--- title: "Najeh Hajlaoui — author profile and papers · Discourse analysis" description: "Najeh Hajlaoui, Publications Office of the European Union: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2012), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najeh-hajlaoui/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najeh-hajlaoui/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Najeh Hajlaoui # Najeh Hajlaoui Najeh Hajlaoui has 2 papers in our library, in 2012, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Andrei Popescu-Belis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrei-popescu-belis/), [Andrea Gesmundo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-gesmundo/), [Thomas Meyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-meyer/). 2 papers in our library · 2012 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5113944819) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5113944819) · [40 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5113944819) · [200 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5113944819&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najeh-hajlaoui/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 54 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najeh-hajlaoui/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8592](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/86/#star-8592) 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=Najeh+Hajlaoui) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Najeh+Hajlaoui) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Najeh+Hajlaoui) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Najeh+Hajlaoui) ## Affiliations [🏛️**Publications Office of the European Union** Luxembourg · Luxembourg 2018–2020 · 7 papers*current*](https://ror.org/016jmhr98) · [🔬**Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble** Grenoble · France 2006–2016 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-d-informatique-de-grenoble/) · [🔬**Idiap Research Institute** Martigny-Combe · Switzerland 2012–2013 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/idiap-research-institute/) · [🎓**Université Joseph Fourier** Grenoble · France 2004–2016 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-joseph-fourier/) 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 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 6 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Discourse analysis · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Machine translation · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [French · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2012** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najeh-hajlaoui/year/2012/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Machine Translation of Labeled Discourse Connectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meyer-2012-machine-translation-labeled-discourse-connectives/)** *(2012 · 55 citations)* Statistical MT works at the phrase or sentence level, so it often mistranslates discourse connectives. Words like since or while can mark different relations (temporal, causal, contrastive, concessive), and each sense needs a different French equivalent. The authors label a small set of highly ambiguous English… 2. **[Translating English Discourse Connectives into Arabic: a Corpus-based Analysis and an Evaluation Metric](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hajlaoui-2012-translating-english-discourse-connectives-into/)** *(2012 · 13 citations)* Many frequent English discourse connectives, such as since , while and yet , are ambiguous between senses like temporal, causal, contrastive and concessive. ## All works 4 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. **[Predicting Machine Translation Adequacy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2011.mtsummit-papers.58/) Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIII: Papers · no summary yet**Lucia Specia et al.*2011 · 77 citations* 2. **[Machine Translation of Labeled Discourse Connectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meyer-2012-machine-translation-labeled-discourse-connectives/) [Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/)**Thomas Meyer, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Najeh Hajlaoui, et al.*2012 · 55 citations* 3. **[Translating English Discourse Connectives into Arabic: a Corpus-based Analysis and an Evaluation Metric](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hajlaoui-2012-translating-english-discourse-connectives-into/) [Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/)**Najeh Hajlaoui, Andrei Popescu-Belis*2012 · 13 citations* 4. **[Are ACT's Scores Increasing with Better Translation Quality? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W13-2252/) Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation · no summary yet**Hajlaoui, Najeh*2013 · 5 citations* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Andrei Popescu-Belis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrei-popescu-belis/) ×2 - [Andrea Gesmundo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-gesmundo/) - [Thomas Meyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-meyer/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/) ×2: [AMTA 2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/amta/2012/) ×2 - Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIII: Papers - Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 54 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najeh-hajlaoui/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026