--- title: "Ferdaous Azhari — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Ferdaous Azhari, Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ferdaous-azhari/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ferdaous-azhari/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ferdaous Azhari # Ferdaous Azhari Ferdaous Azhari has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Abderrahman Skiredj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abderrahman-skiredj/), [Ismail Berrada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ismail-berrada/), [Houdaifa Atou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houdaifa-atou/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5098921440) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0308-6758) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5098921440) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5098921440) · [3 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5098921440&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ferdaous-azhari/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ferdaous-azhari/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10388](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/104/#star-10388) 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=Ferdaous+Azhari) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ferdaous+Azhari) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ferdaous+Azhari) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ferdaous+Azhari) ## Affiliations [🎓**Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications** Rabat · Morocco 2024–2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/institut-national-des-postes-et-telecommunications/) 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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ferdaous-azhari/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ferdaous-azhari/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[DarijaBanking: A New Resource for Overcoming Language Barriers in Banking Intent Detection for Moroccan Arabic Speakers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/skiredj-2024-darijabanking-new-resource-overcoming-language/)** *(2024 · 5 citations)* Moroccan Darija mixes Arabic with French, Spanish and Tamazight influences and differs substantially from Modern Standard Arabic. 2. **[GemMaroc: Unlocking Darija Proficiency in LLMs with Minimal Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/skiredj-2025-gemmaroc-unlocking-darija-proficiency-llms/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* Open LLMs handle Moroccan Arabic (Darija) poorly. Earlier fixes, such as Atlas-Chat with 458k supervised examples, were costly. This paper asks whether a small, carefully chosen instruction set can bring out Darija ability that a strong multilingual backbone already holds, without hurting its reasoning. The authors… ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Abderrahman Skiredj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abderrahman-skiredj/) ×2 - [Ismail Berrada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ismail-berrada/) ×2 - [Houdaifa Atou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houdaifa-atou/) - [Nouamane Tazi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nouamane-tazi/) - [Saad Ezzini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saad-ezzini/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ferdaous-azhari/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026