--- title: "Abderrahmane Issam — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Abderrahmane Issam, Maastricht University: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abderrahmane-issam/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abderrahmane-issam/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Abderrahmane Issam # Abderrahmane Issam Abderrahmane Issam has 4 papers in our library, in 2022–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Gerasimos Spanakis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gerasimos-spanakis/), [Abdelrahim Qaddoumi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdelrahim-qaddoumi/), [Ahmed ElBakry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-elbakry/). 4 papers in our library · 2022–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5078022416) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8079-8208) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5078022416) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5078022416) · [3 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5078022416&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abderrahmane-issam/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abderrahmane-issam/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11901](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/120/#star-11901) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Abderrahmane+Issam) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Abderrahmane+Issam) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Abderrahmane+Issam) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Abderrahmane+Issam) ## Affiliations [🎓**Maastricht University** Maastricht · Netherlands 2022–2026 · 16 papersEmployment since 2023 · PhD Candidate, DACS*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/maastricht-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abderrahmane-issam/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abderrahmane-issam/year/2025/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abderrahmane-issam/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Shared Task on Gender Rewriting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alhafni-2022-shared-task-gender-rewriting/)** *(2022 · 3 citations)* This paper reports on a shared task, held at WANLP 2022, on gender rewriting for Modern Standard Arabic. The task takes a sentence and produces versions that fit each combination of speaker gender and listener gender. In Arabic, words that refer to the first or second person carry grammatical gender, so a system that… 2. **[From FusHa to Folk: Exploring Cross-Lingual Transfer in Arabic Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khalak-2026-fusha-folk-exploring-cross-lingual/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Arabic language models are mostly pretrained on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA, FusHa) and are expected to work on the spoken dialects (DA), whose distance from MSA varies widely. 3. **[Maastricht University at AMIYA: Adapting LLMs for Dialectal Arabic using Fine-tuning and MBR Decoding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alali-2026-maastricht-university-amiya-adapting-llms/)** *(2026)* Large language models still handle regional Arabic varieties poorly compared with Modern Standard Arabic. For the AMIYA shared task (closed data track), the authors adapted the JAIS-2 model to Syrian, Moroccan and Saudi Arabic. They trained two kinds of LoRA adapter for each dialect. One learns from raw monolingual… 4. **[Low-Resource Machine Translation for Moroccan Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rosca-2025-low-resource-machine-translation-moroccan/)** *(2025)* The paper asks which standard low-resource NMT techniques actually help for Moroccan Arabic (Darija), a dialect with very little parallel data. ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[The Shared Task on Gender Rewriting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alhafni-2022-shared-task-gender-rewriting/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Bashar Alhafni, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, et al.*2022 · 3 citations* 2. [**From FusHa to Folk: Exploring Cross-Lingual Transfer in Arabic Language Models arXiv:2602.09826**Abdulmuizz Khalak, Abderrahmane Issam, Gerasimos Spanakis*2026 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khalak-2026-fusha-folk-exploring-cross-lingual/) 3. **[Maastricht University at AMIYA: Adapting LLMs for Dialectal Arabic using Fine-tuning and MBR Decoding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alali-2026-maastricht-university-amiya-adapting-llms/) [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/)**Abdulhai Alali, Abderrahmane Issam*2026* 4. **[Low-Resource Machine Translation for Moroccan Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rosca-2025-low-resource-machine-translation-moroccan/) [Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lowresnlp/)**Alexei Rosca, Abderrahmane Issam, Gerasimos Spanakis*2025* 5. **[A Representation Level Analysis of NMT Model Robustness to Grammatical Errors ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.451/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025 · no summary yet**Abderrahmane Issam et al.*2025* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Gerasimos Spanakis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gerasimos-spanakis/) ×2 - [Abdelrahim Qaddoumi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdelrahim-qaddoumi/) - [Ahmed ElBakry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-elbakry/) - [Bashar Alhafni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bashar-alhafni/) - [Daliyah Alzeer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daliyah-alzeer/) - [Houda Bouamor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houda-bouamor/) - [Mohamed Gabr](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-gabr/) - [Muhammad ElNokrashy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-elnokrashy/) - [Nizar Habash](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/) - [Ossama Obeid](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ossama-obeid/) - [Sultan Alrowili](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sultan-alrowili/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lowresnlp/): [Workshop on Advancing NLP for Low-Resource Languages 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lowresnlp/2025/) - [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/): [VarDial 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2026/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/): [WANLP 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2022/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abderrahmane-issam/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026