--- title: "Osama Rakan Al Mraikhat — author profile and papers" description: "Osama Rakan Al Mraikhat, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osama-rakan-al-mraikhat/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osama-rakan-al-mraikhat/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Osama Rakan Al Mraikhat # Osama Rakan Al Mraikhat Osama Rakan Al Mraikhat has 4 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, 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/), [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/); often with [Fadi Zaraket](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fadi-zaraket/), [Hadi Hamoud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hadi-hamoud/), [Chadi Abou Chakra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chadi-abou-chakra/). 4 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5107377568) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5107377568) · [6 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5107377568) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5107377568&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osama-rakan-al-mraikhat/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osama-rakan-al-mraikhat/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12111](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/122/#star-12111) 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=Osama+Rakan+Al+Mraikhat) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Osama+Rakan+Al+Mraikhat) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Osama+Rakan+Al+Mraikhat) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Osama+Rakan+Al+Mraikhat) ## Affiliations [🔬**Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies** Doha · Qatar 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/arab-center-for-research-and-policy-studies/) 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).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 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 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Information extraction · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Tokenization & segmentation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osama-rakan-al-mraikhat/year/2026/) · [**2024** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osama-rakan-al-mraikhat/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[NeoAraBERT: A Modern Foundation Model for Arabic Embeddings with Diacritics-Aware Tokenization and POS-Targeted Masking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chakra-2026-neoarabert-modern-foundation-model-arabic/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Arabic text encoders such as AraBERT, ARBERT and MARBERT still use older BERT-era designs. They lack rotary positions, SwiGLU and Pre-RMSNorm, and they largely ignore diacritics. The authors port the NeoBERT architecture to Arabic and pre-train it on a deduplicated corpus that mixes MSA, Classical Arabic and… 2. **[AREEj: Arabic Relation Extraction with Evidence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mraikhat-2024-areej-arabic-relation-extraction-evidence/)** *(2024 · 1 citation)* The paper extends Arabic relation extraction so that each predicted link between two entities also comes with a short text span that justifies it. 3. **[DRU at WojoodNER 2024: ICL LLM for Arabic NER](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamdan-2024-dru-wojoodner-2024-icl-llm/)** *(2024 · 1 citation)* The paper describes a system for the open track of the WojoodNER 2024 shared task, specifically flat fine-grained Arabic NER (Subtask 3A). 4. **[DRU at WojoodNER 2024: A Multi-level Method Approach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamoud-2024-dru-wojoodner-2024-multi-level/)** *(2024)* The paper describes the DRU team's entry to the WojoodNER 2024 shared task on fine-grained Arabic named entity recognition. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Fadi Zaraket](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fadi-zaraket/) ×4 - [Hadi Hamoud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hadi-hamoud/) ×4 - [Chadi Abou Chakra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chadi-abou-chakra/) ×3 - [Doha Albared](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/doha-albared/) ×2 - [Nancy Hamdan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nancy-hamdan/) ×2 - [Mohamad Ballout](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamad-ballout/) ## 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/) ×3: [ArabicNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2024/) ×3 - [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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2 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/osama-rakan-al-mraikhat/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026