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NizarHabashNYUAbuDhabi,SaadiyatIslandPOBox129188,AbuDhabi,UAE

Office:+971-2-628-4578http://www.nizarhabash.comnizar@nizarhabash.com

Education

Ph.D.ComputerScience,UniversityofMarylandCollegePark,2003. Dissertationtitle:Generation-HeavyHybridMachineTranslation Advisor:Prof.BonnieDorrM.S.ComputerScience,UniversityofMarylandCollegePark,2000.B.S.ComputerEngineering,summacumlaude,OldDominionUniversity,1997.B.A.LinguisticsandLanguages,summacumlaude,OldDominionUniversity,1997.Employment

Sep.2014topresent. NewYorkUniversityAbuDhabi,ComputerScienceDepartment,

AssociateProfessor.Sep.2014topresent. ColumbiaUniversity,CenterforComputationalLearningSystems,

AdjunctResearchScientist.Jul.2014topresent. BirzeitUniversity,SinaInstituteforKnowledgeEngineering andArabicTechnologies,AdjunctAssociateProfessor.Feb.2009toAug.2014.ColumbiaUniversity,CenterforComputationalLearningSystems,

ResearchScientist.Feb.2009toAug.2014.ColumbiaUniversity,ComputerScienceDepartment,

AdjunctAssociateProfessor.Jul.2005toJan.2009. ColumbiaUniversity,CenterforComputationalLearningSystems,

AssociateResearchScientist.Jul.2004toJun.2005. ColumbiaUniversity,Post-doctoralResearcher.Jul.2003toJun.2004. UniversityofMarylandCollegePark,Post-doctoralResearcher.Jan.1998toMay2003. UniversityofMarylandCollegePark,GraduateResearchAssistant.Jan.1999toJan.2000. NuunLabs,Inc.,ChiefTechnicalOfficer.Jun.1998toAug.1998. Cycorp,Inc.,InternOntologicalEngineer.ResearchExperienceResearchAreas

• Myprimaryresearchareaisnaturallanguageprocessing(NLP)/computationallinguistics(CL).• Myspecialtysub-areasareArabicNLP,computationalmorphologyandmachinetranslation.• Ico-foundedtheColumbiaArabicDialectModeling(CADIM)groupin2005withOwenRambow

andMonaDiab.• IfoundedtheComputationalApproachestoModelingLanguage(CAMeL)LabinNYUAbuDhabi

in2015.CitationMetrics• Citations4,649;h-index36;i10-index99.GoogleScholar(September13,2016).

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PastandCurrentResearchSupport[1] "MorphologicalAnnotationofGulfArabic."NizarHabash(PI).NewYorkUniversityAbuDhabi

ResearchEnhancementFund.Awarded$40,000.2016.[2] "SAMER:SimplificationofArabicMasterpiecesforExtensiveReading."MuhamedAlKhalil(PI),

Nizar Habash (co-PI) and Dris Soulaimani (co-PI). New York University Abu Dhabi ResearchEnhancementFund.Awarded$181,000.Two-yearproject.2016.

[3] “WorkshoponArabicDialectTechnologies.”NizarHabash(PI).NewYorkUniversityAbuDhabiInstituteFunding.2016.

[4] “MADAR:Multi-ArabicDialectApplications andResources.”NizarHabash (PI),KemalOflazer,OwenRambowandHoudaBouamor.QatarNationalResearchFundAward.Approved.$866,551totalspreadoverthreeyears.StartsFeb2016.

[5] "A Multilingual-to-Arabic Machine Translation Evaluation Dataset." Nizar Habash (PI). NewYorkUniversityAbuDhabiResearchEnhancementFund.Awarded$40,000.2015.

[6] “OpinionMiningforArabicwithModelsofSemanticsandCredibility.”HazemHajj(PI),KhaledShaban,WassimElHajj,OsamaHalabiandNizarHabash.QatarNationalResearchFundAward.Approved.$331,000peryearforthreeyearsstartinginNovember2013.

[7] “ArabicDialectMorphologicalAnalysis.”NizarHabash(PI),MonaDiabandOwenRambow.LDCSubcontract.DARPABOLTProgram.Year1($88,142),Year2($91,443)andYear3($90,000)(10/2011-6/2015)approved.

[8] “Arabic Dialect Tool Creation.” Nizar Habash (PI), Mona Diab and Owen Rambow. BBNSubcontract. DARPA BOLT Program. $1,047,619 per year for five years. Year 1, 2 and 3(10/2011-3/2015)approved.

[9] “Automatic Correction of Standard Arabic Text: Resource and System Development.” NizarHabash (PI), Kemal Oflazer and Behrang Mohit. Qatar National Research Fund Award.Approved.$327,333peryearforthreeyearsstartingin2012.

[10] “MorphologyModeling forLORELEI.”OwenRambow(PI)andNizarHabash. IBMSubcontract.IARPABABELProgram.Approved.$307,500peryearforfouryearsstartingin2012.

[11] “Language Modeling for PLATO.” Nizar Habash (PI), Mona Diab and Owen Rambow. BBNSubcontract. DARPA MADCAT Program. Five years: P1 10/2007-4/2009 ($192,500); P25/2009-5/2010($229,934);P34/2010-9/2011(255,582);P49/2011-5/2012(120,000);andP56/2012-2/2013($153,661).

[12] “Natural Language Processing Tools for Dialectal Arabic (NADIA).” Mona Diab (PI), NizarHabashandOwenRambow.AXCIOMsubcontract.TechnicalSupportWorkingGroup.4/2012-12/2013($900,000).

[13] “PreservingMorphologicalRichnessinPoor-Pivot-basedStatisticalMachineTranslation.”NizarHabash(PI).GoogleResearchAward.9/2012-8/2013($84,211).

[14] “ImprovingStatisticalMachineTranslationintoArabic.”NizarHabash(PI).ScienceApplicationsInternationalCorporation(SAIC)researchgrant.1/2012-8/2013($120,307).

[15] “Arabic Generation in Statistical Machine Translation.” Nizar Habash (PI). Google ResearchAward.Year1:9/2009-8/2010($60,000)andYear2:9/2010-8/2011($75,000).

[16] “Arabic Dialect Tools and Resources for COLABA.” Mona Diab (PI), Nizar Habash and OwenRambow. Axciom Subcontract. TSWG COLABA Program. P1 10/2008-3/2010 ($442,709); P24/2010-3/2011($257,618)

[17] “Arabic Dialect Translation for Agile.” Nizar Habash (PI). IBM Subcontract. DARPA GALEProgram.GALE-Y56/2010-6/2011($112,437).

[18] “Arabic NLP/MT for Rosetta.” Owen Rambow (PI), Mona Diab and Nizar Habash. IBMSubcontract. DARPA GALE Program. GALE-Y3 4/2008-6/2009 ($385,116); GALE-Y4 6/2009-6/2010($509,586);GALE-Y57/2010-6/2011($300,000).

[19] “Columbia Arabic Tree Bank.” Nizar Habash (PI). IBM Subcontract. DARPA GALE Program.GALE-Y34/2008-8/2008($200,000).

[20] "SGER: Automatic Processing of Natural Language Code Switching." Mona Diab (PI), NizarHabashandOwenRambow.NSF.9/2007-2/2009($40,467).

[21] "Arabic NLP/MT for NIGHTINGALE." Owen Rambow (PI), Mona Diab and Nizar Habash. SRISubcontract. DARPA GALE Program. GALE-Y1: 9/2005-8/2006 ($449,214) and GALE-Y2:9/2006-8/2007($493,262).

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[22] “CINDOR:Conceptual InterlinguaDocumentRetrieval.”OwenRambow (PI) andNizarHabash(Post-doc).Textwise,Inc.2/2005-5/2006($38,534).

[23] “Parsing Arabic Dialects”. Owen Rambow (team leader), Mona Diab (senior researcher) andNizar Habash (senior researcher). An NSF-funded Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop, 2005($15,750).

[24] “ArabicDialectModelingforSpeechandNaturalLanguageProcessing.”OwenRambow(PI)andNizarHabash(Post-doc).NSF.7/2004-8/2006($200,000).

ResearchAdvising/Supervision

• Iamcurrentlydirectingthefollowingdoctoralstudents:

[1] WaelSalloum,ComputerScienceDepartment,ColumbiaUniversity.2010-present.[2] NasserZalmout,ComputerScience,NewYorkUniversity.2015-present

• Ihaveservedastheprimaryorpartialadvisor/supervisorofthefollowingresearchers:

SeniorColleagues[3] Dr. Jim Jing-YanWang, Research Scientist. Computational Approaches to Modeling Language

Lab,NewYorkUniversity,AbuDhabi,2016-present.[4] Dr.HieuHoang,ResearchScientist.ComputationalApproachestoModelingLanguageLab,New

YorkUniversity,AbuDhabi,2015.[5] Dr.Wajdi Zaghouani, Lead Annotator, CarnegieMellon University Qatar (with Kemal Oflazer,

BehrangMohitandHoudaBouamorontwoprojects).2011-present.

JuniorColleagues[6] Alexander Erdmann, Visiting Doctoral Student. Computational Approaches to Modeling

LanguageLab,NewYorkUniversity,AbuDhabi,2016-present.[7] Sara Hassan, Research Assistant. Computational Approaches toModeling Language Lab, New

YorkUniversity,AbuDhabi,2016-present.[8] DimaTaji,ResearchAssistant.ComputationalApproachestoModelingLanguageLab,NewYork

University,AbuDhabi,2015-present.[9] AnasShahrour,ResearchAssistant.ComputationalApproachestoModelingLanguageLab,New

YorkUniversity,AbuDhabi,2015-2016.[10] SalamKhalifa,ResearchAssistant.ComputationalApproachestoModelingLanguageLab,New

YorkUniversity,AbuDhabi,2015-present.[11] OssamaObeid,ResearchProgrammer,CarnegieMellonUniversityQatar(withBehrangMohit).

2011-present.[12] Ryan Roth, Staff Associate, Columbia University Center for Computational Learning Systems

(withMonaDiabandOwenRambow).2010-2013.[13] Ramy Eskander, Staff Associate, Columbia University Center for Computational Learning

Systems(withOwenRambow).2012-present.[14] ArfathPasha,StaffAssociate,ColumbiaUniversityCenter forComputationalLearningSystems

(withOwenRambowandMonaDiab).2012-present.[15] MohamedBadrashiny,StaffAssociate,ColumbiaUniversityCenterforComputationalLearning

Systems(withOwenRambowandMonaDiab).2012-2013.Post-doctoral

[16] Alla Rozovskaya, Post-doctoral researcher, Columbia University Center for ComputationalLearningSystems.2013-present.

[17] Thomas Lippincott, Post-doctoral researcher, Columbia University Center for ComputationalLearningSystems(withOwenRambow).2013-present.

[18] NadiTomeh,Post-doctoralresearcher,ColumbiaUniversityCenterforComputationalLearningSystems.(Primaryresearchadvisor).2012-2013.

[19] Abdelati Hawwari, Post-doctoral researcher, Columbia University Center for ComputationalLearningSystems(withMonaDiabandOwenRambow).2011-2012.

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[20] Marine Carpuat, Post-doctoral researcher, Columbia University Center for ComputationalLearningSystems(withMonaDiabandOwenRambow).2010-2011.

[21] Yuval Marton, Post-doctoral researcher, Columbia University Center for ComputationalLearningSystems.(Primaryresearchadvisor).2009-2011.

[22] Ryan Roth, Post-doctoral researcher, Columbia University Center for Computational LearningSystems(withMonaDiabandOwenRambow).2008-2009.Doctoral

[23] AhmedElKholy,ComputerScienceDepartment,ColumbiaUniversity.2008-2015.[24] SarahAlkuhlani,ComputerScienceDepartment,ColumbiaUniversity.2009-2015.[25] Mohammad Rasooli, Ph.D. student, Computer Science Department, Columbia University.

(Advisor:NizarHabash2012-2014;MichaelCollins2014-graduation).[26] NouraFarra,Ph.D.student,ComputerScienceDepartment,ColumbiaUniversity.(Advisor:Nizar

Habash2012-2014;KathyMcKeown2014-graduation).[27] Kristen Parton, Ph.D. student, Computer Science Department, Columbia University. (Advisor:

KathyMcKeown).2010-2012.[28] KaisDukes,Ph.D.student,UniversityofLeeds.(Advisor:EricAtwell;Secondary:NizarHabash).

2009-present.[29] Mohamed El-Tantawy, Ph.D. student, Computer Science Department, Columbia University.

(Advisor:OwenRambow).2008-2011.[30] FadiBiadsy,Ph.D.student,ComputerScienceDepartment,ColumbiaUniversity.(Advisor: Julia

Hirschberg).2008-2011.[31] Josep M Crego. Ph.D. student, Computer Science Department, Universitat Politècnica de

Catalunya.(Advisor:JoséMariño).2007-2009[32] Jakob Elming, Ph.D. student, Computer Science Department, Copenhagen Business School.

(Advisor:DanielHardt).2006-2009.[33] MahmoudGhoneim.Ph.D.student,ComputerScienceDepartment,CairoUniversity. (Columbia

Advisor:MonaDiab).2006-2009.[34] NecipFazilAyan,Ph.D.student.ComputerScienceDepartment,UniversityofMarylandCollege

Park.(Advisor:BonnieDorr).2003-2005.IndependentResearcher

[35] SakharElKhereyf.ComputerResearchInstitute,KingAbdulazizCityforScienceandTechnology(KACST).Fall2013.

Masters

[36] SaraAlwaalan.M.S.student,ComputerScienceDepartment,ColumbiaUniversity.Fall2013.[37] Amit Abbi. M.S. student, Computer Science Department, Columbia University (with Owen

RambowandMonaDiab).2010-2011.[38] ReshefShilon,M.S.student,TelAvivUniversity.(Advisor:ShulyWintner).2010-2011.[39] Jun Hu, M.S. student, Computer Science Department, Columbia University. (Primary research

advisor).2008-2009.[40] Ryan Roth, M.S. student, Computer Science Department, Columbia University (with Owen

Rambow).2007.[41] AbdelhalimAbbas,M.S.student,ComputerScienceDepartment,ColumbiaUniversity.(Primary

researchadvisor).2006.[42] FarhadPeydayeSaheli,M.S.student,ComputerScienceDepartment,ColumbiaUniversity(with

OwenRambow).2006.[43] Fadi Biadsy, M.S. student, Computer Science Department, Ben-Gurion University. (Advisor:

JihadEl-Sana).2005-2006.[44] Matthew Chu, M.S. student, Computer Science Department, Columbia University (with Owen

Rambow).2005.Undergraduate

[45] DanaAbuAli,undergraduatestudent,ComputerScience,NYUAD,Summer2016-present.

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[46] Morgante Pell, undergraduate student, Computer Science, NYUAD, Fall 2015-Spring 2016.(CapstoneAdvisor)

[47] Asyrique“Ash”Thevendran,undergraduatestudent,ComputerScience,NYUAD,Fall2015-now.(CapstoneAdvisor)

[48] Chukwuyem “Chuksy” Onyibe, undergraduate student, Computer Science, NYUAD, Fall 2015-now.(CapstoneAdvisor)

[49] Lingliang“Ling”Zhang,undergraduatestudent,ComputerScience,NYUAD,Fall2015-Fall2016.(CapstoneAdvisor)

[50] Jermsak “Mick” Jermsurawong, undergraduate student, Computer Science, NYUAD, Fall 2014-Spring2015.(CapstoneAdvisor)

[51] ArvindSrinivasan,undergraduatestudent,ComputerScienceDepartment,ColumbiaUniversity.Fall2013.

[52] Matt Capetola, undergraduate student, Computer Science Department, Columbia University(withOwenRambow).2010-2011.

[53] Jacob Andreas, undergraduate student, Computer Science Department, Columbia University(withOwenRambow).2010-2011.

[54] Morgan Rhodes, undergraduate student, Computer Science Department, Columbia University.2006-2007.

[55] Amitai Aviram, undergraduate student, Computer Science Department, Columbia University(withOwenRambow).2005.HighSchool

[56] Hayden Metsky, High school student, Millburn High School, NJ. (Primary research advisor).2007-2009. Under my mentorship, this student was the regional winner in the SiemensCompetition in Math, Science and Technology (top 6 out of 1893) and a finalist in the IntelScienceTalentSearch(top40outof1600),2009.

PublicationsJournalArticles[1] Jarrar,Mustafa,NizarHabash,FaeqAlrimawiandDiyamAkra.Curras:AnAnnotatedCorpusfor

thePalestinianArabicDialect.UnderReview.[2] Salloum,WaelandNizarHabash.ADAM:AnalyzerforDialectalArabicMorphology.Journalof

KingSaudUniversity-ComputerandInformationSciences.Volume26,Issue4,December2014,Pages372–378.

[3] Arts, Tressy, Yonatan Belinkov,Nizar Habash, Adam Kilgarriff, and Vit Suchomel. arTenTen:ArabicCorpusandWordSketches.JournalofKingSaudUniversity-ComputerandInformationSciences.Volume26,Issue4,December2014,Pages357–371.

[4] Marton, Yuval,NizarHabash and Owen Rambow. “Dependency Parsing ofModern StandardArabicwith Lexical and Inflectional Features”.Computational Linguistics, Volume: 39, Issue: 1,2013.

[5] KaisDukes,EricAtwellandNizarHabash.“SupervisedCollaborationforSyntacticAnnotationofQuranicArabic”,LanguageResourceandEvaluationJournal,47:33-62,2013.

[6] AhmedElKholyandNizarHabash. “Orthographic andMorphologicalProcessing forEnglish-ArabicStatisticalMachineTranslation”.InMachineTranslationJournalSpecialIssueonArabicMachineTranslation,26:25-45,2012.

[7] Marine Carpuat, Yuval Marton and Nizar Habash. “Improved Arabic-to-English statisticalmachine translation by reordering post-verbal subjects for word alignment”. In MachineTranslationJournalSpecialIssueonArabicMachineTranslation,26:105-120,2012.

[8] Shilon, Reshef, Nizar Habash, Alon Lavie, Shuly Wintner. “Machine Translation betweenHebrew and Arabic”. In Machine Translation Journal Special Issue on Arabic MachineTranslation,26:177-195,2012.

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[9] Dorr,B.,R.Passonneau,D.Farwell,R.Green,N.Habash,S.Helmreich,E.Hovy,L.Levin,K.Miller,T. Mitamura, O. Rambow, F. Reeder, and A. Siddharthan. “Interlingual Annotation of ParallelText Corpora: A New Framework for Annotation and Evaluation,” Natural LanguageEngineering,CambridgeUniversityPress,16(3):197-243,2010.

[10] Habash, Nizar, Bonnie J. Dorr and Chirstof Monz. Symbolic-to-Statistical Hybridization:Extending Generation-Heavy Machine Translation. Machine Translation Journal, 23:23--63,2009.

[11] Habash, Nizar, Bonnie Dorr, and David Traum. Hybrid Natural LanguageGeneration fromLexicalConceptualStructures.MTJournalvolume18(2):81-128,2003.

[12] Dorr,BonnieJ.,NecipFazilAyan,NizarHabash,NitinMadnani,andRebeccaHwa.RapidPortingof DUSTer to Hindi. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 2(2):118-123,2003.

[13] Habash,Nizar.“Nuun:ASystemforDevelopingPlatformandBrowserIndependentArabicWebApplications.”(InArabic)ArabJournalofScience,33,1999.

Books[1] Habash, Nizar. Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing, Synthesis Lectures on

HumanLanguageTechnologies,GraemeHirst,editor.Morgan&ClaypoolPublishers.187pages,2010.This bookwas translated to Arabic by Prof. Hend Al-Khalifa of King SaudUniversity in Riyadh,SaudiArabia(2014).

BookChapters[1] Fabri, Ray, Michael Gasser, Nizar Habash, George Kiraz, and Shuly Wintner. “Chapter 1:

Linguistic Introduction: The Orthography, Morphology and Syntax of Semitic Languages.” InZitouni,Imed,ed.,“SemiticNaturalLanguageProcessing,”Springer,2014.Pages3-41.

[2] Nizar Habash and Fatiha Sadat. “Arabic Preprocessing for Statistical Machine Translation:Schemes, Techniques andCombinations.” In Soudi, A.,Neumann,G., Farghaly, A., Zbib, R. eds,“ChallengesforArabicMT",Chapter5,JohnBenjaminsNLPseries,2012.

[3] Diab, Mona,Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Ryan Roth. “CADIM Arabic Tools: MorphologicalAnalysis, Disambiguation and Generation, Tokenization, Diacritization, Lemmatization, POSTaggingandBasePhraseChunking.”InChapter1onDataAcquisitionandLinguisticResources(Section 1.4.2). In the Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation,JosephOlive,CaitlinChristiansonandJohnMcCary,eds.Springer,2011.

[4] Maamouri,Mohamed,AnnBies,SethKulick,Habash,Nizar,ReemFarajandRyanRoth.“ArabicTreebanking.”InChapter1onDataAcquisitionandLinguisticResources(Section1.3.4).IntheHandbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation, Joseph Olive, CaitlinChristiansonandJohnMcCary,eds.Springer,2011.

[5] DeGispert, Adrià,WilliamByrne, Jinxi Xu, Rabih Zbib, JohnMakhoul, Achraf Chalabi, HazemNader, Nizar Habash and Fatiha Sadat. “Preprocessing Arabic for Arabic-English StatisticalMachine Translation.” In Chapter 2 onMachine Translation from Text (Section 2.2.1). In theHandbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation, Joseph Olive, CaitlinChristiansonandJohnMcCary,eds.Springer,2011.

[6] Habash,Nizar,“Introduction.”InChapter2onMachineTranslationfromText.IntheHandbookofNaturalLanguageProcessingandMachineTranslation,JosephOlive,CaitlinChristiansonandJohnMcCary,eds.Springer,2011.

[7] Habash,Nizar. “UsingSurfaceSpan inSyntax-awareMTEvaluation(SEPIA).” InChapter5onMachineTranslationEvaluation andOptimization (Section5.6.4). In theHandbookofNaturalLanguage Processing and Machine Translation, Joseph Olive, Caitlin Christianson and JohnMcCary,eds.Springer,2011.

[8] Farwell,D.,B.Dorr,N.Habash,S.Helmreich,E.Hovy,R.Green,L.Levin,K.Miller,T.Mitamura,O.Rambow,F.Reeder,andA.Siddharthan.“InterlingualAnnotationofMultilingualTextCorpora

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and FrameNet.” In: H.C. Boas (ed.), /Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography:MethodsandApplications/,Chapter10,287-318.Berlin:MoutondeGruyter,2009.

[9] Elming, Jakob,Nizar Habash and Josep Crego. “Combination of Statistical Word AlignmentsBasedonMultiplePreprocessingSchemes.”Bookchapterin“LearningforMachineTranslation.”EditorsCyrilGoutte,NicolaCancedda,MarcDymetman,andGeorgeFoster.MITPress,2008.

[10] Habash,Nizar.“ArabicMorphologicalRepresentationsforMachineTranslation.”BookChapter.InArabicComputationalMorphology:Knowledge-basedandEmpiricalMethods.EditorsAntalvandenBoschandAbdelhadiSoudi.2007.

[11] Habash, Nizar, Abdelhadi Soudi, and Tim Buckwalter. “On Arabic Transliteration.” BookChapter. In Arabic Computational Morphology: Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods.EditorsAntalvandenBoschandAbdelhadiSoudi.2007.

ConferenceProceedings

2016[1] Al Zaatari, Ayman, Reem El Ballouli, Shady ELbassouni, Wassim El-Hajj, Hazem Hajj, Khaled

Shaban and Nizar Habash. Arabic Corpora for Credibility Analysis. In Proceedings of theLanguageResourcesandEvaluationConference(LREC),Portorož,Slovenia,2016.

[2] Habash,Nizar,AnasShahrourandMuhamedAl-Khalil.ExploitingArabicDiacritizationforHighQuality Automatic Annotation. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and EvaluationConference(LREC),Portorož,Slovenia,2016.

[3] Habash,Nizar,NasserZalmoutandDimaTaji.AraParl:AParallelCorpusforStatisticalMachineTranslation between Arabic and European Languages. In Proceedings of the LanguageResourcesandEvaluationConference(LREC),Portorož,Slovenia,2016.

[4] Al-Shargi, Faisal, Aidan Kaplan, Ramy Eskander, Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow. AMorphologically Annotated Corpus and a Morphological Analyzer for Moroccan and San'aniYemeniArabic. InProceedingsof theLanguageResources andEvaluationConference (LREC),Portorož,Slovenia,2016.

[5] Khalifa, Salam, Houda Bouamor and Nizar Habash. DALILA: The Dialectal Arabic LinguisticLearning Assistant. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference(LREC),Portorož,Slovenia,2016.

[6] Khalifa,Salam,NizarHabash,DanaAbdulrahimandSaraHassan.ALargeScaleCorpusofGulfArabic.InProceedingsoftheLanguageResourcesandEvaluationConference(LREC),Portorož,Slovenia,2016.

[7] Temnikova, Irina,Wajdi Zaghouani, StephanVogel andNizarHabash. Adapting theCognitiveMTEvaluationApproach toArabic. InProceedingsof theLanguageResourcesandEvaluationConference(LREC),Portorož,Slovenia,2016.

[8] Zaghouani,Wajdi,NizarHabash,OssamaObeid,BehrangMohitandKemalOflazer.BuildinganArabicMachineTranslationPost-EditedCorpus:GuidelinesandAnnotation. InProceedingsoftheLanguageResourcesandEvaluationConference(LREC),Portorož,Slovenia,2016.

2015[9] El Kholy, Ahmed, and Nizar Habash. Morphological Constraints for Phrase Pivot Statistical

MachineTranslation.InProceedingsofMachineTranslationSummit.Miami,2015.

[10] Shahrour, Anas, Salam Khalifa and Nizar Habash. Improving Arabic Diacritization throughSyntacticAnalysis.InProceedingsofEMNLP,Lisbon,2015.

[11] Jermsurawong, Jermsak and Nizar Habash. Predicting the structure of Cooking Recipes. InProceedingsofEMNLP,Lisbon,2015.

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[12] Masmoudi,Abir,NizarHabash,MariemEllouze,YannickEstève,LamiaHadrichBelguith.ArabicTransliterationofRomanizedTunisianDialectText:APreliminaryInvestigation.InProceedingsofCICLING-2015,Cairo,2015.

2014[13] Sikos, Jennifer, Peter David, Nizar Habash, and Reem Faraj. Authorship Analysis of Inspire

Magazine through Stylometric and Psychological Features. Joint Intelligence and SecurityInformaticsConference(JISIC)Proceedings,September2014.

[14] Cui,Xiaodong,BrianKingsbury,JiaCui,BhuvanaRamabhadran,AndrewRosenberg,MohammedSadegh Rasooli, Owen Rambow,Nizar Habash and Vaibhava Goel. Improving Deep NeuralNetworkAcousticModeling ForAudio Corpus IndexingUnderThe IARPABabel Program. InProceedingsofINTERSPEECH2014,Singapore,2014.

[15] ElKholy,AhmedandNizarHabash.AlignmentSymmetrizationOptimizationtargetingPhrasePivot Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Conference of the EuropeanAssociationforMachineTranslation(EAMT2014),Dubrovnik,Croatia,2014.

[16] Al-Badrashiny, Mohamed, Ramy Eskander, Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow. AutomaticTransliteration of Romanized Dialectal Arabic. In Proceedings of the Conference onComputationalNaturalLanguageLearning(CONLL),Baltimore,Maryland,2014.

[17] Rozovskaya, Alla, Kai-Wei Chang, Mark Sammons, Dan Roth andNizar Habash. The Illinois-Columbia System in the CoNLL-2014 Shared Task. In Proceedings of the Conference onComputationalNaturalLanguageLearningSharedTask(CONLL-ST),Baltimore,Maryland,2014.

[18] Salloum,Wael, Heba Elfardy, Linda Alamir Salloum,Nizar Habash andMona Diab. SentenceLevel Dialect Identification for Machine Translation System Selection. In Proceedings of theConferenceoftheAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(ACL),Baltimore,Maryland,2014.

[19] Farra,Noura, Nadi Tomeh,AllaRozovskaya, andNizarHabash. Generalized Character-LevelSpelling Error Correction. In Proceedings of the Conference of the Association forComputationalLinguistics(ACL),Baltimore,Maryland,2014.

[20] Rasooli, Mohammad Sadegh, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow and Thomas Lippincot.Unsupervised Morphology-Based Vocabulary Expansion. In Proceedings of the Conference oftheAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(ACL),Baltimore,Maryland,2014.

[21] Bouamor,Houda,NizarHabashandKemalOflazer.AMultidialectalParallelCorpusofArabic.In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Reykjavik,Iceland,2014.

[22] Diab,Mona,MohamedAl-Badrashiny,MaryamAminian,MohammedAttia,PradeepDasigi,HebaElfardy, Ramy Eskander, Nizar Habash, Abdelati Hawwari, Wael Salloum. Tharwa: A LargeScale Dialectal Arabic - Standard Arabic - English Lexicon. In Proceedings of the LanguageResourcesandEvaluationConference(LREC),Reykjavik,Iceland,2014.

[23] Maamouri,Mohamed,AnnBies, SethKulick,MichaelCiul,NizarHabash andRamyEskander.Developing an Egyptian Arabic Treebank: Impact of DialectalMorphology on Annotation andTool Development. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference(LREC),Reykjavik,Iceland,2014.

[24] Masmoudi,Abir,MariemEllouzeKhmekhem,YannickEsteve,LamiaHadrichBelguithandNizarHabash. A Corpus and Phonetic Dictionary for Tunisian Arabic Speech Recognition. InProceedingsoftheLanguageResourcesandEvaluationConference(LREC),Reykjavik, Iceland,2014.

[25] Pasha, Arfath, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny, Mona Diab, Ahmed El Kholy, Ramy Eskander,NizarHabash,ManojPooleery,OwenRambowandRyanM.Roth.MADAMIRA:AFast,ComprehensiveToolforMorphologicalAnalysisandDisambiguationofArabic.InProceedingsoftheLanguageResourcesandEvaluationConference(LREC),Reykjavik,Iceland,2014.

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[26] Zaghouani,Wajdi,BehrangMohit,NizarHabash,OssamaObeid,NadiTomeh,AllaRozovskaya,Noura Farra, Sarah Alkuhlani and Kemal Oflazer. Large Scale Arabic Error Annotation:Guidelines and Framework. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and EvaluationConference(LREC),Reykjavik,Iceland,2014.

[27] Zribi, Ines, Rahma Boujelbane, Abir Masmoudi, Mariem Ellouze, Lamia Belguith and NizarHabash. A Conventional Orthography for Tunisian Arabic. In Proceedings of the LanguageResourcesandEvaluationConference(LREC),Reykjavik,Iceland,2014.

2013[28] Eskander, Ramy, Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow. Automatic Extraction of Morphological

Lexicons from Morphologically Annotated Corpora. In Proceedings of the conference onEmpiricalMethodsforNaturalLanguageProcessing(EMNLP),Seattle,WA,2013.

[29] Hamdi, Ahmed, RahmaBoujelbane,NizarHabash andAlexisNasr. The Effects of FactorizingRoot and Pattern Mapping in Translating between Tunisian Arabic and Standard Arabic. InProceedingsoftheMachineTranslationSummit(MTSummit),Nice,France,2013.

[30] El Kholy, Ahmed, Nizar Habash, Gregor Leusch, Evgeny Matusov, Hassan Sawaf. SelectiveCombinationofPivotandDirectStatisticalMachineTranslationModels. InProceedingsof theInternationalJointConferenceonNaturalLanguageProcessing(IJCNLP),Nagoya,Japan,2013.

[31] Rasooli, Mohammad Sadegh, Ahmed El Kholy and Nizar Habash. Orthographic andMorphologicalProcessingforPersian-to-EnglishStatisticalMachineTranslation.InProceedingsoftheInternationalJointConferenceonNaturalLanguageProcessing(IJCNLP),Nagoya, Japan,2013.

[32] Obeid, Ossama, Wajdi Zaghouani, Behrang Mohit, Nizar Habash, Kemal Oflazer and NadiTomeh.AWeb-basedAnnotationFrameworkForLarge-ScaleTextCorrection.DemoPaper. InProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP),Nagoya,Japan,2013.

[33] Pasha,Arfath,MohammadAl-Badrashiny,MonaT.Diab,NizarHabash,ManojPooleery,OwenRambow,RyanM.RothandMohamedAltantawy.DIRA:DialectalArabicInformationRetrievalAssistant. Demo Paper. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on NaturalLanguageProcessing(IJCNLP),Nagoya,Japan,2013.

[34] El Kholy, Ahmed, Nizar Habash, Gregor Leusch, Evgeny Matusov, Hassan Sawaf. LanguageIndependentConnectivityStrengthFeaturesforPhrasePivotStatisticalMachineTranslation.InProceedings of Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Sofia,Bulgaria,2013.

[35] Tomeh,Nadi,NizarHabash,RyanRoth,NouraFarra,PradeepDasigiandMonaDiab.RerankingwithLinguisticandSemanticFeaturesforArabicOpticalCharacterRecognition.InProceedingsofConferenceoftheAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(ACL),Sofia,Bulgaria,2013.

[36] Habash,Nizar, Ryan Roth, Owen Rambow, Ramy Eskander and Nadi Tomeh. MorphologicalAnalysis and Disambiguation for Dialectal Arabic. In Proceedings of Conference of the NorthAmericanAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(NAACL),Atlanta,Georgia,2013.

[37] Alkuhlani, Sarah, Nizar Habash and Ryan Roth. Automatic Morphological Enrichment of aMorphologicallyUnderspecifiedTreebank.InProceedingsofConferenceoftheNorthAmericanAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(NAACL),Atlanta,Georgia,2013.

[38] Salloum, Wael andNizar Habash. Dialectal Arabic to English Machine Translation: Pivotingthrough Modern Standard Arabic. In Proceedings of Conference of the North AmericanAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(NAACL),Atlanta,Georgia,2013.

[39] Eskander, Ramy, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow and Nadi Tomeh. Processing SpontaneousOrthography. In Proceedings of Conference of the North American Association forComputationalLinguistics(NAACL),Atlanta,Georgia,2013.

[40] Hamdi,Ahmed,RahmaBoujelbane,NizarHabashandAlexisNasr.Unsystèmedetraductiondeverbes entre arabe standard et arabe dialectal par analyse morphologique profonde. In

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Proceedings of Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel 2013 (TALN 2013), Les Sables-d'Olonne,France,2013.

2012[41] Salloum,WaelandNizarHabash. Elissa:ADialectal toStandardArabicMachineTranslation

System. Demo Paper. In Proceedings of the International Conference on ComputationalLinguistics(COLING).Mumbai,India,2012.

[42] Parton, Kristen,Nizar Habash, and Kathleen McKeown. Lost and Found in Translation: TheImpactofMachineTranslatedResultsonTranslingualInformationRetrieval.InProceedingsoftheconferenceoftheAssociationforMachineTranslationintheAmericas(AMTA),SanDiego,2012.

[43] El Kholy, Ahmed, Nizar Habash. Rich Morphology Generation Using Statistical MachineTranslation. In Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference(INLG),StarvedRock,IL,USA,2012.

[44] ElKholy,Ahmed,NizarHabash.Translate,PredictorGenerate:ModelingRichMorphology inStatisticalMachineTranslation. InProceedingsof theConferenceof theEuropeanAssociationforMachineTranslation(EAMT),Trento,Italy,2012.

[45] Singh, Nimesh, Nizar Habash. Hebrew Morphological Preprocessing for Statistical MachineTranslation. In Proceedings of the Conference of the European Association for MachineTranslation(EAMT),Trento,Italy,2012.

[46] Parton, Kristen, Nizar Habash, Kathleen McKeown, Gonzalo Iglesias, Adrià de Gispert. CanAutomatic Post-Editing Make MT More Meaningful? In Proceedings of the Conference of theEuropeanAssociationforMachineTranslation(EAMT),Trento,Italy,2012.

[47] Alkuhlani, Sarah and Nizar Habash. Identifying Broken Plurals, Irregular Gender, andRationality in Arabic Text. In Proceedings of Conference of the European Association forComputationalLinguistics(EACL),Avignon,France,2012.

[48] Habash,Nizar,MonaDiabandOwenRambow.ConventionalOrthographyforDialectalArabic.In Proceedings of International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC),Istanbul,2012.

2011[49] Ahmed El Kholy and Nizar Habash. Automatic error analysis for morphologically rich

languages. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit XIII),pp.225-232,Xiamen,China,2011.

[50] Dukes,KaisandNizarHabash.One-StepStatisticalParsingofHybridDependency-ConstituencySyntactic Representations. In Proceedings of the International Conference on ParsingTechnologies.Dublin,2011.

[51] Alkuhlani, Sarah andNizar Habash. A Corpus for Modeling Morpho-Syntactic Agreement inArabic: Gender, Number and Rationality. In Proceedings of Conference of the Association forComputationalLinguistics(ACL),ShortPaper,Portland,OR,2011.

[52] Habash,NizarandRyanRoth.UsingDeepMorphologytoImproveAutomaticErrorDetectionin Arabic Handwriting Recognition. In Proceedings of the Conference of the Association forComputationalLinguistics(ACL),Portland,OR,2011.

[53] Marton,Yuval,NizarHabashandOwenRambow.ImprovingArabicDependencyParsingwithLexical and InflectionalSurfaceandFunctionalFeatures. InProceedingsof theConferenceoftheAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(ACL),Portland,OR,2011.

2010[54] Carpuat, Marine, Yuval Marton and Nizar Habash. Improving Arabic-to-English Statistical

MachineTranslation byReordering Post-verbal Subjects forAlignment. In Proceedings of theConferenceoftheAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(ACL).Uppsala,Sweden,2010.

[55] Carpuat,Marine,YuvalMartonandNizarHabash.ReorderingMatrixPost-verbalSubjects forArabic-to-EnglishSMT.InProceedingsofTraitementAutomatiqueduLangageNaturel(TALN-10).Montréal,Canada,2010.

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[56] Kholy, AhmedEl and NizarHabash. Orthographic andMorphological Processing for English-ArabicStatisticalMachineTranslation. InProceedingsofTraitementAutomatiqueduLangageNaturel(TALN-10).Montréal,Canada,2010.

[57] Altantawy, Mohamed, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, and Ibrahim Saleh. MorphologicalAnalysisandGenerationofArabicNouns:AMorphemicFunctionalApproach.InProceedingsoftheLanguageResourcesandEvaluationConference(LREC),Malta,2010.

[58] KaisDukesandNizarHabash.MorphologicalAnnotationofQuranicArabic. InProceedingsoftheLanguageResourcesandEvaluationConference(LREC),Malta,2010.

2009[59] Habash,NizarandRyanRoth.CATiB:TheColumbiaArabicTreebank.IntheProceedingsofthe

ConferenceoftheAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(ACL’09).Suntec,Singapore,2009.[60] Biadsy, Fadi, Nizar Habash and Julia Hirschberg. Improving the Arabic Pronunciation

Dictionary forPhoneandWordRecognitionwithLinguisticallyBasedPronunciationRules. InProceedingsoftheNorthAmericanAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(NAACL),Boulder,2009.

[61] Habash, Nizar, Owen Rambow and Ryan Roth. MADA+TOKAN: A Toolkit for ArabicTokenization, Diacritization, Morphological Disambiguation, POS Tagging, Stemming andLemmatization. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Arabic LanguageResourcesandTools(MEDAR),Cairo,Egypt,2009.

[62] Habash,Nizar.REMOOV:ATool forOnlineHandlingofOut-of-VocabularyWords inMachineTranslation.InProceedingsofthe2ndInternationalConferenceonArabicLanguageResourcesandTools(MEDAR),Cairo,Egypt,2009.

[63] Habash, Nizar, Reem Faraj and Ryan Roth. Syntactic Annotation in the Columbia ArabicTreebank. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference onArabic LanguageResourcesandTools(MEDAR),Cairo,Egypt,2009.

2008[64] Habash, Nizar and Hayden Metsky. Automatic Learning of Morphological Variations for

HandlingOut-of-VocabularyTermsinUrdu-EnglishMachineTranslation.InProceedingsoftheAssociationforMachineTranslationintheAmericas(AMTA-2008),Waikiki,Hawai’i,2008.

[65] Habash, Nizar. Four Techniques for Online Handling of Out-of-VocabularyWords in Arabic-English Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of Association for ComputationalLinguistics(ACL),Columbus,Ohio.2008.

[66] Roth, Ryan, Owen Rambow, Nizar Habash, Mona Diab, and Cynthia Rudin. ArabicMorphological Tagging, Diacritization, and Lemmatization Using LexemeModels and FeatureRanking. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Columbus, Ohio.2008.

[67] Habash,Nizar andRyanRoth. IdentificationofNaturallyOccurringNumericalExpressions inArabic. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC),Marrakech,Morocco,2008.

[68] Farber,Benjamin,DayneFreitag,NizarHabashandOwenRambow.ImprovingNERinArabicUsing a Morphological Tagger. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and EvaluationConference(LREC),Marrakech,Morocco,2008.

2007

[69] Habash,Nizar. SyntacticPreprocessing forStatisticalMachineTranslation. InProceedingsoftheMachineTranslationSummit(MT-Summit),Copenhagen,Denmark,2007.

[70] Diab, Mona, Mahmoud Ghoneim and Nizar Habash. Arabic Diacritization in the Context ofStatistical Machine Translation, In Proceedings of the Machine Translation Summit (MT-Summit),Copenhagen,Denmark,2007.

[71] Kirchhoff,Katrin,OwenRambow,NizarHabash,MonaDiab.Semi-AutomaticErrorAnalysisforLarge-ScaleStatisticalMachineTranslationSystems,InProceedingsoftheMachineTranslationSummit(MT-Summit),Copenhagen,Denmark,2007.

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[72] Habash,Nizar,RyanGabbard,OwenRambow,SethKulickandMitchMarcus.DeterminingCasein Arabic: Learning Complex Linguistic Behavior Requires Complex Linguistic Features, InProceedingsoftheConferenceonEmpiricalMethodsinNaturalLanguageProcessing(EMNLP),Prague,CzechRepublic,2007.

[73] Habash,NizarandOwenRambow.ArabicDiacritizationthroughFullMorphologicalTagging,InProceedings of the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics(NAACL),Rochester,NewYork,2007.

[74] Elming,JakobandNizarHabash.CombinationofStatisticalWordAlignmentsBasedonMultiplePreprocessing Schemes, In Proceedings of theNorth American chapter of the Association forComputationalLinguistics(NAACL),Rochester,NewYork,2007.

[75] Habash, Nizar and Owen Rambow. Morphophonemic and Orthographic Rules in a Multi-DialectalMorphologicalAnalyzerandGeneratorforArabicVerbs,InternationalSymposiumonComputerandArabicLanguage(ISCAL),Riyadh,SaudiArabia,2007.

2006[76] Habash,Nizar,BonnieDorrandChristofMonz.ChallengesinBuildinganArabic-EnglishGHMT

SystemwithSMTComponents.InProceedingsoftheAssociationforMachineTranslationintheAmericas(AMTA-2006),Boston,MA,2006.

[77] Habash,NizarandOwenRambow.MAGEAD:AMorphologicalAnalyzerandGeneratorfortheArabicDialects.InProceedingsofACL,Sydney,Australia,2006.

[78] Sadat, FatihaandNizarHabash. CombinationofArabicPreprocessingSchemes forStatisticalMachineTranslation.InProceedingsofACL,Sydney,Australia,2006.

[79] Habash, Nizar and Fatiha Sadat. Arabic Preprocessing Schemes for Statistical MachineTranslation,InProceedingsoftheNorthAmericanchapteroftheAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(NAACL),NewYork,2006.

[80] Chiang, David, Mona Diab, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, and Safi Shareef. Parsing ArabicDialect.InProceedingsoftheEuropeanchapteroftheAssociationofComputationalLinguistics(EACL).2006.

[81] Habash, Nizar, Clinton Mah, Randy Calistri-Yeh, Sabiha Imran and Paraic Sheridan. Design,Construction and Validation of an Arabic-English Conceptual Interlingua for Cross-lingualInformationRetrieval. InProceedingsof the InternationalConferenceonLanguageResourcesandEvaluation(LREC),2006.

[82] Rambow,Owen,BonnieDorr,DavidFarwell,RebeccaGreen,NizarHabash,StephenHelmreich,EduardHovy,LoriLevin,CarnegieKeith J.Miller,TerukoMitamura,FlorenceReeder,AdvaithSiddharthan. Parallel Syntactic Annotation of Multiple Languages. In Proceedings of theInternationalConferenceonLanguageResourcesandEvaluation(LREC),2006.

[83] Passonneau, Rebecca, Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow. Inter-annotator Agreement on aMultilingual Semantic Annotation Task. In Proceedings of the International Conference onLanguageResourcesandEvaluation(LREC),2006.

[84] Maamouri, Mohamed, Ann Bies, Tim Buckwalter, Mona Diab,Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow,Dalila Tabessi.Developing andUsing a PilotDialectal Arabic Treebank. In Proceedings of theInternationalConferenceonLanguageResourcesandEvaluation(LREC),2006.

2005[85] Habash, Nizar and Owen Rambow. Arabic tokenization, part-of-speech tagging and

morphologicaldisambiguationinonefellswoop.InProceedingsoftheConferenceofAmericanAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(ACL),2005.

2004[86] Habash,Nizar. TheUse of a StructuralN-gramLanguageModel in Generation-HeavyHybrid

MachineTranslation.InProceedingsoftheThirdInternationalConferenceofNaturalLanguageGeneration(INLG-04).CareysManor,UK,2004.

[87] Habash,Nizar.LargeScaleLexemeBasedArabicMorphologicalGeneration.InProceedingsofTraitementAutomatiqueduLangageNaturel(TALN-04).Fez,Morocco,2004.

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[88] Habash,NizarandOwenRambow.ExtractingaTreeAdjoiningGrammarfromthePennArabicTreebank. In Proceedings of Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel (TALN-04). Fez,Morocco,2004.

[89] Ayan,Fazil,BonnieJ.Dorr,andNizarHabash.Multi-Align:CombiningLinguisticandStatisticalTechniquesto ImproveAlignments forAdaptableMT. InProceedingsof the6thConferenceoftheAssociationforMachineTranslationintheAmericas(AMTA-2004),WashingtonDC,2004.

[90] Reeder,Florence,BonnieDorr,DavidFarwell,NizarHabash,StephenHelmreich,EduardHovy,Lori Levin, TerukoMitamura, KeithMiller, Owen Rambow, Advaith Siddharthan. InterlingualAnnotation forMTDevelopment. In Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Association forMachineTranslationintheAmericas(AMTA-2004),WashingtonDC,2004.

2003[91] Habash,Nizar.Matador:ALargeScaleSpanish-EnglishGHMTSystem.InProceedingsoftheMT

Summit,NewOrleans,LA,2003.[92] Habash,Nizar.SystemDemonstrationMatador:Spanish-EnglishGHMT. InProceedingsof the

MTSummit,NewOrleans,LA,2003.[93] Habash,NizarandBonnieDorr.ACategorialVariationDatabaseforEnglish.InProceedingsof

NorthAmericanAssociationforComputationalLinguistics,Edmonton,Canada,2003.[94] Habash, Nizar and Bonnie Dorr. System Demonstration CatVar: A Database of Categorial

VariationforEnglish.InProceedingsoftheMTSummit,NewOrleans,LA,2003.

2002[95] Habash,Nizar andBonnieDorr.HandlingTranslationDivergences:CombiningStatisticaland

Symbolic Techniques in Generation-Heavy Machine Translation. In Proceedings oftheConference of the Association forMachine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), Tiburon, CA,2002.

[96] Dorr, Bonnie, Lisa Pearl, Rebecca Hwa andNizarHabash. DUSTer: AMethod for UnravelingCross-Language Divergences for Statistical Word-Level Alignment. In Proceedings oftheConference of the Association forMachine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), Tiburon, CA,2002.

[97] Habash, Nizar. Generation-Heavy Hybrid Machine Translation. In Proceedings of theInternationalNaturalLanguageGenerationConference(NLG).NewYork,2002.

2001-1998[98] Habash,NizarandBonnieDorr.LargeScaleLanguageIndependentGenerationUsingThematic

Hierarchies.InProceedingsoftheMTSummitVIII.SantiagodeCompostella,Spain,2001.[99] Habash,Nizar.oxyGen:ALanguageIndependentLanguageRealizationEngine.InProceedings

oftheFourthConferenceof theAssociation forMachineTranslation in theAmericas (AMTA),Cuernavaca,Mexico,2000.

[100] Habash,Nizar.Nuun:ASystemforDevelopingPlatformandBrowserIndependentArabicWebApplications. In Proceedings of the Arabic Translation and Localization Conference (ATLAS),Tunis,Tunisia,1999.

[101] Habash, Nizar. Issues in Palestinian Arabic Spelling Standardization. In the North AmericanConferenceonAfro-AsiaticLinguistics(NACAL27),Baltimore,MD,1999.

[102] Dorr,Bonnie,NizarHabash andDavidTraum.AThematicHierarchy forEfficientGenerationfromLexical-ConceptualStructures.InProceedingsoftheAssociationofMachineTranslationintheAmericas(AMTA),Longhorne,PA,1998.

Workshops

2016[1] Taji,Dima,RamyEskander,NizarHabash, andOwenRambow.TheColumbiaUniversity-New

York University Abu Dhabi SIGMORPHON 2016 Morphological Reinflection shared tasksubmission.SIGMORPHONWorkshop,ACL.Berlin,2016.

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2015[2] Saadane, Houda, and Nizar Habash. A Conventional Orthography for Algerian Arabic. In

ProceedingsoftheSecondArabicNaturalLanguageProcessingWorkshop,ACL,Beijing,2015.

[3] Hamdi, Ahmed, Alexis Nasr,Nizar Habash, and Núria Gala. POS-tagging of Tunisian DialectUsing Standard Arabic Resources and Tools. In Proceedings of the Second Arabic NaturalLanguageProcessingWorkshop,ACL,Beijing,2015.

[4] Rozovskaya, Alla, Houda Bouamor,Nizar Habash,Wajdi Zaghouani, Ossama Obeid, BehrangMohit.TheSecondQALBSharedTaskonAutomaticTextCorrectionforArabic.InProceedingsoftheSecondArabicNaturalLanguageProcessingWorkshop,ACL,Beijing,2015.

[5] Farra, Nourra, Kathleen McKeown,Nizar Habash. Annotating Targets of Opinions in Arabicusing Crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of the Second Arabic Natural Language ProcessingWorkshop,ACL,Beijing,2015.

[6] Zaghouani, Wajdi, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Alla Rozovskaya, Behrang Mohit, Abeer Heider, and Kemal Oflazer. Correction Annotation for Non-Native Arabic Texts: Guidelines and Corpus. In Proceedings of The 9th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, NAACL, pp. 129-139. 2015.

[7] Sajjad, Hassan, Nadir Durrani, Francisco Guzman, Preslav Nakov, Ahmed Abdelali, StephanVogel, Wael Salloum, Ahmed El Kholy, Nizar Habash. QCN System Description for NISTOpenMT15.InProceedingsoftheOpenMachineTranslationEvaluationWorkshop,WashingtonDC,2015.

2014[8] Eskander,Ramy,MohamedAl-Badrashiny,NizarHabash andOwenRambow.ForeignWords

and the Automatic Processing of Arabic Social Media Text Written in Roman Script. InProceedingsof theFirstWorkshoponComputationalApproaches toCodeSwitching,EMNLP,Doha,2014.

[9] Badaro, Gilbert, Ramy Baly, Hazem Hajj, Nizar Habash and Wassim El-Hajj. A Large ScaleArabic Sentiment Lexicon for Arabic Opinion Mining. In Proceedings of the Arabic NaturalLanguageProcessingWorkshop,EMNLP,Doha,2014.

[10] Bies, Ann, Zhiyi Song,MohamedMaamouri, Stephen Grimes, Haejoong Lee, JonathanWright,Stephanie Strassel, Nizar Habash, Ramy Eskander, and Owen Rambow. Transliteration ofArabizi into Arabic Orthography: Developing a Parallel Annotated Arabizi-Arabic ScriptSMS/Chat Corpus. In Proceedings of the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop,EMNLP,Doha,2014.

[11] Jarrar, Mustafa, Nizar Habash, Diyam Akra and Nasser Zalmout. Building a Corpus forPalestinian Arabic: a Preliminary Study. In Proceedings of the Arabic Natural LanguageProcessingWorkshop,EMNLP,Doha,2014.

[12] Jeblee, Serena, Weston Feely, Houda Bouamor, Alon Lavie, Nizar Habash and KemalOflazer.Domain and Dialect Adaptation for Machine Translation into Egyptian Arabic. InProceedingsoftheArabicNaturalLanguageProcessingWorkshop,EMNLP,Doha,2014.

[13] Mohit,Behrang,AllaRozovskaya,NizarHabash,WajdiZaghouaniandOssamaObeid.TheFirstshared Task on Automatic Text Correction for Arabic. In Proceedings of the Arabic NaturalLanguageProcessingWorkshop,EMNLP,Doha,2014.

[14] Rozovskaya,Alla,NizarHabash,RamyEskander,NouraFarraandWaelSalloum.TheColumbiaSystemintheQALB-2014SharedTaskonArabicErrorCorrection.InProceedingsoftheArabicNaturalLanguageProcessingWorkshop,EMNLP,Doha,2014.

[15] Tomeh, Nadi, Nizar Habash, Ramy Eskander and Joseph Le Roux. A Pipeline Approach toSupervised Automatic Error Correction. In Proceedings of the Arabic Natural LanguageProcessingWorkshop,EMNLP,Doha,2014.

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2013[16] DjaméSeddah,ReutTsarfaty,SandraKübler,MarieCandito,JinhoD.Choi,RichárdFarkas,Jen-

nifer Foster, Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola, Yoav Goldberg, Spence Green, Nizar Habash,MarcoKuhlmann,WolfgangMaier, JoakimNivre,AdamPrzepiorkowski,RyanRoth,WolfgangSeeker, Yan- nick Versley, Veronika Vincze, Marcin Woliński, Alina Wróblewska, and EricVillemonte de la Clérgerie. 2013. Overview of the SPMRL 2013 Shared Task: A Cross-FrameworkEvaluation of ParsingMorphologicallyRich Languages. In Proceedings of the 4thWorkshop on Statistical Parsing ofMorphologically Rich Languages: Shared Task, SPMRL’13,EMNLP,Seattle,2013.

[17] Marton, Yuval, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow and Sarah Alkuhlani. SPMRL’13 Shared TaskSystem: The CADIM Arabic Dependency Parser. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop onStatisticalParsingofMorphologicallyRichLanguages:SharedTask,SPMRL’13,EMNLP,Seattle,2013.

[18] Eskander, Ramy,Nizar Habash, Ann Bies, Seth Kulick, and Mohamed Maamouri. AutomaticCorrection and Extension ofMorphological Annotations. In the Proceedings of the LinguisticAnnotations Workshop (LAW) in the Conference of the Association for ComputationalLinguistics(ACL),Sofia,Bulgaria,2013.

[19] Belinkov,Yonatan,NizarHabash,AdamKilgarriff,NoamOrdan,RyanRothandVitekSuchomel.arTenTen:anew,vastcorpusforArabic.InProceedingsofWACL'2WorkshoponArabicCorpusLinguistics.Lancaster,UK,2013.

2012[20] Habash,Nizar,RamyEskanderandAbdelatiHawwari.AMorphologicalAnalyzerforEgyptian

Arabic. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics,Phonology,andMorphology(SIGMORPHON)intheConferenceoftheNorthAmericanchapteroftheAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(NAACL),Montreal,Canada,2012.2011

[21] Andreas,Jacob,NizarHabash,andOwenRambow.Fuzzysyntacticreorderingforphrase-basedstatistical machine translation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Statistical MachineTranslationat theConference forEmpiricalMethods inNaturalLanguageProcessing (EMNLP2011),Edinburgh,Scotland,UK,2011.

[22] Marton,Yuval,AhmedElKholyandNizarHabash.Filteringantonymous,trend-contrasting,andpolarity-dissimilardistributionalparaphrases for improving statisticalmachine translation. InProceedingsoftheWorkshoponStatisticalMachineTranslationattheConferenceforEmpiricalMethodsinNaturalLanguageProcessing(EMNLP2011),Edinburgh,Scotland,UK,2011.

[23] Salloum, Wael and Nizar Habash. Dialectal to Standard Arabic Paraphrasing to ImproveArabic-EnglishStatisticalMachineTranslation. Inproceedingsof theDialectsworkshopat theConference forEmpiricalMethods inNaturalLanguageProcessing(EMNLP2011).Edinburgh,UK,2011.

[24] Altantawy,Mohamed,NizarHabashandOwenRambow.FastYetRichMorphologicalAnalysis.In proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Finite-State Methods and NaturalLanguageProcessing(FSMNLP2011),Blois,France,2011.2010

[25] Marton,Yuval,NizarHabashandOwenRambow.ImprovingArabicDependencyParsingwithLexical and Inflectional Morphological Features. In Proceedings of the North AmericanAssociation for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Workshop on Statistical Parsing ofMorphologicallyRichLanguages(SPMRL2010),LosAngeles,2010.

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[26] Kholy,AhmedElandNizarHabash.Techniques forArabicMorphologicalDetokenizationandOrthographic Denormalization. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and EvaluationConference(LREC)WorkshoponSemiticLanguages,Malta,2010.

[27] Diab, Mona, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Mohamed Altantawy and Yassine Benajiba.COLABA:ArabicDialectAnnotationandProcessing.InProceedingsoftheLanguageResourcesandEvaluationConference(LREC)WorkshoponSemiticLanguages,Malta,2010.

[28] Shilon, Reshsef,Nizar Habash, Alon Lavie and ShulyWintner. Machine Translation betweenHebrewandArabic:Needs,ChallengesandPreliminarySolutions.StudentResearchWorkshop,InProceedingsoftheAssociationofMachineTranslationintheAmericas(AMTA),2010.2009

[29] Saleh,IbrahimandNizarHabash.AutomaticExtractionofLemma-basedBilingualDictionariesforMorphologicallyRichLanguages. In theThirdWorkshoponComputationalApproaches toArabicScript-basedLanguagesattheMachineTranslationSummitXIIOttawa,Ontario,Canada,2009.

[30] Habash, Nizar and Jun Hu. Improving Arabic-Chinese Statistical Machine Translation usingEnglishasPivotLanguage.InProceedingsoftheWorkshoponStatisticalMachineTranslationatthemeetingoftheEuropeanAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(EACL),Athens,Greece,2009.

[31] Biadsy, Fadi, Julia Hirschberg andNizar Habash. Spoken Arabic Dialect Identification UsingPhonotacticModeling.InProceedingsoftheWorkshoponComputationalApproachestoSemiticLanguages at themeeting of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL),Athens,Greece,2009.

[32] Elming, Jakob and Nizar Habash. Syntactic Reordering for English-Arabic Phrase-BasedMachineTranslation.InProceedingsoftheWorkshoponComputationalApproachestoSemiticLanguages at themeeting of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL),Athens,Greece,2009.

[33] Buckwalter, Tim and Nizar Habash. Buckwalter Arabic Morphological Analyzer (BAMA) inArabicPresentationForm.AparticipatingsystemintheArabLeagueEducational,CulturalandScientific Organization (ALECSO) workshop on Arabic Morphological Analyzers, Damascus,Syria,2009.2008

[34] Habash,Nizar andAhmedEl Kholy. SEPIA: Surface Span Extension to SyntacticDependencyPrecision-based MT Evaluation. In Proceedings of the workshop on Metrics for MachineTranslation at the meeting of Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA),Waikiki,Hawai’i,2008.

[35] Crego, Josep M. and Nizar Habash. Using Shallow Syntax Information to Improve WordAlignment and Reordering for SMT. In Proceedings of the Statistical Machine TranslationWorkshop at the Conference of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Columbus,Ohio.2008.

[36] Habash,Nizar,OwenRambow,MonaDiabandReemFaraj.GuidelinesforAnnotationofArabicDialectness. InProceedingsofworkshoponArabicand its local languages(LREC),Marrakech,Morocco,2008.2006-2000

[37] Biadsy, Fadi, Jihad El-Sana andNizar Habash. Online Arabic Handwriting Recognition UsingHidden Markov Models. International Workshop on Handwriting and Optical CharacterRecognition,Paris,France,2006.

[38] Habash,Nizar, OwenRambow andGeorge Kiraz.Morphological Analysis and Generation forArabic Dialects. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic

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Languages at the Conference of American Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL),2005.

[39] Farwell,David,StephenHelmreich,BonnieJ.Dorr,NizarHabash,FlorenceReeder,KeithMiller,Lori Levin, Teruko Mitamura, Eduard Hovy, Owen Rambow, and Advaith Siddharthan.Interlingual Annotation of Multilingual Text Corpora. In Proceedings of the North AmericanChapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)Workshop on Frontiers inCorpusAnnotation,Boston,2004.

[40] Mitamura, Teruko, Keith J. Miller, Bonnie J. Dorr, David Farwell, Nizar Habash, Lori Levin,Stephen Helmreich, Eduard Hovy, Lori Levin, Owen Rambow, Reeder, Florence, and AdvaithSiddharthan. Semantic Annotation for Interlingual Representation of Multilingual Text. InProceedingsoftheWorkshoponBeyondNamedEntityRecognition:SemanticLabelingforNLPTasks,LREC,Portugal,2004.

[41] Dorr, Bonnie J., Rebecca Green, Lori Levin, Owen Rambow, David Farwell, Nizar Habash,Stephen Helmreich, Eduard Hovy, Keith J. Miller, Teruko Mitamura, Florence Reeder, andAdvaithSiddharthan.SemanticAnnotationandLexico-SyntacticParaphrase.InProceedingsofthe Workshop on Building Lexical Resources from Semantically Annotated Corpora, LREC,Portugal,2004.

[42] Dorr,BonnieandNizarHabash.InterlinguaApproximation:AGeneration-HeavyApproach.InProceedings of the Workshop onInterlingua Reliability, Fifth Conference of the AssociationforMachineTranslationintheAmericas,AMTA-2002,Tiburon,CA,2002.

[43] Traum,DavidandNizarHabash.GenerationfromLexicalConceptualStructures.WorkshoponAppliedInterlinguas,ANLP/NAACL-2000.Seattle,WA.

TechnicalReports

[1] Habash,NizarandSarahAlkuhlani.AnnotationGuidelinesforArabicNominalGender,Number,and Rationality. Center for Computational Learning Systems technical report #CCLS-13-03.2013.

[2] Diab, Mona, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow and Ryan M. Roth. LDC Arabic Treebanks andAssociated Corpora: Data Divisions Manual. Center for Computational Learning Systemstechnicalreport#CCLS-13-02.2013.

[3] Salloum,Wael and NizarHabash. Elissa: ADialectal to StandardArabicMachineTranslationSystem.CenterforComputationalLearningSystemstechnicalreport#CCLS-12-04.2012.

[4] Salloum,WaelandNizarHabash.AModernStandardArabicClosed-ClassWordList.CenterforComputationalLearningSystemstechnicalreport#CCLS-12-03.2012.

[5] Mohamed Maamouri, Sondos Krouna, Dalila Tabessi, Nadia Hamrouni, and Nizar Habash.Egyptian Arabic Morphological Annotation Guidelines. Linguistic Data Consortium TechnicalReport.2012

[6] Habash,Nizar,MonaDiab,andOwenRambow.CODA:ConventionalOrthographyforDialectalArabic.CenterforComputationalLearningSystemstechnicalreport#CCLS-11-02.2011.

[7] Habash, Nizar, Owen Rambow and Ryan Roth. MADA+TOKAN Manual. Center forComputationalLearningSystemstechnicalreport#CCLS-10-01.2010.

[8] BonnieJ.Dorr,NizarHabashandChristofMonz.UseofMinimalLexicalConceptualStructuresfor Single-Document Summarization. University ofMaryland technical report #LAMP-TR-113,CAR-TR-997,CS-TR-4596,UMIACS-TR-2004-39,2004.

[9] Habash,Nizar.Generation-HeavyHybridMachineTranslation.DoctoralDissertation.ComputerScienceDepartment,UniversityofMarylandCollegePark,2003.

[10] Habash,Nizar.AReferenceManualtotheLinearizationEngineoxyGen.UniversityofMarylandtechnicalreport:LAMP-TR-079,CS-TR-4295,UMIACS-TR-2001-73,MDA-904-96-C-1250.2001.

[11] Habash, Nizar and Jin Tong. MFTV: Multi-Faceted Tree Viewer. University of MarylandComputerScienceDepartmentTechnicalReport:CS-TR-4528.1999.

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OtherPublications[1] Interviewed foranarticleonWamda.com. “Exploring the frontiersofArabicnatural language

processing“. May 2016. http://www.wamda.com/memakersge/2016/05/exploring-frontiers-arabic-natural-language-processing

[2] Interview with The Gazelle, the NYUAD Magazine. “The art of artificial languages”. March 6,2016.http://www.thegazelle.org/issue/issue-81/features/nizar-habash/

[3] Habash, Nizar. An Introduction to Semitish. Self-published book manuscript, 2015.http://www.nizarhabash.com/palisra/SemitishPrimer-rtfplus.pdf

[4] Interviewed for an article on machine translation for Arabic speakers (in Arabic) on RadioSawaWebsite(April19,2013)

http://www.radiosawa.com/content/how-to-use-google-translate-arabic-bing/222331.html[5] InterviewedforanarticleonmachinetranslationinWiredMagazine(Issue14.12-December

2006)[6] Habash, Nizar. “On Arabic and its Dialects,” Multilingual Magazine. #81 Volume 17 Issue 5,

2006.[7] Habash,Nizar.IntroductiontoDelason:TheCompleteGuidetotheArtificialLanguage.Self-

publishedbookmanuscript,Firstedition1998.Secondedition2012.URL:http://www.nizarhabash.com/delason/delason_digest.pdf

OralPresentationsInvitedTalks

[1] Habash,Nizar. ComputationalProcessingofArabicDialects: Challenges,Advances&FutureDirections.KeynoteTalk.The2ndWorkshoponArabicCorporaandProcessingTools,LREC-2016,Portorož,Slovenia,May24,2016.

[2] Habash,Nizar.MorphologicalProcessingofArabicanditsDialects.InvitedTalk.UniversityofMalta,Malta,April22,2016.

[3] Habash, Nizar. Computational Processing of Gulf Arabic. Invited Talk. British University ofDubai,Dubai,UAE,April13,2016.

[4] Habash, Nizar. Computational Processing of Arabic Dialects. Invited Talk. InternationalWorkshoponComputersandInformationSciences(WCIS2015).Tabuk,SaudiArabia,October8,2015.(Talkcancelledduetotechnicaldifficulties,butslideswerepartoftheproceedings).

[5] Habash,Nizar.ComputationalProcessingofArabicDialects.InvitedTalk.UniversitéToulouseIII-PaulSabatier.,Toulouse,France,May11,2015.

[6] Habash,Nizar.ArabicandArabicDialectTechnologies.InvitedSpeaker.NYUAbuDhabiTechFest,April25,2015.

[7] Habash, Nizar. Arabic Language Technology: Current Status and Future Potential. InvitedSpeakerDefiningStandardsConference,AbuDhabi,UAE,November19,2014.

[8] Habash,Nizar.MorphologicalProcessingofArabicanditsDialects.ComputerScienceSeminarSeries.NYUAbuDhabi,November13,2014.

[9] Habash, Nizar. Computational Processing of Arabic Dialects. Keynote Talk. Workshop onLanguageTechnology forCloselyRelatedLanguagesandLanguageVariants (LT4CloseLang),EMNLP,Doha,October29,2014.

[10] Habash,Nizar.MorphologicalAnalysisandDisambiguation forDialectalArabic. Invitedtalk.IBMProfessionalInterestCommunitySeminar,June26,2013.

[11] Habash, Nizar. Arabic Natural Language Processing: Challenges, Solutions, Applications.Invitedtalk.NewYorkUniversityAbuDhabi,May2,2013.

[12] Habash, Nizar. Arabic Computational Linguistics: Challenges and Opportunities. KeynotePresentation. The 2nd Palestinian Symposium on Computational Linguistics and ArabicContent(iArabic’2013).SinaInstituteforKnowledgeEngineeringandArabicTechnologies.BirZeitUniversity.April20,2013.

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[13] Habash, Nizar. Arabic Natural Language Processing: Challenges, Solutions, Applications.Invitedtalk.Invitedtalk.PolytechnicInstituteofNewYorkUniversity,April11,2013.

[14] Habash, Nizar. Arabic Natural Language Processing: Challenges, Solutions, Applications.Invitedtalk.Invitedtalk.CourantInstitute,NewYorkUniversity,April10,2013.

[15] Habash, Nizar. Arabic Natural Language Processing: Challenges, Solutions, Applications.Invitedtalk.Invitedtalk.LanguageTechnologiesInstitute.CarnegieMellonUniversity,April4,2013.

[16] Habash, Nizar. Arabic Natural Language Processing: Challenges, Solutions, Applications.Invited talk. Invited talk. Computer and Information Technology Department, PurdueUniversity,April2,2013.

[17] Habash, Nizar. Arabic Dialect Processing and Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation.Workshop on Simultaneous Interpretation and Multimodal Translation. Invited talk. ATT,March25,2013.

[18] Habash, Nizar. Orthographic and Morphological Processing for English-Arabic StatisticalMachine Translation. Keynote Presentation, Arabic Language Technology Forum. CarnegieMellonUniversityQatarandQatarComputationalResearchInstitute,Doha,Qatar,November2012.

[19] Habash, Nizar. Arabic Parsing and Statistical Machine Translation. Invited Talk, LanguageTechnologyInstitute.CarnegieMellonUniversity,July2012.

[20] Habash, Nizar. Arabic Computational Linguistics: Past, Present and Future. KeynotePresentation.ArabicLinguisticsSymposium.ColumbiaUniversity,March2012.

[21] Habash, Nizar. Arabic Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation: Problem, Solution,Applications.InvitedTalk.LinguisticsSpeakerSeries.GeorgetownUniversity,WashingtonD.C.,2009.

[22] Habash, Nizar. Automatic Diacritization of Arabic Text. Invited Talk. Columbia LinguisticSociety,ColumbiaUniversity,NewYork,2009.

[23] Habash, Nizar. Arabic Diacritization through Full Morphological Tagging. Invited Talk,LanguageTechnologyInstituteSeminarSeries.CarnegieMellonUniversity,2007.

[24] Habash,Nizar.ArabicDialectModeling:formMorphologicalAnalysistoParsing.InvitedTalk,NSFFundedUS-MoroccoWorkshoponLanguageTechnologyResearchandEducation.EcoleNationaledel'IndustrieMinérale,Rabat,Morocco,2006.

[25] Habash, Nizar. Disambiguation of Rich Arabic Morphological Analyses. Invited Talk, NYUNaturalLanguageProcessingColloquium.April14,2006.

[26] MonaDiab,NizarHabash,andOwenRambow.ArabicDialectParsing.InvitedTalk,LinguisticDataConsortium,UniversityofPennsylvania,December9,2005

[27] Habash,Nizar. Combining Symbolic and StatisticalTechniques forMachineTranslation andMorphologicalDisambiguation.InvitedTalk,AT&TLabs,FlorhamPark,NJ,October7,2005.

[28] Habash,Nizar. Generation-HeavyHybridMachine Translation. Invited Talk. IBMTJWatsonResearchCenter,March9,2005.

[29] Habash,Nizar.Generation-HeavyHybridMachineTranslation.InvitedTalk.ComputerScienceDepartmentSeminar,CityCollegeofNewYork,March8,2005.

[30] Habash, Nizar. Generation-Heavy Hybrid Machine Translation. Invited Talk. LanguageTechnologiesInstituteSeminar.CarnegieMellonUniversity,November19,2004.

[31] Habash,Nizar.SemiticLinguisticPhenomena.InvitedTalk.WorkshoponMachineTranslationforSemiticLanguages,MTSummit,NewOrleans,LA,2003.

InvitedPanels

[1] Habash, Nizar. Future Challenges for Arabic Resource Development. Invited Panelist.

WorkshoponFree/Open-SourceArabicCorporaandCorporaProcessingTools,intheLanguageResourcesandEvaluationConference(LREC),Reykjavik,2014

[2] Habash, Nizar. Treebanking for Machine Translation. Invited Panel Talk, GALE PI Meeting,Tampa,Florida,2008.

[3] Habash,Nizar.NLG is still relevant toMT.InvitedPanelTalk.TheMTSummitXIWorkshopon Using corpora for natural language generation: language generation and machinetranslation(UCNLG+MT),Copenhagen,Denmark,September,2007.

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[4] Habash,Nizar.HybridMachineTranslation.InvitedPanelTalk.ConferenceoftheAssociationforMachineTranslationintheAmericas,AMTA,2006.

InvitedTutorials[1] Habash,Nizar. IntroductiontoArabicNaturalLanguageProcessing.Afour-hourtutorial,25

attendees,CarnegieMellonQatar,Doha,Qatar,2010.[2] Diab, Mona and Nizar Habash. Introduction to Arabic Computational Linguistics: Modern

StandardArabicandArabicDialects.Afour-hourtutorial.40attendees.InGURT:GeorgetownUniversity Round Table conference on Arabic Language and Linguistics, Washington D.C.,2010.

[3] Habash,Nizar.IntroductiontoArabicNaturalLanguageProcessing.Athree-hourtutorial,35attendees. Johns Hopkins University Summer School on Human Language Technology,Baltimore,2006.

[4] Habash,Nizar.IntroductiontoArabicNaturalLanguageProcessing.Athree-hourtutorial,40attendees.BBNTechnologies,Boston,Massachusetts,2005.

[5] Habash,Nizar.IntroductiontoArabicNaturalLanguageProcessing.Athree-hourtutorial,20attendees.TheNationalCryptologicMuseum,2005.

[6] Habash,Nizar.IntroductiontoArabicNaturalLanguageProcessing.Athree-hourtutorial,50attendees.JohnsHopkinsUniversitySummerWorkshop,Baltimore,Maryland,2005.

Colloquia,Forums,Workshops,Bake-offs

[1] AhmedElKholyandNizarHabash.EnglishLanguageBridgingforPersian-ArabicandHebrew-ArabicStatisticalMachineTranslation.NYUADAnnualResearchConference,2015.

[2] Sajjad,Hassan,FranciscoGuzman,PreslavNakov,AhmedAbelali,NadirDurrani,WaelSalloum,Ahmed El Kholy, andNizar Habash. QCRI-Columbia-NYUAD submission to NIST OpenMTEval,2015.

[3] El-ballouli,Reem,WassimElHajj,ShadyElbassuoni,HazemHajj,NizarHabash,KhaledBashirShaban. CredibilityModelsForArabicContentOnTwitter.Poster.QatarFoundationAnnualResearchConference,Doha,Qatar,2014.

[4] Baly, Ramy, Gilbert Badaro, Hazem Hajj, Nizar Habash, Wassim El Hajj, Khaled Shaban.Semantic Model Representation For Human's Pre-conceived Notions In Arabic Text WithApplications To Sentiment Mining. Poster. Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference,Doha,Qatar,2014.

[5] Zaghouani, Wajdi, Nizar Habash, Behrang Mohit, Abeer Heider, Alla Rozovskaya, KemalOflazer.AnnotationGuidelinesForNon-nativeArabicTextInTheQatarArabicLanguageBank.Poster.QatarFoundationAnnualResearchConference,Doha,Qatar,2014.

[6] Badaro,Gilbert, RamyBaly,HazemHajj,NizarHabash,WassimEl-hajj,KhaledShaban. AnEfficient Model For Sentiment Classification Of Arabic Tweets On Mobiles. Poster. QatarFoundationAnnualResearchConference,Doha,Qatar,2014.

[7] Rozovskaya, Alla, Nizar Habash, Ramy Eskander, Noura Farra and Wael Salloum. TheColumbia System in theQALB-2014SharedTaskonArabicErrorCorrection.ArabicNaturalLanguageProcessingWorkshop,EMNLP,Doha,2014.

[8] Rozovskaya,Alla,Kai-WeiChang,MarkSammons,DanRoth andNizarHabash. The Illinois-ColumbiaSystemintheCoNLL-2014SharedTask,Baltimore,Maryland,2014.

[9] Habash, Nizar, Spence Green, Preslav Nakov, Shuly Wintner. Modeling InflectionalMorphology in StatisticalMT targetingMorphologically Rich Languages. (Group leader). InDagstuhl Seminar on “Statistical Techniques for Translating to Morphologically RichLanguages,”Dagstuhl,Germany,2014.

[10] Habash, Nizar, Behrang Mohit, Ossama Obeid, Kemal Oflazer, Nadi Tomeh and WajdiZaghouani. QALB: Qatar Arabic Language Bank. Poster. Qatar Foundation Annual ResearchConference,Doha,Qatar,2013.

[11] Marton, Yuval,Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow and Sarah Alkuhlani. SPMRL’13 Shared TaskSystem:TheCADIMArabicDependencyParser.2013.

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[12] ElKholy,Ahmed,WaelSalloumandNizarHabash.ColumbiaUniversity2012Arabic-English,Farsi-EnglishandDari-EnglishMTEvaluationSystems.NISTMachineTranslationEvaluation,2012.

[13] Carpuat,Marine,MahmoudGhoneim,NizarHabashandMonaDiab.ColumbiaUniversity2009Arabic-EnglishMTEvaluationSystem.NISTMachineTranslationEvaluation,2009.

[14] Diab, Mona, Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow. Tools for Arabic Morphological Analysis,DisambiguationandTokenization.ForeignLanguageTechnologyForum,July2008.

[15] Habash, Nizar. Techniques for Online OOV Handling in Phrase-based Statistical MachineTranslation.ColumbiaUniversityNLPColloquium,April2008.

[16] Habash,Nizar. FiveTechniques forOOVReduction inArabic-English andUrdu-English SMT.NISTMTEvalWorkshop,March2008.

[17] Habash,Nizar,MahmoudGhoneim,HaydenMetskyandMonaDiab.ColumbiaUniversity2008Arabic-English and Urdu-English MT Evaluation Systems. NIST Machine Translation 2008(MT-08)Evaluation,March,2008.

[18] Habash, Nizar, Halim Abbas, Bonnie Dorr, Christof Monz and Necip Ayan. ColumbiaUniversity2006Arabic-EnglishMTEvaluationSystems.NISTMachineTranslation2006(MT-06)Evaluation.September,2006.

[19] David Chiang, Bonnie Dorr, Nizar Habash, Christof Monz and Philip Resnik, and. TheUniversityofMarylandCollegePark2005Chinese-EnglishandArabic-EnglishMTEvaluationSystems.NISTMachineTranslation2005(MT-05)Evaluation,June,2005.

[20] Habash, Nizar. Workshop Task Description and Results. AMTA’04 Seventh InterlinguaWorkshop Determining Interlingua Utility for Machine Translation Georgetown University,WashingtonDC,October2,2004.

[21] Kumar,Shankar,YonggangDeng,CharlesSchafer,WoosungKim,PaolaVirga,NizarHabash,DavidSmith,FilipJurcicek,BillByrne,SanjeevKhudanpur,ZakShafran,andDavidYarowsky.The Johns Hopkins University 2004 Chinese-English and Arabic-English MT EvaluationSystems.NISTMachineTranslation2004(MT-04)Evaluation,June22,2004.

AvailableSoftwareandResources

Tools[1] MADA+TOKAN:MorphologicalAnalysisandDisambiguationforArabic(2005,developedwith

OwenRambowandRyanRoth,currentversion3.2)ThissuiteincludesothertoolsthatIdeveloped:TOKAN:GeneralArabicTokenizer.ALMOR:ArabicLexeme-basedMorphologicalGenerator/Analyzer.[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/MADA/]

[2] MAGEAD:MorphologicalAnalyzer/GeneratorforArabicanditsDialects(2006,developedwithOwenRambow,currentversion0.5)[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~habash/software-downloads/MAGEAD_Distribution.html]

[3] REMOOV:ToolforReducingOut-Of-VocabularyinMT(2007)[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~habash/REMOOV-0.4.tar.gz]

[4] ArabicConstituency-to-DependencyConversiontool(2009)[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~habash/C2D-v0.6-4Mar2011.tar.gz]

[5] CALIMA0.4.2:ColumbiaArabicLanguageMorphologicalAnalyzer--EgyptianArabic(2012)[AvailablefromtheLinguisticDataConsortium]

[6] ELISSA1.0:DialectalArabictoModernStandardArabicTranslationSystem(2012,developedwithWaelSalloum)[AvailablefromtheLinguisticDataConsortium]

[7] MADA-ARZ 0.3: Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation for Arabic (Egyptian version)(2012,developedwithOwenRambowandRyanRoth)

[AvailablefromtheLinguisticDataConsortium]

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[8] Columbia Arabic Treebank Dependency Parser (2013, in collaboration with Yuval Marton,OwenRambow,RyanRothandSarahAlkuhlani)[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~ymarton/pub/CATiB-parser/catib-parser.htm]

[9] DIRA:DialectalArabic InformationRetrievalAssistant(2013,aspartof theColumbiaNADIAteam;DIRAeffortledbyNizarHabashandOwenRambow)Demo:http://nlp.ldeo.columbia.edu/dira

[10] AIDA:AutomaticIdentificationofDialectalArabic(2013,aspartoftheColumbiaNADIAteam;AIDAeffortledbyMonaDiab)Demo:http://nlp.ldeo.columbia.edu/aida

[11] MADAMIRA:A system formorphologicalanalysisanddisambiguation,basephrasechunkingandnamedentityrecognition.(2013,aspartoftheColumbiaNADIAteam;MADAMIRAmergesthepopularMADAtool[HabashandRambow]andAMIRAtool[Diab])Demo:http://nlp.ldeo.columbia.edu/madamira(Englishinterface)

http://nlp.ldeo.columbia.edu/madamira/#locale=ar(Arabicinterface)Download:(clickhere)

[12] 3ARRIB:AsystemfortransliterationfromRomanizedArabictoArabicscript(2014,developedwithMohamedAl-Badrashiny,RamyEskander,andOwenRambow)

Resources

[13] Gumar:TheGulfArabicCorpus(2016)

[http://camel.abudhabi.nyu.edu/gumar/][14] ArSenL 1.0: Arabic Sentiment Lexicon (2014, developed with Gilbert Badaro, Ramy Baly,

HazemHajjandWassimEl-Hajj).[http://oma-project.com/ArSenL/intro]

[15] QALB:QatarArabicLanguageBank (2014,developedwithBehrangMohit,WajdiZaghouani,OssamaObeidandAllaRozovskaya)RegisterheretogetacopyofQALB

[16] ColumbiaStandardArabicGender-Number-RationalityDatabase(2013,developedwithSarahAlkuhlani)

[17] CATiBv1.0:ColumbiaArabicTreebank(2009)[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~CATiB/][18] SEPIA:MachineTranslationEvaluationMetric(2008)(developedwithAhmedElKholy)

[http://www1.ccls.columbia.edu/~SEPIA/][19] CatVarACategorialVariationDatabaseforEnglish(2002)

[http://clipdemos.umiacs.umd.edu/catvar/]TeachingExperienceClassesTaught[1] UndergraduateCoreCourse.COREI-AD58:Words.NewYorkUniversityAbuDhabi,Fall2016.

14students.[Syllabus:https://sites.google.com/a/nyu.edu/nyuad-words-fall2016/][2] UndergraduateComputerScienceCourse.CS-AD220:NaturalLanguageProcessing.NewYork

UniversityAbuDhabi,Spring2016.12students.[Syllabus: https://sites.google.com/a/nyu.edu/nyuad-cs-ad-220-natural-language-processing-spring-2016/]

[3] UndergraduateCoreCourse.COREI-AD58:Words.NewYorkUniversityAbuDhabi,Fall2015.14students.[Syllabus:https://sites.google.com/a/nyu.edu/nyuad-words-fall2015/]

[4] Undergraduate Computer Science Course. CS-AD 219: Topics in Computer Science: NaturalLanguage Processing. New York University Abu Dhabi, Spring 2015. 3 students. [Syllabus:https://sites.google.com/a/nyu.edu/nyuad-nlp-spring2015/]

[5] Instructor of graduate-level course. E6998 section 003: Machine Translation. Department ofComputerScience,ColumbiaUniversity,Spring2013.13students.

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[Syllabus:https://sites.google.com/site/comse6998machinetranslation/][6] Instructor of graduate-level course. E6998 section 003: Machine Translation. Department of

ComputerScience,ColumbiaUniversity,Fall2011.9students.[7] Instructor of graduate-level course. E6998 section 003: Machine Translation. Department of

ComputerScience,ColumbiaUniversity,Fall2010.21students.[8] Co-instructorwithProfessorBonnieDorr.CMSC723/LING645:IntroductiontoComputational

LinguisticsUniversityofMarylandCollegePark,Spring2004.35students.TeachingMaterials

• Iwroteatextbook,“IntroductiontoArabicNaturalLanguageProcessing”aspartoftheSynthesisLecturesonHumanLanguageTechnologyseriespublishedbyMorgan&ClaypoolPublishers.ThebookiscurrentlybeingtranslatedtoArabicbyProf.HendAl-KhalifaofKingSaudUniversity.

• Icreatedseveralpopulartutorials.Seethelistofconferencetutorialsandinvitedtutorialsbelow.

DoctoralCommittees[1] NawarHalabi,UniversityofSouthHampton,2016(defense)[2] ClaudiaBorg,UniversityofMalta,2016(defense)[3] MohammadSalameh,UniversityofAlberta,2016(defense)[4] AhmedElKholy,ColumbiaUniversity,2012(candidacy),2013(proposal),2015(defense)[my

advisee][5] WalidAransa,L’UniversitéduMaine,2015(defense)[6] IskandarKeskes,L’InstitutdeRechercheenInformatiquedeToulouse,2015(defense)[7] WaelSalloum,ColumbiaUniversity,2014(candidacy)[myadvisee][8] RamyBaly,AmericanUniversityofBeirut,2014(proposal)[9] WeiyunMa,ColumbiaUniversity,2012(candidacy),2013(proposal),2014(defense)[10] KaisDukes,LeedsUniversity,2013(defense)[secondaryadvisor][11] SarahAlkuhlani,ColumbiaUniversity,2013(candidacy)[myadvisee][12] KristenParton,ColumbiaUniversity,2009(candidacy),2010(proposal),2012(defense).[13] SaraStymne,LinköpingUniversity,2012(defense;servedasopponent)[14] FadiBiadsy,ColumbiaUniversity,2008(candidacy),2010(proposal),2011(defense).[15] JakobElming,CopenhagenBusinessSchool,2009(defense).[16] JosepCrego,UniversitatPolitècnicadeCatalunya,2008(defense).[17] OtakarSmrz,CharlesUniversity,CzechRepublic,2007(defense).[18] AndrewRosenberg,ColumbiaUniversity,2006(candidacy).MastersCommittees

[1] DiyamAkra,BirzeitUniversity,ComputerScience,2105(defense)[2] TejaswiniPepadati,ColumbiaUniversity,ComputerScience,2014(defense;external)[3] IbrahimSaleh,GeorgetownUniversity,Linguistics,2009(Reader)

UndergraduateMentoring[1] AnhLeXuanMai,NYUAD(Classof2020)[2] GerardoSamuelIxcaragua,NYUAD(Classof2020)[3] SangjinLee,NYUAD(Classof2020)[4] TomaszBachosz,NYUAD(Classof2019)[5] YanaChala,NYUAD(Classof2019)[6] GuyuFan,NYUAD(Classof2019)[7] TheodoreTenev,NYUAD(Classof2019)

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[8] PaulaValentinaDozsa,NYUAD(Classof2019)[9] MuazAhmad,NYUAD(Classof2019)[10] DanaAbuAli,NYUAD(Classof2018)[11] AngelaOrozco,NYUAD(Classof2018)–beforesheswitchedtoEconomics[12] AsyriqueAsyrafThevendran,NYUAD(Classof2018)[13] LingliangZhang,NYUAD(Classof2017)TeachingService[1] Ph.D.ProgramcoordinatoroftheComputerScienceProgram,NYUAD,2016-present.[2] Ph.D. student coordinator for the Center for Computational Learning Systems (CCLS) 2012-

2014.

GuestLectures

[1] Habash,Nizar.ThePalisraProject,COREA-AD50W:IdentityandObject,NYUAbuDhabi,Fall2015(October13,2015).

[2] Habash, Nizar. On Language Construction, COREA-AD 19: Communication and Technology,NYUAbuDhabi,Fall2015(September15,2015).

[3] Habash, Nizar. Introduction to Machine Translation, COMS 4701: Artificial Intelligence,ColumbiaUniversity,Fall2014(December4,2014).

[4] Habash,Nizar.IntroductiontoArabicNaturalLanguageProcessing,CS4705:IntroductiontoNaturalLanguageProcessing,ColumbiaUniversity,Fall2013,Fall2012,Fall2011.

[5] Habash, Nizar. Machine Translation. Mock Class, New York University Abu Dhabi, Spring2013.

[6] Habash, Nizar. Machine Translation: Challenges, Approaches and Evaluation, CS 4705:Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Columbia University, Fall 2010, Fall 2008-2004.

[7] Habash,Nizar.MachineTranslation:ChallengesandApproaches,CMSC421: IntroductiontoArtificialIntelligence,UniversityofMarylandCollegePark,Fall2003.

[8] Habash, Nizar. Generation Heavy Hybrid Machine Translation, CMSC 723/LING 645:IntroductiontoComputationalLinguistics,UniversityofMarylandCollegePark,Spring2003.

[9] Habash, Nizar. Computers and Writing Systems, HONR 279I: History of the Alphabets:LanguagesandtheirScripts,UniversityofMarylandCollegePark,Spring2003.

[10] Habash, Nizar. Natural Language Generation, CMSC 828: Advanced Natural LanguageProcessing:TheoryandPractice,UniversityofMarylandCollegePark,Spring2002.

ShortCourses[1] Habash,NizarandOwenRambow.PrincessSumayaUniversityofTechnology(PSUT)Winter

SchoolonArabicLanguageProcessing,Amman,Jordan,January27-29,2013.

• Athree-dayshortcourseonArabicNLPincludingtalks,demosanddiscussionofstudents’researchatPSUT.

• TalksbyNizarHabash:a. IntroductiontoArabicNaturalLanguageProcessingb. ProcessingArabicDialectsc. MorphologicalAnalysisandDisambiguationofArabic(talkanddemo)d. MachineTranslationfromandtoArabic

ConferenceTutorials[1] Diab,MonaandNizarHabash.NaturalLanguageProcessingofArabicanditsDialects.

• A three-hour tutorial. In the conference of Empirical Methods for Natural LanguageProcessing(EMNLP),Doha,Qatar,2014.41attendees.

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[2] Habash,Nizar.MachineTranslationandArabicLanguageIssues.

• A three-hour tutorial. In the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas(AMTA’12),SanDiego,CA,2012.

[3] Diab,MonaandNizarHabash.ArabicDialectProcessing.• A three-hour tutorial. In the Conference of the North American chapter of the

AssociationforComputationalLinguistics(NAACL),Montreal,Canada,2012.• A two-hour tutorial, 80 attendees. In MEDAR: The 2nd International Conference on

ArabicLanguageResourcesandTools,Cairo,Egypt,2009.• A three-hour tutorial, 30 attendees. In the International Conference on Language

ResourcesandEvaluation(LREC),Marrakech,Morocco,2008.• Athree-hourtutorial,15attendees.IntheConferenceoftheNorthAmericanAssociation

forComputationalLinguistics(NAACL’07),Rochester,NY,2007.• A three-hour tutorial, 8 attendees. In the Association for Machine Translation in the

Americas(AMTA’06),Boston,MA,2006.

[4] Habash,Nizar.IntroductiontoArabicNaturalLanguageProcessing.• A two-hour tutorial, 80 attendees. In MEDAR: The 2nd International Conference on

ArabicLanguageResourcesandTools,Cairo,Egypt,2009.• A three-hour tutorial, 20 attendees. In the International Conference on Language

ResourcesandEvaluation(LREC),Genoa,Italy,2006.• A three-hour tutorial, 35 attendees. In the Association for Computational Linguistics

Conference(ACL’05),AnnArbor,Michigan,2005.• A three-hour tutorial, 17 attendees. In the Association forMachine Translation in the

Americasconference(AMTA’04),WashingtonDC,2004.

[5] Habash, Nizar. Arabic Natural Language Processing for Machine Translation. A three-hourtutorial, 12 attendees. In the meeting of the Association for Machine Translation in theAmericasconference(AMTA’08),Waikiki,Hawai’i,2008.SeealsoInvitedTutorialsunderOralPresentations

Service

ResearchProposalReviews

[1] Reviewpanelmember,AmericanAssociation for theAdvancementof Science (AAAS) (2010,2011,2012,2013,2014).

[2] QatarNationalResearchFundreviewer(2009,2010).[3] NSFreviewpanel(2009,2015).[4] NSFproposalreviewer(2005,2006).JournalEditor/EditorialBoards[1] MemberoftheEditorialBoardofComputerSpeechandLanguage(2016-present)[2] Member of the standing review committee of Transactions of the Association for

ComputationalLinguistics(TACL)(2014-2016)[3] MemberoftheeditorialboardofComputationalLinguisticsJournal(2012-2014)[4] Co-editorwithHanyHassanforaspecial issueofMTjournalonArabicMachineTranslation,

2012.[5] MemberoftheeditorialboardoftheJournalforMachineTranslation(2007-2015)

JournalReviewing

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[1] JournalofKnowledge-BasedSystems(2016)[2] JournalofComputerSpeech&Language(2016)[3] JournalofKingSaudUniversity(2016)[4] LanguageResourcesandEvaluationJournal,(2015,2014)[5] FoundationsandTrendsinIR,(2014)[6] JournalofNaturalLanguageEngineering,(2004,2007,2011-2014).[7] MachineTranslationJournal(2007-2014)[8] TransactionsoftheAssociationforComputationalLinguistics(TACL)(2015,2013).[9] JournalofComputationalLinguistics,(2003,2006,2010-2014).[10] JournalofComputerSpeechandLanguage(2013-2014)[11] PerspectivesonArabicLinguistics(2013,2014)[12] JournalofPatternRecognitionResearch(2011).[13] JournalofArtificialIntelligenceResearch(2011).[14] ACMTransactiononAsianLanguagesInformationProcessing(TALIP),(2004,2010,2014).[15] IEEETransactionsonAudio,SpeechandLanguageProcessing(2004,2005,2006,2007).

BookReviewing

[1] Amember of the scientific review committee for “Introduction to Computational Linguistics”,RashwanandElsaid,eds.(inArabic).Underpreparation(2014).

Conference/WorkshopProgramCommittees[1] WorkshoponSemiticMachineTranslation(SeMat):2016[2] Workshop of the Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology

(SIGMORPHON):2016[3] WorkshoponStatisticalMachineTranslation(WMT):2016,2015,2011,2010[4] ConferenceoftheForumforArabicLinguistics:2015[5] LinguisticAnnotationsWorkshop(LAW):2015.[6] ConferenceoftheEuropeanACL(EACL):2016,2014,2012,2006[7] ConferenceoftheAssociationfortheAdvancementofArtificialIntelligence(AAAI):2014[8] Workshop on Free/Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Corpora Processing (at LREC): 2014,

2016[9] WorkshoponArabicNaturalLanguageProcessing:Models,SystemsandApplications(atIEEE

CIST’14):2014[10] PalestinianSymposiumonComputationalLinguisticsandArabicContent(iArabic’14):2014[11] InternationalConferenceonParsingTechnologies(IWPT):2013[12] ConferenceonLexicalandComputationalSemantics(*SEM):2013[13] ConferenceonComputationalNaturalLanguageLearning(CONLL):2013[14] MachineTranslationSummit(MTSummit):2013,2011,2007[15] Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): 2013, 2012, 2008-2006,

2002[16] ConferenceoftheAssociationforMachineTranslationintheAmericas(AMTA):2014-2006[17] ConferenceoftheNorthAmericanACL(NAACL):2015,2013,2012,2007,2006,2001[18] ConferenceoftheInternationalSpeechCommunicationAssociation(Interspeech):2012[19] ConferenceonComputationalLinguistics(COLING):2008,2004,[20] ConferenceonEmpiricalMethodsforNaturalLanguageProcessing(EMNLP):2009-2007[21] ConferenceonMediterraneanArabicLanguageandSpeechTechnology(MEDAR):2009[22] InternationalConferenceArabicLanguageTechnology(ALTIC):2011[23] InternationalConferenceontheArabicLanguageProcessing(CITALA):2007[24] InternationalNaturalLanguageGenerationConference(INLG):2002[25] LanguageResourcesandEvaluationConference(LREC):2014,2012,2008,2006[26] TheoreticalandMethodologicalIssuesinMachineTranslation(TMI):2007[27] WorkshoponComputationalApproachestoArabicScriptLanguages:2009,2004[28] WorkshoponComputationalApproachestoSemiticLanguages:2007,2005

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ProfessionalOrganizations[1] SecretaryoftheboardoftheInternationalAssociationforMachineTranslation(IAMT)(2009-

present)[2] Secretary of the board of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)

(2008-2014)[3] ResearchcommunityrepresentativeintheboardoftheAssociationforMachineTranslationin

theAmericas(AMTA)(2006-2008)[4] SecretaryoftheACLSpecialInterestGrouponSemiticLanguages(2006-2009)ConferenceandWorkshopOrganization[1] SEMEvalSteeringCommittee(2016)[2] Co-chair of the Arabic Natural Language ProcessingWorkshop in EMNLP (2014 and 2015).

Andamemberoftheteamorganizingsharedtaskcomponentoftheworkshop.[3] Publicationco-chairforNAACL2012.[4] Workshopprogramco-chairforNAACL2009.[5] SeniorProgramCommitteememberforNAACL2007(machinetranslationtrack).[6] Program co-chair for the conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the

Americas(AMTA’06)[7] Oneof threeorganizers for aworkshoponComputationalApproaches toSemiticLanguages

ACL2005.[8] Chair of the Workshop on Determining Interlingua Utility for Machine Translation. AMTA-

2004,WashingtonDC,2004.[9] Oneof threeorganizersof theWorkshoponMachineTranslation forSemiticLanguages,MT

Summit,NewOrleans,LA,2003.

AdvisoryCommittees

[1] Member of the Qatar Computational Research Center (QCRI) Arabic Language TechnologyRoundtable.Doha,Qatar,January,2011.

[2] Co-chair of the advisory committee to improving the quality of the Arabic Treebank, 2006-2008.

[3] MemberofanadvisorycommitteetoNISTMTOpenEvaluationprogram,2007.[4] MemberofthemachinetranslationteamundertheNSFfundedMINDSworkshop,2006.

UniversityService

NewYorkUniversityAbuDhabi[1] AmemberoftheCoreCurriculumCommittee,NYUAD,Sep1,2016-present.[2] Chairofathree-yeartenure-trackfacultyreviewcommittee(2016).[3] AmemberofaHumanitiesDivisionfacultysearchcommitteeonDigitalHumanities(2016).[4] Mentor.HackathonforSocialGoodintheArabWorld.NYUAD,2015and2016.[5] TowerofBabelStudentInterestGroupadvisor(2015-now).[6] Co-directoroftheCSUnixLabwithJayChen,2015-2016.[7] AmemberoftheFreshmanColloquiumCommittee,2015-2016.[8] AmemberoftheInstitutionalReviewBoard,NYUAD,April15,2015-Aug31,2016.[9] Amemberofthedoctoralstudentselectioncommittee,ComputerScience,NYUADJanuary20

2015-now.[10] AmemberoftheCSfacultysearchcommittee(fortheyear2014-2015)[11] Led discussion group of Freshmen Class summer reading “Parable of the Sower” as part of

MarhabaWeek2015,NYUAD.[12] Gave three talks onMachine Translation as part of the undergraduate recruitment effort at

CandidateWeekend2015,NYUAD,2015.[13] Judge.SheikhMohamedbinZayedScholarsProgramSelections,NYUAD,2015.[14] Judge.AngelHackatNYUAD,2015.

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ColumbiaUniversity

[15] Center for Computational Learning System – a member of an ad hoc faculty promotioncommittee,2014.

[16] CenterforComputationalLearningSystem–leadonthefinancecommittee,2013-2014.[17] CenterforComputationalLearningSystem–amemberofthefacultysearchcommittee,2013.

Honors

[1] MentoredtheArabicSnippets(Qusasat) teamwhichwontheFirstPlaceAwardandAudienceChoiceAwardinthe2016NYUADHackathonforSocialGoodintheArabWorld.April17,2016.

[2] BestPaperAwardfromtheEuropeanAssociationforMachineTranslation(EAMT)conference,Trento, Italy, 2012. The paper: Parton, Kristen, Nizar Habash, Kathleen McKeown, GonzaloIglesias,AdriàdeGispert.CanAutomaticPost-EditingMakeMTMoreMeaningful?

[3] ReceivedthreeGoogleResearchAwards(in2009,2010and2012).[4] Best Paper Award from the Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN)

conference, Montréal, Canada, 2010. The paper: Carpuat, Marine, Yuval Marton and NizarHabash.ReorderingMatrixPost-verbalSubjectsforArabic-to-EnglishSMT.

[5] GraduateStudentServiceAward,UniversityofMarylandCollegePark,2003.[6] TheSamuelN.AlexanderFellowship,Association forComputingMachinery,WashingtonD.C.

Chapter,2001.[7] ThePhiKappaPhiAwardofExcellence,PhiKappaPhi,1997/1998.[8] SelectedtorepresentOldDominionUniversityasoneoffivegraduatingstudentsfeaturedina

newspaperarticle"Pomp&Circumstance"TheVirginian-Pilot,May9,1997.[9] The College of Engineering and Technology Outstanding Scholar Award, Old Dominion

University,1997.[10] The Faculty Award in Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, Old

DominionUniversity,1997.[11] The Outstanding Individualized Study Student Award, College of Arts and Letters, Old

DominionUniversity,1997.[12] TheAwardofAcademicExcellence,AcademicHonorsProgramOldDominionUniversity,1997.[13] TheMeghanO'ConnorAward forAcademicAchievement and Community Service, Academic

HonorsProgram,OldDominionUniversity,1997.[14] UndergraduateResearchAward,AcademicHonorsProgram,OldDominionUniversity,1994.ReferencesAvailableuponrequest