--- title: "Mohab Elkaref — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Mohab Elkaref: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohab-elkaref/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohab-elkaref/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mohab Elkaref # Mohab Elkaref Mohab Elkaref has 4 papers in our library, in 2019–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Dependency parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/); often with [Geeth De Mel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/geeth-de-mel/), [James Barry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-barry/), [Bernd Bohnet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bernd-bohnet/). 4 papers in our library · 2019–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5000890126) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5000890126) · [23 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5000890126) · [76 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5000890126&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohab-elkaref/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 4 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohab-elkaref/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11349](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/114/#star-11349) 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=Mohab+Elkaref) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mohab+Elkaref) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mohab+Elkaref) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mohab+Elkaref) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Birmingham** Birmingham · United Kingdom 2014–2019 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-birmingham/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Dependency parsing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohab-elkaref/year/2026/) · [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohab-elkaref/year/2023/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohab-elkaref/year/2019/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[NLPeople at NADI 2023 Shared Task: Arabic Dialect Identification with Augmented Context and Multi-Stage Tuning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkaref-2023-nlpeople-nadi-2023-shared-task/)** *(2023 · 5 citations)* The paper reports the winning entry for Subtask 1 of the NADI 2023 shared task: assigning a tweet to one of 18 country-level Arabic dialects. 2. **[El-Kawaref at WojoodNER shared task: StagedNER for Arabic Named Entity Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkaref-2023-el-kawaref-wojoodner-shared-task/)** *(2023 · 3 citations)* The paper describes a system for flat Arabic named entity recognition in the WojoodNER 2023 shared task. Arabic NER is hard because the language is morphologically rich and agglutinative, and it has no capitalisation cues. The authors apply StagedNER, which splits the task between two separate AraBERTv02 models. The… 3. **[Zero-Shot Open-Schema Entity Structure Discovery](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-zero-shot-open-schema-entity/)** *(2026)* Most LLM-based methods for extracting entities and their attribute–value descriptions depend on a fixed schema or labeled examples, so they miss attributes nobody anticipated. 4. **[Recursive LSTM Tree Representation for Arc-Standard Transition-Based Dependency Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkaref-2019-recursive-lstm-tree-representation-arc/)** *(2019)* The paper encodes a partial dependency tree as one dense vector, built by applying LSTMs recursively to each head and its dependents. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Geeth De Mel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/geeth-de-mel/) ×2 - [James Barry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-barry/) ×2 - [Bernd Bohnet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bernd-bohnet/) - [Jiaru Zou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaru-zou/) - [Jiawei Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiawei-han/) - [Jinfeng Xiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinfeng-xiao/) - [Nehal Elkaref](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nehal-elkaref/) - [Pengcheng Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengcheng-jiang/) - [Xueqiang Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xueqiang-xu/) - [Yunyi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunyi-zhang/) ## 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 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2023/) ×2 - [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/) - [Universal Dependencies Workshop (UDW)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/udw/): [UDW 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/udw/2019/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 4 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohab-elkaref/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026