--- title: "Chadi Abou Chakra — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Chadi Abou Chakra, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chadi-abou-chakra/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chadi-abou-chakra/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Chadi Abou Chakra # Chadi Abou Chakra Chadi Abou Chakra has 3 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, 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/), [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/); 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/), [Osama Rakan Al Mraikhat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osama-rakan-al-mraikhat/). 3 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5092831427) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5092831427) · [8 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5092831427) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5092831427&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chadi-abou-chakra/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 6 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chadi-abou-chakra/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10233](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/103/#star-10233) 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=Chadi+Abou+Chakra) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Chadi+Abou+Chakra) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Chadi+Abou+Chakra) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Chadi+Abou+Chakra) ## Affiliations [🔬**Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies** Doha · Qatar 2024–2026 · 4 papers*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. ## 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 · 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](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 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Tokenization & segmentation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chadi-abou-chakra/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chadi-abou-chakra/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[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… 2. **[NeoAraBERT: A Modern Foundation Model for Arabic Embeddings with Diacritics-Aware Tokenization and POS-Targeted Masking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chakra-2026-neoarabert-modern-foundation-model-arabic/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Arabic text encoders such as AraBERT, ARBERT and MARBERT still use older BERT-era designs. They lack rotary positions, SwiGLU and Pre-RMSNorm, and they largely ignore diacritics. The authors port the NeoBERT architecture to Arabic and pre-train it on a deduplicated corpus that mixes MSA, Classical Arabic and… 3. **[DRU at WojoodNER 2024: ICL LLM for Arabic NER](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamdan-2024-dru-wojoodner-2024-icl-llm/)** *(2024 · 1 citation)* The paper describes a system for the open track of the WojoodNER 2024 shared task, specifically flat fine-grained Arabic NER (Subtask 3A). ## All works 4 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. **[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/) [International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nakbanlp/)**Hadi Hamoud, Ahmad Ali Chamseddine, Bilal Shalash, et al.*2026 · 5 citations* 2. **[NeoAraBERT: A Modern Foundation Model for Arabic Embeddings with Diacritics-Aware Tokenization and POS-Targeted Masking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chakra-2026-neoarabert-modern-foundation-model-arabic/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Chadi Abou Chakra, Hadi Khaled Hamoud, Osama Rakan Al Mraikhat, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 3. **[DRU at WojoodNER 2024: ICL LLM for Arabic NER](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamdan-2024-dru-wojoodner-2024-icl-llm/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/)**Nancy Hamdan, Hadi Hamoud, Chadi Abou Chakra, et al.*2024 · 1 citation* 4. **[DRU at WojoodNER 2024: A Multi-level Method Approach ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.104/) Proceedings of the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference · no summary yet**Hadi Hamoud et al.*2024* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Fadi Zaraket](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fadi-zaraket/) ×3 - [Hadi Hamoud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hadi-hamoud/) ×3 - [Osama Rakan Al Mraikhat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osama-rakan-al-mraikhat/) ×2 - [Bernard Ghanem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bernard-ghanem/) - [Bilal Shalash](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bilal-shalash/) - [Doha Albared](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/doha-albared/) - [Mohamad Ballout](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamad-ballout/) - [Mustafa Jarrar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mustafa-jarrar/) ## 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/) ×2: [ArabicNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2024/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - [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 6 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chadi-abou-chakra/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026