--- title: "Kirill Chirkunov — author profile and papers" description: "Kirill Chirkunov, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kirill-chirkunov/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kirill-chirkunov/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kirill Chirkunov # Kirill Chirkunov 2 papers on this site · 2026 current affiliation [Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence](https://ror.org/0258gkt32), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Kirill Chirkunov has 2 papers on this site, in 2026, 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 [Malik H. Altakrori](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/malik-h-altakrori/), [Nizar Habash](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/), [Teresa Lynn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/teresa-lynn/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5117865139) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5117865139) · [12 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5117865139) · [5 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5117865139&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kirill-chirkunov/#papers) · [20 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kirill-chirkunov/cited-by/) · 4 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=Kirill+Chirkunov) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kirill+Chirkunov) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kirill+Chirkunov) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kirill+Chirkunov) ## Affiliations - [Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence](https://ror.org/0258gkt32) · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates —current · 2025–2026 on 3 papers - [New York University Abu Dhabi](https://ror.org/00e5k0821) · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates —2025 on 3 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## 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/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[DialectalArabicMMLU: Benchmarking Dialectal Capabilities in Arabic and Multilingual Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/altakrori-2026-dialectalarabicmmlu-benchmarking-dialectal-capabilities-arabic/)** *(2026 · 9 citations)* Most Arabic LLM benchmarks test Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), but everyday Arabic is spoken and written in regional dialects that differ in lexicon, morphology and syntax. 2. **[EDRAC: Benchmarking Arabic Dialect Reading Comprehension](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mokh-2026-edrac-benchmarking-arabic-dialect-reading/)** *(2026)* Dialectal Arabic has far fewer resources than Modern Standard Arabic. Existing dialect reading-comprehension tests are almost all multiple-choice and built from translated or social-media text. EDRAC fills this gap with an open-ended, generative QA benchmark for five dialects: Egyptian, Moroccan, Emirati, Syrian and… ## Also in our library 4 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Malik H. Altakrori](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/malik-h-altakrori/) ×2 - [Nizar Habash](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/) ×2 - [Teresa Lynn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/teresa-lynn/) ×2 - [Younes Samih](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/younes-samih/) ×2 - [Abed Alhakim Freihat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abed-alhakim-freihat/) - [Alham Fikri Aji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alham-fikri-aji/) - [Muhammed AbuOdeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammed-abuodeh/) - [Noor Abo Mokh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noor-abo-mokh/) - [Nour Rabih](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nour-rabih/) - [Preslav Nakov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/preslav-nakov/) - [Radu Florian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/radu-florian/) - [Reham Marzouk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/reham-marzouk/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 20 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kirill-chirkunov/cited-by/).