--- title: "Riad Souissi — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Riad Souissi: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2024), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riad-souissi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riad-souissi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Riad Souissi # Riad Souissi Riad Souissi has 3 papers in our library, in 2021–2024, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Faroq Altam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/faroq-altam/), [Muhammad Al-qurishi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-al-qurishi/), [Muhammad Alqurishi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-alqurishi/). 3 papers in our library · 2021–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5034999364) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3793-5585) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130986628) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5034999364) · [25 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5034999364) · [485 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5034999364&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riad-souissi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 32 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riad-souissi/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7494](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/75/#star-7494) 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=Riad+Souissi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Riad+Souissi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Riad+Souissi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Riad+Souissi) ## 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).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Political Science and International Relations · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/political-science-and-international-relations/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Legal AI · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riad-souissi/year/2024/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riad-souissi/year/2022/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riad-souissi/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AraLegal-BERT: A pretrained language model for Arabic Legal text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qurishi-2022-aralegal-bert-pretrained-language-model/)** *(2022 · 37 citations)* General-purpose Arabic BERT models are trained mostly on everyday Modern Standard Arabic, and they handle the specialised wording of legal texts poorly. 2. **[CamelEval: Advancing Culturally Aligned Arabic Language Models and Benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qian-2024-cameleval-advancing-culturally-aligned-arabic/)** *(2024 · 18 citations)* Arabic makes up only a small share of the web text used to pre-train LLMs. As a result, many existing models answer Arabic speakers awkwardly, get regional facts wrong, or ignore local norms. The authors present Juhaina, an open Arabic-English model with 9.24B parameters built on top of Gemma 2. They post-trained it… 3. **[Arabic Named Entity Recognition Using Transformer-based-CRF Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qurishi-2021-arabic-named-entity-recognition-transformer/)** *(2021 · 7 citations)* The paper addresses named entity recognition for Arabic, where rich morphology, ambiguous spelling and limited tooling make the task hard. ## 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. **[AraLegal-BERT: A pretrained language model for Arabic Legal text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qurishi-2022-aralegal-bert-pretrained-language-model/) [Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nllp/)**Muhammad Al-qurishi, Sarah Alqaseemi, Riad Souissi*2022 · 37 citations* 2. [**CamelEval: Advancing Culturally Aligned Arabic Language Models and Benchmarks arXiv:2409.12623**Zhaozhi Qian, Faroq Altam, Muhammad Alqurishi, et al.*2024 · 18 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qian-2024-cameleval-advancing-culturally-aligned-arabic/) 3. **[Arabic Named Entity Recognition Using Transformer-based-CRF Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qurishi-2021-arabic-named-entity-recognition-transformer/) [International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/icnlsp/)**Muhammad Saleh Al-Qurishi, Riad Souissi*2021 · 7 citations* 4. **[Improving LLM Domain Certification with Pretrained Guide Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.69/) Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Jiaqian Zhang et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Faroq Altam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/faroq-altam/) - [Muhammad Al-qurishi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-al-qurishi/) - [Muhammad Alqurishi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-alqurishi/) - [Zhaozhi Qian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhaozhi-qian/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/icnlsp/): [International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/icnlsp/2021/) - [Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nllp/): [Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nllp/2022/) - Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 32 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [24 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/riad-souissi/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026