--- title: "Issam Ait Yahia — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Issam Ait Yahia, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/issam-ait-yahia/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/issam-ait-yahia/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Issam Ait Yahia # Issam Ait Yahia Issam Ait Yahia has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, 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/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Houdaifa Atou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houdaifa-atou/), [Ismail Berrada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ismail-berrada/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5107746264) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5107746264) · [9 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5107746264) · [3 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5107746264&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/issam-ait-yahia/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 38 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/issam-ait-yahia/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12222](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/123/#star-12222) 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=Issam+Ait+Yahia) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Issam+Ait+Yahia) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Issam+Ait+Yahia) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Issam+Ait+Yahia) ## Affiliations [🎓**Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique** Marrakesh · Morocco 2024–2026 · 5 papers*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 5 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [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/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/issam-ait-yahia/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/issam-ait-yahia/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[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. 2. **[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 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Houdaifa Atou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houdaifa-atou/) ×2 - [Ismail Berrada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ismail-berrada/) ×2 ## 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/), [ArabicNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2024/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 38 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [27 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/issam-ait-yahia/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026