--- title: "Noura Al Moubayed — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Noura Al Moubayed, Durham University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 18 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noura-al-moubayed/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noura-al-moubayed/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Noura Al Moubayed # Noura Al Moubayed Noura Al Moubayed has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Chenghao Xiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenghao-xiao/), [Chenghua Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenghua-lin/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5017619842) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-355X) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96956515) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5017619842) · [119 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5017619842) · [1,227 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5017619842&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noura-al-moubayed/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 10 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noura-al-moubayed/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9759](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/98/#star-9759) 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=Noura+Al+Moubayed) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Noura+Al+Moubayed) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Noura+Al+Moubayed) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Noura+Al+Moubayed) ## Affiliations [🎓**Durham University** Durham · United Kingdom 2016–2026 · 88 papersEmployment since 2017 · Professor, Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/durham-university/) · [🎓**Robert Gordon University** Aberdeen · United Kingdom 2010–2013 · 9 papers](https://ror.org/04f0qj703) · [🏢**Daimler** Stuttgart · Germany 2009 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/00m0j3d84) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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 7 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/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Health Informatics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/health-informatics/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noura-al-moubayed/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noura-al-moubayed/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Towards more Human-like Language Models based on Contextualizer Pretraining Strategy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiao-2023-more-human-like-language-models/)** *(2023 · 7 citations)* The paper asks how to pretrain a capable masked language model when data is as scarce as what a child hears, within the BabyLM Challenge. 2. **[X-ray Made Simple: Lay Radiology Report Generation and Robust Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-x-ray-made-simple-lay/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* Chest X-ray reports are written in dense clinical jargon and follow rigid templates. This creates two problems. Patients struggle to understand reports they now often see before talking to a doctor. Models can also score well on n-gram metrics like BLEU simply by copying recurring report phrasing. The authors propose… 3. **[Does Translation Preserve Sentiment? An Analysis of Arabic-English Cross-Lingual Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mubarak-2026-does-translation-preserve-sentiment-analysis/)** *(2026)* Many cross-lingual sentiment systems translate text first and then classify it, assuming that translation keeps the original polarity. ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Towards more Human-like Language Models based on Contextualizer Pretraining Strategy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiao-2023-more-human-like-language-models/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Chenghao Xiao, G Thomas Hudson, Noura Al Moubayed*2023 · 7 citations* 2. **[X-ray Made Simple: Lay Radiology Report Generation and Robust Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-x-ray-made-simple-lay/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Kun Zhao, Chenghao Xiao, Sixing Yan, et al.*2026 · 4 citations* 3. **[Language as a Latent Sequence: deep latent variable models for semi-supervised paraphrase generation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aiopen.2023.05.001) arXiv:2301.02275 · no summary yet**Jialin Yu et al.*2023 · 4 citations* 4. **[LLMs for LLMs: A Structured Prompting Methodology for Long Legal Documents ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02241) arXiv:2509.02241 · no summary yet**Strahinja Klem, Noura Al Moubayed*2025 · 1 citation* 5. **[Does Translation Preserve Sentiment? An Analysis of Arabic-English Cross-Lingual Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mubarak-2026-does-translation-preserve-sentiment-analysis/) [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/)**Nour Aldin Al Mubarak, Noura Al Moubayed*2026* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chenghao Xiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenghao-xiao/) ×2 - [Chenghua Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenghua-lin/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/): [CoNLL 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/2023/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - [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 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 10 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noura-al-moubayed/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026