--- title: "Hazem Raafat · Kuwait University — author profile and papers" description: "Hazem Raafat, Kuwait University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2014), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-raafat/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-raafat/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hazem Raafat # Hazem Raafat Hazem Raafat has 2 papers in our library, in 2014, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Mohsen Rashwan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohsen-rashwan/), [Ahmad Al Sallab](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmad-al-sallab/), [Ahmed Rafea](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-rafea/). 2 papers in our library · 2014 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5060184747) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7356-5078) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5060184747) · [61 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060184747) · [794 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060184747&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-raafat/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 4 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-raafat/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7565](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/76/#star-7565) 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=Hazem+Raafat) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hazem+Raafat) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hazem+Raafat) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hazem+Raafat) ## Affiliations [🎓**Kuwait University** Kuwait City · Kuwait 1995–2025 · 27 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/kuwait-university/) · [🎓**University of Regina** Regina · Canada 1988–2005 · 23 papers](https://ror.org/03dzc0485) · [🎓**University of Waterloo** Waterloo · Canada 1988–1995 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Morphology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2014** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-raafat/year/2014/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Semantic Query Expansion for Arabic Information Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mahgoub-2014-semantic-query-expansion-arabic-information/)** *(2014 · 36 citations)* The paper addresses a weakness of plain keyword search for Arabic. It misses documents that express the query's meaning with different words, inflected forms, or more specific concepts, and ambiguous words make this worse. The authors build a query expansion layer on top of LUCENE (.Net). It draws on three resources: 2. **[Automatic Arabic diacritics restoration based on deep nets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sallab-2014-automatic-arabic-diacritics-restoration-based/)** *(2014 · 23 citations)* Modern Standard Arabic is usually written without diacritics, yet speech synthesis, translation and similar applications need them restored. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Mohsen Rashwan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohsen-rashwan/) ×2 - [Ahmad Al Sallab](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmad-al-sallab/) - [Ahmed Rafea](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-rafea/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-on-arabic-natural-language-processing-anlp/) ×2: [ANLP 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-on-arabic-natural-language-processing-anlp/2014/) ×2 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 4 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-raafat/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026