--- title: "Ossama Emam · Cairo University — author profile and papers" description: "Ossama Emam, Cairo University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2004–2006), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ossama-emam/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ossama-emam/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ossama Emam # Ossama Emam Ossama Emam has 2 papers in our library, in 2004–2006, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Kareem Darwish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kareem-darwish/), [Walid Magdy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walid-magdy/). 2 papers in our library · 2004–2006 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5074459569) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5074459569) · [29 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5074459569) · [326 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5074459569&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ossama-emam/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 50 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ossama-emam/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6150](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/62/#star-6150) 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=Ossama+Emam) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ossama+Emam) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ossama+Emam) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ossama+Emam) ## Affiliations [🎓**Cairo University** Giza · Egypt 2022 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cairo-university/) · [🏢**IBM** Giza · Egypt 2003–2015 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm-egypt/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2006** 1 paper Building a Heterogeneous Information Retrieval Collection of Printed Arabic Documents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abdelsapor-2006-building-heterogeneous-information-retrieval-collection/) · [**2004** 1 paper Collection and Evaluation of Broadcast News Data for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/afify-2004-collection-evaluation-broadcast-news-data/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Building a Heterogeneous Information Retrieval Collection of Printed Arabic Documents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abdelsapor-2006-building-heterogeneous-information-retrieval-collection/)** *(2006 · 3 citations)* The paper addresses a gap in Arabic search research. There was no large, realistic benchmark for retrieving Arabic text produced by OCR, which is often error-ridden. The authors drew on the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's part of the Million Book Project (75,000 Arabic books). They sampled about 25 pages from each of 1,378… 2. **[Collection and Evaluation of Broadcast News Data for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/afify-2004-collection-evaluation-broadcast-news-data/)** *(2004)* The paper describes a fast way to build Arabic broadcast news speech data and a first recognizer from material found on the web. ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Language Model Based Arabic Word Segmentation](https://aclanthology.org/P03-1051/) Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · original ↗ · no summary yet**Young-Suk Lee et al.*2003 · 181 citations* 2. **[Examining the Effect of Improved Context Sensitive Morphology on Arabic Information Retrieval](https://aclanthology.org/W05-0704/) Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages · original ↗ · no summary yet**Kareem Darwish, Hany Hassan, Ossama Emam*2005 · 25 citations* 3. **[Arabic Cross-Document Person Name Normalization](https://aclanthology.org/W07-0804/) Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources · original ↗ · no summary yet**Walid Magdy et al.*2007 · 20 citations* 4. **[A System for Extracting Sentiment from Large-Scale Arabic Social Data](https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04661) arXiv:1511.04661 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Hao Wang et al.*2015 · 12 citations* 5. **[Building a Heterogeneous Information Retrieval Collection of Printed Arabic Documents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abdelsapor-2006-building-heterogeneous-information-retrieval-collection/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Abdelrahim Abdelsapor, Noha Adly, Kareem Darwish, et al.*2006 · 3 citations* 6. **[Collection and Evaluation of Broadcast News Data for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/afify-2004-collection-evaluation-broadcast-news-data/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Mohamed Afify, Ossama Emam*2004* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Kareem Darwish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kareem-darwish/) - [Walid Magdy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walid-magdy/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) ×2: [LREC 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2006/), [LREC 2004](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2004/) - Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 50 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [12 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ossama-emam/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026