--- title: "Fady Baly — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Fady Baly, American University of Beirut: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2021), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fady-baly/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fady-baly/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Fady Baly # Fady Baly Fady Baly has 3 papers in our library, in 2020–2021, 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/), [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/); often with [Hazem Hajj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-hajj/), [Wissam Antoun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wissam-antoun/). 3 papers in our library · 2020–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5050198833) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5050198833) · [7 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5050198833) · [803 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5050198833&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fady-baly/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 773 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fady-baly/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1654](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/17/#star-1654) 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=Fady+Baly) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Fady+Baly) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Fady+Baly) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Fady+Baly) ## Affiliations [🎓**American University of Beirut** Beirut · Lebanon 2016–2020 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/american-university-of-beirut/) 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) 💡 Concepts 3 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Morphology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/morphology/) · [Natural language understanding · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/natural-language-understanding/) · [Transformer and attention · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/transformer/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 2 papers Fady Baly's papers of 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fady-baly/year/2021/) · [**2020** 1 paper Fady Baly's papers of 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/antoun-2020-arabert-transformer-based-model-arabic/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AraBERT: Transformer-based Model for Arabic Language Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/antoun-2020-arabert-transformer-based-model-arabic/)** *(2020 · 1,302 citations)* Arabic has rich morphology, limited NLP resources and little in common with Latin-script languages. As a result, multilingual models such as Google's multilingual BERT represent it poorly. The authors address this by training a BERT model only on Arabic, called AraBERT. It uses the standard BERT-base architecture and… 2. **[AraELECTRA: Pre-Training Text Discriminators for Arabic Language Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/antoun-2021-araelectra-pre-training-text-discriminators/)** *(2021 · 97 citations)* Earlier Arabic pretrained encoders, including AraBERT, Arabic-BERT and ARBERT, all relied on masked language modeling. 3. **[AraGPT2: Pre-Trained Transformer for Arabic Language Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/antoun-2021-aragpt2-pre-trained-transformer-arabic/)** *(2021 · 79 citations)* Arabic NLP had strong pre-trained models for understanding tasks, mostly masked-LM encoders such as AraBERT, but lacked a capable generative model. ## 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. [**AraBERT: Transformer-based Model for Arabic Language Understanding arXiv:2003.00104**Wissam Antoun, Fady Baly, Hazem Hajj*2020 · 1,302 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/antoun-2020-arabert-transformer-based-model-arabic/) 2. **[AraELECTRA: Pre-Training Text Discriminators for Arabic Language Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/antoun-2021-araelectra-pre-training-text-discriminators/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Wissam Antoun, Fady Baly, Hazem Hajj*2021 · 97 citations* 3. **[AraGPT2: Pre-Trained Transformer for Arabic Language Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/antoun-2021-aragpt2-pre-trained-transformer-arabic/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Wissam Antoun, Fady Baly, Hazem Hajj*2021 · 79 citations* 4. **[Multi-Task Learning using AraBert for Offensive Language Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.osact-1.16/) Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, with a Shared Task on Offensive Language Detection · no summary yet**Marc Djandji et al.*2020 · 42 citations* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hazem Hajj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-hajj/) ×3 - [Wissam Antoun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wissam-antoun/) ×3 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/) ×2: [WANLP 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2021/) ×2 - Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, with a Shared Task on Offensive Language Detection ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 773 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [190 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fady-baly/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026