Welcome to my home page. My name is Nizar Habash (pronounced /nəzár ħábaʃ/). I am a Research Scientist at the Center for Computational Learning systems in Columbia University. My area of interest is computational linguistics/natural language processing. I work on machine translation, natural language generation, computational lexical semantics, Arabic dialect modeling, among other things. (translation: I get machines to do cool stuff with language such as automatically translating from Arabic or Spanish to English).

My first book is out: Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processing. Check it out on Amazon. In the Fall of 2010 and of 2011, I taught a course on Machine Translation at Columbia University.

I am also an amateur artist. One of my favorite art projects is my artificial language Delason. It took seven years in the making. My current large art project is Palisra, a collection of pieces reflecting my views on the Middle East conflict. I sell some of my artisitic creations through Zazzle: nizware is my art product line.