@inproceedings{zaghouani-2026-building, title = "Building {A}rabic {NLP} from the Ground Up: Twenty Years of Lessons, Failures, and Open Problems", author = "Zaghouani, Wajdi", editor = "Elazar, Yanai and Ettinger, Allyson and Kassner, Nora and Ruder, Sebastian", booktitle = "Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, CA, USA", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.bigpicture-main.8/", doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.bigpicture-main.8", pages = "94--106", ISBN = "979-8-89176-416-3" }