--- title: "Musa Alkhalifa — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Musa Alkhalifa: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2006–2008), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/musa-alkhalifa/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/musa-alkhalifa/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Musa Alkhalifa # Musa Alkhalifa Musa Alkhalifa has 4 papers in our library, in 2006–2008, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Christiane Fellbaum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christiane-fellbaum/), [Horacio Rodríguez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-rodriguez/), [Adam Pease](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-pease/). 4 papers in our library · 2006–2008 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5110824521) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5110824521) · [6 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5110824521) · [51 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5110824521&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/musa-alkhalifa/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 53 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/musa-alkhalifa/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7840](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/79/#star-7840) 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=Musa+Alkhalifa) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Musa+Alkhalifa) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Musa+Alkhalifa) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Musa+Alkhalifa) ## Affiliations [🎓**Universitat de Barcelona** Barcelona · Spain 2006–2007 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-de-barcelona/) 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 · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2008** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/musa-alkhalifa/year/2008/) · [**2007** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/musa-alkhalifa/year/2007/) · [**2006** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/musa-alkhalifa/year/2006/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Building a WordNet for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkateb-2006-building-wordnet-arabic/)** *(2006 · 38 citations)* The paper describes the start of the Arabic WordNet (AWN) project, a lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic. 2. **[Arabic WordNet: Semi-automatic Extensions using Bayesian Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rodriguez-2008-arabic-wordnet-semi-automatic-extensions/)** *(2008 · 30 citations)* The paper addresses how to grow Arabic WordNet (AWN) without making lexicographers judge every candidate entry by hand. 3. **[SemEval-2007 Task 18: Arabic Semantic Labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/diab-2007-semeval-2007-task-18-arabic/)** *(2007 · 25 citations)* This SemEval-2007 task set out to give Arabic computational semantics a shared benchmark. At the time Arabic had almost no semantically annotated data, and English-oriented labelers were unlikely to transfer well. The organizers built four subtasks on Modern Standard Arabic newswire from the Arabic Treebank (ATB): 4. **[Arabic WordNet and the Challenges of Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkateb-2006-arabic-wordnet-challenges-arabic/)** *(2006 · 11 citations)* The paper describes how Arabic WordNet (AWN), a lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic, is being built and what makes Arabic difficult for this kind of resource. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Christiane Fellbaum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christiane-fellbaum/) ×3 - [Horacio Rodríguez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-rodriguez/) ×3 - [Adam Pease](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-pease/) ×2 - [David Farwell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-farwell/) ×2 - [Piek Vossen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/piek-vossen/) ×2 - [Sabri Elkateb](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sabri-elkateb/) ×2 - [William Black](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-black/) ×2 - [Maria Antònia Martí](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-antonia-marti/) - [Martha Palmer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-palmer/) - [Mona Diab](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mona-diab/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) ×2: [LREC 2008](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2008/), [LREC 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2006/) - [International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/): [International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/2006/) - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-workshop-on-semantic-evaluations/): [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations 2007](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-workshop-on-semantic-evaluations/2007/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 53 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [25 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/musa-alkhalifa/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026