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NU-Qatar Talk: AI is shaping many global industries, especially shaping the way we communicate. AI is clever yet has the ability to misinterpret things such as feelings, humor and sympathy. @NUQatar @themediamajlis @websummitqatar

In this review paper, we advocate for the normalization of AI safety as an inherent component of AI development and deployment. AI safety should be a standard practice integrated into every stage of AI creation and deployment. Developing and deploying safe AI should be a…

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ArabicNLP 2025 continues to break records! After receiving a record 26 shared task proposals, ArabicNLP has now received 🔥128 abstract submissions🔥. We can't wait to receive the full papers on July 6th (AoE). We look forward to a competitive review cycle and an excellent paper…

MAHED 2025 Multimodal Detection of Hope and Hate Emotions in Arabic Content. More: marsadlab.github.io/mahed2025/ Data/Code: github.com/marsadlab/MAHE… Registration: Task 1: codabench.org/competitions/9… Task 2: codabench.org/competitions/9… Task 3: codabench.org/competitions/9… Consider participating.…

🚨 Calling all #AI & #NLProc enthusiasts! 🚨 Join the MAHED 2025 Shared Task at #ArabicNLP2025 (co-located with #EMNLP2025, Suzhou, China, Nov 5-9)! Test your models on real Arabic data in 3 exciting tracks: 1️⃣ Hate & Hope Speech (text) 2️⃣ Emotion, Offensive & Hate Detection…

Image Captioning Shared Task sina.birzeit.edu/image_eval2025… المسابقة البحثية لتوصيف الصور 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗧: 4k non-captioned images (subtask1); 3.5k captioned images in Arabic (subtask2) 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸𝟭-Image captioning datathon 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸𝟮-Generate captions

🌍✨ MAHED 2025 Shared Task: Pioneering Hope & Hate Detection in Arabic NLP Amid global conflicts, innovation offers hope. Join us for MAHED 2025 , the first shared task dedicated to Hope and Hate Detection in Arabic content, co-located with EMNLP 2025 at ArabicNLP 2025. This…

🚀 QIAS 2025 We’re excited to launch the QIAS 2025 Shared Task — challenge focused on evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) in the domain of Islamic knowledge. 🧠 Two Subtasks: - Islamic Inheritance Reasoning (ʿIlm al-Mawārīth) - Islamic Knowledge Assessment (Fiqh, Ḥadīth,…

دكتورة هدى بوعمر @hbouamor تحدثنا عن مؤتمر ArabicNLP وأهميته

🎓 Are you a student or early-career researcher working on Arabic NLP? ✨ Submit your work to ArabicNLP 2025 and join a supportive community 🤝 You'll find mentorship 🧑‍🏫, collaboration opportunities 🤝, and a close-knit network of researchers 🌐

HRH the Crown Prince Launches HUMAIN as Global AI Powerhouse spa.gov.sa/ar/w2316474 #HUMAINAI | #SPAGOV

ArabicNLP 2025 welcomes work on text, speech, vision & multimodal AI. 🎧 ASR/TTS folks — bring your speech tech 🖼️ OCR, captioning, CLIP? We want you ✍️ Multimodal LLMs in Arabic? This is your venue #ArabicNLP

We received a record number of shared task proposal submissions to ArabicNLP 2025 🔥 (26 in all) 🔥 Stay tuned while we filter the best of the best!

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Some people are ready to lose their job/career for justice! Thanks to Ibtihal Aboussad who interrupted @Microsoft AI CEO @mustafasuleyman to protest MS support to the criminal occupiers of Israel in their genocide against the Palestinians! #FreePalestine

We extended the ArabicNLP Shared Tasks proposals submission deadline to Apr 14th! More time to think and submit some great proposals :)

My @NUQatar colleague @wzaghouani presenting #Marsad a real time AI-powered observatory of media content, starting with Arabic content and expanding into multiple languages, a collaboration with @qrdicouncil within the @QF ecosystem

The call for shared task proposals for #ArabicNLP2025 is out! The deadline is April 6th, 2025 arabicnlp2025.sigarab.org/call-for-share…

What happens when artificial intelligence enters the world of art? That is the question Associate Professor @wzaghouani answers in his latest interview with Qatar TV, where he explores the ethical dilemmas and transformative impact of AI-generated art and how AI challenges…