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Mustafa Jarrar
Mustafa Jarrar
Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Birzeit University, Palestine

Keynotes and Featured Talks


  1. The Future of Arabic AI Data. (Program). Keynote Speaker. The 8th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing). Dubai. 25/11/2026
  2. AI Data and the New Research Trends. (Program). Invited Talk. Hiwar Scholars Seminar: Fall 2026. Northwestern. Doha 18/10/2026
  3. Rethinking AI Data. Invited Talk. QCRI. Doha. 13/10/2026
  4. AI and the next Generation of Consumers. (Program. Forum). Panel Chair. Brazil & Arab Countries Economic Forum. Sao Paulo, Brazil. 25/8/2026
  5. Arabic-Language Artificial Intelligence (Agenda). Workshop. BilAraby Annual Gathering, Qatar. 19/9/2026
  6. Who Controls the Future? Artificial Intelligence between Innovation, Sovereignty, and Risk. (Video). Webinar. Middle East Council on Global Affairs. 1/7/2026
  7. Using AI in Research. (Agenda). Talk. Early Career Researcher Development. HBKU, Doha. 30/6/2026
  8. Datasets & Tools for Arabic NLP and LLMs. (Program). Talk. International Summer School on Generative AI. Sapienza, Italy. 22/6/2026
  9. Responsible AI for Sustainable Innovation (News. News). Panelist. King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals - KFUPM. 02/02/2026
  10. 30 Open source datasets for Arabic NLP/LLMs (Video) Webinar. Hasoubawayh. 17/12/2025
  11. Advances in Information Extraction and Knowledge Graphs (Video). Keynote. : NORA: The First Workshop on Knowledge Graphs & Agentic Systems Interplay. 01/12/2025
  12. AI Tools and Lexicographic Databases for Translation and Arabization (Video - Raya - Qatar Tribune - Al Arab). Keynote. Ceremony of Shaikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding. 10/12/2025
  13. Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse Datasets for Arabic LLMs. (Program). Invited Talk. Symposium on Cross-Cultural Artificial Intelligence, Birlen, Germany. 9/10/2025
  14. Research on the Palestinian Narrative: NLP shared Tasks and Resources (Program). Invited Talk. Muslims in ML Social Workshop at ACL. Vienna, Austria. 30/07/2025
  15. Arabic NLP Tools and Datasets (Event. Video). Webinar. CairoNLP. 20/05/2025
  16. NLP Tools and Resources for Low-Resource Languages (Event). Webinar. NLP Bridges Talk Series – VinNLP. 15/05/2025
  17. SinaTools, Morphology to Semantics, Advancing Arabic NLP (Video). Webinar. AIniacs. 01/04/2025
  18. Arabic NLP Resources and Tools (Video). Invited Talk. Doha Institute Webinars. 15/10/2024
  19. Palestinian Academia: Stories of Research and Education under Israeli Occupation (Video - slides). Invited Talk. Scientists-For-Palestine Webinars. 24/4/2024
  20. SALMA: Arabic Sense-Annotated Corpus and WSD Benchmarks (Video - Article - slides). Research Talk. The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023) - part of EMNLP-2023, Singapore. 7/12/2023
  21. Nabra: Syrian Arabic Dialects with Morphological Annotations (Video - Article - slides). Research Talk. The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023) - part of EMNLP-2023, Singapore. 7/12/2023
  22. ArBanking77: Intent Detection Neural Model and a New Dataset in Modern and Dialectical Arabic (Video - Article - slides - Poster). Research Talk. The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023) - part of EMNLP-2023, Singapore. 7/12/2023
  23. Arabic Fine-Grained Entity Eecognition (Video - Article - slides). Research Talk. The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023) - part of EMNLP-2023, Singapore. 7/12/2023
  24. WojoodNER 2023: The First Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task (Video - Article - slides - Poster). Research Talk. The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023) - part of EMNLP-2023, Singapore. 7/12/2023
  25. Lisan: Yemeni, Iraqi, Libyan, and Sudanese Arabic Dialect Corpora with Morphological Annotations (Article - slides). Research Talk. The 20th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), Cairo. 4/12/2023
  26. Offensive Hebrew Corpus and Detection using BERT (Article - slides). Research Talk. The 20th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), Cairo. 4/12/2023
  27. Arabic Language Understanding Tools (slides). Featured Keynote. UM6P NLP Day, Morocco. 28/11/2023
  28. Academic Integrity and Publication Challenges (video - Facebook - AlHadath). Chair. Birzeit University Seminars, 2023
  29. On ChatGPT and Large Language Models (video - slides). Invited Talk. Birzeit University Seminars - ChatGPT in Academia, 2023
  30. A Benchmark and Scoring Algorithm for Enriching Arabic Synonyms (Article - slides). Research Talk. The 12th International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2023), San Sebastian, Spain, 2023
  31. Context-Gloss Augmentation for Improving Arabic Target Sense Verification. (Article - slides). Research Talk. The 12th International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2023), San Sebastian, Spain, 2023
  32. Arabic Natural Language Understanding as a Sustainable AI Research (Program - slides - video). Invited Talk. The e-AGE21 international Confernce, Online, 14/12/2021
  33. Building Lexicographic Database for MSA and dialects (Confernce - slides). Featured Keynote. The e-AGE21 international Confernce, Online, 28/9/2021
  34. Linguistic Ontologies for Knowledge Graphs (slides ). Invited Talk. FIP WG 2.6 Database Seminars, 21/1/2021
  35. Extracting Synonyms from Bilingual Dictionaries (Article - slides - video). Research Talk. The 11th Global Wordnet Conference. South Africa 21/1/2021
  36. Linguistic Ontologies and Wordnets (slides - video). Invited Speaker. The 11th Global Wordnet Conference. South Africa 18/1/2021
  37. Building the Largest Arabic-Multilingual Lexicographic Database (media - Lecture - video). Featured Keynote. Shoman Cultural Forum - Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation. Amman, Jordan 10/3/2020
  38. Computer Science Research under Israeli Occupation -my Story (Program). Keynote Speaker. The 3rd International Meeting for Science in Palestine. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Boston, USA 11/1/2020
  39. NLP Tools and Resources for Understanding Arabic Content (news). Keynote Speaker. Understanding Internet Content Symposium - Birzeit University. Palestine 24/7/2019
  40. Social Media Analysis for Peace Invited Talk. The United Nations AI for Peace and Security Workshop, Alan Turing Institute. London, UK 24/7/2019
  41. An Arabic-Multilingual Database with a Lexicographic Search Engine (slides). Research Talk. The 24th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB). Manchester, UK 26/6/2019
  42. Representing Arabic Lexicons in Lemon - a Preliminary Study (poster - article). Research Poster. The 2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK). Leipzig, Germany 23/5/2019.
  43. Big Linguistic Data Graph (slides - video). Invited Talk. The First Arabic Speech Workshop. Qatar 29/4/2019
  44. Innovative Lexicographic Search Engine (program). Lightning Talk. The 2019 NYUAD International Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World. Abu Dhabi 25/4/2019
  45. Lexicographic Search Engine (news). Winner Lightning Talk. Ceremony of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Award for Arabic Language. Dubai 11/4/2019
  46. Building a Big Linguistic Data Graph for Arabic Natural Language Processing (program). Featured Keynote. The 6th Arab Women in Computing Annual International conference. Rabat, Morocco 8/3/2019
  47. The Arabic Ontology and Lexicons (video - media). Featured Keynote. Renaissance Forum - The Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development. Amman, Jordan 21/2/2019
  48. Eight Years of Research Make Its Debut (ceremony - media - media). Featured Keynote. The Launching Ceremony of the Arabic Ontology and the Lexicographic Search Engine. Birzeit University. Palestine 25/9/2018
  49. Search Engine for Arabic Lexicons (article - program). Research Talk. The 5th Conference on Translation and the Problematics of Cross-cultural Understanding. The Forum for Arab and International Relations. Qatar. 12/12/2018
  50. The Arabic Ontology and Lexical Semantic Resources (program). Keynote Speaker. The INFOL@NGUES 2018 Conference Beja, Tunisia 2018
  51. Classifying Processes and Basic Formal Ontology (SlideShare - slides). Research Talk. The International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO). Newcastle, UK 2017
  52. Clustering Arabic Tweets for Sentiment Analysis (SlideShare). Research Talk. 2017 IEEE/ACS 14th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications. IEEE Computer Society. Hammamet, Tunisia 2017
  53. Arabic Ontology Engineering (tutorial). Tutorial. The 2017 IEEE/ACS 14th International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications. IEEE Computer Society. Hammamet, Tunisia 2017
  54. e-Government for Better Migration Governance - The Status in Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon. Invited Talk. The Sub-Regional Workshop on Migration Governance, EUROMED Migration IV. Amman, Jordan 11/10/2017
  55. Medical Terminology in the Arabic Ontology Invited Talk. Hi-Cure workshop. Lisbon Portugal 12/4/2016
  56. Zinnar - The e-Government Interoperability Framework (slides - Zinnar - Summit Page). Keynote Speaker. Summit On ICT-enabled Governance, and the 4th International Summer School On Open and Collaborative Governance. Samos, Greece 2015
  57. Government Semantics For Data and Services (video P1 - P2). Invited Talk. Government Course, Tallinn University of Technology. Estonia 29/9/2015
  58. Advances in ICT. Panel Chair. The First National Forum for Innovators - Higher Council for Innovation & Excellence, Palestine 12/9/2015
  59. The Arabic Ontology. Invited Talk. American University of Beirut, Lebanon 3/9/2015
  60. On Computer Science Trends and Priorities in Palestine (slideshare - Slides). Keynote Speaker. Workshop on IT Research Trends and Priorities. The Islamic University of Gaza. Palestine 28/3/2015
  61. Lessons Learned from Class Recording and Publishing of Eight Online Courses (Slides). Invited Talk. Workshop on e-learning in Higher Education. Birzeit University. Palestine 6/12/2014
  62. Future Internet in Horizon 2020 Calls (slides). Keynote Speaker. The 1st ICT Networking Event. Amman, Jordan 13/10/2014
  63. Fund-raising and Participation Opportunities in EU Programs. Invited Talk. Workshop on Fund-raising and Participation in EU projects. Palestinian Technical University, Tulkarim 3/9/2014
  64. Towards Developing an e-Governance Interoperability Framework at Palestinian Universities. Keynote Speaker. Workshop on e-Governance at Palestinian Universities. Al-Quds Open University. Tulkarim 1/6/2014
  65. Recommendations for Writing a Comparative Proposal and Networking with International Scientists. Invited Talk. Workshop on Fund raising and Participation in EU projects. Arab American University in Jenin. Palestine 12/2/2014
  66. Web 3.0 and Semantic Web. Keynote Speaker. The Tech-con2 - Developers Day. Ramallah, Palestine 12/10/2013
  67. Ontologizing Dictionaries and Lexical Database (program). Keynote Speaker. The Arab-Term Workshop, at the German-Jordanian University. Jordan 15/9/2013
  68. Building a Formal Arabic Ontology (article - program). Research Talk. The 2nd International conference on Arabic Language. UAE 8/5/2013
  69. Writing a Competitive Proposal Highlights from the e-Government Academy Project (video1 - video2). Keynote Speaker. The 2013 EU Tempus Information Day. Ramallah, Palestine 16/1/2013
  70. Europe-Palestine Research Cooperation —Ongoing Projects at Sina Institute at Birzeit University (video). Keynote Speaker. The 2nd International Platform on Integrating Arab e-Infrastructure in Global Environment (e-AGE), Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN). Dubai 13/12/2012
  71. Zinnar - The e-Government Interoperability Framework (video - program). Keynote Speaker. The First National Conference on e-Governance and e-Services. Palestine 27/6/2012
  72. Building a Formal Arabic Ontology (article - slides). Invited Talk. The Experts Meeting on Arabic Ontologies and Semantic Networks. ALECSO, Arab League. Tunisia 26-28/6/2011
  73. The Palestinian Government Ontology (article - slides). Invited Talk. The Experts Meeting on Arabic Ontologies and Semantic Networks. ALECSO, Arab League. Tunisia 26-28/6/2011
  74. Ontology-Based Data and Process Governance Framework —The Case of e-Government Interoperability in Palestine (article - slides). Research Talk. The IFIP International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA). Campione, Italy 30/6/2011
  75. Ontology-Based Data Governance (article - slides). Invited Talk. The eGovernance Workshop, at the Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology. Palestine 28/6/2011
  76. Arabic Ontology Engineering —Research Challenges and Opportunities (article - conference). Keynote Speaker. The International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web -Services and Applications (ISWSA). Jordan 18/4/2011
  77. eGovernment Interoperability Framework in Palestine. Invited Talk. at the Service Oriented Architecture Course, Masters on eGovernment. University of Trento. Italy December, 2010
  78. Building an Arabic Ontology, for Information Search and Integration. Invited Talk. ExpoTech III, Birzeit University. Palestine 16/4/2010
  79. Web 3.0, The Third Generation of the Web. Invited Talk. ExpoTech III, Birzeit University. Palestine 16/4/2010
  80. Mechanisms of Connecting IT Colleges in the Fields of Research and Teaching. Invited Talk. Workshop on Evaluation of IT curriculum in Palestinian universities. Arab American University of Jenin. Palestine 28/3/2010
  81. Legal Ontology Engineering. Tutorial. Institute of Law, Birzeit University. Palestine 2009
  82. Ontology-Based e-Governance. Invited Talk. e-government Course. Birzeit University. Palestine 17/12/2009
  83. A Data Mashup Language for the Data Web. Invited Talk. IFIP 2.6 Research Workshop. Nicosia, Cyprus 24/4/2009
  84. A Data Mashup Language for the Data Web. Research Talk. LDOW workshop at the WWW Conference. Madrid, Spain 20/4/2009
  85. MashQL: A Query Formulation and Mashup Language. Research Talk. University of Cyprus. Cyprus 25/2/2009
  86. Towards Data Mashups and Pipes. Research Talk. ONISW workshop at the CiKM Conference. Napa Valley, California, USA 30/10/2008
  87. MashQL: Towards Data Mashups and Pipes. Invited Talk. University of Athens. Greece 21/10/2008
  88. Web 3.0 Information Systems. Invited Talk. The “Research and Technology Course (CS671). University of Cyprus. Cyprus 19/2/2008
  89. Information Search. SEARCHiN Kick-off Meeting. Research Talk. University of Cyprus. Nicosia, Cyprus 10/12/2007
  90. Semantic Pipes -Towards Effective Information Search. SEARCHiN Kick-off Meeting). Research Talk. University of Cyprus. Cyprus 10/12/2007
  91. Web 2.0, Social Programming, Mashups -What is in it for me!. Research Talk. University of Cyprus. Cyprus 6/12/2007
  92. Formalizing ORM using the DLR and the SHOIN/OWL Description Logics. Research Talk. The International Workshop on Object-Role Modeling (ORM). Algarve, Portugal 28/11/2007
  93. Reasoning on ORM Schemes -Formalizing ORM using DLR and SHOIN/OWL. Research Talk. The International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER). Auckland, New Zealand 8/11/2007
  94. Ontology Engineering —Challenges and Opportunities. Invited Talk. University of Cyprus. Cyprus 13/9/2007
  95. ORM and Description Logic. Invited Talk. Web Information Systems Course. University of Hasselt, Belgium 19/4/2007
  96. Reasoning on ORM Schemes. Research Talk. The Dutch-Belgian Database Day. Brussels, Belgium 15/11/2006
  97. Towards the Adoption of Linguistic Resources in Formal Ontology Engineering. Invited Talk. IFIP 2.12/12.4 Research Meeting. Montpellier, France 2/11/2006
  98. The Ontology Outreach Advisory. Research Talk. The OOA Kick-off workshop on Semantic challenges and opportunities in the Human Resources Domain - As part of the ePortfolio Conference. Oxford, England 11/10/2006
  99. Towards the Notion of Gloss, and the Adoption of Linguistic Resources in Formal Ontology Engineering. Research Talk. The WWW Conference, Semantic Web Track. Edinburgh, UK 26/5/2006
  100. Unsatisfiability Reasoning Patterns in ORM Conceptual Schemes. Research Talk. The International Conference on Semantics in Networked Word (ICSNW), Munich, Germany 29/3/2006
  101. Modularization and Auto-Composition of ORM Schemes. Research Talk. The International Workshop on Object-Role Modeling (ORM). Larnaca, Cyprus 3/11/2005
  102. The Double Articulation Principle for Ontology Engineering. Research Talk. University of Trento, Italy 31/8/2005
  103. Towards Methodological Principles for Ontology Engineering. PhD Public Defense. PhD Public Defense. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 26/5/2005
  104. Ontology Modularization and Composition. Research Talk. Workshop on Ontology Modularization and Context. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 14/10/2004
  105. The Dogma Methodology for Ontology Engineering. Invited Talk. IFIP 2.6 Research Workshop. Sicily, Italy. 7/11/2003
  106. Ontology-Based Customer Complaint Management. Research Talk. Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies and the Modeling of Complaint Regulations (WORM). Catania, Sicily, Italy 4/11/2003
  107. Formal Ontology Engineering —The DOGMA Approach. Research Talk. The International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBase). Irvine, California, USA 31/10/2002
  108. A Conceptual Markup Language that Supports Interoperability between Business Rule Modeling Systems. Research Talk. The 10th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS). Irvine, California, USA 31/10/2002
  109. A Markup Language for ORM Business Rules. Research Talk. The International Workshop on Rule Markup Languages for Business Rules on the Semantic Web, (RuleML). Sardinia, Italy 14/6/2002
  110. Decomposing Ontology into an Ontology Base and its Interpretation Layer. Research Talk. Dagstuhl Seminar No 02061: Rule Markup Techniques for the Semantic Web. Dagstuhl, Germany 3/2-8/2/2002




In the Media

reports and interviews about my research

  1. On the US-Israel AI relationships. Interview (ArabiTV) September 2026
  2. Artificial Intelligence and the War on Iran - what is new? Opinion Article (Al-Jazeera.net - archive) April 2026
  3. How Is AI Being Used in the War on Iran? Podcast (Arab48-Almaidan) March 2026
  4. Algorithms of Death and How the U.S. Dominates Artificial Intelligence Podcast (Part-1 . Part-2 . ) Podcast HadBaa. March 2026
  5. Explosions in Lebanon Podcast (Spotify . Arab48 . Apple .) Arab48. 20/09/2024
  6. Pager device explosions in Lebanon TV Interview (Video) FajerTV. 18/09/2024
  7. Artificial Intelligence in Warfare Podcast (Video. Spotify) Arab48 . 08/08/2024
  8. The PhD Program at Birzeit TV Interview (Video) Watan . 25/07/2024
  9. Interviews about the Arabic Dialects Corpus (Al-Jazeera • AjyaL • Independent • more..) 2023
  10. On Wiki Palestine and the Arabic Content on the Web (24FM) December, 2022
  11. On the World Arabic Language Day (Palestine TV) December, 2019
  12. Prof. Jarrar wins the Shoman Arab Researchers Award (Palestine TV • Quds TV • Ajjyal • Ramallah • 25 more..) September, 2019
  13. Arabic and AI: Why voice-activated tech struggles in the Middle East (Middle East Eye) September, 2019
  14. Birzeit University won the Bin Rashid Arabic Language Award for its Lexicographic Search Engine (30 newspapers..) April, 2019
  15. On DNA data storage (France 24) April, 2019
  16. On the International Mother Language Day (Roya TV) February, 2019
  17. Birzeit University symposium details efforts to create Arabic search engine (15 newspapers..) February, 2019
  18. An Arabic Greeting to Birzeit University (Echorouk online • others 8 newspapers..) December, 2018
  19. An Online Arabic Dictionary Makes Its Debut (Al-Fanar Media • 20 newspapers..) November, 2018
  20. Reportage about the Arabic Ontology (Al Arabiya TV) September, 2018
  21. Birzeit announces linguistic search engine and the Arabic Ontology (Palestine TV • Palestine TV report • Quds TV • FM24 • 35 more..) September, 2018
  22. Birzeit signs MoU with ALESCO to digitize and integrate Arabic lexicons (Ajjyal • ALECSO • 10 more..) December, 2017
  23. Launching the Corpus for Palestinian Dialect (Curras) (Wamda • Palestine Today • Al-Iqtisadi • 10 more..) January, 2017
  24. UB Department of Biomedical Informatics hosts its first Fulbright scholar (UB • BZU) October, 2016
  25. MoU with RedCrow to Cooperate in Computational Linguistics (press • 5 more..) May, 2016
  26. Interviews about digitization and engineering of dictionaries (Palestine Today TV • Ajjyal • 9 more..) March, 2016
  27. Prof. Jarrar wins Google Research Award (Palestine Voice • NisaFM • 24FM • 35 more..) February, 2016
  28. Deploying a SMART Multilingual Audio Guide in Bethlehem (Nisa FM • Sina • 40 more..) August, 2014
  29. Interview about the Arabic Ontology Project Interview (Video) Islamic University of Gaza. November, 2013
  30. Birzeit University won an EU-FP7 project in ICT Industry (15 newspapers..) October, 2013
  31. Prof. Fellbaum from Princeton Concluded her Visit to Sina Institute (press • 10 more..) July, 2013
  32. Announcing the adoption of the Zinnar Interoperability Framework in all Palestinian ministries Press Conference (Video) Prime Minister's Office, Ramallah. 8/4/2013
  33. Celebrating the End of the e-Government Training Program (ceremony • 8 newspapers) September, 2012
  34. Interviews about the First National Conference on e-Governance and e-Services (Maan TV 1 • Palestine TV 1 • Maan TV 2 • Palestine TV 2 • RayaFM • AJyyal • 40 more..) June, 2012
  35. Birzeit Wins an EU-FP7 Project on Multilingual Knowledge Sharing Technologies (press • ceremony • Palestine TV • Kickoff • 8 newspapers) December, 2011
  36. Launching the Palestinian e-Government Interoperability Framework (ceremony • more..) 2011
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