--- title: "Houdaifa Atou — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Houdaifa Atou, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houdaifa-atou/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houdaifa-atou/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Houdaifa Atou # Houdaifa Atou Houdaifa Atou has 5 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Ismail Berrada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ismail-berrada/), [Abdellah El Mekki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdellah-el-mekki/), [Baraah Qawasmeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/baraah-qawasmeh/). 5 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5107642704) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6584-5277) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5107642704) · [13 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5107642704) · [6 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5107642704&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houdaifa-atou/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 51 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houdaifa-atou/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9119](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/92/#star-9119) 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=Houdaifa+Atou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Houdaifa+Atou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Houdaifa+Atou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Houdaifa+Atou) ## Affiliations [🎓**Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique** Marrakesh · Morocco 2024–2026 · 6 papersEmployment · PhD Student, College of Computing*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-mohammed-vi-polytechnique/) 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Education · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/education/) 🧭 Topics 7 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houdaifa-atou/year/2026/) · [**2025** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houdaifa-atou/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houdaifa-atou/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Pearl: A Multimodal Culturally-Aware Arabic Instruction Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alwajih-2025-pearl-multimodal-culturally-aware-arabic/)** *(2025 · 11 citations)* Large vision-language models (LVLMs) tend to reflect Western viewpoints. Existing cultural VQA resources often rely on translated material, cover few images or topics, ask shallow factual questions, and treat a culture as uniform. The authors built Pearl to address these gaps. It is a large Arabic multimodal… 2. **[Alexandria: A Multi-Domain Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation Dataset for Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mekki-2026-alexandria-multi-domain-dialectal-arabic/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* In day-to-day life, Arabic speakers mostly use their local dialects instead of Modern Standard Arabic. MT systems trained mainly on MSA or English-centric data therefore handle dialectal input poorly. Earlier parallel resources (PADIC, MADAR, FLORES+) have limits: narrow domains, short sentences, or dialect entries… 3. **[Addax at WojoodNER 2024: Attention-Based Dual-Channel Neural Network for Arabic Named Entity Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yahia-2024-addax-wojoodner-2024-attention-based/)** *(2024 · 2 citations)* The paper describes the Addax team's system for the flat subtask of the WojoodNER 2024 shared task. The task is Arabic named entity recognition with fine-grained subtypes. The data is the Wojood Fine corpus, which is mostly Modern Standard Arabic with some dialectal social media text. 4. **[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… 5. **[Phoenix at Palmx: Exploring Data Augmentation for Arabic Cultural Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/atou-2025-phoenix-palmx-exploring-data-augmentation/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* Open small LLMs often know little about Arab culture, largely because their training data is dominated by English. ## Co-authors here 12 of 18 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ismail Berrada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ismail-berrada/) ×3 - [Abdellah El Mekki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdellah-el-mekki/) ×2 - [Baraah Qawasmeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/baraah-qawasmeh/) ×2 - [Issam Ait Yahia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/issam-ait-yahia/) ×2 - [Omer Nacar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omer-nacar/) ×2 - [Samar M. Magdy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samar-m-magdy/) ×2 - [Abderrahman Skiredj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abderrahman-skiredj/) - [Abdulfattah Mohammed Yahya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdulfattah-mohammed-yahya/) - [Aya Hamod](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aya-hamod/) - [Fakhraddin Alwajih](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fakhraddin-alwajih/) - [Ferdaous Azhari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ferdaous-azhari/) - [Hamzah A. Alsayadi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamzah-a-alsayadi/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [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/), [ArabicNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2024/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 51 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [32 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houdaifa-atou/cited-by/). 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