--- title: "Abir Betka · University of Biskra — author profile and papers" description: "Abir Betka, University of Biskra: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abir-betka/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abir-betka/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Abir Betka # Abir Betka Abir Betka has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, 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/); often with [Ahmed Abdelali](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-abdelali/), [Habiba Dahmani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/habiba-dahmani/), [Riyadh Barka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riyadh-barka/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5078841604) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2142-1088) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5078841604) · [25 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5078841604) · [268 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5078841604&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abir-betka/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1 time in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abir-betka/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12172](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/122/#star-12172) 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=Abir+Betka) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Abir+Betka) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Abir+Betka) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Abir+Betka) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Biskra** Biskra · Algeria 2016–2026 · 14 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-biskra/) · [🎓**University of Eloued** El Oued · Algeria 2024–2026 · 9 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-eloued/) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [General Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/general-social-sciences/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abir-betka/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abir-betka/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Functional Text Dimensions for Arabic Text Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ferhat-2024-functional-text-dimensions-arabic-text/)** *(2024 · 3 citations)* Genre labels on web pages are often missing, vague or inconsistent between sources and annotators. This makes reliable genre classification hard, and Arabic lacks suitable evaluation data. The authors adapt Sharoff's Functional Text Dimensions (FTD) scheme to Arabic. In FTD, each category is defined by a diagnostic… 2. **[On Enhancing Fine-Tuning for Pre-trained Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/betka-2023-enhancing-fine-tuning-pre-trained/)** *(2023)* Fine-tuning a pre-trained transformer for every new task costs a lot of compute time and energy. This paper tests a simple remedy: keep some encoder layers frozen and update only the remaining ones. The authors use four Arabic BERT-base models: AraBERTv0.2, CAMelBERT, QARiB and MARBERT. They first run an exhaustive… ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ahmed Abdelali](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-abdelali/) ×2 - [Habiba Dahmani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/habiba-dahmani/) ×2 - [Riyadh Barka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riyadh-barka/) ×2 - [Selma Boutiba](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/selma-boutiba/) ×2 - [Zeyd Ferhat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeyd-ferhat/) ×2 - [Zineddine Kahhoul](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zineddine-kahhoul/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/) ×2: [ArabicNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2024/), [ArabicNLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abir-betka/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026