--- title: "Karima Kadaoui — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Karima Kadaoui, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 4 — affiliations…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-kadaoui/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-kadaoui/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Karima Kadaoui # Karima Kadaoui Karima Kadaoui has 4 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, 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/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/); often with [Abdul Waheed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdul-waheed/), [Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-oumar-el-shangiti/), [Muhammad Abdul-Mageed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-abdul-mageed/). 4 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5081068672) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6093-8748) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5081068672) · [23 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5081068672) · [74 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5081068672&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-kadaoui/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 81 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-kadaoui/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6498](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/65/#star-6498) 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=Karima+Kadaoui) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Karima+Kadaoui) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Karima+Kadaoui) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Karima+Kadaoui) ## Affiliations [🎓**Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2023–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mohamed-bin-zayed-university-of-artificial-intelligence/) · [🏛️**Tamkeen** Manama 2022–2024 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/00bqpz325) 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 · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 3 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/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Efficient models & compression · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-kadaoui/year/2026/) · [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-kadaoui/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-kadaoui/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[TARJAMAT: Evaluation of Bard and ChatGPT on Machine Translation of Ten Arabic Varieties](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kadaoui-2023-tarjamat-evaluation-bard-chatgpt-machine/)** *(2023 · 60 citations)* The paper asks how well instruction-tuned LLMs translate across the Arabic language family, which includes older, standard, and regional forms. 2. **[Casablanca: Data and Models for Multidialectal Arabic Speech Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/talafha-2024-casablanca-data-models-multidialectal-arabic/)** *(2024 · 45 citations)* Arabic speech recognition still lacks reliable, manually labeled data for regional varieties. Most large Arabic corpora are dominated by MSA or were transcribed with light supervision. Casablanca addresses this with a community-built corpus of about 48 hours of speech from YouTube TV-series episodes. Its eight… 3. **[JEEM: Vision-Language Understanding in Four Arabic Dialects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kadaoui-2026-jeem-vision-language-understanding-four/)** *(2026 · 11 citations)* JEEM addresses a gap in evaluating vision-language models (VLMs) for Arabic. Existing Arabic multimodal data mostly comes from translated or relabeled Western images, and it is written in MSA or covers only one dialect. The authors built a benchmark with images from Jordan, the Emirates, Egypt and Morocco, one… 4. **[To Distill or Not to Distill? On the Robustness of Robust Knowledge Distillation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/waheed-2024-distill-or-not-distill-robustness/)** *(2024 · 8 citations)* Multilingual speech recognisers such as Whisper and SeamlessM4T are large, costly to run, and mostly tested on Modern Standard Arabic. ## Co-authors here 12 of 17 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Abdul Waheed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdul-waheed/) ×2 - [Ahmed Oumar El-Shangiti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-oumar-el-shangiti/) ×2 - [Muhammad Abdul-Mageed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-abdul-mageed/) ×2 - [Samar M. Magdy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samar-m-magdy/) ×2 - [Abdelrahman Mohamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdelrahman-mohamed/) - [Aisha Alraeesi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aisha-alraeesi/) - [Ali Mekky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-mekky/) - [Bashar Talafha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bashar-talafha/) - [Ekaterina Artemova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekaterina-artemova/) - [El Moatez Billah Nagoudi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/el-moatez-billah-nagoudi/) - [Hamdan Al-Ali](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamdan-al-ali/) - [Hanan Aldarmaki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanan-aldarmaki/) ## 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/): [ACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/): [ArabicNLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2023/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2024/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 81 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [61 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-kadaoui/cited-by/). 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