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Nizar Habash

153 papers · 2003–2026 · 10 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🌈 Renaissance Researcher (9) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (10) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (9) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (12) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird πŸƒ Academic Marathon (22) 🌟 Keyword Trendsetter Combo (9) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (41) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (38) πŸ† Keyword Champion (8) πŸ‘₯ Mega-Team (62) 🀝 Dynamic Duo (20) πŸ’Ž Century Club (149) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (318) ⚑ Prolific Year (17) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (21) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter ❓ The Questioner

Conferences

ACL (41) EMNLP (36) COLING (27) NAACL (18) EACL (16) IJCNLP (6) CONLL (5) SEMEVAL (2) INTERSPEECH (1) MLHC (1)

Top co-authors

Owen Rambow (20) Houda Bouamor (20) Bashar Alhafni (17) Salam Khalifa (15) Nasser Zalmout (9) Mona Diab (9) Injy Hamed (9) Go Inoue (9) Ossama Obeid (8) Ryan Roth (8)

Research topics

Linguistics (4) Natural Language Processing (2)

Keywords

arabic language (34) morphological analysis (25) text classification (20) arabic dialect (13) machine translation (13) dialect identification (11) natural language processing (11) part-of-speech tagging (10) multilingual nlp (8) arabic nlp (8) sequence-to-sequence model (8) readability assessment (8) morphological disambiguation (7) low-resource language (7) large language model (7) dependency parsing (7) dialectal arabic (7) shared task (6) grammatical error correction (6) automatic speech recognition (5)

Papers

Do Diacritics Matter? Evaluating the Impact of Arabic Diacritics on Tokenization and LLM Benchmarks EACL 2026
Computational Benchmarks for Egyptian Arabic Child Directed Speech EACL 2026
A Tale of Two Scripts: Transliteration and Post-Correction for Judeo-Arabic EACL 2026
Cross-Lingual Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models for Arabic Medical Tasks EACL 2026
The Impact of Code-switched Synthetic Data Quality is Task Dependent: Insights from MT and ASR NAACL 2025
ARWI: Arabic Write and Improve NAACL 2025
Beyond Cairo: Sa’idi Egyptian Arabic Literary Corpus Construction and Analysis NAACL 2025
Enhancing Text Editing for Grammatical Error Correction: Arabic as a Case Study ACL 2025
A Large and Balanced Corpus for Fine-grained Arabic Readability Assessment ACL 2025
MedArabiQ: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Arabic Medical Tasks MLHC 2025
NADI 2025: The First Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task EMNLP 2025
BAREC Shared Task 2025 on Arabic Readability Assessment EMNLP 2025
AraHealthQA 2025: The First Shared Task on Arabic Health Question Answering EMNLP 2025
BALSAM: A Platform for Benchmarking Arabic Large Language Models EMNLP 2025
Evaluating Prompt Relevance in Arabic Automatic Essay Scoring: Insights from Synthetic and Real-World Data EMNLP 2025
Lemmatizing Dialectal Arabic with Sequence-to-Sequence Models EMNLP 2025
Data Augmentation for Maltese NLP using Transliterated and Machine Translated Arabic Data EMNLP 2025
Radical Allomorphy: Phonological Surface Forms without Phonology EMNLP 2025
BAREC Demo: Resources and Tools for Sentence-level Arabic Readability Assessment EMNLP 2025
Lemmatization as a Classification Task: Results from Arabic across Multiple Genres EMNLP 2025
The Arabic Generality Score: Another Dimension of Modeling Arabic Dialectness EMNLP 2025
Proper Noun Diacritization for Arabic Wikipedia: A Benchmark Dataset ACL 2025
Guidelines for Fine-grained Sentence-level Arabic Readability Annotation ACL 2025
GenAI Content Detection Task 1: English and Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection: AI vs. Human COLING 2025
Enhancing Arabic Automated Essay Scoring with Synthetic Data and Error Injection ACL 2025
A Derivational ChainBank for Modern Standard Arabic COLING 2025
A Survey of Code-switched Arabic NLP: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions COLING 2025
From Multiple-Choice to Extractive QA: A Case Study for English and Arabic COLING 2025
M4: Multi-generator, Multi-domain, and Multi-lingual Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection EACL 2024
Cross-Lingual Transfer from Related Languages: Treating Low-Resource Maltese as Multilingual Code-Switching EACL 2024
M4GT-Bench: Evaluation Benchmark for Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection ACL 2024
Arabic Diacritics in the Wild: Exploiting Opportunities for Improved Diacritization ACL 2024
ArabicMMLU: Assessing Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Arabic ACL 2024
Exploiting Dialect Identification in Automatic Dialectal Text Normalization ACL 2024
Strategies for Arabic Readability Modeling ACL 2024
The FIGNEWS Shared Task on News Media Narratives ACL 2024
NADI 2024: The Fifth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task ACL 2024
Investigating Gender Bias in STEM Job Advertisements ACL 2024
LLM-DetectAIve: a Tool for Fine-Grained Machine-Generated Text Detection EMNLP 2024
Camel Morph MSA: A Large-Scale Open-Source Morphological Analyzer for Modern Standard Arabic COLING 2024
EMAD: A Bridge Tagset for Unifying Arabic POS Annotations COLING 2024
Palmyra 3.0: A User-Friendly Cloud-Based Platform for Morphology and Dependency Syntax Annotation COLING 2024
The SAMER Arabic Text Simplification Corpus COLING 2024
ZAEBUC-Spoken: A Multilingual Multidialectal Arabic-English Speech Corpus COLING 2024
Computational Morphology and Lexicography Modeling of Modern Standard Arabic Nominals EACL 2024
Advancements in Arabic Grammatical Error Detection and Correction: An Empirical Investigation EMNLP 2023
Exploring Segmentation Approaches for Neural Machine Translation of Code-Switched Egyptian Arabic-English Text EACL 2023
Investigating Lexical Replacements for Arabic-English Code-Switched Data Augmentation EACL 2023
Exploring the Impact of Transliteration on NLP Performance: Treating Maltese as an Arabic Dialect ACL 2023
NADI 2023: The Fourth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task EMNLP 2023
CamelParser2.0: A State-of-the-Art Dependency Parser for Arabic EMNLP 2023
Data Augmentation Techniques for Machine Translation of Code-Switched Texts: A Comparative Study EMNLP 2023
Morphotactic Modeling in an Open-source Multi-dialectal Arabic Morphological Analyzer and Generator NAACL 2022
Morphosyntactic Tagging with Pre-trained Language Models for Arabic and its Dialects ACL 2022
Maknuune: A Large Open Palestinian Arabic Lexicon EMNLP 2022
ArzEn-ST: A Three-way Speech Translation Corpus for Code-Switched Egyptian Arabic-English EMNLP 2022
The Shared Task on Gender Rewriting EMNLP 2022
NADI 2022: The Third Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task EMNLP 2022
AraBART: a Pretrained Arabic Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Abstractive Summarization EMNLP 2022
Camelira: An Arabic Multi-Dialect Morphological Disambiguator EMNLP 2022
User-Centric Gender Rewriting NAACL 2022
Arabic Word-level Readability Visualization for Assisted Text Simplification EMNLP 2022
Arabic Natural Language Processing EMNLP 2022
Automatic Error Type Annotation for Arabic CONLL 2021
NADI 2021: The Second Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task EACL 2021
Automatic Romanization of Arabic Bibliographic Records EACL 2021
The Interplay of Variant, Size, and Task Type in Arabic Pre-trained Language Models EACL 2021
SIGMORPHON 2021 Shared Task on Morphological Reinflection: Generalization Across Languages ACL 2021
SIGMORPHON 2021 Shared Task on Morphological Reinflection: Generalization Across Languages IJCNLP 2021
Automatic Error Type Annotation for Arabic EMNLP 2021
A View From the Crowd: Evaluation Challenges for Time-Offset Interaction Applications EACL 2021
NADI 2020: The First Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task COLING 2020
The Paradigm Discovery Problem ACL 2020
Joint Diacritization, Lemmatization, Normalization, and Fine-Grained Morphological Tagging ACL 2020
Multitask Easy-First Dependency Parsing: Exploiting Complementarities of Different Dependency Representations COLING 2020
Utilizing Subword Entities in Character-Level Sequence-to-Sequence Lemmatization Models COLING 2020
An Online Readability Leveled Arabic Thesaurus COLING 2020
Gender-Aware Reinflection using Linguistically Enhanced Neural Models COLING 2020
PALMYRA 2.0: A Configurable Multilingual Platform Independent Tool for Morphology and Syntax Annotation COLING 2020
A Unified Model for Arabizi Detection and Transliteration using Sequence-to-Sequence Models COLING 2020
A Little Linguistics Goes a Long Way: Unsupervised Segmentation with Limited Language Specific Guidance ACL 2019
ADIDA: Automatic Dialect Identification for Arabic NAACL 2019
Towards Variability Resistant Dialectal Speech Evaluation INTERSPEECH 2019
The MADAR Shared Task on Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification ACL 2019
Morphologically Annotated Corpora for Seven Arabic Dialects: Taizi, Sanaani, Najdi, Jordanian, Syrian, Iraqi and Moroccan ACL 2019
Automatic Gender Identification and Reinflection in Arabic ACL 2019
The Effectiveness of Simple Hybrid Systems for Hypernym Discovery ACL 2019
Adversarial Multitask Learning for Joint Multi-Feature and Multi-Dialect Morphological Modeling ACL 2019
Noise-Robust Morphological Disambiguation for Dialectal Arabic NAACL 2018
Improving Domain Independent Question Parsing with Synthetic Treebanks COLING 2018
Feature Optimization for Predicting Readability of Arabic L1 and L2 ACL 2018
Fine-Grained Arabic Dialect Identification COLING 2018
Addressing Noise in Multidialectal Word Embeddings ACL 2018
Utilizing Character and Word Embeddings for Text Normalization with Sequence-to-Sequence Models EMNLP 2018
Complementary Strategies for Low Resourced Morphological Modeling EMNLP 2018
An Arabic Morphological Analyzer and Generator with Copious Features EMNLP 2018
A Cross-lingual Messenger with Keyword Searchable Phrases for the Travel Domain COLING 2018
OMAM at SemEval-2017 Task 4: Evaluation of English State-of-the-Art Sentiment Analysis Models for Arabic and a New Topic-based Model SEMEVAL 2017
Don’t Throw Those Morphological Analyzers Away Just Yet: Neural Morphological Disambiguation for Arabic EMNLP 2017
A Parallel Corpus for Evaluating Machine Translation between Arabic and European Languages EACL 2017
OMAM at SemEval-2017 Task 4: English Sentiment Analysis with Conditional Random Fields SEMEVAL 2017
CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies CONLL 2017
CamelParser: A system for Arabic Syntactic Analysis and Morphological Disambiguation COLING 2016
YAMAMA: Yet Another Multi-Dialect Arabic Morphological Analyzer COLING 2016
Botta: An Arabic Dialect Chatbot COLING 2016
Creating Resources for Dialectal Arabic from a Single Annotation: A Case Study on Egyptian and Levantine COLING 2016
Machine Translation Evaluation for Arabic using Morphologically-enriched Embeddings COLING 2016
Improving Arabic Diacritization through Syntactic Analysis EMNLP 2015
Predicting the Structure of Cooking Recipes EMNLP 2015
Natural Language Processing of Arabic and its Dialects EMNLP 2014
Sentence Level Dialect Identification for Machine Translation System Selection ACL 2014
The Illinois-Columbia System in the CoNLL-2014 Shared Task CONLL 2014
Generalized Character-Level Spelling Error Correction ACL 2014
Automatic Transliteration of Romanized Dialectal Arabic CONLL 2014
Unsupervised Morphology-Based Vocabulary Expansion ACL 2014
DIRA: Dialectal Arabic Information Retrieval Assistant IJCNLP 2013
Automatic Extraction of Morphological Lexicons from Morphologically Annotated Corpora EMNLP 2013
SPMRLβ€˜13 Shared Task System: The CADIM Arabic Dependency Parser EMNLP 2013
Overview of the SPMRL 2013 Shared Task: A Cross-Framework Evaluation of Parsing Morphologically Rich Languages EMNLP 2013
Orthographic and Morphological Processing for Persian-to-English Statistical Machine Translation IJCNLP 2013
Selective Combination of Pivot and Direct Statistical Machine Translation Models IJCNLP 2013
A Web-based Annotation Framework For Large-Scale Text Correction IJCNLP 2013
Reranking with Linguistic and Semantic Features for Arabic Optical Character Recognition ACL 2013
Language Independent Connectivity Strength Features for Phrase Pivot Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2013
Dialectal Arabic to English Machine Translation: Pivoting through Modern Standard Arabic NAACL 2013
Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation for Dialectal Arabic NAACL 2013
Automatic Morphological Enrichment of a Morphologically Underspecified Treebank NAACL 2013
Processing Spontaneous Orthography NAACL 2013
Identifying Broken Plurals, Irregular Gender, and Rationality in Arabic Text EACL 2012
Arabic Dialect Processing Tutorial NAACL 2012
Elissa: A Dialectal to Standard Arabic Machine Translation System COLING 2012
Using Deep Morphology to Improve Automatic Error Detection in Arabic Handwriting Recognition ACL 2011
A Corpus for Modeling Morpho-Syntactic Agreement in Arabic: Gender, Number and Rationality ACL 2011
Improving Arabic Dependency Parsing with Form-based and Functional Morphological Features ACL 2011
Improving Arabic-to-English Statistical Machine Translation by Reordering Post-Verbal Subjects for Alignment ACL 2010
Improving the Arabic Pronunciation Dictionary for Phone and Word Recognition with Linguistically-Based Pronunciation Rules NAACL 2009
CATiB: The Columbia Arabic Treebank IJCNLP 2009
CATiB: The Columbia Arabic Treebank ACL 2009
Arabic Morphological Tagging, Diacritization, and Lemmatization Using Lexeme Models and Feature Ranking ACL 2008
Four Techniques for Online Handling of Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Arabic-English Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2008
Determining Case in Arabic: Learning Complex Linguistic Behavior Requires Complex Linguistic Features CONLL 2007
Combination of Statistical Word Alignments Based on Multiple Preprocessing Schemes NAACL 2007
Arabic Diacritization through Full Morphological Tagging NAACL 2007
Arabic Dialect Processing Tutorial NAACL 2007
Determining Case in Arabic: Learning Complex Linguistic Behavior Requires Complex Linguistic Features EMNLP 2007
MAGEAD: A Morphological Analyzer and Generator for the Arabic Dialects COLING 2006
Combination of Arabic Preprocessing Schemes for Statistical Machine Translation COLING 2006
Combination of Arabic Preprocessing Schemes for Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2006
MAGEAD: A Morphological Analyzer and Generator for the Arabic Dialects ACL 2006
Arabic Preprocessing Schemes for Statistical Machine Translation NAACL 2006
Parsing Arabic Dialects EACL 2006
Arabic Tokenization, Part-of-Speech Tagging and Morphological Disambiguation in One Fell Swoop ACL 2005
A Categorial Variation Database for English NAACL 2003