--- title: "Khalid Alnajjar — author profile and papers" description: "Khalid Alnajjar, Riyadh Elm University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2022), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khalid-alnajjar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khalid-alnajjar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Khalid Alnajjar # Khalid Alnajjar 2 papers on this site · 2020–2022 current affiliation [Riyadh Elm University](https://ror.org/00rz3mr26), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Khalid Alnajjar has 2 papers on this site, in 2020–2022, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Mika Hamalainen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mika-hamalainen/), [Jack Rueter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jack-rueter/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5057148063) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7986-2994) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5057148063) · [110 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5057148063) · [325 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5057148063&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khalid-alnajjar/#papers) · [10 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khalid-alnajjar/cited-by/) · 2 more works in our library 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=Khalid+Alnajjar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Khalid+Alnajjar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Khalid+Alnajjar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Khalid+Alnajjar) ## Affiliations - [Riyadh Elm University](https://ror.org/00rz3mr26) · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia —current · 2026 on 1 paper - [F-Secure (Finland)](https://ror.org/036yna661) · Helsinki, Finland —2024 on 1 paper · employment (Wikidata) - [University of Helsinki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-helsinki/) · Helsinki, Finland —2016–2022 on 71 papers · education (Wikidata) - [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) · Paris, France —2022 on 2 papers - [Helsinki Institute for Information Technology](https://ror.org/05kph4940) · Espoo, Finland —2017–2020 on 6 papers - [University of Wollongong](https://ror.org/00jtmb277) · Wollongong, Australia —education (Wikidata) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Semitic languages 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Question answering 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alnajjar-2022-harnessing-multilingual-resources-question-answering/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alnajjar-2020-automated-prediction-medieval-arabic-diacritics/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Automated Prediction of Medieval Arabic Diacritics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alnajjar-2020-automated-prediction-medieval-arabic-diacritics/)** *(2020 · 3 citations)* Arabic is normally written without diacritics, the marks that encode short vowels, gemination and similar features. 2. **[Harnessing Multilingual Resources to Question Answering in Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alnajjar-2022-harnessing-multilingual-resources-question-answering/)** *(2022 · 1 citation)* The paper addresses extractive question answering over the Qur'an for the Qur'an QA 2022 shared task. Given a question and a Qur'anic passage, the system must locate the start and end of the answer span. The public part of the QRCD dataset is small, and the authors work around this in three ways: ## Also in our library 2 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Mika Hamalainen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mika-hamalainen/) ×2 - [Jack Rueter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jack-rueter/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 10 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khalid-alnajjar/cited-by/).