News
| May 8, 2025 | Gave a talk titled “Incorporating Sociolinguistic Theories for a Better Modeling of the Arabic Varieties” to the CardiffNLP. Check the slides: here. Thanks, Nedjma, for the invitation! |
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| Mar 1, 2025 | My position paper “LLM Alignment for the Arabs: A Homogenous Culture or Diverse Ones” is accepted to the C3NLP workshop co-located with NAACL 2025! |
| Oct 31, 2024 | Presented my work to CAMel Lab. Check the slides: here. Thanks, Nizar, for the invitation! |
| Sep 9, 2024 | Attended the GAIN summit in Riyadh, and visited SDAIA for two weeks. Thanks Dr. Ahmed Ali for the invitation. |
| Aug 14, 2024 | Our paper “Estimating the Level of Dialectness Predicts Inter-annotator Agreement in Multi-dialect Arabic Datasets” got an Outstanding Paper Award 🎖️🎖️🎖️ |
| Jul 1, 2024 | Gave an online talk to the ARBml community under the title Distinguishing between the Varieties of Arabic: Dialect Identification is nether Solved nor the Solution.. Check the slides: here. |
| May 15, 2024 | Had a short paper “Estimating the Level of Dialectness Predicts Inter-annotator Agreement in Multi-dialect Arabic Datasets” accepted to ACL 2024 🎉🎉 See you in Thailand! |
| Feb 1, 2024 | Co-organizing the NADI 2024 shared task as part of the ArabicNLP 2024 conference. |
| Dec 7, 2023 | Presented my EMNLP 2023 paper ALDi: Quantifying the Arabic Level of Dialectness of Text, and my ArabicNLP 2023 paper Arabic Dialect Identification under Scrutiny: Limitations of Single-label Classification in Singapore 🎉🎉 |
| Jul 8, 2023 | Attended the Oxford MLx Finance & NLP summer school |
| Jun 13, 2023 | Presented my ACL 2023 finding paper DLAMA: A Framework for Curating Culturally Diverse Facts for Probing the Knowledge of Pretrained Language Models at SLT CDT’s annual conference and ACL 2023 - virtual poster |
| Mar 7, 2023 | Served as a Publicity Chair for ArabicNLP 2023 co-located with EMNLP 2023. |
| Jun 20, 2022 | Presented SMASH at Qur’an QA 2022: Creating Better Faithful Data Splits for Low-resourced Question Answering Scenarios - OSACT 2022 Workshop, LREC 2022. |
| May 22, 2022 | Presented Automatically Discarding Straplines to Improve Data Quality for Abstractive News Summarization - NLP Power! Workshop - ACL 2022. |
| May 16, 2022 |
Started a part time research internship with Aveni Ltd Topic: Unsupervised segmentation of transcribed calls |
| Jan 24, 2022 | Co-released AlWird (Arabic Wordle). |
| Sep 13, 2021 | Started my PhD studies at the University of Edinburgh (CDT in NLP - cohort 2021). |
| Aug 18, 2021 | Defended my masters thesis successfully! |
| Apr 19, 2021 | Attended EACL2021. |
| Nov 16, 2020 | Attended EMNLP2020 as a D&I paricipant. |
| Jul 6, 2020 | Attended ACL2020 as a D&I paricipant. |