--- title: "Saghir Alfasly · Mayo Clinic — author profile and papers" description: "Saghir Alfasly, Mayo Clinic: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saghir-alfasly/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saghir-alfasly/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Saghir Alfasly # Saghir Alfasly Saghir Alfasly has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, 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 [Bo Wen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-wen/), [Mohammed Ahmed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammed-ahmed/), [Murtadha Ahmed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/murtadha-ahmed/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5042097351) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8561-660X) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5042097351) · [39 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5042097351) · [309 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5042097351&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saghir-alfasly/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 5 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saghir-alfasly/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11061](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/111/#star-11061) 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=Saghir+Alfasly) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Saghir+Alfasly) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Saghir+Alfasly) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Saghir+Alfasly) ## Affiliations [🔬**Mayo Clinic** Rochester · United States 2023–2026 · 22 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mayo-clinic/) · [🏥**Mayo Clinic in Florida** Jacksonville · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/03zzw1w08) · [🎓**Shenzhen University** Shenzhen · China 2022–2025 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shenzhen-university/) · [🎓**South China University of Technology** Guangzhou · China 2019 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/south-china-university-of-technology/) 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saghir-alfasly/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AlclaM: Arabic Dialect Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahmed-2024-alclam-arabic-dialect-language-model/)** *(2024 · 10 citations)* Arabic pre-trained encoders such as AraBERT, ArBERT and CAMeL are trained mostly on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). 2. **[AlcLaM: Arabic Dialectal Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahmed-2024-alclam-arabic-dialectal-language-model/)** *(2024 · 1 citation)* Most Arabic pre-trained language models learn mainly from Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Everyday Arabic online is written in regional dialects, so these models often miss dialect words and give too much weight to MSA tokens. The authors scraped posts and comments from Arabic YouTube channels and Facebook Pages and… ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bo Wen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-wen/) ×2 - [Mohammed Ahmed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammed-ahmed/) ×2 - [Murtadha Ahmed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/murtadha-ahmed/) ×2 - [Yunfeng Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunfeng-liu/) ×2 ## 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/): [ArabicNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 5 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saghir-alfasly/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026