The First
Arabic NLP Winter School
Saturday - Sunday January 18-19, 2025
Co-located with COLING 2025
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Registration will open soon (part of COLING 2025)
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The First Arabic NLP Winter School
Co-located with COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, January 18-19, 2025
The First Winter School on Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a two-day event designed to advance knowledge and skills in Arabic NLP research and development and to foster interdisciplinary exchange and networking among students, academics, and industry professionals in the field.
The program will include expert-led panels, tutorials, and hands-on workshops.
We anticipate a wide range of participants, including researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, PhD candidates, and industry and government practitioners with an interest in Arabic NLP.
Schedule
HALA! : Hackathon for Arabic Language by aiXplain
We are happy that aiXplain will be running HALA! (Hackathon for Arabic Language by aiXplain) as part of the Arabic NLP Winter School!
This hackathon invites participants to innovate and collaborate on groundbreaking projects in Arabic NLP.
Schedule and Format: HALA! will run in two formats.
In-Person: Participants will gather to collaborate, ideate, and develop their projects in real-time (days 1 and 2 of the Winter School - January 18-19, 2025).
Online: Participants will work remotely, collaborating through digital platforms to create and submit their projects. aiXplain will provide virtual office hours during COLING 2025 (January 20-23).
The HALA Award Ceremony will take place in person at COLING (TBD).
Venues
The Winter School will take place over two days at different venues:
Day 1 (Sat Jan 18, 2025) will be held at the beautiful MBZUAI Campus in Masdar City
Day 2 (Sun Jan 19, 2025) will be held at ADNEC (with the first day of COLING 2025)
Registration & Participant Information
Registration will happen though COLING 2025 General Registration (TBA).
Look for the Arabic NLP Winter School in the form.
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We ask everyone who is interested in attending to also fill the
Arabic NLP Winter School Participant Information Survey.
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Organizers
Nizar Habash, New York University Abu Dhabi
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Hassan Sawaf, aiXplain
Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute and aiXplain
Hanan Aldarmaki, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Sponsors and Collaborators
