 2024 - 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference; vol. 1).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution