Salsabila Zahirah Pranida

👋 Hello, and Ohm Swastiastu!

I am a Master’s student in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at MBZUAI, working under the supervision of Dr. Fajri Koto and Prof. Thamar Solorio. My research lies at the intersection of Computational Social Science and NLP, focusing on dialogue systems, multilingual and dialect processing, resource development, and evaluation, as well as speech technologies.

I primarily work on Indonesian and its local languages and dialects, though I’m always eager to explore other linguistic and cultural contexts. I’m particularly interested in understanding how language and dialect variation reflect social and cultural nuances, as well as in modeling code-switching and code-mixing to better capture the dynamics of multilingual communication.

If you’re interested in collaborating or discussing low-resource NLP, feel free to get in touch! You can reach me via email at salsabila dot pranida at mbzuai.ac.ae.

News

[Nov. 2025] Our paper ASR for Under Noise by WiNLP 2025 received the Best Paper Award!
[Oct. 2025] Our team presented ASR for Under Noise (WiNLP 2025) and Culturally Nuanced Story Generation (MRL 2025) at EMNLP 2025 co-located workshops.
[Sep. 2025] Awarded Cohere Labs Catalyst Grant and MBZUAI NLP Internal OpenAI Mini Grant to support my thesis project.
[Jun. 2025] Excited to begin my Visiting Student Research position at the University of Copenhagen! Looking forward to collaborating with the team and exploring new research directions.
[May. 2025] Honored to receive a Visiting Grant from the DDSA in support of my research at the University of Copenhagen.
[Mar. 2025] SEA-VL has been published on arXiv
[Feb. 2025] Latest paper has been published on arXiv and is currently under submission for ARR 2025!
[Jan. 2025] Selected as a volunteer for COLING 2025 – looking forward to engaging with the NLP community!
[Dec. 2024] Joined SEA-VL as a contributor – working on Southeast Asian vision-language research with SEACrowd!
[Aug. 2024] Officially started my M.Sc. in NLP at MBZUAI 🎉

Selected Publications

Please refer to my Google Scholar page for the complete publications.

WiNLP 2025

ASR Under Noise: Exploring Robustness for Sundanese and Javanese

Salsabila Zahirah Pranida*, Muhammad Cendekia Airlangga*, Rifo Ahmad Genadi*, and Shady Shehata

Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Widening NLP (WiNLP 2025), co-located with EMNLP 2025

PDF Code Dataset Best Paper @ WiNLP Workshop 2025

MRL 2025

Culturally-Nuanced Story Generation for Reasoning in Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Javanese and Sundanese

Salsabila Zahirah Pranida*, Rifo Ahmad Genadi*, Fajri Koto

Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL 2025), co-located with EMNLP 2025

PDF Dataset

IJAIDM 2022

Sentiment Analysis of Expedition Customer Satisfaction using BiGRU and BiLSTM

Salsabila Zahirah Pranida, Arrie Kurniawardhani

Indonesian Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining, 2022

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Education

M.S. in Natural Language Processing, MBZUAI, UAE (Aug 2024 – Present)
Advisor: Dr. Fajri Koto
B.I. in Informatics, Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII), Indonesia (May 2018 – Aug 2022)
Advisor: Arrie Kusumawardhani

Work Experiences

Data Scientist at SOLUSI247 (Aug 2022 – Jul 2024)

References

Dr. Fajri Koto. Dept. NLP, MBZUAI, UAE.