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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Oujda NLP Team

Computer Science Research Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed First University

Builds Arabic NLP resources and tools: morphological analysis, automatic diacritisation, parsing and corpora, including the AlKhalil tools.

Morocco · Oujda

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Natural Language Processing Department, MBZUAI

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

University NLP department that contributed to building large Arabic language models such as Jais.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

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NLP Research Groups, King Hussein School of Computing Sciences

Princess Sumaya University for Technology

Arabic NLP: semantics, machine translation and text mining, with an Arabic dependency treebank and paraphrase benchmark datasets.

Jordan · Amman

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ALELM — Advanced Language Engineering and Learning Modeling research group

Mohammadia School of Engineers (EMI), Mohammed V University in Rabat

Arabic language engineering: text processing for Standard Arabic and dialects, and computational language resources.

Morocco · Rabat

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iWAN Research Group

King Saud University

Arabic language technology: spell-checking, Arabic corpora, a linguistics terminology dictionary, and assistive and educational applications.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

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ANLP Research Group, MIRACL Laboratory

MIRACL Laboratory, University of Sfax

Arabic NLP: text analysis, automatic summarisation, question answering, spoken dialogue systems and Tunisian dialect.

Tunisia · Sfax

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Arabic Language Processing and Islamic Informatics Research Group

College of Computer and Information Sciences, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University

Arabic language processing: Arabic OCR, unsupervised learning of Arabic morphology, and sentiment analysis of Arabic content.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

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Arabic Language Technologies (ALT), Qatar Computing Research Institute

Qatar Computing Research Institute — Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Research group on Arabic text and speech processing, developing tools and applications such as pronunciation feedback, and working to enrich Arabic content.

Qatar · Doha

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SinaLab for Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence

Birzeit University

Builds the Arabic Ontology, digital lexicons, annotated dialect corpora and tools for Arabic natural language processing.

Palestine · Birzeit

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CAMeL Lab (Computational Approaches to Modeling Language), NYU Abu Dhabi

New York University Abu Dhabi

Research lab in computational processing of Arabic and its dialects, developing CAMeL Tools and open corpora and resources.

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi

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Arabic Language Technology Center (ALTEC)

A research consortium on Arabic language technology joining universities and companies; builds language resources and runs conferences, competitions and training schools.

Egypt · Cairo

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Arabic Artificial Intelligence Centre (Thakaa Al-Arabiyya)

King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language

Centre for AI-based Arabic language processing, with labs for building and annotating language data and developing models and tools for researchers.

Saudi Arabia · Riyadh

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Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)

University of Pennsylvania

Creates and distributes language resources, including major Arabic corpora, the Penn Arabic Treebank and dialect speech data.

United States · Philadelphia

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The Quranic Arabic Corpus

University of Leeds

Annotated linguistic corpus of the Qur'an with morphological tagging, syntactic treebank and root lexicon.

United Kingdom · Leeds

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Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank – ÚFAL

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University

Multi-level morphologically and syntactically annotated Modern Standard Arabic treebank; basis of UD Arabic-PADT.

Czech Republic · Prague

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arabiCorpus

College of Humanities, Brigham Young University

Searchable Arabic text corpus (press, novels, the Qur'an) for usage and vocabulary research.

United States · Provo

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Computer Research Center of Islamic Sciences (CRCIS – Noor)

Digitises Islamic-heritage sources, mostly Arabic, and builds text libraries and search tools.

Iran · Qom