AUB’s Machine INtelligence Development Lab

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The usage of Arabic language in Artificial Intelligence on The Researcher – Episode 5

Our own Prof. Hazem Hajj was featured in #TheResearcher series on LBCI. Where Prof. Hajj highlighted our lab's work on AI for the Arabic language. The Researcher is part of AUB's Olayan School of Business (OSB) Initiative “Impactful Research for Social Good”...

1st place in Arabic Sentiment Analysis 2021 @ KAUST

We are pleased to announce that Wissam Antoun ranked 1st in the Arabic Sentiment Analysis 2021 @ KAUST competition. Arabic Sentiment Analysis is one of the most popular tasks in Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP), with this competition being one of the largest...

WANLP 2021: Arabic Empathetic Conversational Agents and Pre-Trained Language Models

We are pleased to announce that we have 3 papers accepted to The Sixth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2021) co-located with EACL 2021. Authored by our talented team members: Tarek Naous, Wissam Antoun, Reem Mahmoud, Fady Baly under the supervision...

AUB MIND Lab: 2020 in Review

The Machine INtelligence Development (MIND) Lab at the American University of Beirut (AUB) aims at providing state of the art solutions in the field of Artificial Intelligence with a focus on machine learning theory and applications. The lab has recently established a...

Paper Abstract: Empathy-driven Arabic Conversational Chatbot

We are excited to share a preview of the paper titled “Empathy-driven Arabic Conversational Chatbot” by Tarek Naous, Christian Hokayem, and Prof. Hazem Hajj. The paper will be published at WANLP 2020 at COLING'2020, Barcelona, Spain, 12 Dec. 2020. Abstract:...

Paper Abstract: A Link Prediction Approach for Accurately Mapping a Large-Scale Arabic Lexical Resource to English WordNet

We are excited to share a preview of Gilbert Badaro's (Ph.D.) paper titled "A Link Prediction Approach for Accurately Mapping a Large-Scale Arabic Lexical Resource to English WordNet". The paper will be published at the prestigious ACM Transactions on Asian and...

Augmenting DL with Adversarial Training for Robust Prediction of Epilepsy Seizures

We proposed a novel approach that optimizes a hierarchical CNN and GRU network with Adversarial Examples training for seizure prediction

Best Collaborative Software Development Project award

We are pleased to announce that Layal Al Khuja, Alexander Khalil and Aya Kayal won the Murex Award for the Best Collaborative Software Development Project

Best Software Engineering Student Award

We are pleased to announce that Alaa Khaddaj won the “Best Software Engineering Student” Award.

A Link Prediction Approach for Accurately Mapping a Large-Scale Arabic Lexical Resource to English WordNet

We are pleased to announce that Gilbert Badaro (PhD) got his paper accepted to TALLIP

Research Areas

Context Aware Sensing

Optimized Sensing, Time-series Prediciton, Learning from Little Data

Natural Language Processing

Arabic Dialect Resources, Opinion Mining, Conversational Systems, Language Modeling

Our Mission

The group aims at providing state of the art solutions in the field of artificial intelligence with focus on machine learning theory and applications. On the technical part, the Lab has special focus on Context Aware Sensing and Natural Language Processing. From an impact perspective, the lab aims at introducing AI for advancing human needs across the globe with particular interest for regional matters. Example applications include Natural Language Understanding (NLU) systems for Arabic and patented decision making by user mobile based on context.

Drop us an Email

We’re always looking for new talents and collaborators.

Say hello or pass by Prof. Hazem Hajj’s Office at Bechtel Engineering Bldg, Room 507.