New job openings at the Computational Approaches to Modeling Language (CAMeL) Lab at New York University Abu Dhabi! 🐪 Research Engineer: apply.interfolio.com/188519 🐪 Postdoctoral Associate: apply.interfolio.com/188592

We are releasing an expanded version of Global PIQA! It now covers 141 language varieties and includes parallel and non-parallel splits. We are also releasing an updated preprint.

Last month, we organized the Second Arabic NLP School 2026, co-located with EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. We welcomed 100+ students and 20 mentors for a hands-on program. Huge thanks to everyone who made it possible ✨(Thanks Kareem Darwish for the great photo) arabicnlpschool2026.sigarab.org

I’m happy to share my keynote speech at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. Exploring 40 years of Arabic’s journey through AI and NLP, from early foundations to generative systems, and outlining a future of stronger collaboration and innovation. underline.io/lecture/1483... @eaclmeeting.bsky.social

🎓 Huge congratulations to my PhD student Bashar Alhafni ... now officially Dr. Alhafni! 🎉 His dissertation is titled "Controlled Natural Language Generation for Morphologically Rich Languages: The Case of Arabic." Proud advisor moment! 👏

Italian newspaper says it has published world’s first AI-generated edition

Italian newspaper says it has published world’s first AI-generated edition

Il Foglio says artificial intelligence used ‘for everything – the writing, the headlines, the quotes … even the irony’ An Italian newspaper has said it is the first in the world to publish an edition entirely produced by artificial intelligence. The…

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We'll commit to a slice 🥧 Happy Pi Day!

NYU Abu Dhabi Opening: Computer Science Professor in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, T/TT - Open Rank! Deadline Feb 28, 2025! apply.interfolio.com/161449 #AI #ML #MachineLearning #NLP #NLProc #AIjobs #MLjobs #BigData #DataScience #AIcareers #DataJobs #JobSearch

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