--- title: "Alaa Khaddaj — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Alaa Khaddaj, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2019), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alaa-khaddaj/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alaa-khaddaj/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Alaa Khaddaj # Alaa Khaddaj Alaa Khaddaj has 3 papers in our library, in 2018–2019, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Hazem Hajj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-hajj/), [Wassim El-Hajj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wassim-el-hajj/), [Gilbert Badaro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gilbert-badaro/). 3 papers in our library · 2018–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5079024911) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5079024911) · [14 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5079024911) · [209 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5079024911&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alaa-khaddaj/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 41 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alaa-khaddaj/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7191](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/72/#star-7191) 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=Alaa+Khaddaj) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Alaa+Khaddaj) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Alaa+Khaddaj) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Alaa+Khaddaj) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2020–2025 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**American University of Beirut** Beirut · Lebanon 2018–2020 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/american-university-of-beirut/) 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Social Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/social-psychology/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alaa-khaddaj/year/2019/) · [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alaa-khaddaj/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[EMA at SemEval-2018 Task 1: Emotion Mining for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/badaro-2018-ema-semeval-2018-task-1/)** *(2018 · 73 citations)* The paper describes EMA, a system built by a team at the American University of Beirut for the Arabic track of SemEval-2018 Task 1 (Affect in Tweets). 2. **[ArSentD-LEV: A Multi-Topic Corpus for Target-based Sentiment Analysis in Arabic Levantine Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baly-2019-arsentd-lev-multi-topic-corpus/)** *(2019 · 61 citations)* Most Arabic sentiment datasets assign only a single polarity label to a whole text, often on a coarse three-way scale. 3. **[Improved Generalization of Arabic Text Classifiers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khaddaj-2019-improved-generalization-arabic-text-classifiers/)** *(2019 · 10 citations)* The paper addresses a gap in Arabic NLP: classifiers trained on one domain of text lose accuracy on another, and transfer techniques that are common for English had barely been tried for Arabic. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hazem Hajj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-hajj/) ×3 - [Wassim El-Hajj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wassim-el-hajj/) ×3 - [Gilbert Badaro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gilbert-badaro/) - [Ramy Baly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ramy-baly/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2018/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/): [WANLP 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2019/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 41 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [31 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alaa-khaddaj/cited-by/). 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