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Workshop: NORA: The First Workshop on Knowledge Graphs & Agentic Systems Interplay Mon, Dec 1, 2025 • 9:15 AM – 10:00 AM PST

Advances in Information Extraction and Knowledge Graphs

Mustafa Jarrar

Abstract

This talk presents recent advances for extracting Knowledge Graphs from text using two core NLP tasks: Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction, with a special focus on Arabic. I will highlight state-of-the-art tools and datasets, and demonstrate how these components work together in practical extraction pipelines. In the second part, I introduce an Information Extraction Ontology designed to unify outputs from multiple systems and ensure semantic consistency, including schema.org and Wikidata. Finally, I show how this ontology can be embedded directly into AI prompts, enabling portable and more efficient Knowledge Graph construction within large language model workflows.

Speaker

Mustafa Jarrar

Full professor of Computer Science and the director of SinaLab for Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence at both, Hamad Bin Khalifa University and Birzeit University. He is the founder and former director the PhD Program in Computer Science. 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 100+ articles in the areas of Natural Language Processing, Ontology Engineering, Semantic Web, and Graph Databases. Jarrar has also chaired 40 international conferences, a PC member of 200+ journals and conferences, a coordinator/manager of 30+ large international 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).

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