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# Haithem Afli

Haithem Afli has 6 papers in our library, in 2019–2026, 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/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Shehenaz Hossain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shehenaz-hossain/), [Fouad Shammary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fouad-shammary/), [Abdessalam Bouchekif](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdessalam-bouchekif/).

6 papers in our library · 2019–2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5046400614) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7449-4707) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57694275) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5046400614) · [95 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5046400614) · [548 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5046400614&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 6 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haithem-afli/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 31 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haithem-afli/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8326](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/84/#star-8326)

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=Haithem+Afli) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Haithem+Afli) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Haithem+Afli) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Haithem+Afli)

## Affiliations

[🔬**Munster Technological University** Cork · Ireland 2018–2026 · 40 papersEmployment since 2018 · Lecturer, Computer Science Department*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/munster-technological-university/) · [🎓**Dublin City University** Dublin · Ireland 2015–2024 · 12 papersEmployment since 2015 · Research Scientist, School of Computing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dublin-city-university/) · [🔬**Cork Institute of Technology** Cork · Ireland 2018–2021 · 7 papersEmployment since 2018](https://ror.org/012qxnm65) · [🔬**ADAPT - Centre for Digital Content Technology** Dublin · Ireland 2019–2024 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/adapt-centre-for-digital-content-technology/) · [🔬**Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université du Mans** Le Mans · France 2010–2014 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-d-informatique-de-l-universite-du-mans/) · [🎓**Le Mans Université** Le Mans · France 2012–2016 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/le-mans-universite/) · [🎓**Université Européenne de Bretagne** Rennes · France 2010–2015Education 2010–2014Employment 2010–2015](https://ror.org/033c46s90) · [🎓**Université Nantes Angers Le Mans** Nantes · France 2010–2015Education 2010–2014 · PhD in Computer Science, Computer ScienceEmployment 2010–2015 · PhD and PostDoc, Computer Science](https://ror.org/0406t3m57) · [🎓**Université Grenoble Alpes** Saint-Martin-d'Hères · France 2009–2010Education 2009–2010](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-grenoble-alpes/)

🏛️**Université de Grenoble III** Grenoble · [France](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/france/) 2009–2010Education 2009–2010 · Master in Computational Linguistics, Informatics

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).[Computer Science · 6 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 6 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Political Science and International Relations · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/political-science-and-international-relations/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/)

🧭 Topics 8 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/)

💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[TF-IDF · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/tf-idf/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haithem-afli/year/2026/) · [**2025** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haithem-afli/year/2025/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haithem-afli/year/2022/)

### 2010s

[**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haithem-afli/year/2019/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Hierarchical Deep Learning for Arabic Dialect Identification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/francony-2019-hierarchical-deep-learning-arabic-dialect/)** *(2019 · 20 citations)* This workshop paper addresses fine-grained Arabic dialect identification in the MADAR shared task. Each sentence must be assigned to one of 26 classes: the dialects of 25 Arab cities plus Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The authors compare two systems.
2. **[TF-IDF or Transformers for Arabic Dialect Identification? ITFLOWS participation in the NADI 2022 Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shammary-2022-tf-idf-or-transformers-arabic/)** *(2022 · 7 citations)* The paper describes the ITFLOWS team's entry to NADI 2022 Subtask 1, which asks systems to label tweets with the country-level Arabic dialect they come from.
3. **[ADAPT–MTU HAI at QIAS2025: Dual-Expert LLM Fine-Tuning and Constrained Decoding for Arabic Islamic Inheritance Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hossain-2025-adapt-mtu-hai-qias2025-dual/)** *(2025 · 2 citations)* This paper presents a system entered in the QIAS 2025 shared task, specifically its first subtask. The task is Arabic multiple-choice questions on Islamic inheritance law, with six options (A–F) and one correct answer. Solving the cases means applying fixed fractional shares, exclusion (ḥajb), redistribution (radd)…
4. **[Enhancing Dialectal Arabic Intent Detection through Cross-Dialect Multilingual Input Augmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hossain-2025-enhancing-dialectal-arabic-intent-detection/)** *(2025 · 2 citations)* Arabic intent detection is difficult because regional dialects differ widely in vocabulary, spelling and structure, and they borrow words from other languages.
5. **[ADAPT–MTU HAI at IWSLT2026: Robust Cascaded Speech Translation for Bhojpuri–Hindi and Irish–English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sonawane-2026-adapt-mtu-hai-iwslt2026-robust/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* This paper presents WhiNN-ST, the submission from ADAPT–MTU HAI to the IWSLT 2026 shared task on speech translation in low-resource settings.
6. **[ADAPT–MTU HAI at PalmX 2025: Leveraging Full and Parameter-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning for Arabic Cultural QA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hossain-2025-adapt-mtu-hai-palmx-2025/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* The authors describe their PalmX 2025 entry, a shared task that tests whether LLMs handle Arabic cultural knowledge, posed as four-option multiple-choice questions in Modern Standard Arabic.

## All works

10 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 6 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[Human Evaluation of English — Irish Transformer-Based NMT ↗](https://doi.org/10.3390/info13070309) arXiv:2403.02366 · Information 2022, 13(7), 309 · no summary yet**Seamus Lankford, Haithem Afli, Andy Way*2022 · 26 citations*
2. **[Hierarchical Deep Learning for Arabic Dialect Identification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/francony-2019-hierarchical-deep-learning-arabic-dialect/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Gael de Francony, Victor Guichard, Praveen Joshi, et al.*2019 · 20 citations*
3. **[Balancing Translation Quality and Sentiment Preservation (Non-archival Extended Abstract) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W18-1808/) Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (Volume 1: Research Track) · no summary yet**Pintu Lohar, Haithem Afli, Andy Way*2018 · 10 citations*
4. **[TF-IDF or Transformers for Arabic Dialect Identification? ITFLOWS participation in the NADI 2022 Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shammary-2022-tf-idf-or-transformers-arabic/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Fouad Shammary, Yiyi Chen, Zsolt T Kardkovacs, et al.*2022 · 7 citations*
5. **[PTEB: Towards Robust Text Embedding Evaluation via Stochastic Paraphrasing at Evaluation Time with LLMs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.130/) Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Manuel Frank, Haithem Afli*2026 · 2 citations*
6. **[ADAPT–MTU HAI at QIAS2025: Dual-Expert LLM Fine-Tuning and Constrained Decoding for Arabic Islamic Inheritance Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hossain-2025-adapt-mtu-hai-qias2025-dual/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/)**Shehenaz Hossain, Haithem Afli*2025 · 2 citations*
7. **[Enhancing Dialectal Arabic Intent Detection through Cross-Dialect Multilingual Input Augmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hossain-2025-enhancing-dialectal-arabic-intent-detection/) [Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wacl/)**Shehenaz Hossain, Fouad Shammary, Bahaulddin Shammary, et al.*2025 · 2 citations*
8. **[ADAPT–MTU HAI at IWSLT2026: Robust Cascaded Speech Translation for Bhojpuri–Hindi and Irish–English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sonawane-2026-adapt-mtu-hai-iwslt2026-robust/) [International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwslt/)**Pournima Sonawane, Haithem Afli*2026 · 1 citation*
9. **[ADAPT–MTU HAI at PalmX 2025: Leveraging Full and Parameter-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning for Arabic Cultural QA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hossain-2025-adapt-mtu-hai-palmx-2025/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/)**Shehenaz Hossain, Haithem Afli*2025 · 1 citation*
10. **[Rethinking Sign Language Translation: The Impact of Signer Dependence on Model Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-emnlp.997/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025 · no summary yet**Keren Artiaga et al.*2025*

## Co-authors here

5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Shehenaz Hossain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shehenaz-hossain/) ×3
- [Fouad Shammary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fouad-shammary/) ×2
- [Abdessalam Bouchekif](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdessalam-bouchekif/)
- [Mehwish Alam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehwish-alam/)
- [Yiyi Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiyi-chen/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/) ×2: [ArabicNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2025/) ×2
- [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/) ×2: [WANLP 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2022/), [WANLP 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2019/)
- [International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwslt/): [IWSLT 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/iwslt/2026/)
- [Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wacl/): [Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wacl/2025/)
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
- Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (Volume 1: Research Track)
- Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 31 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haithem-afli/cited-by/).

Updated 31 October 2026