--- title: "Motaz Saad · University of Salento — author profile and papers" description: "Motaz Saad, University of Salento: 6 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2025), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/motaz-saad/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/motaz-saad/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Motaz Saad # Motaz Saad Motaz Saad has 6 papers in our library, in 2018–2025, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Kathrein Abu Kwaik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathrein-abu-kwaik/), [Basem Ahmed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/basem-ahmed/), [Simon Dobnik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-dobnik/). 6 papers in our library · 2018–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5012780017) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1080-7276) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5012780017) · [49 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5012780017) · [751 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5012780017&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 6 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/motaz-saad/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 59 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/motaz-saad/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6045](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/61/#star-6045) 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=Motaz+Saad) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Motaz+Saad) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Motaz+Saad) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Motaz+Saad) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Salento** Lecce · Italy 2024–2026 · 8 papersEmployment 2024–2025 · Collaboratori, DIPARTIMENTO DI INGEGNERIA DELL'INNOVAZIONEEmployment 2025–2026 · Assegnisti, DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA E FISICA "ENNIO DE GIORGI"*current*](https://ror.org/03fc1k060) · [🏢**Innovation Engineering** Rome · Italy 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/00sxjp357) · [🎓**Islamic University of Gaza** Gaza · Palestine 2006–2025 · 16 papersEmployment 2006–2010 · Teaching Assistant, Computer ScienceEmployment 2010–2011 · Lecturer, Computer ScienceEmployment 2015–2024 · Assistant Professor, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/islamic-university-of-gaza/) · [🔬**Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications** Nancy · France 2014–2015 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-lorrain-de-recherche-en-informatique-et-ses-applications/) · [🎓**Université de Lorraine** Nancy · France 2011–2016 · 2 papersEducation 2011–2015 · PhD, computer ScienceEmployment 2014–2016 · Researcher, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-lorraine/) 🏛️**Inria Centre de Recherche Nancy Grand Est** Villers-les-Nancy · [France](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/france/) 2011–2014Employment 2011–2014 · Researcher From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 6 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 6 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 6 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/motaz-saad/year/2025/) · [**2022** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/motaz-saad/year/2022/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/motaz-saad/year/2020/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/motaz-saad/year/2019/) · [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/motaz-saad/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Shami: A Corpus of Levantine Arabic Dialects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwaik-2018-shami-corpus-levantine-arabic-dialects/)** *(2018 · 95 citations)* Arabic NLP tools are built mostly for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), but everyday online writing uses regional dialects that differ from MSA in vocabulary and usage. 2. **[An Arabic Tweets Sentiment Analysis Dataset (ATSAD) using Distant Supervision and Self Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwaik-2020-arabic-tweets-sentiment-analysis-dataset/)** *(2020 · 38 citations)* Arabic sentiment analysis lacks social-media resources that are both large and reliably labelled. Existing corpora are often small, limited to one dialect, unbalanced, or labelled in ways that distort the original text. The authors build ATSAD, a Twitter corpus of 36K Arabic tweets marked as positive or negative.… 3. **[ArbDialectID at MADAR Shared Task 1: Language Modelling and Ensemble Learning for Fine Grained Arabic Dialect Identification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwaik-2019-arbdialectid-madar-shared-task-1/)** *(2019 · 22 citations)* The paper addresses Arabic Dialect Identification at the city level. Telling 26 varieties apart (25 Arab cities plus MSA) is difficult because neighbouring dialects have no fixed spelling and often look nearly identical in writing. The authors built ArbDialectID for Task 1 of the MADAR shared task, using the… 4. **[AraBEM at WANLP 2022 Shared Task: Propaganda Detection in Arabic Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/refaee-2022-arabem-wanlp-2022-shared-task/)** *(2022 · 4 citations)* This paper describes team AraBEM's entry to the WANLP 2022 shared task on detecting propaganda in Arabic tweets. 5. **[QQATeam at Qur'an QA 2022: Fine-Tunning Arabic QA Models for Qur'an QA Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahmed-2022-qqateam-qur-qa-2022-fine/)** *(2022 · 3 citations)* This paper reports one team's entry in the Qur'an QA 2022 shared task. The task is extractive question answering: given a question in Modern Standard Arabic and a passage of Qur'anic verses in Classical Arabic, the system must return answer spans. Instead of building a QA model from scratch, the authors took two… 6. **[Arabic Hate Speech Identification and Masking in Social Media using Deep Learning Models and Pre-trained Models Fine-tuning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/doghmash-2025-arabic-hate-speech-identification-masking/)** *(2025)* The paper tackles two tasks for Arabic social media text: recognising hateful or offensive posts, and "cleaning" them by hiding the offending words. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Kathrein Abu Kwaik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathrein-abu-kwaik/) ×3 - [Basem Ahmed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/basem-ahmed/) ×2 - [Simon Dobnik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-dobnik/) ×2 - [Stergios Chatzikyriakidis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stergios-chatzikyriakidis/) ×2 - [Eshrag Refaee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eshrag-refaee/) - [Richard Johansson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-johansson/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/) ×2: [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/2022/), [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/2020/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/) ×2: [WANLP 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2022/), [WANLP 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2019/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2018/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 59 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [46 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/motaz-saad/cited-by/). 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