Books

Soudi A., Farghaly A., Neumann, G. and Zbib, R. (Editors) (2012). Challenges for Arabic Empirical Machine Translation. In John Benjamins’ Natural Natural Language Processing Series. 

Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G (2007): Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G. In Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis). 

Soudi, A., Gibbon, D., Neumann, G. and Roux, J. C. (Editors) (2008). In Proceedings of the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg Human Language Technologies in Africa: Status and Prospects. Morocco, 2008. 

Chapters

• Soudi, A. and Vinopol, C. (2019). Educational Challenges for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children in Morocco. In H. Knoors, M. Brons, and M. Marschark (Eds.) Deaf education beyond the western world: Context, challenges, and prospects, 307-322. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Zbib, R. and Soudi A. (2012). Introductory chapter to the book Challenges for Arabic Empirical Machine Translation. Edirors: Soudi A., Farghaly A., Neumann, G. and Zbib, R. In John Benjamins’ Natural Natural Language Processing Series. 

• Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G (2007). Introductory chapter to the book Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods, Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G. In Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis).

• Habash, N. Soudi, A. and Buckwalter, T. G (2007). On Arabic Transliteration, In Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis), Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G.

• Cavalli-Sforza, V. and Soudi A. (2007). Arabic Computational Morphology : A tradeoff between multiple operations and multiple stems. In Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis), Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G. 

• Van den Bosch, A., Marsi, E. and Soudi A. (2007). Memory-based system for morphological analysis and part-of-speech tagging. . In Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis), Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G. 

Recent Journal Articles

• Hannani, M.  Soudi, A.,  and  Van Laerhoven , K.  (2025). Evaluating ChatGPT-4 and Machine Learning Models for Sentiment Analysis on a Multi-Script Moroccan Arabic 

Corpus: Insights, Challenges, and Future Directions, jdmdh:15092 - Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities, April 2, 2025, NLP4DH - 

https://doi.org/10.46298/jdmdh.15092 

• Soudi, A.,  Vinopol, C.,  and Van Laerhoven , K.  (forthcoming). “Toward the Creation of a Large Scale Moroccan Sign Language Corpus”, Journal of Sign Language Studies, 

25(4),  upcoming summer 2025 issue. 

Selected Conference  & Invited Talks Papers

• Soudi,  A., Vinopol, C. and Van Laerhoven., K. (2025). Bilingual resources for Moroccan Sign Language Generation and Standard Arabic Skills Improvement of Deaf Children. In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC), pages 1–9, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.

• Soudi, A., Hannani, M., Van Laerhoven, K., and  Avramidis, E. (2024). Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models in Adaptive Machine Translation for Generic Text and Subtitles. In Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC) @ LREC-COLING 2024 

• Mohamed Hannani, Abdelhadi Soudi, and Kristof Van Laerhoven. 2024. Assessing the Performance of ChatGPT-4, Fine-tuned BERT and Traditional ML Models on Moroccan Arabic Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, pages 489–498, Miami, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.  

• Soudi, A. and Van Laerhoven, K. (2023). Tools for the documentation of STEM in African Sign Languages: the case of "madrasati signs" and "AfricaSign" web-based platforms, invited talk at the STEM Sign Language Lexicon Founders & Leaders workshop, Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C, March 1 - 2, 2023. 

• Soudi, A. and Van Laerhoven, K. (2023). Challenges for the Digital Documentation of STEM terms in Sign Languages in Africa: can crowdsourcing help?, invited talk at the STEM Sign Language Lexicon Founders & Leaders workshop, Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C, March 1 - 2, 2023.

• Soudi, A., Van Laerhoven, K., Bou-Souf, E. (2021). Sign Language Documentation in Emergency Situations and Crisis Zones: a Crowdsourcing Solution. In Proceeddings of the African Sign Languages Workshop at World Congress of African Linguistics, Leiden, Netherlands, June 7-12, 2021.

• Soudi, A., Van Laerhoven, K., Bou-Souf, E. (2019). AfricaSign--A Crowd-sourcing Platform for the Documentation of STEM Vocabulary in African Sign Languages. In Proceedings of The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. October 2019 Pages 658–660. https://doi.org/10.1145/3308561.3354592    

• Soudi, A., and Vinopol, C. (2016c). A Digital Moroccan Sign Language STEM Thesaurus. In proceedings of the 7th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpus Mining. LREC'16. Portoroz (Slovenia), May 23-28, 2016.        

• Soudi, A., and Vinopol, C. (2016b). Creating instructional materials with sign language graphics through technology. In Proceedings of Qatar Foundation  Annual Research Conference (ARC'16), Doha, March 22-23, 2016.

• Soudi, A., and Vinopol, C. (2016a).  Mobile technology to improve deaf educational access to science,  technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In Proceedings of UNESCO and United Nations Mobile Learning Week Symposium ICT in Education, Paris, March 7-11, 2016. 

• Soudi, A., and Vinopol, C. (2015). Sign language mobile assistive technology. In Proceedings of UNESCO and United Nations Mobile Learning Week Symposium ICT in Education, Paris, February 23-27, 2015. 

• Soudi, A., Vinopol, C. and Er-rady A. (2014a). Virtual Reality Technologies for Deaf Education. In Proceedings of the international conference Building International Networks for Enhancement of Research in Jordan, Amman, April 3-5, 2014

• Vinopol, C., and Soudi, A. (2014c). Mobile Software to Improve Literacy of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Youth in Morocco. mEducation Alliance Symposium, Washington, DC, October 20-22, 2014.

• Soudi, A. (2014b). Moroccan Sign Language Processing: A First Appraisal. Keynote Speech of the Invited Session on Arabic Natural Language Processing: Models, Systems and Applications, Tetouan-Morocco: 21-22 October 2014, in parallel with the 3rd International IEEE Colloquium on Information Science and Technology-IEEE CIST'14.

• Soudi, A. Vinopol, C. and Er-rady, A. (2013c). Assistive Technologies for Improved Literacy among the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. In Proceedings of Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference, November 24-25, 2013, Doha, Qatar.

• Soudi, A. Vinopol, C. and Er-rady, A. (2013b). Standard Arabic-to-Moroccan Sign Language Machine Translation: Does translation from a morphologically rich language reflect the interpreters' allocation of high cognitive resources? In Proceedings of The Fourth Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC IV), University of Eastern Finland, Finland, 12-14 June 2013.

• Soudi (2013a). A Robust Technology facilitating interaction between the Hearing Culture and the Deaf Culture. In Proceedings of the session, Interculturalism, Migration and Multiculturalism of the conference “At the Crossroad between Africa, Asia and Europe: Challenges and Perspectives», Venice, Italy, 29 May-01 june.

• Soudi, A. (2011). Larger Natural Language Processing Applications, In Proceedings of the International Humboldt Kolleg research to Applications Conference, Monastir, Tunisia.

• Soudi, A. (2010). Information Technology Industry: case of natural language processing systems. In Proceedings of the International Humboldt Kolleg University-Research Industry: partnering opportunities, Rabat, Morocco

• Soudi, A. (2008). Issues in the analysis and generation of Arabic. In Proceedings of the International Humboldt Kolleg Human Language Technologies in Africa: Status and Prospects. Morocco, 2008.

• Soudi, A. and Cavalli-Sforza, V. (2006). IMORPHE: An Inheritance and equivalence based morphology description compiler. In Proceedings of Language Resource Evaluation Conference, Genova, Italy, May 2006

• Marsi, E., van den Bosch, A., Soudi, A. (2005). Memory-based morphological analysis generation and part-of-speech tagging. In Proceedings of the ACL workshop on computational approaches to semitic languages, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.  

• Kabbaj, A., Bouzouba, K. and Soudi, A. (2005). Amine Platform: an Artificial Intelligence Environment for the Development of Intelligent Systems. In Proceedings of the Information and Communication Technologies International Symposium, Tetouan, Morocco, June 2005.

• Soudi, A. and Eisele, A. (2004). Generating an Arabic Full-form lexicon for Bidirectional Morphological Lookup. In Proceedings of Language Resource Evaluation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004. 

• Monaco, G. and Soudi, A. (2004). An Emerging Transcontinental Collaborative Research and Educational Agenda in Human Language Technologies. In Proceedings of Language Resource Evaluation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004. 

• Soudi, A. (2004). Challenges in the Generation of Arabic sentences from Interlingua representations. In Proceedings of the conference “Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles” TALN’2004, Fez, Maroc, Avril 2004.

• Marsi E., Soudi, A., and Van den Bosch, A (2003). Memory-based Arabic Morphological Analysis. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, Anthwerp, Belgium, December 2003.  

• Soudi, A. and Cavalli-Sforza, V. (2003). Interfacing an Arabic morphology and sentence generation system with an English-to-Arabic Knowledge-based Machine Translation System. In Proceedings of the Information Technology Workshop, jointly organized by the National Science Foundation (USA) and ENSIAS, March, 2003, Morocco.

• Cavalli-Sforza, V., Soudi, A. (2003): Enhancements to a Morphological Generator Motivated by English-to-Arabic MT. In Proceedings of the Eight International Symposium on Social Communication, Center for Applied Linguistics, SANTIAGO DE CUBA, January 20-24 2003.

• Soudi, A., Cavalli-Sforza, V. (2002c): Arabic Morphology Generation: A two-step strategy. In Proceedings of the Arabic and Information Technology International Conference, organized by “le Haut Conseil de la Langue Arabe/[The High Council of Arabic]”, Algiers, Algeria, 28-29 December 2002.

• Soudi A., Cavalli-Sforza, V. and Jamari, A. (2002b). A Prototype English-to-Arabic Interlingua-based Machine Translation System. In Proceedings of The Arabic Processing Workshop, Language Resources Evaluation Conference, 2002, Las Palmas, Spain. 

• Soudi, A. Cavalli-Sforza, V. and Jamari, A. (2002a). Arabic Noun System Generation. In Proceedings of The International Conference on Arabic Processing, Lamanaba University, April 2002, Tunisia.

• Soudi, A., Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (2001). A Computational Lexeme-Based Treatment of Arabic Morphology. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Arabic Processing Workshop, Toulouse, July 2001, France.

• Cavalli-Sforza, V., Soudi. A, and Teruko M. (2000). Arabic Morphology Generation Using a Concatenative Strategy. In Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2000), Seattle, USA.