Publications

@inproceedings{saeed-etal-2026-maqam,
    title     = {MAQAM: A Richly Annotated Corpus for Quranic Arabic Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation},
    author    = {Saeed, Mostafa and Amjad, Mohammad and Kassem, Mahmoud and Bondok, Rawan and Nassar, Mayar and Wizani, Adel Mahmoud and Elgamal, Salman and Reda, Mahmoud and Habash, Nizar},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
    year      = {2026},
    address   = {Budapest, Hungary},
    publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}
}

@inproceedings{alzaabi-etal-2026-gahwa,
    title     = {Gahwa: A Computational Lexicon for Emirati Arabic},
    author    = {Alzaabi, Saeed and Khalifa, Salam and Saeed, Mostafa and Dibas, Shahd and Aldarmaki, Hanan and Habash, Nizar},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
    year      = {2026},
    address   = {Budapest, Hungary},
    publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}
}

@inproceedings{elmadani-etal-2026-benchmark,
    title     = {A Benchmark for Arabic Lemma-Level Readability Assessment},
    author    = {Elmadani, Khalid N. and Saeed, Mostafa and Taha, Hanada and Habash, Nizar},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
    year      = {2026},
    address   = {Budapest, Hungary},
    publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}
}

@inproceedings{saeed-habash-2025-lemmatization,
    title     = {Lemmatization as a Classification Task: Results from Arabic across Multiple Genres},
    author    = {Saeed, Mostafa and Habash, Nizar},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
    year      = {2025},
    address   = {Suzhou, China},
    publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
    url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1525/}
}

@inproceedings{saeed-habash-2025-lemmatizing,
    title     = {Lemmatizing Dialectal Arabic with Sequence-to-Sequence Models},
    author    = {Saeed, Mostafa and Habash, Nizar},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)},
    year      = {2025},
    address   = {Suzhou, China},
    publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
    url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.arabicnlp-main.10/}
}

@inproceedings{saeed-etal-2025-amar,
    title     = {AMAR at BAREC Shared Task 2025: Arabic Meta-learner for Assessing Readability},
    author    = {Saeed, Mostafa and Waly, Rana and Hussein, Abdelaziz Ashraf},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks},
    year      = {2025},
    address   = {Suzhou, China},
    publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
    url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.arabicnlp-sharedtasks.45/}
}

@article{nabil-etal-2025-leveraging,
    title     = {Leveraging Large Language Models for Arabic Short Answer Grading and Feedback Generation},
    author    = {Nabil, Emad and Saeed, Mostafa and Waly, Rana and Faizullah, Safiullah and Gomaa, Wael Hassan},
    journal   = {International Journal of Innovations in Engineering and Technology (IJIET)},
    year      = {2025},
    url       = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398723978_Leveraging_Large_Language_Models_for_Arabic_Short_Answer_Grading_and_Feedback_Generation}
}

@article{gomaa-etal-2023-empowering,
    title     = {Empowering Short Answer Grading: Integrating Transformer-Based Embeddings and Bi-LSTM Network},
    author    = {Gomaa, Wael H. and Ezzeldin, Abdelrahman and Saeed, Mostafa and Algarni, Abdulmohsen and Nabil, Emad},
    journal   = {Big Data and Cognitive Computing (BDCC)},
    year      = {2023},
    url       = {https://www.mdpi.com/2504-2289/7/3/122}
}

@incollection{ezzeldin-etal-2022-hyper,
    title     = {Hyper-parameters Optimization of Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Detecting COVID-19 Using Differential Evolution},
    author    = {Ezzeldin, Abdelrahman and Saeed, Mostafa and El-Feky, Shereen and Khater, Ali},
    booktitle = {Decision Sciences for COVID-19: Learning Through Case Studies. Springer International Publishing},
    year      = {2022},
    publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
    address   = {Cham},
    url       = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-87019-5_18}
}