Arabic language research centres

Bodies that do research on the Arabic language and its sciences: language academies, major dictionary projects, research centres and university units, research chairs, Arabic computational-linguistics labs, manuscript and critical-edition centres, and Arabization and terminology bodies — in the Arab world and beyond.

This directory is for research on Arabic. Programmes that teach Arabic to non-native speakers have their own: the Arabic programmes directory

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The International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP)

Arabic papyrology: checklists of editions and collections, a papyrology school, a database and periodic conferences.

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Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI)

Association of European scholars of the languages, history and cultures of the Arab-Islamic world; biennial congress.

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International Association of Arabic Dialectology (AIDA)

Association of researchers on Arabic dialects; holds a conference every two years and awards small grants to young researchers.

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SIGARAB – ACL Special Interest Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Forum for Arabic NLP research across Arabic varieties; sponsors the ArabicNLP conference and school and supports the Masader data catalogue.

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Open Islamicate Texts Initiative (OpenITI)

International multi-university collaboration

Open machine-readable corpus of premodern Arabic and Persian texts and Arabic-script OCR tools.

International