@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://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.bigpicture-main.8/", pages = "94--106", ISBN = "979-8-89176-416-3" }