Location: Qatar National Library (QNL) - Auditorium
Organized by the HBKU College of Humanities and Social Sciences
in collaboration with the Qatar National Library and sponsored by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
The First International Workshop on Arabic Big Data & AI (IWABigDAI) aims at providing a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work related to AI and Big Data with a focus on the Arabic language. This Workshop is timely given the continued rise in research projects focusing on Big Data Analytics and Arabic-specific AI efforts such as Arabic Natural Language Processing. This workshop is endorsed by SIGARAB, an Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interested Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing.
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Prof. Tim Baldwin: Fairness in Natural Language Processing
Dr. Sanjay Chawla: Big Data: Going Beyond Predictions
Prof. Iryna Gurevych: Detect – Verify – Communicate: Combating Misinformation with More Realistic NLP
Prof. Nizar Habash: Gender Bias in Arabic Machine Translation
Prof. Eduard Hovy: Explanation for AI
Dr. Hassan Sawaf: Benchmarking as a Driver for Innovation
Data Collection and Annotation for AI by Eng. Hamdy Mubarak (QCRI)
NLP Text Visualization by Dr. Mahmoud El-Haj (Lancaster University)
Panel 1: Arabic AI and Toxic Online Content Detection (Moderator: Prof. Hend Al Khalifa)
Panelists: Dr. Kareem Darwish, Dr. Tamer El-Sayed, Prof. Chiraz Laatiri, and Dr. Nedjma Ousidhoum
Panel 2: Establishing an AI ecosystem in the MENA region: Challenges and Opportunities (Moderator: Dr. Kareem Darwish)
Panelists: Eng. Jay Alammar, Dr. Hussein Al-Natsheh, Dr. Hatem Haddad, Dr. Hassan Sawaf
Panel 3: Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage (Moderator: Dr. Stephan Ipert)
Panelists: Dr. Amr Al-Azm, Dr. Axel Kerep, Dr. Jens Schneider, Dr. James She
Panel 4: Data Collection and Annotation Strategy for AI (Moderator: Dr. Houda Bouamor)
Panelists: Prof. Hend Al-Khalifa, Prof. Karim Bouzoubaa, Dr. Khalid Choukri, Prof. Iryna Gurevych, Prof. Mustafa Jarrar
Panel 5: Big Models and their Impact on Arabic NLP (Moderator: Prof. Nizar Habash)
Panelists: Eng. Jay Alammar, Prof. Eduard Hovy, Dr. Preslav Nakov, and Dr. Imed Zitouni
Panel 6: AI-Driven Predictive Language Models (Moderator: Dr. Tamer El-Sayed)
Panelists: Dr. Ahmed Abdelali, Dr. Bayan Abu Shawar, Dr. Mahmoud El-Haj, Prof. Azzedine Mazroui
Panel 7: Creating Human-Centric, Fair, and Responsible AI in the Arab World (Moderator: Dr. Preslav Nakov)
Panelists: Prof. Ala Al-Fuqaha, Prof. Tim Baldwin, Prof. Mona Diab, Prof. Nizar Habash
DAY 1 - May 11, 2022
Time Duration
8:30 0:30 Registration
9:00 0:15 Welcome Remarks - Dr. Amal Al Malki (CHSS Dean) / Dr. Wajdi Zaghouani (Workshop Chair)
9:15 0:15 QNRF Welcome Note by Dr. Munir Tag
9:30 0:45 Keynote Talk 1 by Prof. Iryna Gurevych
10:15 0:15 Networking Break 1
10:30 0:45 Keynote Talk 2 by Dr. Hassan Sawaf
11:15 0:10 Short Break
11:25 1:00 Panel 1: Arabic AI and Toxic Online Content Detection
12:25 1:15 Break 3 (Lunch Break) / Poster Session
14:00 0:45 Keynote Talk 3 by Prof. Nizar Habash
14:40 1:00 Panel 2: Establishing an AI ecosystem in the MENA region: Challenges and Opportunities
15:40 0:10 Short Break
15:50 1:00 Panel 3: Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage
16:50 0:10 Short Break
17:15 0:45 Panel 4: Data Collection and Annotation Strategy for AI
18:00 0:30 SIGARAB Meeting: Special Interest Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing
DAY 2 - May 12, 2022
Time Duration
9:00 0:45 Keynote Talk 4: Prof. Tim Baldwin
9:45 0:10 Short Break
9:55 1:00 Panel 5: Big Models and their Impact on Arabic NLP
10:55 0:15 Networking Break 3
11:10 0:45 Keynote Talk 5: Prof. Eduard Hovy
11:55 1:10 Break 3 (Lunch Break) / Poster Session
13:05 0:45 Keynote Talk 6: Dr. Sanjay Chawla
13:50 0:10 Short Break
14:00 1:00 Panel 6: AI-Driven Predictive Language Models
15:00 0:15 Networking Break 4
15:15 0:45 Tutorial 1: Data Collection and Annotation for AI by Eng. Hamdy Mubarak (QCRI)
16:00 0:15 Masader: Documenting Arabic NLP Data Resources. Mr. Zaid Alyafeai
16:15 0:10 Short Break
16:25 1:00 Panel 7: Creating Human-Centric, Fair, and Responsible AI in the Arab World
17:25 1:00 Tutorial 2: NLP Text Visualization by Dr. Mahmoud El-Haj
18:25 0:35 Lightning Talks
Hussein T. Al-Natsheh . Arabic Language Understanding Evaluation (ALUE) Benchmark
Hatem Haddad . Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry: iCompass use case
Mustafa Jarrar. Lexical Resources at Birzeit University
19:00 0:15 Closing remarks
Researchers will be invited to showcase their research projects during the two poster sessions. The posters format is vertical (Portrait). The Poster Boards cannot accommodate Landscape posters. You can print your poster in Portrait A0 (84,1 x 118,9cm).
SIGARAB is the Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics for researchers concerned with all aspects of Arabic NLP. There will be SIGARAB meetings co-located with the event.
Prof. Tim Baldwin, Associate Provost and Head of NLP Department at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE, and Melbourne Laureate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Prof. Iryna Gurevych, Professor and Head of the UKP Lab, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Prof. Eduard Hovy, Faculty member, Language Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dr. Sanjay Chawla, Research Director of Qatar Centre for Artificial Intelligence (QCAI), Qatar
Prof. Nizar Habash, Professor of Computer Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Prof. Mona Diab, Facebook AI and George Washington University, USA
Dr. Imed Zitouni, Director Of Engineering, Google, USA
Dr. Preslav Nakov, Principal Scientist, QCRI, Qatar
Eng. Jay Alammar, Arpeggio Research, KSA
Dr. Axel Kerep, Parcs solutions, Paris, France
Dr. Hassan Sawaf, Founder of aiXplain, inc, Los Gatos, California, USA
Dr. Kareem Darwish, Senior Scientist, aiXplain, inc, Los Gatos, California, USA
Eng. Hamdy Mubarak, Principal Software Engineer, QCRI, Qatar
Dr. Houda Bouamor, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar
Prof. Mustafa Jarrar, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Birzeit University
Prof. Chiraz Laatiri, Professor and former Minister of Culture in Tunisia, University of Manouba, Tunisia
Prof. Hend Al-Khalifa, Professor at Information Technology Department, King Saud University, KSA
Dr. Mahmoud El-Haj, Lecturer in Computer Science, Lancaster University, UK
Dr. Tamer El-Sayed, Associate Professor, Qatar University, Qatar,
Prof. Karim Bouzoubaa, Full Professor at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco
Dr. Hussein Al-Natsheh, CTO - Unstructured Data Intelligence @ Beyond Limits, UAE
Dr. Hatem Haddad, Co-Founder, and CTO of iCompass, Tunisia
Prof. Azzedine Mazroui, Professor, University Mohammed I, Oujda, Morocco
Dr. Bayan Abu Shawar, Associate Professor, Al Ain University, UAE
Dr. Nedjma Ousidhoum, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr. Jens Schneider, Assistant Professor, HBKU, Qatar
Dr. James She, Associate Professor, HBKU, Qatar
Mr. Zaid Alyafeai, PhD Student, KFUPM, KSA
Prof. Ala Al-Fuqaha, Associate Provost for Teaching and Learning at HBKU, Qatar
Dr. Amr Al Azm, Associate Professor, Qatar University, Qatar
Dr. Ahmed Abdelali, Senior Software Engineer, QCRI, Qatar
Dr. Khalid Choukri, CEO of ELDA, Paris, France
Workshop: May 11th and May 12th, 2022
Workshop Chair: Dr. Wajdi Zaghouani, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, HBKU
Student Volunteer Chairs:
Ms. Chereen Al Churafa, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, HBKU
Mr. Hussein Aldobashi, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, HBKU
Workshop Advisors:
Prof. Nizar Habash, Professor, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Stephan Ipert, Director of Distinctive Collections (QNL), Qatar
Dr. Preslav Nakov, Principal Scientist, QCRI, Qatar
Big Data Analysis of the Arabic Content
AI applied to the Arabic language
Language Resources for Semitic Languages (dictionaries, annotated data, corpus, etc.)
Methodologies and tools for Language Resources construction and annotation
Guidelines, standards, and best practices for Language Resources Creation
Language technologies and their application
Opinion mining and social media analytics.
Computational Social Sciences in the context of the MENA region
If you have any questions about the event , feel free to email: wzaghouani@hbku.edu.qa