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# Mahmoud El-Haj

Mahmoud El-Haj has 2 papers in our library, in 2016–2020, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Paul Rayson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-rayson/).

2 papers in our library · 2016–2020

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[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mahmoud-el-haj/#papers) · [🔗 39 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mahmoud-el-haj/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4469](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/45/#star-4469)

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Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Mahmoud+El-Haj) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mahmoud+El-Haj) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mahmoud+El-Haj) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mahmoud+El-Haj)

## Topics

[Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/haj-2020-habibi-multi-dialect-multi-national/)

### 2010s

[**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/haj-2016-osman-textemdash-novel-arabic-readability/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Habibi - a multi Dialect multi National Arabic Song Lyrics Corpus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/haj-2020-habibi-multi-dialect-multi-national/)** *(2020 · 38 citations)* Arabic dialect identification has mostly relied on tweets and forum comments. These are short and noisy, and they are usually labelled by crowd workers, which is costly and of uneven quality. El-Haj presents Habibi, which he says is the earliest corpus of Arabic lyrics to be released openly at no cost. It contains…
2. **[OSMAN — A Novel Arabic Readability Metric](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/haj-2016-osman-textemdash-novel-arabic-readability/)** *(2016 · 1 citation)* Standard readability formulas such as Flesch and Fog depend on syllable counts, which are hard to obtain for Arabic.

## Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Paul Rayson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-rayson/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 39 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mahmoud-el-haj/cited-by/).