AUB MIND Lab

The Machine INtelligence Development (MIND) research lab at the American University of Beirut @AUB_Lebanon.

[AUB MIND Lab @aubmindlab]

MIND Lab's #research group wishes you a great start to your 2021!

We are starting our year with a reflection on the inspiring diligence of our students through 2020.
https://t.co/q3MT8if0Uu

@AUB_Lebanon
@MSFEA_AUB

#ResearchHighlight #MachineLearning #PhD #Masters

[AUB MIND Lab @aubmindlab]

Our own Prof. Hazem Hajj was featured in #TheResearcher series.

Prof. Hajj highlighted our lab's work on AI for the Arabic language.

Youtube: https://t.co/ga8cj19bDB
#ArabicNLP #AI @LBCILebanon

[American University of Beirut @AUB_Lebanon]

The Researcher – Episode 5:
Using Arabic language in Artificial Intelligence.
How does a machine speak and how would you make it speak in Arabic? Do machines currently feel emotions?
Find out with #AUB Dr. Hazem Hajj, Associate Professor @MSFEA_AUB and Dr. @imadb15

[Wissam Antoun @wissam_antoun]

I'm glad to announce that I ranked 1st 🏆 among 74 teams in the Arabic Sentiment Analysis 2021 competition @ KAUST.

I would like the thank the organizers @WomenToImpact @KAUST_News , and congrats to the other winners!
https://t.co/GNFBZW4W4P
#ArabicNLP #NLP #AI #kaggle

[MSFEA @MSFEA_AUB]

#MSFEA graduating students: we cannot be prouder!

To celebrate the extraordinary Class of 2021, we invite you and your families to join us for the MSFEA Award Ceremony: Exceptional Graduates Exceptional Times 🎉

👉 https://t.co/y1nruWQKXm

@AUB_Lebanon
#aub #Graduation2021

[🍉 Abubakar Abid @abidlabs]

I'm so excited to share @Gradio 2.0! We rewrote much of the library & here are some cool things you can do now:

🤗 Load ~10,000 @huggingface Hub models with intuitive GUIs with 1 line of code
🔗 Link models in Parallel & Series to make more complex workflows

👇 Examples

[Tarek Naous @tareknaous]

Will be presenting our latest work at @aubmindlab in Arabic conversational AI, today at @WANLP_Ar 2021.
Join us to know more!
#NLP #Arabic #AI

[ArabicNLP2026 @_ArabicNLP]

خلال أقل من ساعتين سنبدأ الورشة السادسة لمعالجة اللغة العربية، نحن في انتظاركم و يسعدنا مشاركتكم!

https://t.co/CYcWVj30Ae
#ArabicNLP #WANLP2021 #EACL2021

[ArabicNLP2026 @_ArabicNLP]

We are live!

بسم الله بدأنا 😊

#WANLP2021 #EACL2021 #ArabicNLP

[ArabicNLP2026 @_ArabicNLP]

Schedule change -- Please retweet!

The NLP affinity group Arabs in NLP will organize a social event at EACL2021 on Tuesday 20 April 2021 @ 12:00-03:00pm (GMT+2).

Speaking Arabic is not a requirement to participate. Everyone is welcome!

Check https://t.co/ZoKFe9DDAx

[Ahmed Ali @ahmedalitweet1]

Multi lab view of "bridging the gap in dialectal speech recognition” #arabic in @TheOfficialACM @CACMmag with @Shammur M. Afify @MSFTResearch @welhajj H. El-Hajj @aubmindlab M. Abbas @Amir_N_Hussein @kanari_ai N. Ghneim M. Abushariah A. Alqudah
#speechrecognition @ArabicSpeech

[ArabicNLP2026 @_ArabicNLP]

The fully detailed schedule of the workshop, with links to all papers, can now be found on our website.

https://t.co/HKKMoanLow

#wanlp2021

[AUB MIND Lab @aubmindlab]

Code, datasets, examples can be found in GitHub repos: https://t.co/KkPDliELGi

Models are available on https://t.co/PjUlGepjTQ
6/6

[AUB MIND Lab @aubmindlab]

We're proud to announce that we have 3 papers accepted to @WANLP_Ar, by our talented team members @tareknaous @reeeemahmoud @wissam_antoun @fadybaly @hh63_hopeful

The papers target Arabic conversational agents and language models (details below ↓)
#wanlp2021 #ArabicNLP 1/6

[AUB MIND Lab @aubmindlab]

We would like to thank the University Research Board at @AUB_Lebanon @MSFEA_AUB, we also thank TFRC @GoogleAI for the free access to TPUv3-128/8

Last but not least, we thank @huggingface for providing the community with the best NLP libraries, and for hosting our models🤗
5/6

[ArabicNLP2026 @_ArabicNLP]

The lists of accepted papers for the main workshop, NADI shared task, and ArSarcasm shared task are now available on our website (https://t.co/HKKMoanLow).
You can also find the overall schedule of the workshop.

We are looking forward to April 19th!

#wanlp2021

[MSFEA @MSFEA_AUB]

Are you interested in graduate studies❓

Let’s meet at the ECE Graduate Student Recruitment Webinar Friday 12 March at 4h30!

For registration and more info visit this link 👇
https://t.co/3oJmqowzLe

@AUB_Lebanon @AUBGradCouncil
#AUB #MSFEA #Engineering

[Suliman S. Olayan School of Business at AUB @AUBOSB]

President @DrFadloKhuri gives the AUB welcome and opening remarks to the Women in Data Science at #AUB 2021 virtual conference. Register now: https://t.co/q5YEkYSzMM #WiDSAUB21 #WiDS2021 #OSB @AUB_Lebanon (2/2)

[Julien Chaumond @julien_c]

Great intro post to NLP for Arabic, by @zaidalyafeai

https://t.co/98kIKmxvEt

This is awesome!