--- title: "Anis Koubaa — author profile and papers" description: "Anis Koubaa, Alfaisal University: 6 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 67 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anis-koubaa/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anis-koubaa/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Anis Koubaa # Anis Koubaa 6 papers on this site · 2023–2025 current affiliation [Alfaisal University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/alfaisal-university/), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Anis Koubaa has 6 papers on this site, in 2023–2025, 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 [Serry Sibaee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/serry-sibaee/), [Adel Ammar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adel-ammar/), [Omar Najar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-najar/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5024626195) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3787-7423) · [**h-index 67**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5024626195) · [575 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5024626195) · [15 054 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5024626195&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [6 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anis-koubaa/#papers) · [79 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anis-koubaa/cited-by/) · 5 more works in our library 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=Anis+Koubaa) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Anis+Koubaa) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Anis+Koubaa) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Anis+Koubaa) ## Affiliations - [Alfaisal University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/alfaisal-university/) · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia —current · 2025–2026 on 39 papers - [Prince Sultan University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/prince-sultan-university/) · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia —2013–2025 on 266 papers · employment from 2017 (Wikidata) - [Menoufia University](https://ror.org/05sjrb944) · Shibīn al Kawm, Egypt —2025 on 2 papers - [Karlsruhe Institute of Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/) · Karlsruhe, Germany —2024 on 2 papers - [Universidade Técnica do Porto](https://ror.org/04988re48) · Porto, Portugal —2005–2023 on 140 papers - [Centro de Investigação em Sistemas Computacionais Embebidos e de Tempo-Real](https://ror.org/00mfa2s19) · Porto —2008–2023 on 126 papers - [Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto](https://ror.org/04h7zpy51) · Paranhos, Portugal —2018–2023 on 2 papers - [INESC TEC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/inesc-tec/) · Porto, Portugal —2013–2022 on 79 papers - [Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/imam-mohammad-ibn-saud-islamic-university/) · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia —2007–2012 on 31 papers - [Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-lorrain-de-recherche-en-informatique-et-ses-applications/) · Nancy, France —2003–2005 on 6 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Semitic languages 6](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Machine translation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Code & programming languages 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) · [Legal AI 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nacar-2025-gate-general-arabic-text-embedding/) · [**2024** 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anis-koubaa/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ammar-2023-prediction-arabic-legal-rulings-using/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Prediction of Arabic Legal Rulings using Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ammar-2023-prediction-arabic-legal-rulings-using/)** *(2023 · 27 citations)* The paper investigates whether current large language models can forecast the outcome of Arabic court cases, a legal-NLP area that has received little attention. 2. **[ArabianGPT: Native Arabic GPT-based Large Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/koubaa-2024-arabiangpt-native-arabic-gpt-based/)** *(2024 · 17 citations)* The paper argues that Arabic lacks generative language models built mainly around Arabic itself. Many existing models are multilingual or bilingual, and their vocabularies carry many English tokens, which the authors see as a poor fit for Arabic's rich morphology. Their answer is ArabianGPT, part of a wider… 3. **[Enhancing Semantic Similarity Understanding in Arabic NLP with Nested Embedding Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nacar-2024-enhancing-semantic-similarity-understanding-arabic/)** *(2024 · 16 citations)* Arabic had no sentence-embedding models trained with Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL). MRL orders information inside a vector so that its leading dimensions still work on their own after the vector is cut short. The authors close this gap in two steps. 4. **[GATE: General Arabic Text Embedding for Enhanced Semantic Textual Similarity with Matryoshka Representation Learning and Hybrid Loss Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nacar-2025-gate-general-arabic-text-embedding/)** *(2025 · 7 citations)* Arabic has few strong sentence-embedding models and few good datasets for semantic textual similarity (STS). Its rich root-and-pattern morphology, flexible word order and missing diacritics add to the difficulty. The authors address this with GATE, a family of Arabic embedding models. 5. **[ASOS at NADI 2024 shared task: Bridging Dialectness Estimation and MSA Machine Translation for Arabic Language Enhancement](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nacar-2024-asos-nadi-2024-shared-task/)** *(2024 · 2 citations)* This NADI 2024 submission tackles two linked Arabic tasks. The first is predicting a sentence's Arabic Level of Dialectness (ALDi) as a continuous score. The second is translating four dialects (Egyptian, Emirati, Jordanian, Palestinian) into Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). 6. **[LLMs as Compiler for Arabic Programming Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sibaee-2024-llms-compiler-arabic-programming-language/)** *(2024)* The paper addresses the fact that nearly all mainstream programming languages use English keywords. This is a barrier for Arabic speakers. Earlier Arabic languages such as Sakhr Basic, ARLOGO and Phoenix each needed a hand-built compiler. The authors propose APL (Arabic Programming Language). It has no conventional… ## Also in our library 5 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Serry Sibaee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/serry-sibaee/) ×5 - [Adel Ammar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adel-ammar/) ×3 - [Omar Najar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-najar/) ×3 - [Omer Nacar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omer-nacar/) ×3 - [Lahouari Ghouti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lahouari-ghouti/) ×2 - [Bilel Benjdira](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bilel-benjdira/) - [Wadii Boulila](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wadii-boulila/) - [Yasser Al-Habashi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasser-al-habashi/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 79 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anis-koubaa/cited-by/).