--- title: "Chaimae Abouzahir — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Chaimae Abouzahir, New York University Abu Dhabi: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaimae-abouzahir/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaimae-abouzahir/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Chaimae Abouzahir # Chaimae Abouzahir Chaimae Abouzahir 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/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Farah E. Shamout](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/farah-e-shamout/), [Nizar Habash](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/), [Walid Al-Eisawi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walid-al-eisawi/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5120024057) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7068-7576) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5120024057) · [9 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5120024057) · [7 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5120024057&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaimae-abouzahir/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 27 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaimae-abouzahir/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5677](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/57/#star-5677) 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=Chaimae+Abouzahir) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Chaimae+Abouzahir) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Chaimae+Abouzahir) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Chaimae+Abouzahir) ## Affiliations [🎓**New York University Abu Dhabi** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2025–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university-abu-dhabi/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 7 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/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Health Informatics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/health-informatics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper Chaimae Abouzahir's papers of 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abouzahir-2026-bridging-english-arabic-medical-knowledge/) · [**2025** 1 paper Chaimae Abouzahir's papers of 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/daoud-2025-medarabiq-benchmarking-large-language-models/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MedArabiQ: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Arabic Medical Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/daoud-2025-medarabiq-benchmarking-large-language-models/)** *(2025 · 22 citations)* LLMs are increasingly considered for clinical use, but there has been almost no way to check how they handle medical content in Arabic. 2. **[Bridging the English-Arabic Medical Knowledge Gap: Targeted Low-Rank Adaptation via Causal Layer Selection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abouzahir-2026-bridging-english-arabic-medical-knowledge/)** *(2026)* LLMs handle English medical questions much better than Arabic ones, and this is usually blamed on scarce Arabic training data. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**MedArabiQ: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Arabic Medical Tasks arXiv:2505.03427**Mouath Abu Daoud, Chaimae Abouzahir, Leen Kharouf, et al.*2025 · 22 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/daoud-2025-medarabiq-benchmarking-large-language-models/) 2. **[AraHealthQA 2025: The First Shared Task on Arabic Health Question Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.arabicnlp-sharedtasks.18/) Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks · no summary yet**Hassan Alhuzali et al.*2025 · 8 citations* 3. **[Cross-Lingual Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models for Arabic Medical Tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.healing-1.13/) Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing 2026) · no summary yet**Chaimae Abouzahir et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 4. [**Bridging the English-Arabic Medical Knowledge Gap: Targeted Low-Rank Adaptation via Causal Layer Selection arXiv:2608.00207 · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026**Chaimae Abouzahir, Musa Khan, Hala Ali-Hassan, et al.*2026*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abouzahir-2026-bridging-english-arabic-medical-knowledge/) ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Farah E. Shamout](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/farah-e-shamout/) ×2 - [Nizar Habash](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/) ×2 - [Walid Al-Eisawi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walid-al-eisawi/) ×2 - [Jihad Mallat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jihad-mallat/) - [Khaled Saleh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khaled-saleh/) - [Leen Kharouf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leen-kharouf/) - [Mouath Abu Daoud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mouath-abu-daoud/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing 2026) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 27 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaimae-abouzahir/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026