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# Perla Al Almaoui

Perla Al Almaoui has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Pierrette Bouillon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierrette-bouillon/), [Simon Hengchen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-hengchen/), [Jonathan Mutal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-mutal/).

2 papers in our library · 2025–2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5120695052) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5120695052) · [6 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5120695052) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5120695052&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/perla-al-almaoui/#papers) · [🔗 2 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/perla-al-almaoui/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #5094](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/51/#star-5094)

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=Perla+Al+Almaoui) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Perla+Al+Almaoui) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Perla+Al+Almaoui) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Perla+Al+Almaoui)

## Affiliations

[🎓**University of Geneva** Geneva · Switzerland 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

## Topics

[Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mutal-2026-aladdin-fti-amiya-three-wishes/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/almaoui-2025-arabizi-vs-llms-can-genie/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Arabizi vs LLMs: Can the Genie Understand the Language of Aladdin?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/almaoui-2025-arabizi-vs-llms-can-genie/)** *(2025 · 2 citations)* The paper asks whether general-purpose LLMs can translate Arabizi well enough for gisting without first converting it to Arabic script.
2. **[Aladdin-FTI @ AMIYA Three Wishes for Arabic NLP: Fidelity, Diglossia, and Multidialectal Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mutal-2026-aladdin-fti-amiya-three-wishes/)** *(2026)* Dialectal Arabic is still poorly served by NLP. Models trained mostly on MSA tend to flatten dialect features or slip back into MSA. For the AMIYA shared task at VarDial 2026 (closed data track, official training data only), team Aladdin-FTI fine-tuned a single LLM on two instruction-formatted objectives:

## Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Pierrette Bouillon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierrette-bouillon/) ×2
- [Simon Hengchen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-hengchen/) ×2
- [Jonathan Mutal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-mutal/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 2 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/perla-al-almaoui/cited-by/).