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Dr. Mustafa Jarrar

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4351-4207
    20022026

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    Full professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Director of SinaLab for Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. He is the founder and former director of the PhD Program in Computer Science at Birzeit University. He was a Fulbright visiting professor at the University at Buffalo in the USA (2016-2017), a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Cyprus (2007-2009), and a senior research scientist at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1999-2007), where he completed his Masters (2000) and PhD (early 2005). Jarrar has won several prestigious awards, including the Shoman Arab Researchers Award in Technology, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Award for the Arabic Language, and the Google Faculty Research Award. He has published over 100 articles in the areas of Natural Language Processing, Ontology Engineering, the Semantic Web, and Graph Databases. Jarrar has also chaired 30 international conferences, a PC member of 150+ journals and conferences, coordinator/manager of 30 large EU projects, a full member of the IFIP2.6 on Database Semantics, the IFIP2.12 on Web Semantics, and the UN ESCWA Technology Centre Board of Governors, among others. page: https://www.jarrar.info

    Education/Academic qualification

    Computer Science , PhD, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

    Award Date: 5 May 2005

    Computer Science , Master, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

    Award Date: 1 Jan 2000

    Keywords

    • QA76 Computer software
    • LLMs
    • Natural Language Processing
    • Social Computing
    • Ontology Engineering
    • Knowledge Graphs
    • Arabic Dialects
    • Social Media
    • Interoperability
    • Linked-Data
    • Cultural Heritage

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    • Active Learning for Multidialectal Arabic POS Tagging

      Akra, D., Khalilia, M. & Jarrar, M., Nov 2025, EMNLP 2025 - 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Findings of EMNLP 2025. Christodoulopoulos, C., Chakraborty, T., Rose, C. & Peng, V. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 24960-24973 14 p. (EMNLP 2025 - 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Findings of EMNLP 2025).

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

    • Konooz: Multi-domain Multi-dialect Corpus for Named Entity Recognition

      Hamad, N., Khalilia, M. & Jarrar, M., Jul 2025, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. Che, W., Nabende, J., Shutova, E. & Pilehvar, M. T. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 7316-7331 16 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).

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

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    • Palm: A Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse Dataset for Arabic LLMs

      Alwajih, F., Mekki, A. E., Magdy, S. M., Elmadany, A. A., Nacar, O., Nagoudi, E. M. B., Abdel-Salam, R., Atwany, H., Nafea, Y., Yahya, A. M., Alhamouri, R., Alsayadi, H. A., Zayed, H., Shatnawi, S., Sibaee, S., Ech-Chammakhy, Y., Al-Dhabyani, W., Ali, M. M., Jarraya, I. & El-Shangiti, A. O. & 24 others, Alraeesi, A., Al-Ghrawi, M. A., Al-Batati, A. S., Mohamed, E., Elgindi, N. T., Saeed, M., Atou, H., Yahia, I. A., Bouayad, A., Machrouh, M., Makouar, A., Alkawi, D., Mohamed, M., Abdelfadil, S. T., Ounnoughene, A. Z., Anfel, R., Assi, R., Sorkatti, A., Tourad, M. C., Koubaa, A., Berrada, I., Jarrar, M., Shehata, S. & Abdul-Mageed, M., 2025, Long Papers. Che, W., Nabende, J., Shutova, E. & Pilehvar, M. T. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 32871-32894 24 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; vol. 1).

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

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    • Pearl: A Multimodal Culturally-Aware Arabic Instruction Dataset

      Alwajih, F., Magdy, S. M., Mekki, A. E., Nacar, O., Nafea, Y., Abdelfadil, S. T., Yahya, A. M., Luqman, H., Almarwani, N., Aloufi, S., Qawasmeh, B., Atou, H., Sibaee, S., Alsayadi, H. A., Al-Dhabyani, W., Al-Shaibani, M. S., Aatar, A. E., Qandos, N., Alhamouri, R. & Ahmad, S. & 17 others, Al-Ghrawi, M. A., Yacoub, A., AbuHweidi, R., Lemin, V. M., Abdel-Salam, R., Bashiti, A., Alansari, A., Ashraf, A., Alturayeif, N., Inciarte, A. A., Ammar, A., Elmadany, A. A., Tourad, M. C., Berrada, I., Jarrar, M., Shehata, S. & Abdul-Mageed, M., Nov 2025, EMNLP 2025 - 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Findings of EMNLP 2025. Christodoulopoulos, C., Chakraborty, T., Rose, C. & Peng, V. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 23048-23079 32 p. (EMNLP 2025 - 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Findings of EMNLP 2025).

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

    • Alma: Fast Lemmatizer and POS Tagger for Arabic

      Jarrar, M., Akra, D. & Hammouda, T., 2024, In: Procedia Computer Science. 244, p. 378-387 10 p.

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