--- title: "Hassan Sawaf — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Hassan Sawaf, San Jose State University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2010–2024), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hassan-sawaf/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hassan-sawaf/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hassan Sawaf # Hassan Sawaf Hassan Sawaf has 2 papers in our library, in 2010–2024, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Abdelrahman El-Sheikh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdelrahman-el-sheikh/), [Ashraf Hatim Elneima](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashraf-hatim-elneima/), [Kareem Darwish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kareem-darwish/). 2 papers in our library · 2010–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5045818674) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5045818674) · [52 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5045818674) · [563 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5045818674&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hassan-sawaf/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 44 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hassan-sawaf/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6764](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/68/#star-6764) 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=Hassan+Sawaf) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hassan+Sawaf) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hassan+Sawaf) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hassan+Sawaf) ## Affiliations [🎓**San Jose State University** San Jose · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/04qyvz380) · [🎓**RWTH Aachen University** Aachen · Germany 1997–2000 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rwth-aachen-university/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🏢**eBay** San Jose · United States 2013–2015 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ebay/) 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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hassan-sawaf/year/2024/) ### 2010s [**2010** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hassan-sawaf/year/2010/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Arabic Dialect Handling in Hybrid Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sawaf-2010-arabic-dialect-handling-hybrid-machine/)** *(2010 · 103 citations)* The paper addresses a weakness of Arabic machine translation: systems trained on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) struggle with dialectal, spontaneous and noisy input from broadcast transcripts and web text. 2. **[Creating Arabic LLM Prompts at Scale](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/el-sheikh-2024-creating-arabic-llm-prompts-scale/)** *(2024 · 1 citation)* Arabic has very few instruction-style training examples (prompts paired with gold answers). Such data is what turns a base LLM into an assistant that follows requests. The authors build this data cheaply in two ways. First, they write PromptSource templates over about 78 public Arabic NLP datasets, which yields… ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Arabic Dialect Handling in Hybrid Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sawaf-2010-arabic-dialect-handling-hybrid-machine/) [Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/)**Hassan Sawaf*2010 · 103 citations* 2. **[On the Use of Grammar Based Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2000.iwpt-1.23/) Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies · no summary yet**Hassan Sawaf, Kai Schütz, Hermann Ney*2000 · 11 citations* 3. **[MT quality estimation for e-commerce data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2015.mtsummit-users.5/) Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XV: User Track · no summary yet**José G. C. de Souza, Marcello Federico, Hassan Sawaf*2015 · 4 citations* 4. [**Creating Arabic LLM Prompts at Scale arXiv:2408.05882**Abdelrahman El-Sheikh, Ahmed Elmogtaba, Kareem Darwish, et al.*2024 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/el-sheikh-2024-creating-arabic-llm-prompts-scale/) 5. **[Agentic AI for Human Resources: LLM-Driven Candidate Assessment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-demo.24/) Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations) · no summary yet**Kamer Ali Yuksel et al.*2026* 6. **[Hybrid Machine Translation Applied to Media Monitoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2008.amta-govandcom.21/) Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Government and Commercial Uses of MT · no summary yet**Hassan Sawaf, Braddock Gaskill, Michael Veronis*2008* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Abdelrahman El-Sheikh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdelrahman-el-sheikh/) - [Ashraf Hatim Elneima](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashraf-hatim-elneima/) - [Kareem Darwish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kareem-darwish/) - [Muhammad Morsy Elmallah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-morsy-elmallah/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/): [AMTA 2010](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2010/) - Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XV: User Track - Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations) - Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Government and Commercial Uses of MT - Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 44 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [22 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hassan-sawaf/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026