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I am a Research Assistant at the Computational Approaches to Modeling Language (CAMeL) Lab at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), advised by Professor Nizar Habash. I am currently working on tools for Arabic Readability Assessment as part of the Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus (BAREC) project.

Previously, I completed my Master’s by Dissertation in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town, where I was part of the UCT NLP group under the supervision of Dr. Jan Buys. My research focused on Neural Machine Translation between low-resource languages. Prior to that, I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Khartoum in Sudan.

I am interested in building more inclusive and accessible NLP systems, particularly for users who remain underserved in current AI research.

Reviewing (2024-2025): AfricaNLP

News

November 2025 I’m attending EMNLP 2025 to present two papers.

• BAREC Shared Task 2025 on Arabic Readability Assessment
  Khalid N. Elmadani, Bashar Alhafni, Hanada Taha, Nizar Habash
  Shared Task Overview @ ArabicNLP 2025

• BAREC Demo: Resources and Tools for Sentence-level Arabic Readability Assessment
  Kinda Altarbouch, Khalid N. Elmadani, Ossama Obeid, Hanada Taha, Nizar Habash
  Demo @ EMNLP 2025

May 2025

• Our paper A Large and Balanced Corpus for Fine-grained Arabic Readability Assessment is accepted to the Findings of ACL 2025.

• Our paper Guidelines for Fine-grained Sentence-level Arabic Readability Annotation is accepted to the Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) @ ACL 2025.

• I received the MSc Postgraduate Research Paper Award from the Computer Science Department at the University of Cape Town for my Masters paper.

• The BAREC 2025: Arabic Readability Assessment Shared Task is accepted to ArabicNLP 2025 conference.