--- title: "Mohamed Amir Yosef — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Mohamed Amir Yosef, Max Planck Institute for Informatics: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2014–2015), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-amir-yosef/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-amir-yosef/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mohamed Amir Yosef # Mohamed Amir Yosef Mohamed Amir Yosef has 2 papers in our library, in 2014–2015, 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/); often with [Gerhard Weikum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gerhard-weikum/). 2 papers in our library · 2014–2015 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5005407934) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5005407934) · [16 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005407934) · [1,310 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005407934&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-amir-yosef/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1 time in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-amir-yosef/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10938](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/110/#star-10938) 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=Mohamed+Amir+Yosef) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mohamed+Amir+Yosef) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mohamed+Amir+Yosef) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mohamed+Amir+Yosef) ## Affiliations [🔬**Max Planck Institute for Informatics** Saarbrücken · Germany 2011–2015 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/max-planck-institute-for-informatics/) · [🔬**Max Planck Society** Munich · Germany 2012–2014 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/max-planck-society/) · [🎓**Alexandria University** Alexandria · Egypt 2010 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/alexandria-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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Management Science and Operations Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/management-science-and-operations-research/) 🧭 Topics 2 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/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2015** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-amir-yosef/year/2015/) · [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-amir-yosef/year/2014/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AIDArabic A Named-Entity Disambiguation Framework for Arabic Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yosef-2014-aidarabic-named-entity-disambiguation-framework/)** *(2014 · 10 citations)* The paper addresses named-entity disambiguation (NED) for Arabic. NED means linking an ambiguous name in text to the right entry in a knowledge base. Arabic resources are thin: in July 2014 the Arabic Wikipedia had under 0.3 million articles, against more than 4.5 million in English. That leaves gaps in entity… 2. **[EDRAK: Entity-Centric Data Resource for Arabic Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elrab-2015-edrak-entity-centric-data-resource/)** *(2015 · 2 citations)* Arabic NLP tools such as named entity disambiguation and dictionary-based NER perform poorly because there are few structured Arabic resources. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Gerhard Weikum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gerhard-weikum/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-on-arabic-natural-language-processing-anlp/): [ANLP 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp-workshop-on-arabic-natural-language-processing-anlp/2014/) - [Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-arabic-natural-language-processing/): [Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-arabic-natural-language-processing/2015/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-amir-yosef/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026