--- title: "Esma Wali · Clarkson University — author profile and papers" description: "Esma Wali, Clarkson University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2024), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esma-wali/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esma-wali/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Esma Wali # Esma Wali Esma Wali has 3 papers in our library, in 2022–2024, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/), [Historical linguistics & language change](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/); often with [Jeanna Matthews](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeanna-matthews/), [Saied Alshahrani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saied-alshahrani/), [Norah Alshahrani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/norah-alshahrani/). 3 papers in our library · 2022–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5010621136) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5010621136) · [12 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5010621136) · [66 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5010621136&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esma-wali/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 10 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esma-wali/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10279](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/103/#star-10279) 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=Esma+Wali) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Esma+Wali) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Esma+Wali) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Esma+Wali) ## Affiliations [🎓**Clarkson University** Potsdam · United States 2020–2024 · 12 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/clarkson-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 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/) · [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/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Communication · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/communication/) · [Gender Studies · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/gender-studies/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Historical linguistics & language change · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esma-wali/year/2024/) · [**2022** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esma-wali/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Arabic Synonym BERT-based Adversarial Examples for Text Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alshahrani-2024-arabic-synonym-bert-based-adversarial/)** *(2024 · 10 citations)* Studies of adversarial text attacks have focused almost entirely on English, and earlier Arabic work only perturbed individual characters. 2. **[Learning From Arabic Corpora But Not Always From Arabic Speakers: A Case Study of the Arabic Wikipedia Editions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alshahrani-2022-learning-arabic-corpora-but-not/)** *(2022 · 8 citations)* Wikipedia is a standard source of training text for languages other than English. The authors argue that text written in a language is not necessarily text written by its speakers. They compare three Arabic Wikipedia editions (Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic and Moroccan Arabic), with English Wikipedia as a… 3. **[Roadblocks in Gender Bias Measurement for Diachronic Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alshahrani-2022-roadblocks-gender-bias-measurement-diachronic/)** *(2022 · 2 citations)* The paper examines whether a widely used way of measuring gender bias in word embeddings still works when the corpus covers many centuries. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jeanna Matthews](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeanna-matthews/) ×3 - [Saied Alshahrani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saied-alshahrani/) ×3 - [Norah Alshahrani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/norah-alshahrani/) - [Yan Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-chen/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2024/) - [Proceedings for the International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Change](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lchange/): [Proceedings for the International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Change 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lchange/2022/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/): [WANLP 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 10 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/esma-wali/cited-by/). 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