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Biography
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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Projects
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HBKU-OVPR-FRG-03-7: Islamic Media Ethics in the Digital Age: AI-Powered Solutions for Combating Misinformation and Promoting Constructive Cross-Cultural Dialogue
AlKhatib, M. (Co-Lead Principal Investigator), Yahiaoui, R. (Lead Principal Investigator), Alam, F. (Co-Lead Principal Investigator), Mikros, G. (Principal Investigator), Cochrane, L. J. R. (Principal Investigator), Alhirthani, M. M. R. (Principal Investigator), Jarrar, M. (Principal Investigator), Zaraket, D. F. (Principal Investigator) & Salman, H. (Graduate Student)
10/07/25 → 9/07/27
Project: Applied Research
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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, , 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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Casablanca: Data and Models for Multidialectal Arabic Speech Recognition
Talafha, B., Kadaoui, K., Magdy, S. M., Habiboullah, M., Mohamed, C., El-Shangiti, A. O., Zayed, H., Tourad, M. C., Alhamouri, R., Assi, R., Alraeesi, A., Mohamed, H., Alwajih, F., Mohamed, A., El Mekki, A., Nagoudi, E. M. B., Benelhadj, S., Alsayadi, H. A., Al-Dhabyani, W. & Shatnawi, S. & 7 others, , 2024, EMNLP 2024 - 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. Al-Onaizan, Y., Bansal, M. & Chen, Y.-N. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 21745-21758 14 p. (EMNLP 2024 - 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Event-Arguments Extraction Corpus and Modeling using BERT for Arabic
Aljabari, A., Duaibes, L., Jarrar, M. & Khalilia, M., 2024, ArabicNLP 2024 - 2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Proceedings of the Conference. Habash, N., Bouamor, H., Eskander, R., Tomeh, N., Farha, I. A., Abdelali, A., Touileb, S., Hamed, I., Onaizan, Y., Alhafni, B., Antoun, W., Khalifa, S., Haddad, H., Zitouni, I., AlKhamissi, B., Almatham, R. & Mrini, K. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 309-319 11 p. (ArabicNLP 2024 - 2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Proceedings of the Conference).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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NLU-STR at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Generative-based Augmentation and Encoder-based Scoring for Semantic Textual Relatedness
Malaysha, S., Jarrar, M. & Khalilia, M., 2024, SemEval 2024 - 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, Proceedings of the Workshop. Ojha, A. K., Dohruoz, A. S., Madabushi, H. T., Da San Martino, G., Rosenthal, S. & Rosa, A. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 894-901 8 p. (SemEval 2024 - 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, Proceedings of the Workshop).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Nabra: Syrian Arabic Dialects with Morphological Annotations
Nayouf, A., Hammouda, T. H., Jarrar, M., Zaraket, F. A. & Kurdy, M. B., 2023, ArabicNLP 2023 - 1st Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Porceedings. Sawaf, H., El-Beltagy, S., Zaghouani, W., Magdy, W., Tomeh, N., Abu Farha, I., Habash, N., Khalifa, S., Keleg, A., Haddad, H., Zitouni, I., Abdelali, A., Mrini, K. & Almatham, R. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 12-23 12 p. (ArabicNLP 2023 - 1st Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Open Access12 Citations (Scopus)