--- title: "Mohamad Ballout — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Mohamad Ballout, Osnabrück University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamad-ballout/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamad-ballout/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mohamad Ballout # Mohamad Ballout Mohamad Ballout has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Chadi Abou Chakra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chadi-abou-chakra/), [Elia Bruni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elia-bruni/), [Fadi Zaraket](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fadi-zaraket/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5067691988) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5067691988) · [21 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5067691988) · [33 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5067691988&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamad-ballout/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 6 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamad-ballout/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/121/#star-12020) 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=Mohamad+Ballout) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mohamad+Ballout) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mohamad+Ballout) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mohamad+Ballout) ## Affiliations [🎓**Osnabrück University** Osnabrück · Germany 2023–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/osnabruck-university/) · [🎓**American University of Beirut** Beirut · Lebanon 2020–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/american-university-of-beirut/) 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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Tokenization & segmentation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamad-ballout/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamad-ballout/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Transformer Tafsir at QIAS 2025 Shared Task: Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Islamic Knowledge Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahmad-2025-transformer-tafsir-qias-2025-shared/)** *(2025 · 3 citations)* The paper describes a system for the QIAS 2025 shared task, which tests how well LLMs answer multiple-choice questions on Islamic knowledge in Arabic. 2. **[NeoAraBERT: A Modern Foundation Model for Arabic Embeddings with Diacritics-Aware Tokenization and POS-Targeted Masking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chakra-2026-neoarabert-modern-foundation-model-arabic/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Arabic text encoders such as AraBERT, ARBERT and MARBERT still use older BERT-era designs. They lack rotary positions, SwiGLU and Pre-RMSNorm, and they largely ignore diacritics. The authors port the NeoBERT architecture to Arabic and pre-train it on a deduplicated corpus that mixes MSA, Classical Arabic and… ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chadi Abou Chakra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chadi-abou-chakra/) - [Elia Bruni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elia-bruni/) - [Fadi Zaraket](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fadi-zaraket/) - [Hadi Hamoud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hadi-hamoud/) - [Osama Rakan Al Mraikhat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osama-rakan-al-mraikhat/) - [Raia Abu Ahmad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raia-abu-ahmad/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/): [ArabicNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2025/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 6 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/mohamad-ballout/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026