--- title: "Murtadha Ahmed — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Murtadha Ahmed, Northwestern Polytechnical University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/murtadha-ahmed/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/murtadha-ahmed/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Murtadha Ahmed # Murtadha Ahmed Murtadha Ahmed has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Bo Wen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-wen/), [Mohammed Ahmed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammed-ahmed/), [Saghir Alfasly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saghir-alfasly/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5087283637) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0741-0710) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5087283637) · [35 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5087283637) · [2,272 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5087283637&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/murtadha-ahmed/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,182 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/murtadha-ahmed/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9819](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/99/#star-9819) 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=Murtadha+Ahmed) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Murtadha+Ahmed) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Murtadha+Ahmed) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Murtadha+Ahmed) ## Affiliations [🎓**Northwestern Polytechnical University** Xi'an · China 2016–2025 · 17 papersEducation 2016–2021 · PhD, Computer science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-polytechnical-university/) · [🏛️**Ministry of Industry and Information Technology** Beijing · China 2019–2023 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/0385nmy68) 🏛️**Zhuiyi Technology** Shenzhen · [China](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/china/) 2021Employment since 2021 · NLP Researcher, AI 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 4 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/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/murtadha-ahmed/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AlclaM: Arabic Dialect Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahmed-2024-alclam-arabic-dialect-language-model/)** *(2024 · 10 citations)* Arabic pre-trained encoders such as AraBERT, ArBERT and CAMeL are trained mostly on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). 2. **[AlcLaM: Arabic Dialectal Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahmed-2024-alclam-arabic-dialectal-language-model/)** *(2024 · 1 citation)* Most Arabic pre-trained language models learn mainly from Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Everyday Arabic online is written in regional dialects, so these models often miss dialect words and give too much weight to MSA tokens. The authors scraped posts and comments from Arabic YouTube channels and Facebook Pages and… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Global Pointer: Novel Efficient Span-based Approach for Named Entity Recognition ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03054) arXiv:2208.03054 · no summary yet**Jianlin Su et al.*2022 · 100 citations* 2. **[AlclaM: Arabic Dialect Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahmed-2024-alclam-arabic-dialect-language-model/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/)**Murtadha Ahmed, Saghir Alfasly, Bo Wen, et al.*2024 · 10 citations* 3. [**AlcLaM: Arabic Dialectal Language Model arXiv:2407.13097**Murtadha Ahmed, Saghir Alfasly, Bo Wen, et al.*2024 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahmed-2024-alclam-arabic-dialectal-language-model/) ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bo Wen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-wen/) ×2 - [Mohammed Ahmed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammed-ahmed/) ×2 - [Saghir Alfasly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saghir-alfasly/) ×2 - [Yunfeng Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunfeng-liu/) ×2 ## 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/): [ArabicNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,182 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [247 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/murtadha-ahmed/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026