Mustafa Jarrar

Mustafa Jarrar

Professor
Faculty Member - Department Of Computer Science
PhD
Free University of Brussels
[email protected]
Office: 
Masri320

Full professor of Computer Science, director of the PhD Program, and the director of SinaLab for Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence at Birzeit University. He was a Fulbright visiting professor at the University at Buffalo in the USA (2016-2017), a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Cyprus (2007-2009), and a senior research scientist at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1999-2007), where he completed his Masters (2000) and PhD (early 2005). Jarrar has won several prestigious awards including, the Shoman Arab Researchers Award in Technology, Mohammed Bin Rashid Award for the Arabic Language, and Google Faculty Research Award. He has published 90+ articles in the areas of Natural Language Processing, Ontology Engineering, Semantic Web, and Graph Databases. Jarrar has also chaired 30 international conferences, a PC member of 150+ journals and conferences, a coordinator/manager of 25 large EU projects, a full member of the IFIP2.6 on Database Semantics, the IFIP2.12 on Web Semantics, and the UN ESCWA Technology Centre Board of Governors, among others. Prof. Jarrar is also the founder of both Sina Institute for Knowledge Engineering and Language Technologies, and the Palestinian e-Government Academy, and advisor of Ministry of Telecom & IT, where he also developed and chaired the Palestinian e-Government Interoperability Framework (called Zinnar).

CV and Publications: https:www.jarrar.info

Google Scholar

: Citations: 5000, h-index: 38
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  • Mustafa Jarrar, Fadi Zaraket, Rami Asia, Hamzeh Amayreh: Diacritic-Based Matching of Arabic Words. ACM Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing. Volume 18, No 2, Pages(10:1-10:21), ACM, ISSN:2375-4699. December, 2018
  • Paolo Ceravolo, Antonia Azzini, Marco Angelini, Tiziana Catarci, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Ernesto Damiani, Alexandra Mazak, Maurice Van Keulen, Mustafa Jarrar, Giuseppe Santucci, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Monica Scannapieco, Manuel Wimmer, Robert Wrembel, Fadi Zaraket: Big Data Semantics. Journal on Data Semantics. Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages(65-85). Springer. May, 2018
  • Mustafa Jarrar: Search Engine for Arabic Lexicons. The 5th Conference on Translation and the Problematics of Cross-cultural Understanding. The Forum for Arab and International Relations. Doha, Qatar. December, 2018
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  • Mustafa Jarrar and Marios D. Dikaiakos: A Data Mashup Language for the Data Web. Linked Data on the Web Workshop, at the International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009). ACM. ISSN:1613-0073. April, 2009
  • Sergey Lukichev, Mustafa Jarrar: Graphical Notations for Rule Modeling. Book Chapter in the "Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies". Chapter 4. Pages(76-98). IGI Global. ISBN:1605664022. 2009
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  • Karl Aberer, Tiziana Catarci, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Tharam Dillon, Stephan Grimm, Mohand-Said Hacid, Arantza Illarramendi, Mustafa Jarrar, Vipul Kashyap, Massimo Mecella, Eduardo Mena, Erich Neuhold, Aris Ouksel, Thomas Risse, Monica Scannapieco, Felix Saltor, Luca De Santis, Stefano Spaccapietra, Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer, Olga De Troyer: Emergent Semantics Systems. Semantics of a Networked World - Semantics for Grid Databases (ICSNW2014). Pages(14-44). LNCS 3226, Springer. ISBN:3540236090. Paris, France. June, 2004
  • Peter Spyns, Sven Van Acker, Marleen Wynants, Mustafa Jarrar, and Andriy Lisovoy: Using a Novel ORM-based Ontology Modelling Method to Build an Experimental Innovation Router. The 14th International Conference on Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web (EKAW 2004). Pages(82-98). LNCS 3257, Springer. ISBN:3540233407. October, 2004
  • Mustafa Jarrar and Aldo Gangemi (eds): Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies (WORM 2004). On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: OTM 2004 Workshops. Page 568. LNCS 3292, Springer. ISBN:9783540236641. Larnaca, Cyprus. November, 2004
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  • Mustafa Jarrar and Robert Meersman: Formal Ontology Engineering in the DOGMA Approach. The International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBase 2002). Pages(1238-1254). LNCS 2519, Springer. ISBN:3540001069. October, 2002
  • Peter Spyns, Robert Meersman, and Mustafa Jarrar: Data Modelling versus Ontology Engineering. The SIGMOD Record Magazine. Pages(12-17). Volume 31, No 4. ACM. ISSN:01635808. March, 2002
  • Jan Demey and Mustafa Jarrar and Robert Meersman: A Conceptual Markup Language that Supports Interoperability between Business Rule Modeling Systems. The 10th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 02). Pages(19-35). LNCS 2519, Springer. ISBN:3540001069. October, 2002
  • Mustafa Jarrar and Robert Meersman: Scalability and Knowledge Reusability in Ontology Modeling. The International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet (SSGRR 2002s). Scuola Superiore G Reiss Romoli. Rome, Italy. August, 2002
  • Jan Demey, Mustafa Jarrar, and Robert Meersman: A Markup Language for ORM Business Rules. The International Workshop on Rule Markup Languages for Business Rules on the Semantic Web (RuleML 2002). Pages(107-128). Volume 60. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. ISSN:1613-0073. June, 2002
  • Peter Spyns, Daniel Oberle, Raphael Volz, Jijuan Zheng, Mustafa Jarrar, York Sure, Rudi Studer, and Robert Meersman: OntoWeb- a Semantic Web Community Portal. The 4th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM 2002). Pages(189-200). LNCS 2569, Springer. ISBN:3540003142. December, 2002
  • Jan De Bo, Mustafa Jarrar, Ben Majer, and Robert Meersman: Ontology-Based Author Profiling of Documents. Event Modeling for Multilingual Document Linking Workshop, at the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002). Pages(23-28). ELRA. Gran Canaria. 2002