Zaid Alyafeai

Who I am

I defended my PhD thesis from KFUPM in January 2024. I am the co-founder of arbml which is an initiative to support Arabic NLP research and tools. I am also a founding member of fihmai, which targets publishing resources that enrich AI content in Arabic. I was part of bigscience, where I helped in multiple working groups including Tokenization, Data sourcing and Prompting. I am currently a member of C4AI an open research environment where we I co-lead the Arabic effort. I mostly hangout in our arbml discord if you want to connect to me or drop me a message using my email.

Research Interests

My thesis is about incorporating Morphology into language understanding for Arabic. I target this task from different aspects including tokenization, text generation, interpretability, and cross lingual understanding. I also like to target Arabic NLP from the PoV of culture, hence working on poetry, calligraphy and morphology. My interest also includes working on NLP for low resource languages.

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