--- title: "Rana Malhas · Qatar University — author profile and papers" description: "Rana Malhas, Qatar University: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2025), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rana-malhas/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rana-malhas/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Rana Malhas # Rana Malhas Rana Malhas has 4 papers in our library, in 2016–2025, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Tamer Elsayed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamer-elsayed/), [Watheq Mansour](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/watheq-mansour/), [Abubakr Mohamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abubakr-mohamed/). 4 papers in our library · 2016–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5005227839) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1518-7256) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5005227839) · [13 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005227839) · [133 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005227839&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rana-malhas/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 71 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rana-malhas/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7865](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/79/#star-7865) 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=Rana+Malhas) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Rana+Malhas) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Rana+Malhas) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Rana+Malhas) ## Affiliations [🎓**Qatar University** Doha · Qatar 2008–2025 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/qatar-university/) 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 7 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/) · [Information Systems · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Question answering · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Information retrieval & search · 2 works](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 ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rana-malhas/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rana-malhas/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rana-malhas/year/2022/) ### 2010s [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rana-malhas/year/2016/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Qur'an QA 2023 Shared Task: Overview of Passage Retrieval and Reading Comprehension Tasks over the Holy Qur'an](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/malhas-2023-qur-qa-2023-shared-task/)** *(2023 · 33 citations)* The paper reports on the second edition of the Qur'an QA shared task, held at ArabicNLP 2023. It targets question answering over the Holy Qur'an, which is written in Classical Arabic while the questions are posed in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The organizers defined two sub-tasks. In passage retrieval (PR), a… 2. **[Qur'an QA 2022: Overview of The First Shared Task on Question Answering over the Holy Qur'an](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/malhas-2022-qur-qa-2022-overview-first/)** *(2022 · 32 citations)* Qur'an QA 2022 was the first shared task on extractive question answering over the Holy Qur'an. It was organized to push Arabic machine reading comprehension (MRC) forward on a hard domain. Systems receive a passage of consecutive verses in Classical Arabic and a question in Modern Standard Arabic. They must return… 3. **[IslamicEval 2025: The First Shared Task of Capturing LLMs Hallucination in Islamic Content](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mubarak-2025-islamiceval-2025-first-shared-task/)** *(2025 · 19 citations)* LLMs used for Arabic religious questions often misquote or invent Qur'anic verses and Hadiths. IslamicEval 2025 is the first shared task built around measuring and catching such errors. It has two parts. 4. **[QU-IR at SemEval 2016 Task 3: Learning to Rank on Arabic Community Question Answering Forums with Word Embedding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/malhas-2016-qu-ir-semeval-2016-task/)** *(2016 · 19 citations)* This system paper addresses answer re-ranking for Arabic community question answering in SemEval 2016 Task 3, Subtask D. ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Tamer Elsayed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamer-elsayed/) ×4 - [Watheq Mansour](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/watheq-mansour/) ×3 - [Abubakr Mohamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abubakr-mohamed/) - [Hamdy Mubarak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamdy-mubarak/) - [Kareem Darwish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kareem-darwish/) - [Mahmoud Fawzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mahmoud-fawzi/) - [Majd Hawasly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/majd-hawasly/) - [Marwan Torki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marwan-torki/) - [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. - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/) ×2: [ArabicNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2025/), [ArabicNLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2023/) - [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/): [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/2022/) - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2016/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 71 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [45 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rana-malhas/cited-by/). 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