--- title: "Karima Meftouh — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Karima Meftouh: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2015–2019), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-meftouh/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-meftouh/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Karima Meftouh # Karima Meftouh Karima Meftouh has 2 papers in our library, in 2015–2019, 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/); often with [Kamel Smaili](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kamel-smaili/), [Salima Harrat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salima-harrat/), [Mourad Abbas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mourad-abbas/). 2 papers in our library · 2015–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5055080645) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1110-1643) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5055080645) · [29 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5055080645) · [490 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5055080645&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-meftouh/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 68 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-meftouh/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7166](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/72/#star-7166) 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+Meftouh) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Karima+Meftouh) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Karima+Meftouh) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Karima+Meftouh) ## Affiliations [🎓**Badji Mokhtar-Annaba University** Annaba · Algeria 2002–2019 · 11 papers](https://ror.org/03sf55932) · [🔬**Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique** Gif-sur-Yvette · France 2007–2019 · 11 papers](https://ror.org/04e3ktk27) 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 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/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-meftouh/year/2019/) · [**2015** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-meftouh/year/2015/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Machine Translation Experiments on PADIC: A Parallel Arabic DIalect Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meftouh-2015-machine-translation-experiments-padic-parallel/)** *(2015 · 132 citations)* Arabic dialects are mostly spoken, lack standard spelling, and have few written resources. This makes data-driven translation between them and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) difficult. The authors address this gap with PADIC, a multi-dialect parallel corpus created manually rather than harvested from the web, because… 2. **[The SMarT Classifier for Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meftouh-2019-smart-classifier-arabic-fine-grained/)** *(2019 · 14 citations)* The paper describes the SMarT group's entry to subtask 1 of the MADAR shared task. The task was to identify, at the sentence level, which of 25 Arab city dialects or Modern Standard Arabic a sentence is written in. The authors trained only on the official Corpus-26 and Corpus-6 data. Two neural options, an LSTM and a… ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Kamel Smaili](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kamel-smaili/) ×2 - [Salima Harrat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salima-harrat/) ×2 - [Mourad Abbas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mourad-abbas/) - [Salma Jamoussi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salma-jamoussi/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/paclic/): [PACLIC 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/paclic/2015/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/): [WANLP 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2019/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 68 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [51 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karima-meftouh/cited-by/). 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