--- title: "Diyam Akra · Birzeit University — author profile and papers" description: "Diyam Akra, Birzeit University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2014–2025), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diyam-akra/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diyam-akra/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Diyam Akra # Diyam Akra Diyam Akra has 2 papers in our library, in 2014–2025, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Part-of-speech tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/); often with [Mustafa Jarrar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mustafa-jarrar/), [Mohammed Khalilia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammed-khalilia/), [Nasser Zalmout](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nasser-zalmout/). 2 papers in our library · 2014–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5046284249) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5046284249) · [7 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5046284249) · [172 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5046284249&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diyam-akra/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 41 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diyam-akra/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6858](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/69/#star-6858) 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=Diyam+Akra) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Diyam+Akra) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Diyam+Akra) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Diyam+Akra) ## Affiliations [🎓**Birzeit University** Birzeit · Palestine 2014–2025 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/birzeit-university/) 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Part-of-speech tagging · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diyam-akra/year/2025/) ### 2010s [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diyam-akra/year/2014/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Building a Corpus for Palestinian Arabic: a Preliminary Study](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jarrar-2014-building-corpus-palestinian-arabic-preliminary/)** *(2014 · 96 citations)* Most Arabic NLP tools target Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Spoken dialects differ from it in sound, morphology and vocabulary, have no agreed spelling, and appear in writing mostly as informal online chatter. This paper reports early work on Curras, an annotated corpus of Palestinian Arabic (PAL) of roughly 43K words… 2. **[Active Learning for Multidialectal Arabic POS Tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/akra-2025-active-learning-multidialectal-arabic-pos/)** *(2025 · 2 citations)* Building POS taggers for Arabic dialects is hard. The morphology is rich, the dialects vary widely, and manually annotated dialectal corpora take teams of annotators years to produce. This work asks whether active learning can cut that annotation burden substantially. The authors work with MSA and four dialects… ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Mustafa Jarrar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mustafa-jarrar/) ×2 - [Mohammed Khalilia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammed-khalilia/) - [Nasser Zalmout](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nasser-zalmout/) - [Nizar Habash](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-on-arabic-natural-language-processing-anlp/): [ANLP 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-on-arabic-natural-language-processing-anlp/2014/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 41 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [33 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diyam-akra/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026