--- title: "Moustafa Al-Hajj — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Moustafa Al-Hajj: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2021) — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moustafa-al-hajj/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moustafa-al-hajj/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Moustafa Al-Hajj # Moustafa Al-Hajj Moustafa Al-Hajj has 4 papers in our library, in 2018–2021, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Word sense disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/), [Lexical semantics & word embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/); often with [Amani Sabra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amani-sabra/), [Mustafa Jarrar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mustafa-jarrar/). 4 papers in our library · 2018–2021 No OpenAlex profile matched yet. [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moustafa-al-hajj/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 19 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moustafa-al-hajj/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7790](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/78/#star-7790) 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=Moustafa+Al-Hajj) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Moustafa+Al-Hajj) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Moustafa+Al-Hajj) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Moustafa+Al-Hajj) ## 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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Word sense disambiguation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Lexical semantics & word embeddings · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moustafa-al-hajj/year/2021/) ### 2010s [**2018** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moustafa-al-hajj/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ArabGlossBERT: Fine-Tuning BERT on Context-Gloss Pairs for WSD](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hajj-2021-arabglossbert-fine-tuning-bert-context/)** *(2021 · 31 citations)* The paper tackles Arabic Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), which is hard because Arabic has no WordNet-style sense inventory with labeled examples. 2. **[LU-BZU at SemEval-2021 Task 2: Word2Vec and Lemma2Vec performance in Arabic Word-in-Context disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hajj-2021-lu-bzu-semeval-2021-task/)** *(2021 · 18 citations)* The paper looks at whether static embeddings can decide if a shared target word has the same sense in two Arabic sentences, using the SemEval-2021 Task 2 Word-in-Context (ar-ar) data. 3. **[Automatic Identification of Arabic expressions related to future events in Lebanon's economy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/al-hajj-2018-automatic-identification-arabic-expressions-related/)** *(2018 · 1 citation)* The paper addresses how to automatically find statements about future economic events in Arabic web texts about Lebanon. 4. **[Automatic Annotation of Locative and Directional Expressions in Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hijazi-2018-automatic-annotation-locative-directional-expressions/)** *(2018)* The paper tackles automatic recognition of spatial language in Arabic, focusing on expressions of location and direction. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Amani Sabra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amani-sabra/) ×2 - [Mustafa Jarrar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mustafa-jarrar/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ranlp/): [RANLP 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ranlp/2021/) - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 19 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [14 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moustafa-al-hajj/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026