--- title: "Bilal Shalash — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Bilal Shalash, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bilal-shalash/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bilal-shalash/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Bilal Shalash # Bilal Shalash Bilal Shalash has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Fadi Zaraket](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fadi-zaraket/), [Hadi Hamoud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hadi-hamoud/), [Mustafa Jarrar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mustafa-jarrar/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5000690219) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5000690219) · [5 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5000690219) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5000690219&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bilal-shalash/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 17 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bilal-shalash/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9201](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/93/#star-9201) 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=Bilal+Shalash) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Bilal+Shalash) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Bilal+Shalash) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Bilal+Shalash) ## Affiliations [🔬**Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies** Doha · Qatar 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/arab-center-for-research-and-policy-studies/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Literature and Literary Theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) · [Media Technology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/media-technology/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bilal-shalash/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bilal-shalash/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ImageEval 2025: The First Arabic Image Captioning Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bashiti-2025-imageeval-2025-first-arabic-image/)** *(2025 · 13 citations)* ImageEval 2025 is the first shared task built around generating Arabic captions for images. Arabic multimodal work has been held back by a lack of native caption data, and most existing sets are translated from English, which loses cultural detail. The organizers addressed this with two linked subtasks. The first was… 2. **[NAKBA NLP 2026: Shared Task on Arabic Handwritten Manuscript Understanding (Palestine Memory–Omar Al-Saleh Memoir)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamoud-2026-nakba-nlp-2026-shared-task/)** *(2026 · 5 citations)* Historical Arabic handwriting remains hard to convert into searchable text. The causes include variable letterforms, damaged pages and Arabic-specific issues such as dropped diacritics. Open benchmarks for this problem are also scarce. The NAKBA NLP 2026 shared task addresses the gap with one large single-author… ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Fadi Zaraket](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fadi-zaraket/) ×2 - [Hadi Hamoud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hadi-hamoud/) ×2 - [Mustafa Jarrar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mustafa-jarrar/) ×2 - [Ahlam Bashiti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahlam-bashiti/) - [Alaa Aljabari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alaa-aljabari/) - [Bernard Ghanem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bernard-ghanem/) - [Chadi Abou Chakra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chadi-abou-chakra/) - [Ehsaneddin Asgari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsaneddin-asgari/) - [George Mikros](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/george-mikros/) - [Md. Rafiul Biswas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-rafiul-biswas/) - [Wajdi Zaghouani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wajdi-zaghouani/) ## 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/): [ArabicNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2025/) - [International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nakbanlp/): [International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources @ LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nakbanlp/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 17 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [12 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bilal-shalash/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026