--- title: "May Bashendy · Qatar University — author profile and papers" description: "May Bashendy, Qatar University: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/may-bashendy/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/may-bashendy/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / May Bashendy # May Bashendy May Bashendy has 5 papers in our library, in 2019–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Grammatical error correction & learner language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Tamer Elsayed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamer-elsayed/), [Sohaila Eltanbouly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sohaila-eltanbouly/), [Houda Bouamor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houda-bouamor/). 5 papers in our library · 2019–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5051668357) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5051668357) · [17 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051668357) · [202 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051668357&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/may-bashendy/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 36 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/may-bashendy/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8289](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/83/#star-8289) 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=May+Bashendy) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=May+Bashendy) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=May+Bashendy) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=May+Bashendy) ## Affiliations [🎓**Qatar University** Doha · Qatar 2019–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/qatar-university/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Grammatical error correction & learner language · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/may-bashendy/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/may-bashendy/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/may-bashendy/year/2024/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/may-bashendy/year/2019/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[QAES: First Publicly-Available Trait-Specific Annotations for Automated Scoring of Arabic Essays](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bashendy-2024-qaes-first-publicly-available-trait/)** *(2024 · 19 citations)* Arabic automated essay scoring (AES) has lagged behind English mainly because no openly shared Arabic essays carry quality scores, and almost none carry scores per writing trait. 2. **[LAILA: A Large Trait-Based Dataset for Arabic Automated Essay Scoring](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bashendy-2026-laila-large-trait-based-dataset/)** *(2026 · 6 citations)* Arabic automated essay scoring (AES) has lagged behind English because few public Arabic datasets exist. Those that do are small, have no per-trait labels, or have no labels at all. The authors address this gap with LAILA. Over one academic year, they gathered 7,859 essays from 4,372 students in 24 Qatari high… 3. **[Feature Engineering is not Dead: A Step Towards State of the Art for Arabic Automated Essay Scoring](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sayed-2025-feature-engineering-is-not-dead/)** *(2025 · 5 citations)* Automated essay scoring for Arabic has received far less attention than for English. Most earlier Arabic work trains and tests on essays written for a single prompt, and there was no open, systematic feature inventory. The authors assemble and publicly release 816 handcrafted features for Arabic AES. They draw on… 4. **[Simple But Not Naïve: Fine-Grained Arabic Dialect Identification Using Only N-Grams](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/eltanbouly-2019-simple-but-not-naive-fine/)** *(2019 · 4 citations)* The paper tackles sentence-level Arabic dialect identification at city granularity. The task is hard because neighbouring dialects share script, much vocabulary and grammar, and cities in the same country can be nearly indistinguishable. Working within the MADAR shared task (25 city dialects plus MSA, 26 classes)… 5. **[Corruption-Based Data Augmentation for Arabic Essay Scoring: A Preliminary Study on the Organization Trait](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bashendy-2026-corruption-based-data-augmentation-arabic/)** *(2026)* Arabic automated essay scoring (AES) is held back by small, unbalanced annotated datasets, and few of them have trait-level scores. ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 5 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[QAES: First Publicly-Available Trait-Specific Annotations for Automated Scoring of Arabic Essays](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bashendy-2024-qaes-first-publicly-available-trait/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/)**May Bashendy, Salam Albatarni, Sohaila Eltanbouly, et al.*2024 · 19 citations* 2. **[TAQEEM 2025: Overview of The First Shared Task for Arabic Quality Evaluation of Essays in Multi-dimensions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.arabicnlp-sharedtasks.134/) Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks · no summary yet**May Bashendy et al.*2025 · 9 citations* 3. **[LAILA: A Large Trait-Based Dataset for Arabic Automated Essay Scoring](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bashendy-2026-laila-large-trait-based-dataset/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**May Bashendy, Walid Massoud, Sohaila Eltanbouly, et al.*2026 · 6 citations* 4. **[Feature Engineering is not Dead: A Step Towards State of the Art for Arabic Automated Essay Scoring](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sayed-2025-feature-engineering-is-not-dead/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/)**Marwan Sayed, Sohaila Eltanbouly, May Bashendy, et al.*2025 · 5 citations* 5. **[Simple But Not Naïve: Fine-Grained Arabic Dialect Identification Using Only N-Grams](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/eltanbouly-2019-simple-but-not-naive-fine/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Sohaila Eltanbouly, May Bashendy, Tamer Elsayed*2019 · 4 citations* 6. **[Corruption-Based Data Augmentation for Arabic Essay Scoring: A Preliminary Study on the Organization Trait](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bashendy-2026-corruption-based-data-augmentation-arabic/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**May Saed Bashendy, Tamer Elsayed*2026* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Tamer Elsayed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamer-elsayed/) ×5 - [Sohaila Eltanbouly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sohaila-eltanbouly/) ×4 - [Houda Bouamor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houda-bouamor/) ×2 - [Marwan Sayed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marwan-sayed/) ×2 - [Salam Albatarni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salam-albatarni/) ×2 - [Walid Massoud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walid-massoud/) ×2 - [Abrar Abir](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abrar-abir/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/) ×2: [ArabicNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2025/), [ArabicNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2024/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) - [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/) - Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: Shared Tasks ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 36 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/may-bashendy/cited-by/). 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