--- title: "Nehal Elkaref — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Nehal Elkaref, German University in Cairo: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nehal-elkaref/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nehal-elkaref/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Nehal Elkaref # Nehal Elkaref Nehal Elkaref has 3 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Mervat Abu-Elkheir](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mervat-abu-elkheir/), [Mohab Elkaref](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohab-elkaref/). 3 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5092596437) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5092596437) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5092596437) · [6 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5092596437&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nehal-elkaref/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 4 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nehal-elkaref/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9892](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/99/#star-9892) 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=Nehal+Elkaref) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Nehal+Elkaref) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Nehal+Elkaref) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Nehal+Elkaref) ## Affiliations [🎓**German University in Cairo** Cairo · Egypt 2022–2023 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/german-university-in-cairo/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nehal-elkaref/year/2023/) · [**2022** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nehal-elkaref/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Generating Classical Arabic Poetry using Pre-trained Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/eloraby-2022-generating-classical-arabic-poetry-pre/)** *(2022 · 6 citations)* The paper asks whether general pre-trained transformers can absorb the formal rules of classical Arabic verse (meter, i.e. 2. **[El-Kawaref at WojoodNER shared task: StagedNER for Arabic Named Entity Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkaref-2023-el-kawaref-wojoodner-shared-task/)** *(2023 · 3 citations)* The paper describes a system for flat Arabic named entity recognition in the WojoodNER 2023 shared task. Arabic NER is hard because the language is morphologically rich and agglutinative, and it has no capitalisation cues. The authors apply StagedNER, which splits the task between two separate AraBERTv02 models. The… 3. **[GUCT at Arabic Hate Speech 2022: Towards a Better Isotropy for Hatespeech Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkaref-2022-guct-arabic-hate-speech-2022/)** *(2022 · 1 citation)* The authors took part in sub-task A of the OSACT 2022 shared task on Fine-grained Hate Speech Detection, a binary decision on whether a dialectal Arabic tweet is offensive. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Mervat Abu-Elkheir](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mervat-abu-elkheir/) ×2 - [Mohab Elkaref](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohab-elkaref/) ## 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 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2023/) - [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/): [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/2022/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/): [WANLP 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 4 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nehal-elkaref/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026