--- title: "Osmar Zaïane · University of Alberta — author profile and papers" description: "Osmar Zaïane, University of Alberta: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2022), h-index 63 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osmar-zaiane/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osmar-zaiane/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Osmar Zaïane # Osmar Zaïane Osmar Zaïane has 3 papers in our library, in 2021–2022, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Nouha Dziri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nouha-dziri/), [Mo Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mo-yu/), [Siva Reddy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siva-reddy/). 3 papers in our library · 2021–2022 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5053745515) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0060-5988) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7107148) · [**h-index 63**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5053745515) · [520 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5053745515) · [17,850 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5053745515&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osmar-zaiane/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 234 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osmar-zaiane/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3382](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/34/#star-3382) 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=Osmar+Za%C3%AFane) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Osmar+Za%C3%AFane) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Osmar+Za%C3%AFane) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Osmar+Za%C3%AFane) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Alberta** Edmonton · Canada 1999–2026 · 439 papersEmployment since 1999*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-alberta/) · [🔬**Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute** Alberta · Canada 2019–2026 · 113 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/alberta-machine-intelligence-institute/) · [🎓**Simon Fraser University** Burnaby · Canada 1995–2007 · 13 papersEducation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/simon-fraser-university/) · [🎓**Tunis University** Tunis · Tunisia Education](https://ror.org/02q1spa57) · [🎓**Université Laval** Québec · Canada Education](https://ror.org/04sjchr03) · [🎓**Université Paris-Sud** Orsay · France Education](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-paris-sud/) 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. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2022** 2 papers Osmar Zaïane's papers of 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osmar-zaiane/year/2022/) · [**2021** 1 paper Neural Path Hunter: Reducing Hallucination in Dialogue Systems via Path Grounding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dziri-2021-neural-path-hunter-reducing-hallucination/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[On the Origin of Hallucinations in Conversational Models: Is it the Datasets or the Models?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dziri-2022-origin-hallucinations-conversational-models-is/)** *(2022 · 205 citations)* Knowledge-grounded dialogue systems often produce statements that their supplied knowledge does not support. 2. **[Neural Path Hunter: Reducing Hallucination in Dialogue Systems via Path Grounding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dziri-2021-neural-path-hunter-reducing-hallucination/)** *(2021 · 149 citations)* Large pre-trained dialogue models produce fluent replies, but they often state facts that are wrong. This paper tackles that problem for dialogue grounded in a Knowledge Graph (KG). The authors first ran a crowd-sourced human study of GPT-2 responses fine-tuned on OpenDialKG. It showed that most errors are extrinsic… 3. **[FaithDial: A Faithful Benchmark for Information-Seeking Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dziri-2022-faithdial-faithful-benchmark-information-seeking/)** *(2022 · 138 citations)* Knowledge-grounded dialogue systems often hallucinate: they make claims their knowledge source does not support. ## All works 4 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. **[On the Origin of Hallucinations in Conversational Models: Is it the Datasets or the Models?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dziri-2022-origin-hallucinations-conversational-models-is/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Nouha Dziri, Sivan Milton, Mo Yu, et al.*2022 · 205 citations* 2. **[Neural Path Hunter: Reducing Hallucination in Dialogue Systems via Path Grounding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dziri-2021-neural-path-hunter-reducing-hallucination/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Nouha Dziri, Andrea Madotto, Osmar Zaïane, et al.*2021 · 149 citations* 3. **[FaithDial: A Faithful Benchmark for Information-Seeking Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dziri-2022-faithdial-faithful-benchmark-information-seeking/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Nouha Dziri, Ehsan Kamalloo, Sivan Milton, et al.*2022 · 138 citations* 4. **[OTTAWA: Optimal TransporT Adaptive Word Aligner for Hallucination and Omission Translation Errors Detection](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.377/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Chenyang Huang et al.*2024 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Nouha Dziri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nouha-dziri/) ×3 - [Mo Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mo-yu/) ×2 - [Siva Reddy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siva-reddy/) ×2 - [Sivan Milton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sivan-milton/) ×2 - [Andrea Madotto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-madotto/) - [Edoardo Maria Ponti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edoardo-maria-ponti/) - [Ehsan Kamalloo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsan-kamalloo/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2021/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2022/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2022/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 234 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [24 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osmar-zaiane/cited-by/). 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