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I am a PhD student at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), advised by Dr. Bashar Alhafni. I am working on Readability-Controlled Text Generation. My research interests include ArabicNLP, Readability Assessmnet, Text Simplification, and Machine Translation.

Previously, I was 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 worked 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.

Reviewing: AfricaNLP (2024-2025), ArabicNLP 2026

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October 2026 I’m attending EMNLP 2026 to present three papers.

  • A Benchmark for Arabic Lemma-Level Readability Assessment
    Khalid N. Elmadani, Mostafa Saeed, Hanada Taha-Thomure, Nizar Habash
    EMNLP 2026 [Main]

  • BAREC-TB: A Dependency Treebank and Parsing Benchmark for Arabic Children’s Texts
    Khalid N. Elmadani, Mohamed Adel, Muhammed AbuOdeh, Reem Faraj, Jamila El-Gizuli, Hanada Taha-Thomure, Nizar Habash
    ArabicNLP 2026 [Main]

  • BAREC-ST-2026: The Second Shared Task on Arabic Readability Assessment
    Khalid N. Elmadani, Bashar Alhafni, Hanada Taha-Thomure, Nizar Habash
    ArabicNLP 2026 [Shared Task]

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

May 2025