--- title: "Said Ouatik El Alaoui — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Said Ouatik El Alaoui, Université Ibn-Tofail: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2025), h-index 21 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/said-ouatik-el-alaoui/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/said-ouatik-el-alaoui/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Said Ouatik El Alaoui # Said Ouatik El Alaoui Said Ouatik El Alaoui has 3 papers in our library, in 2017–2025, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Abdessamad Benlahbib](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdessamad-benlahbib/), [Christoph Schommer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christoph-schommer/), [Hamza Alami](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamza-alami/). 3 papers in our library · 2017–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5084532237) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1194-0578) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5084532237) · [131 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5084532237) · [1,400 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5084532237&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/said-ouatik-el-alaoui/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 11 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/said-ouatik-el-alaoui/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9409](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/95/#star-9409) 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=Said+Ouatik+El+Alaoui) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Said+Ouatik+El+Alaoui) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Said+Ouatik+El+Alaoui) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Said+Ouatik+El+Alaoui) ## Affiliations [🎓**Université Ibn-Tofail** Kenitra · Morocco 2019–2026 · 51 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-ibn-tofail/) · [🎓**Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University** Fes · Morocco 2007–2021 · 51 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sidi-mohamed-ben-abdellah-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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [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/) · [Summarization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/said-ouatik-el-alaoui/year/2025/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/said-ouatik-el-alaoui/year/2020/) ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/said-ouatik-el-alaoui/year/2017/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[LISAC FSDM-USMBA Team at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Overcoming AraBERT's pretrain-finetune discrepancy for Arabic offensive language identification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alami-2020-lisac-fsdm-usmba-team-semeval/)** *(2020 · 30 citations)* This paper presents the winning system for the Arabic track of OffensEval 2020 (SemEval-2020 Task 12, sub-task A). The task is a binary decision: is a tweet offensive (OFF) or not (NOT)? The authors fine-tune AraBERT, a BERT BASE-sized model pretrained on Arabic text. Their main contribution is how they treat emojis. 2. **[UPC-USMBA at SemEval-2017 Task 3: Combining multiple approaches for CQA for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adlouni-2017-upc-usmba-semeval-2017-task/)** *(2017 · 6 citations)* The UPC-USMBA team took part in SemEval-2017 Task 3, subtask D (Arabic community question answering). In this subtask, a system receives a new medical question together with 30 question–answer pairs taken from forum threads, and must reorder those pairs by how relevant they are to the new question. The previous… 3. **[Empirical Evaluation of Pre-trained Language Models for Summarizing Moroccan Darija News Articles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aftiss-2025-empirical-evaluation-pre-trained-language/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* Moroccan Darija (MD) is the main spoken Arabic variety in Morocco, yet it has few NLP resources, particularly for summarization. ## All works 5 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. **[Contextual semantic embeddings based on fine-tuned AraBERT model for Arabic text multi-class categorization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jksuci.2021.02.005) Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences · no summary yet**Fatima-Zahra El-Alami, Saïd Ouatik El Alaoui, Noureddine En-Nahnahi*2021 · 68 citations* 2. **[LISAC FSDM-USMBA Team at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Overcoming AraBERT's pretrain-finetune discrepancy for Arabic offensive language identification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alami-2020-lisac-fsdm-usmba-team-semeval/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Hamza Alami, Said Ouatik El Alaoui, Abdessamad Benlahbib, et al.*2020 · 30 citations* 3. **[UPC-USMBA at SemEval-2017 Task 3: Combining multiple approaches for CQA for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adlouni-2017-upc-usmba-semeval-2017-task/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Yassine El Adlouni, Imane Lahbari, Horacio Rodríguez, et al.*2017 · 6 citations* 4. **[Empirical Evaluation of Pre-trained Language Models for Summarizing Moroccan Darija News Articles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aftiss-2025-empirical-evaluation-pre-trained-language/) [Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wacl/)**Azzedine Aftiss, Salima Lamsiyah, Christoph Schommer, et al.*2025 · 1 citation* 5. **[Résumé automatique guidé de textes: État de l'art et perspectives (Guided Summarization : State-of-the-art and perspectives ) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2018.jeptalnrecital-recital.5/) Actes de la Conférence TALN. Volume 2 - Démonstrations, articles des Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs, ateliers DeFT · no summary yet**Salima Lamsiyah, Said Ouatik El Alaoui, Bernard Espinasse*2018* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Abdessamad Benlahbib](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdessamad-benlahbib/) - [Christoph Schommer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christoph-schommer/) - [Hamza Alami](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamza-alami/) - [Horacio Rodríguez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-rodriguez/) - [Salima Lamsiyah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salima-lamsiyah/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/) ×2: [SemEval 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2020/), [SemEval 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2017/) - [Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wacl/): [Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wacl/2025/) - Actes de la Conférence TALN. Volume 2 - Démonstrations, articles des Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs, ateliers DeFT - Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 11 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/said-ouatik-el-alaoui/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026