# Arabic NLP - Introductions
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**Author:**  [@yjernite](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fyjernite)%5C
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 8:37pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F1 "2021-02-18T20:37:12Z")
This is the introduction thread for Arabic NLP practitioners.
Welcome! Please introduce yourself and let us know:
- Your name, Github, Hugging Face, and/or Twitter handle
- Your interest in Arabic NLP
- Some projects you are working on or interested in starting
- Any other languages that you speak, any personal interests, anything else really 😉
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**Author:**  [@Zaid](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FZaid)%5C
**Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 3:17am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F2 "2021-02-19T03:17:43Z")
Hey, I am Zaid Alyafeai, my handle is @zaidalyafeai in all platforms. I have been working on Arabic NLP for a while now tackling different problems like text generation, evaluating tokenizers for Arabic, compact language modelling and distillation. I am currently working on improving language modelling for Arabic. I and my friend Maged co-founded arbml which is library that revises the nlp pipeline for Arabic starting from preprocessing, tokenization, training and deployment [ARBML · GitHub](https://github.com/ARBML). I speak kind of English and mostly I like to work on GANs in my free time.
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**Author:**  [@snekz](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fsnekz)%5C
**Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F3 "2021-02-19T14:56:20Z")
I’m Shorouq (don’t worry, I forgive you for not being able to pronounce this). Got to work with Arabic NLP during my graduate programme at Uppsala University (language technology). I consider Arabic dialects to be separate languages and it’s a special interest of mine. Another important interest for me is chatbots and I’m hoping to get started on a Levantine Arabic conversational bot using language-generation. Let’s see how that goes. I speak Arabic and English fluently, quite rusty german, and intermediate Swedish.
Add me on Twitter to chat! [https://twitter.com/shjza](https://twitter.com/shjza)
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**Author:**  [@abdulelahsm](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fabdulelahsm)%5C
**Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F4 "2021-02-19T17:50:46Z")
Hey, I’m Abdulelah Al Mesfer. I consider myself as a novice in NLP. At the moment, I’m interested in working with gulf dialects in Arabic (Saudi, UAE, Oman, Yemen … etc) and dialects within Saudi Arabia (Najdi, Hijaz, … etc).
Starting this fall, I’ll be pursuing a graduate degree where I’ll attempt to focus on contributing to Arabic NLP research and applications.
My GH handle is @abdulelahsm and you can connect with me on twitter [@asmesfer](https://twitter.com/asmesfer)
Looking forward to learn from and contribute to this community 😃
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**Author:**  [@oafsalem](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Foafsalem)%5C
**Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F5 "2021-02-19T18:16:00Z")
Hi, I’m Osama Salem. Sophomore student majored in CS. I’m new to the whole idea of NLP and specifically Arabic NLP.
I joined the world of machine learning 6 months ago. 3 months later I started working on basic NLP in English. Now for the last two weeks, I’m focusing on Arabic NLP.
All the NLP tasks that I have worked on are text classification specifically working on newsletters. I’m trying to get satisfying results before moving to the next NLP task.
You can find me on Twitter: [https://twitter.com/oafsalem](https://twitter.com/oafsalem), and I speak both Arabic and English.
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**Author:**  [@monsoon-nlp](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fmonsoon-nlp)%5C
**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 6:43am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F6 "2021-02-20T06:43:45Z")
Hi, I’m Nick Doiron (monsoon-nlp here, mapmeld on Twitter).
A year ago I [combined Arabic dialect datasets](https://mapmeld.medium.com/embeddings-for-arabic-dialect-classification-1cf84f336044) to make a classifier; I also have a GPT-2 model finetuned on dialect markers but I can’t test the accuracy.
In 2019 I visited Re-Coded’s code schools in Turkey and Iraq. I’d be interested in projects which would support and engage the Arabic speakers in their programs.
I’m also attempting to test model bias with [a seq2seq model](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1TuDfnV2gQ-WsDtHkF52jbn699bk6vJZV) which flips male and female words. Still a work in progress - need to find additional sources for training data
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**Author:**  [@Kamel](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FKamel)%5C
**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 8:19am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F7 "2021-02-20T08:19:28Z")
Hi, I am Kamel Gaanoun from Morocco(kamelstats on Twitter). I am starting m’y PhD on Arabic-NLP with a focus on dialects. I am interested un dialect Identification, topic modelling and automatic translation. I speak Arabic, French and English.
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**Author:**  [@Zaid](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FZaid)%5C
**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F8 "2021-02-20T22:44:41Z")
Hey all, nice to meet you. If you already know we have an article about state of Arabic NLP [Arabic NLP - Tutorial - الدورة التعليمية](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-tutorial%2F3739)%2C please look at, revise and suggest any improvements.
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**Author:**  [@mobarmg](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fmobarmg)%5C
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F9 "2021-02-22T14:06:24Z")
Hey, my name is Ebrahim Mohammed, my handle on Twitter is @mobarmg. I am the engineering manager for Naseej where I lead a team of software engineers, ML engineers, and researchers. I am interested in NLU, Knowledge representation, and extraction. We plan to build real-world applications of natural language processing for the Arabian region.
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**Author:**  [@bilelm](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fbilelm)%5C
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F10 "2021-02-22T22:12:02Z")
Hi, my name is Bilel Moulahi. I work as a data scientist at Akio (Montpellier, France). My twitter is @bilelmoulahi.
Actually, my work on NLP mainly focuses on text classification and extraction problems. I speak Arabic, French and English.
For now, I mostly work on French and Spanish data, but I’m also curious about Arabic as it is my native language.
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**Author:**  [@Zaid](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FZaid)%5C
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F11 "2021-02-23T14:27:26Z")
Hey all, I created a new [thread](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fmlrs-morphologically-rich-languages-nlp%2F3868) to discuss a family languages called MRLs (Arabic included).
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**Author:**  [@salti](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fsalti)%5C
**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F12 "2021-03-05T20:44:03Z")
Hello everyone, I hope I’m not very late here.
I’m Mohamed Al Salti, [M-Salti](https://github.com/M-Salti) on Github, [salti](https://huggingface.co/salti) on HF and [m\_salti\_](https://twitter.com/m_salti_) on Twitter (such a mess of handles, right?)
I started working on Arabic NLP last year, mostly on question answering and information retrieval for my graduation project, and I have published some QA models to the model hub.
Currently, I’m trying to work on natural language generation in Arabic and trying to be better at deep learning in general.
I speak English very well and know very basic French and German.
I look forward to collaborating with this community and seeing it grow.
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**Author:**  [@elgeish](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Felgeish)%5C
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F13 "2021-03-17T22:21:04Z")
Salam!
- My name is Mohamed El-Geish (Github, Hugging Face, Twitter, etc: [https://elgeish.com](https://elgeish.com))
- I’m interested in NLP and Speech, especially ASR and QA
- Some projects I’m working on: [elgeish (Mohamed El-Geish)](https://huggingface.co/elgeish)
- Arabic and English (native); Spanish and German (basic)
Looking forward to collaborating with you all!
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**Author:**  [@coding4fun](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fcoding4fun)%5C
**Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 7:22am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F14 "2021-03-23T07:22:39Z")
Hi all 🤗
This is Obeida ElJundi. I am a data scientist at Schlumberger, UAE.
I just finished my 3-years Masters at American University of Beirut, and I am a member of the [AUB MIND](https://sites.aub.edu.lb/mindlab/). My main focus was about Arabic NLP. Some of my work in Arabic NLP includes:
- winning first place in extracting emotions from Arabic Tweets in SemEval 2018
- developing the first Arabic-specific universal model: hULMonA
- developing a dataset for Arabic Image Captioning
Repos & papers are on [AUB MIND Github](https://github.com/aub-mind)
I speak Arabic & English. Looking forward to meet you guys & to contribute to this awesome community!
my handles:
- Twitter: EljundiObeida
- LinkedIn: obeidaeljundi
- Github: ObeidaElJundi
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**Author:**  [@Monda](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FMonda)%5C
**Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 3:44am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F16 "2021-06-26T03:44:17Z")
Hi,
I’m Ahmed Abdou.
Github: [AhmedAbdel-Aal · GitHub](https://github.com/AhmedAbdel-Aal)
Twitter: [https://twitter.com/AhmedAb41494847](https://twitter.com/AhmedAb41494847)
I am interested in Arabic NLP in general because I know that Arabic NLP has yet much work to do and we should invest in it. I am working currently in research project to review the Arabic Diacritization techniques applied so far, how can we improve it, how much useful it can be. I am also interested in affective computing in general.
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**Author:**  [@abdusahmbzuai](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fabdusahmbzuai)%5C
**Post date:** [May 13, 2022, 6:59am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F17 "2022-05-13T06:59:50Z")
Hey y’all,
Abdulwahab Sahyoun. ML & NLP engineer working as a part-time consultant.
I’m currently pursuing my Master’s in Machine Learning at Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence.
My current work focuses on the evaluation of multi-dialect Arabic ASR systems. Aiming to build a language specific metric that can be used by researchers for more interpretable result assessments.
> **[abdu355 - Overview](https://github.com/abdu355)**
>
> abdu355 has 43 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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**Author:**  [@aliosm](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Faliosm)%5C
**Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F18 "2022-05-18T19:33:32Z")
Hello everyone, my name is Ali Hamdi Ali Fadel, from Libya. My username of GitHub: AliOsm, HuggingFace: AliOsm, and Twitter: @alihfadel. I’m interested in multiple problems in Arabic NLP. But I’m very curious about text diacritization problem and how to utilize the added diacritics to solve almost every other problem (Check my [scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NUl_vlcAAAAJ&hl=en) profile to read more about the problem). Correctly, I’m participating in the Arabicthon in the poetry generation path, this is my only project for now 🙂 But I’m planning to start working on a project that I hope it will make a huge advancement in the Arabic diacritization and other languages diacritization. I’m speaking English and interested in Lego and Competitive Programming.
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**Author:**  [@hussainezzi03](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fhussainezzi03)%5C
**Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Farabic-nlp-introductions%2F3715%2F19 "2025-02-27T13:09:28Z")
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**Name:** Hussain Mohammed
**GitHub:** [github.com/hussainezzi](https://github.com/hussainezzi)
**Hugging Face:** [huggingface.co/hussainezzi03](https://huggingface.co/hussainezzi03)
I am a Software Engineering student at the Virtual University of Pakistan, currently interning at the National Centre of Big Data and Cloud Computing. My main focus is on **Arabic NLP** , particularly character-based, token-free text generation. I am working on fine-tuning the **AraBERT** model using character-based vectorization for poetry generation, leveraging **four NVIDIA A100 GPUs** for processing.
I am also a **Junior Web Developer at Syntax Fit** , specializing in **Next.js, ShadCN, Payload, Supabase** , and frontend frameworks like **Chakra UI and Tailwind CSS**. My interests extend to **machine learning, deep learning, and AI-driven NLP solutions for low-resource languages like Arabic**.
I speak **Arabic, Urdu, and English** and would love to collaborate on projects related to **Arabic NLP, AI for cultural preservation, and machine learning applications in linguistics**. Excited to be part of this community and looking forward to learning from everyone! 🚀
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