--- title: "Omar El Herraoui — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Omar El Herraoui, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 1…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-el-herraoui/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-el-herraoui/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Omar El Herraoui # Omar El Herraoui Omar El Herraoui has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Mohamed Anwar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-anwar/), [Abed Alhakim Freihat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abed-alhakim-freihat/), [Amr Keleg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-keleg/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5118628340) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5118628340) · [13 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5118628340) · [2 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5118628340&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-el-herraoui/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 24 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-el-herraoui/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9955](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/100/#star-9955) 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=Omar+El+Herraoui) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Omar+El+Herraoui) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Omar+El+Herraoui) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Omar+El+Herraoui) ## Affiliations [🎓**Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2024–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mohamed-bin-zayed-university-of-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**New York University Abu Dhabi** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university-abu-dhabi/) 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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-el-herraoui/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-el-herraoui/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Nile-Chat: Egyptian Language Models for Arabic and Latin Scripts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shang-2025-nile-chat-egyptian-language-models/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* Egyptian Arabic is often written in two ways: in Arabic script and in a Latin-based romanization called Arabizi or Franco-Arabic. 2. **[Cultural Benchmarking of LLMs in Standard and Dialectal Arabic Dialogues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kautsar-2026-cultural-benchmarking-llms-standard-dialectal/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Arabic cultural benchmarks usually test isolated, single-turn questions in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Everyday cultural knowledge, however, is exchanged in conversation and in regional dialects. The authors build ArabCulture-Dialogue by turning each item of the existing ArabCulture benchmark into a short… ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Mohamed Anwar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-anwar/) ×2 - [Abed Alhakim Freihat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abed-alhakim-freihat/) - [Amr Keleg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-keleg/) - [Amr Mohamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amr-mohamed/) - [Bilal Elbouardi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bilal-elbouardi/) - [Eric P. Xing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-p-xing/) - [Guokan Shang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guokan-shang/) - [Hadi Abdine](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hadi-abdine/) - [Michalis Vazirgiannis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michalis-vazirgiannis/) - [Momina Ahsan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/momina-ahsan/) - [Preslav Nakov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/preslav-nakov/) - [Sarfraz Ahmad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarfraz-ahmad/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/): [ArabicNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 24 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [18 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-el-herraoui/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026