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.