--- title: "Christine Basta — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Christine Basta, University of the Basque Country: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2026), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-basta/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-basta/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Christine Basta # Christine Basta Christine Basta has 3 papers in our library, in 2019–2026, most of them on [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Marta R. Costa-jussà](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marta-r-costa-jussa/), [Noe Casas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noe-casas/), [Rana Gaber](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rana-gaber/). 3 papers in our library · 2019–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5082718601) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5551-0356) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5082718601) · [30 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082718601) · [315 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082718601&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-basta/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 100 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-basta/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5181](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/52/#star-5181) 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=Christine+Basta) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Christine+Basta) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Christine+Basta) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Christine+Basta) ## Affiliations [🎓**Alexandria University** Alexandria · Egypt 2016–2026 · 14 papersEmployment since 2023 · Assistant Professor, Faculty of Computers and Data Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/alexandria-university/) · [🎓**University of the Basque Country** Leioa · Spain 2025–2026 · 3 papersEmployment since 2025 · Postdoctoral NLP Researcher, HiTZ*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-the-basque-country/) · [🎓**Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya** Barcelona · Spain 2018–2023 · 10 papersEducation 2018–2022 · PhD Student, Signal Theory and CommunicationsEmployment 2018–2022 · Research Assistant, Signal Theory and Communications](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-politecnica-de-catalunya/) 🏛️**Institute of Graduate Studies and Research** Alexandria · [Egypt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/egypt/) 2012–2023Education 2012–2016 · Master of Science, Information TechnologyEmployment 2012–2023 · Teacher Assistant till 2016- Assistant Lecturer till 2022- Lecturer till 2023, Information Technology 🏛️**Alexandria University Faculty of Engineering** Alexandria · [Egypt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/egypt/) 2006–2011Education 2006–2011 · Bachelor, Computer and Control 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 7 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/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [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/) · [Safety Research · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Gender Studies · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/gender-studies/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Bias, fairness & safety · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-basta/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-basta/year/2025/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-basta/year/2019/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Evaluating the Underlying Gender Bias in Contextualized Word Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/basta-2019-evaluating-underlying-gender-bias-contextualized/)** *(2019 · 266 citations)* This workshop paper asks whether contextualized word embeddings carry gender bias, and how much compared with standard and debiased static embeddings. 2. **[ArGAN: Arabic Gender, Ability, and Nationality Dataset for Evaluating Biases in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aly-2025-argan-arabic-gender-ability-nationality/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* Bias research on Arabic lags far behind English, partly because Arabic is heavily gendered, dialect-rich and low-resource. 3. **[Data Contamination in Neural Hieroglyphic Translation: A Reproducibility Study](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toutou-2026-data-contamination-neural-hieroglyphic-translation/)** *(2026)* De Cao et al. (2024) reported 61.5 BLEU for translating Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs (in Gardiner notation) into German with a fine-tuned M2M-100. That is a striking figure for a corpus that offers only 18,669 usable TLA training pairs. Toutou, Harb and Basta tried to reproduce it, but the public checkpoint reached… ## All works 5 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. **[Evaluating the Underlying Gender Bias in Contextualized Word Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/basta-2019-evaluating-underlying-gender-bias-contextualized/) [Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gebnlp/)**Christine Basta, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Noe Casas*2019 · 266 citations* 2. **[Evaluating Gender Bias in Speech Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.230/) Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Marta R. Costa-jussà, Christine Basta, Gerard I. Gállego*2022 · 22 citations* 3. **[ArGAN: Arabic Gender, Ability, and Nationality Dataset for Evaluating Biases in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aly-2025-argan-arabic-gender-ability-nationality/) [Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gebnlp/)**Ranwa Aly, Yara Allam, Rana Gaber, et al.*2025 · 1 citation* 4. **[Overview of the Shared Task on Machine Translation Gender Bias Evaluation with Multilingual Holistic Bias ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.gebnlp-1.26/) Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP) · no summary yet**Marta R. Costa-jussà et al.*2024 · 1 citation* 5. **[Data Contamination in Neural Hieroglyphic Translation: A Reproducibility Study](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toutou-2026-data-contamination-neural-hieroglyphic-translation/) [International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4dh/)**Ammar Toutou, Abdelrahman Harb, Christine Basta*2026* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Marta R. Costa-jussà](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marta-r-costa-jussa/) - [Noe Casas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noe-casas/) - [Rana Gaber](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rana-gaber/) - [Ranwa Aly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ranwa-aly/) - [Yara Allam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yara-allam/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gebnlp/) ×3: [Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gebnlp/2025/), [Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/gebnlp/2019/) - [International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4dh/): [International Conference on Natural Language Processing for the Digital Humanities 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4dh/2026/) - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 100 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [22 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christine-basta/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026