Keynote Lecture

Arabic Lives in People, Not in Tokens: Bringing Arabic NLP Together with the Sciences of Language, Mind, and Society

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Biography

Professor Hend S. Al-Khalifa is a dedicated academic and researcher in Arabic Natural Language Processing and artificial intelligence at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She serves as a Professor in the Information Technology Department of the College of Computer and Information Sciences.

Over the years, Professor Al-Khalifa has made significant contributions to her field through research work resulting in more than 200 publications in workshops, international conferences, and journals. Her work has received wide recognition, including an H-index of 43 and placement among the most-cited scientists worldwide.

Her career includes awards, research grants, and active involvement in academic conferences and journals. She has served on the program committees of several international conferences in Natural Language Processing, including ACL, NAACL-HLT, EMNLP, ACL-IJCNLP, LREC, ArabicNLP, ACLing, and IALP.

Professor Al-Khalifa has also taken on leadership roles, co-chairing WANP 2023, COLING 2025, and ArabicNLP 2026, as well as organizing OSACT, the Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, co-located with LREC for 10 years. She also serves as a reviewer for ACL Rolling Review and several international journals, including Data in Brief, IEEE Access, and ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing.

Her research interests include Arabic NLP, computational social sciences, explainable AI, human-computer interaction, and computers for people with special needs, reflecting her commitment to diverse and impactful areas of computer science and artificial intelligence.