
The Arabic Ontology
A long-term research project to develop an Arabic Wordnet with ontologically-clean content.

Curras - Corpus for Palestinian Dialect
Funded by the Research Council- Ministry of Higher Education, 2013-2015.
A collection of Palestinian written dialect (56K words) was gathered from several resources and
each word was
manually annotated with 16 features.

VerbMesh - Large Graph of Arabic Verbs
Funded by Birzeit University, 2014-2016.
To collect and integrate Arabic verbs across many lexicons, and to build a large-scale graph of
Arabic verbs and their inflectional and derivational relations.

Arabic NLP tools
All tools and algorithms we develop for NLP tasks are made open source.

MOSIAC
Funded by EU-FP7, No. 612076, 13 Partners, 2014-2015.
To foster R&D cooperation between EU and Mediterranean countries on ICT and its support in
EU-MED societal challenges.

SIERA - Multilingual Knowledge Technologies
Coordinator. Funded by EU FP7, No. 295006, 5 Partners, 2011-2014.
To develop multilingual and multi-cultural knowledge sharing technologies.

Zinnar - The Palestinian e-Government Interoperability Framework
In cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry of Telecommunication and IT, and other
Palestinian
ministries.
To develop and deploy a framework and ontology to enable e-governmental and e-services in
Palestine, (adopted by all ministries).

PalGov - The Palestinian e-Government Academy
Coordinator. Funded by EU-TEMPUS, No. 511159, 11 partners, 2010-2012.
Capacity building for Palestinian ministries to gain the know-how for implementing e-government
services in three main areas (interoperability, security, and IT-laws).

MashQL: Mashup Query Language for Graph Databases
Started as part of the EU Marie Curie SearchIn
Project at the University of Cyprus.
To develop a novel approach for querying the Data Web (Web 3.0) - a mashup query language toping
SPARQL for querying RDF stores.