[Talk Announcement] VinNLP - NLP Bridges Talk Series - Prof. Mustafa Jarrar – Thu 15 May

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Dear all,

We’re pleased to invite you to the first talk in the NLP Bridges series hosted by the VinNLP Research Group at VinUniversity, Hanoi.

Speaker: Prof. Mustafa Jarrar (Birzeit University / Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
Title: NLP Tools and Datasets for Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Arabic
Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025
Time:
🕓 4:00 PM Hanoi
🕙 10:00 AM London, Rabat
🕛 12:00 PM Makkah, Jerusalem, Doha, Cairo

This talk will explore effective strategies for developing NLP tools and datasets for low-resource languages; using Arabic as a case study. It will highlight key resources; including Wordnets and linguistic ontologies; NLP lexicons; annotated corpora; LLMs instruction datasets; image captioning; morphological analysis; word sense disambiguation; named entity recognition; hate speech detection; and methods for bias and propaganda detection. Open-source toolkits supporting Arabic NLP will also be presented. No prior background in Arabic or NLP is required.

📍 Webinar Registration: https://vinnlp.com/nlp_bridges.html

We hope to see many of you there.

Best regards,
Mo El-Haj

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Dr Mo El-Haj

Director of the VinNLP Research Group

https://vinnlp.com/ (follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vinnlp)

Associate Professor (Reader) in NLP

CECS, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam

https://vinuni.edu.vn/people/mo-el-haj/

NLP Visiting Research Scholar

SCC, Lancaster University, UK