Nizar Habash, PhD
Associate Research Scientist,
Natural Language Processing
Center for Computational Learning Systems
habash_AT_ccls.columbia.edu
Office:
850 Interchurch Center / MC 7717
475 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10115
Tel 212-870-1289
Fax 212-870-1285
homepage:http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~habash/
Dr. Habash is an Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Computational Learning Systems in Columbia University,
where he co-founded the Columbia Arabic Dialect Modeling (CADIM) group, with Owen Rambow and Mona Diab. His primary research areas are machine translation and computational modeling of Arabic and its dialects. He is vice-president of the Semitic Language Special Interest Group of the Association of Computational Linguistics and has served as research program co-chair for the conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (2006). He has published over 30 technical papers in leading journals and conferences.
Nizar's website: http://www.nizarhabash.com
CADIM website: http://www.ccls.columbia.edu/cadim
