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Bashar Alhafni
Google Scholar ID: DFkVNJwAAAAJ
MBZUAI
Natural Language Processing
Deep Learning
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When Similar Means Different: Evaluating LLMs on Arabic--Hebrew Cognates
2026
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ArabiGEE: A Hierarchical Taxonomy for Arabic Grammatical Error Explanation
2026
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Arabic Sentence Segmentation Across Genres and Punctuation Conditions
2026
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Arabic Morphosyntactic Tagging and Dependency Parsing with Large Language Models
2026
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Opportunities and Challenges of LLMs in Education: An NLP Perspective
2025
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BALSAM: A Platform for Benchmarking Arabic Large Language Models
2025
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A Tale of Two Scripts: Transliteration and Post-Correction for Judeo-Arabic
2025
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ARWI: Arabic Write and Improve
2025
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Academic Achievements
Paper "Enhancing Text Editing for Grammatical Error Correction: Arabic as a Case Study" accepted to ACL 2025.
Co-developed ARWI (Arabic Write and Improve), which won the diversity award at the In2Writing workshop, NAACL 2025.
Co-organizing BEA 2025 (at ACL 2025) and the 2nd ArabicNLP Conference (ArabicNLP 2024 at ACL 2024).
Co-presenting a tutorial on "LLMs in Education: Novel Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities" at COLING 2025.
Gave a talk at National Research Council Canada (NRC-CNRC) on user-centric controlled NLG for morphologically rich languages.
Co-authors
12 total
Nizar Habash
Professor of Computer Science, New York University Abu Dhabi
Nasser Zalmout
Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon
Ekaterina Kochmar
Assistant Professor, Natural Language Processing Department, MBZUAI
Vipul Raheja
Google DeepMind
Vivek Kulkarni
Samsung Research America
Stefano Bannò
Research Associate, University of Cambridge
Sowmya Vajjala
National Research Council, Canada
Nanyun (Violet) Peng
Associate Professor, UCLA