--- title: "Sadik Bessou — author profile and papers" description: "Sadik Bessou, University Ferhat Abbas of Setif: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2021), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sadik-bessou/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sadik-bessou/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sadik Bessou # Sadik Bessou 3 papers on this site · 2019–2021 current affiliation [University Ferhat Abbas of Setif](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-ferhat-abbas-of-setif/), Sétif, Algeria Sadik Bessou has 3 papers on this site, in 2019–2021, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5073086303) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8891-3688) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5073086303) · [20 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5073086303) · [40 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5073086303&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [3 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sadik-bessou/#papers) · 3 citations in our library 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=Sadik+Bessou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sadik+Bessou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sadik+Bessou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sadik+Bessou) ## Affiliations - [University Ferhat Abbas of Setif](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-ferhat-abbas-of-setif/) · Sétif, Algeria —current · 2011–2025 on 16 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Semitic languages 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Morphology 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Information retrieval & search 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Grammatical error correction & learner language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bessou-2021-efficient-measuring-readability-improve-documents/) ### 2010s [**2019** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sadik-bessou/year/2019/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Efficient Measuring of Readability to Improve Documents Accessibility for Arabic Language Learners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bessou-2021-efficient-measuring-readability-improve-documents/)** *(2021 · 10 citations)* The paper tackles automatic difficulty grading for Arabic texts so that learners can be given material that fits their level. 2. **[Subjective Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Newswire Comments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bessou-2019-subjective-sentiment-analysis-arabic-newswire/)** *(2019 · 6 citations)* The paper addresses polarity classification of reader comments on Arabic news sites, labeling each as positive, negative or neutral. 3. **[An Accuracy-Enhanced Stemming Algorithm for Arabic Information Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bessou-2019-accuracy-enhanced-stemming-algorithm-arabic/)** *(2019 · 5 citations)* The paper addresses a core problem in Arabic information retrieval. Arabic derivational morphology is rich, and text is usually written without vowels, so exact string matching between a query and documents misses many relevant texts. The authors propose ESAIR (Enhanced Stemmer for Arabic Information Retrieval)… ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read).