--- title: "Asma Ben Abacha · Microsoft — author profile and papers" description: "Asma Ben Abacha, Microsoft: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2026), h-index 27 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/asma-ben-abacha/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/asma-ben-abacha/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Asma Ben Abacha # Asma Ben Abacha Asma Ben Abacha has 3 papers in our library, in 2019–2026, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Dina Demner-Fushman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dina-demner-fushman/), [Chaitanya Shivade](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaitanya-shivade/), [Fei Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-xia/). 3 papers in our library · 2019–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5011349649) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6312-9387) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90879471) · [**h-index 27**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5011349649) · [135 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5011349649) · [2,842 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5011349649&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/asma-ben-abacha/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 145 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/asma-ben-abacha/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4102](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/42/#star-4102) 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=Asma+Ben+Abacha) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Asma+Ben+Abacha) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Asma+Ben+Abacha) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Asma+Ben+Abacha) ## Affiliations [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2022–2026 · 35 papersEmployment · Senior Scientist*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🔬**United States National Library of Medicine** Bethesda · United States 2016–2022 · 23 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/united-states-national-library-of-medicine/) · [🏛️**National Institutes of Health** Bethesda · United States 2014–2021 · 20 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/national-institutes-of-health/) · [🔬**Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur** Orsay · France 2010–2012 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-d-informatique-pour-la-mecanique-et-les-sciences-de-l-ingenieur/) · [🔬**Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology** Belvaux · Luxembourg 2015–2016 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/luxembourg-institute-of-science-and-technology/) · [🔬**Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique** Paris · France 2011–2012 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) · [🎓**Université Paris-Sud** Orsay · France 2011–2012 · 3 papersEducation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-paris-sud/) · [🤝**Centre de recherche public Henri-Tudor** Luxembourg-Kirchberg · Luxembourg 2013 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02689jc25) · [🎓**Université Sorbonne Paris Nord** Villetaneuse · France Education](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-sorbonne-paris-nord/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 10 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/molecular-biology/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Question answering · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper MORQA: Benchmarking Evaluation Metrics for Medical Open-Ended Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yim-2026-morqa-benchmarking-evaluation-metrics-medical/) · [**2021** 1 paper Evidence-based Fact-Checking of Health-related Claims](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sarrouti-2021-evidence-based-fact-checking-health/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Overview of the MEDIQA 2019 Shared Task on Textual Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abacha-2019-overview-mediqa-2019-shared-task/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Overview of the MEDIQA 2019 Shared Task on Textual Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abacha-2019-overview-mediqa-2019-shared-task/)** *(2019 · 179 citations)* Textual inference and question entailment have had relatively little attention in medicine, even though both could help health question-answering systems choose better answers. 2. **[Evidence-based Fact-Checking of Health-related Claims](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sarrouti-2021-evidence-based-fact-checking-health/)** *(2021 · 129 citations)* Most evidence-based fact-checking resources rely on artificially constructed claims, such as edited Wikipedia sentences or rewritten citation sentences. 3. **[MORQA: Benchmarking Evaluation Metrics for Medical Open-Ended Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yim-2026-morqa-benchmarking-evaluation-metrics-medical/)** *(2026 · 11 citations)* Automatic scores like BLEU, ROUGE and BERTScore are poor judges of free-text medical answers. Many different answers can be equally correct, and a reply that shares wording with the reference can still be clinically wrong. The authors present MORQA (Medical Open-Response QA), a bilingual English–Chinese benchmark for… ## All works 8 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Overview of the MEDIQA 2019 Shared Task on Textual Inference, Question Entailment and Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abacha-2019-overview-mediqa-2019-shared-task/)**Asma Ben Abacha, Chaitanya Shivade, Dina Demner-Fushman*[BioNLP Shared Task Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp-workshop-and-shared-task/) · 179 citations* 2. **[Evidence-based Fact-Checking of Health-related Claims](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sarrouti-2021-evidence-based-fact-checking-health/)**Mourad Sarrouti, Asma Ben Abacha, Yassine Mrabet, et al.*[Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) · 129 citations* 3. **[MORQA: Benchmarking Evaluation Metrics for Medical Open-Ended Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yim-2026-morqa-benchmarking-evaluation-metrics-medical/)**Wen-wai Yim, Asma Ben Abacha, Zixuan Yu, et al.*[Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) · 11 citations* 4. **[Overview of the MEDIQA-SYNUR 2026 Shared Task on Observation Extraction from Nurse Dictations](https://aclanthology.org/2026.clinicalnlp-1.3/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Clinical Natural Language Processing…**George Michalopoulos et al.*2026 · 9 citations* 5. **[Response Content Units: Evaluating Completeness and Proactiveness in Medical Open-Response Question Answering](https://aclanthology.org/2026.gem-main.25/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM)**Yongsin Park et al.*2026* 6. **[Extraction d'information automatique en domaine médical par projection inter-langue : vers un passage à l'échelle (Automatic Information Extraction in the Medical Domain by Cross-Lingual Projection) in French](https://aclanthology.org/F12-2002/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the Joint Conference JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012, volume 2: TALN**Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Aurélien Max*2012* 7. **[Extraction d'informations médicales au LIMSI (Medical information extraction at LIMSI)](https://aclanthology.org/2011.jeptalnrecital-demonstration.12/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Actes de la 18e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues…**Cyril Grouin et al.*2011* 8. **[MeTAE : Plate-forme d'annotation automatique et d'exploration sémantiques pour le domaine médical](https://aclanthology.org/2010.jeptalnrecital-demonstration.12/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Actes de la 17e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues…**Asma Ben Abacha, Pierre Zweigenbaum*2010* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dina Demner-Fushman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dina-demner-fushman/) ×2 - [Chaitanya Shivade](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaitanya-shivade/) - [Fei Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-xia/) - [Meliha Yetisgen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meliha-yetisgen/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [BioNLP Shared Task Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp-workshop-and-shared-task/): [BioNLP Shared Task Workshop 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp-workshop-and-shared-task/2019/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2021/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) - Actes de la 17e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique… - Actes de la 18e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique… - Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Clinical Natural… - Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation… - Proceedings of the Joint Conference JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012… ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 145 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/asma-ben-abacha/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026