--- title: "Mehwish Alam · Télécom Paris — author profile and papers" description: "Mehwish Alam, Télécom Paris: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2026), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehwish-alam/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehwish-alam/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mehwish Alam # Mehwish Alam Mehwish Alam has 3 papers in our library, in 2022–2026, most of them on [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Cristian Santini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cristian-santini/), [Fouad Shammary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fouad-shammary/), [Haithem Afli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haithem-afli/). 3 papers in our library · 2022–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5009026163) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7867-6612) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57965544) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5009026163) · [209 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009026163) · [720 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009026163&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehwish-alam/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 15 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehwish-alam/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10108](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/102/#star-10108) 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=Mehwish+Alam) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mehwish+Alam) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mehwish+Alam) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mehwish+Alam) ## Affiliations [🎓**Télécom Paris** Palaiseau · France 2022–2026 · 42 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/telecom-paris/) · [🎓**Institut Polytechnique de Paris** Palaiseau · France 2022–2026 · 40 papersEmployment since 2022 · Associate Professor*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/institut-polytechnique-de-paris/) · [🔬**Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l’Information** Palaiseau · France 2023–2026 · 17 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-traitement-et-communication-de-l-information/) · [🔬**Heka : Méthodes basées sur les données et modèles en santé pour l'acquisition de connaissances** Paris · France 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/heka-methodes-basees-sur-les-donnees-et-modeles-en-sante-pour-l-acquisition-de/) · [🤝**FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure** Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen · Germany 2019–2023 · 35 papersEmployment 2019–2022 · Post Doctoral Researcher](https://ror.org/0387prb75) · [🎓**Karlsruhe Institute of Technology** Karlsruhe · Germany 2020–2023 · 30 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/) · [🏛️**Leibniz Association** Berlin · Germany 2020 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/01n6r0e97) · [🎓**Université Sorbonne Paris Nord** Villetaneuse · France 2016–2018 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-sorbonne-paris-nord/) · [🎓**Université de Lorraine** Nancy · France 2010–2016 · 4 papersEducation 2011–2015 · PhD, Orpailleur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-lorraine/) · [🔬**Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies** Rome · Italy 2018 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/05w9g2j85) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 12 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Literature and Literary Theory · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Named entity recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[TF-IDF · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/tf-idf/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehwish-alam/year/2026/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehwish-alam/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[TF-IDF or Transformers for Arabic Dialect Identification? ITFLOWS participation in the NADI 2022 Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shammary-2022-tf-idf-or-transformers-arabic/)** *(2022 · 7 citations)* The paper describes the ITFLOWS team's entry to NADI 2022 Subtask 1, which asks systems to label tweets with the country-level Arabic dialect they come from. 2. **[It's All About the Confidence: An Unsupervised Approach for Multilingual Historical Entity Linking using Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/santini-2026-it-s-all-about-confidence/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper tackles entity linking on historical documents, where OCR noise, language variation, multilinguality and many entities absent from knowledge bases (NIL entities) degrade standard systems. 3. **[ENEIDE: A High Quality Silver Standard Dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Historical Italian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/santini-2026-eneide-high-quality-silver-standard/)** *(2026)* Historical Italian has very few annotated resources for Named Entity Recognition and Linking (NERL). The only earlier dataset, MHERCL, covers just music periodicals and offers only a test split, so it cannot be used for training. ENEIDE fills this gap by converting expert entity markup from two Scholarly Digital… ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[YAGO 4.5: A Large and Clean Knowledge Base with a Rich Taxonomy ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11884) arXiv:2308.11884 · no summary yet**Fabian Suchanek et al.*2023 · 49 citations* 2. **[TF-IDF or Transformers for Arabic Dialect Identification? ITFLOWS participation in the NADI 2022 Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shammary-2022-tf-idf-or-transformers-arabic/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Fouad Shammary, Yiyi Chen, Zsolt T Kardkovacs, et al.*2022 · 7 citations* 3. **[It's All About the Confidence: An Unsupervised Approach for Multilingual Historical Entity Linking using Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/santini-2026-it-s-all-about-confidence/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Cristian Santini, Marieke van Erp, Mehwish Alam*2026 · 1 citation* 4. **[ENEIDE: A High Quality Silver Standard Dataset for Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Historical Italian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/santini-2026-eneide-high-quality-silver-standard/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Cristian Santini, Sebastian Barzaghi, Paolo Sernani, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Cristian Santini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cristian-santini/) ×2 - [Fouad Shammary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fouad-shammary/) - [Haithem Afli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haithem-afli/) - [Marieke van Erp](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marieke-van-erp/) - [Yiyi Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiyi-chen/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [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 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 15 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehwish-alam/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026