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MBZUAI faculty won two awards and published eight papers at the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (IJCNLP-AACL 2023). Alham Fikri Aji and Fajri Koto won the Best Resource Award for NusaWrites, a paper on constructing high-quality corpora for low-resource Indonesian languages by engaging speaker communities. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed won an Area Chair award for ProMap, a method for constructing bilingual dictionaries via language model prompting. Why it matters: This highlights MBZUAI's contribution to NLP research, particularly in low-resource languages and bilingual lexicon induction, and strengthens its position as a hub for AI research in the region.

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MBZUAI · NLP · IJCNLP-AACL · low-resource languages · Indonesian

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