--- title: "Bashar Talafha — author profile and papers" description: "Bashar Talafha, University of British Columbia: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2023), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bashar-talafha/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bashar-talafha/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Bashar Talafha # Bashar Talafha Bashar Talafha has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2023, 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/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/); often with [Abdul Waheed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdul-waheed/), [Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mahmoud-al-ayyoub/), [Muhammad Abdul-Mageed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-abdul-mageed/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2023 current affiliation [University of British Columbia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) · Vancouver Canada [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5062672302) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4227-892X) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5062672302) · [36 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062672302) · [691 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062672302&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bashar-talafha/#papers) · [204 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bashar-talafha/cited-by/) · 13 more works in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4425](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/45/#star-4425) 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=Bashar+Talafha) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Bashar+Talafha) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Bashar+Talafha) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Bashar+Talafha) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of British Columbia** Vancouver · Canada 2022–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) · [🎓**Jordan University of Science and Technology** Irbid · Jordan 2015–2021 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/jordan-university-of-science-and-technology/) 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. ## Topics [Semitic languages 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Speech & spoken language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/talafha-2023-n-shot-benchmarking-whisper-diverse/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/talafha-2021-sarcasm-detection-quantification-arabic-tweets/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[N-Shot Benchmarking of Whisper on Diverse Arabic Speech Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/talafha-2023-n-shot-benchmarking-whisper-diverse/)** *(2023 · 30 citations)* The authors ask how well OpenAI's Whisper handles Arabic beyond the standard benchmarks. Arabic is a family of varieties: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) sits alongside many regional dialects. They test Whisper large-v2 and small, with XLS-R as the baseline, on nearly all public Arabic ASR corpora. These cover Common… 2. **[sarcasm detection and quantification in arabic tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/talafha-2021-sarcasm-detection-quantification-arabic-tweets/)** *(2021 · 14 citations)* Sarcasm in Arabic social media is hard to detect automatically. Arabic has many dialects and rich morphology, and it has far fewer labeled resources than English. People also disagree about what counts as sarcastic. The authors respond to this disagreement by treating sarcasm as a matter of degree rather than a… ## Also in our library 13 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Abdul Waheed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdul-waheed/) - [Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mahmoud-al-ayyoub/) - [Muhammad Abdul-Mageed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-abdul-mageed/) - [Muhy Eddin Za'ter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhy-eddin-za-ter/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 204 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [44 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bashar-talafha/cited-by/).