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# Israa Alsiyat

Israa Alsiyat has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2025, most of them on [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Idioms & multiword expressions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/); often with [Scott Piao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-piao/).

2 papers in our library · 2020–2025

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5052422843) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7889-9974) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5052422843) · [7 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5052422843) · [5 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5052422843&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israa-alsiyat/#papers) · [🔗 4 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israa-alsiyat/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4877](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/49/#star-4877)

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

## Affiliations

[🎓**Lancaster University** Lancaster · United Kingdom 2023–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/lancaster-university/) · [🎓**Northern Border University** Arar · Saudi Arabia 2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03j9tzj20)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

## Topics

[Sentiment & emotion (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alsiyat-2025-arabic-metaphor-sentiment-classification-using/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alsiyat-2020-metaphorical-expressions-automatic-arabic-sentiment/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Metaphorical Expressions in Automatic Arabic Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alsiyat-2020-metaphorical-expressions-automatic-arabic-sentiment/)** *(2020 · 8 citations)* This paper asks whether current Arabic sentiment analysis tools can handle metaphorical language. The authors argue that metaphor is especially common in Arabic for historical and cultural reasons. A metaphor's intended polarity often differs from the literal polarity of its words, which confuses systems that rely on…
2. **[Arabic Metaphor Sentiment Classification Using Semantic Information](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alsiyat-2025-arabic-metaphor-sentiment-classification-using/)** *(2025)* The paper tackles sentiment classification for Arabic text that contains metaphors. No dedicated tools exist for this task, and building annotated data for it is expensive. The author works with the Arabic Metaphor Corpus (AMC), 1,000 Arabic book reviews annotated by hand for metaphor terms, review-level sentiment…

## Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Scott Piao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-piao/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 4 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israa-alsiyat/cited-by/).