--- title: "Samar Ahmed — author profile and papers" description: "Samar Ahmed, Ibn Sina Hospital: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 25 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samar-ahmed/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samar-ahmed/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Samar Ahmed # Samar Ahmed Samar Ahmed has 3 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, 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/); often with [Serry Sibaee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/serry-sibaee/), [Anis Koubaa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anis-koubaa/), [Omer Nacar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omer-nacar/). 3 papers in our library · 2024–2025 current affiliation [Ibn Sina Hospital](https://ror.org/05359he25) · Kuwait City Kuwait [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5000026859) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9026-9219) · [**h-index 25**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5000026859) · [187 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5000026859) · [1,649 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5000026859&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samar-ahmed/#papers) · [4 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samar-ahmed/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4869](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/49/#star-4869) 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=Samar+Ahmed) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Samar+Ahmed) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Samar+Ahmed) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Samar+Ahmed) ## Affiliations [🏥**Ibn Sina Hospital** Kuwait City · Kuwait 2012–2026 · 128 papers*current*](https://ror.org/05359he25) · [🎓**Minia University** Minya · Egypt 2012–2025 · 93 papers](https://ror.org/02hcv4z63) · [🎓**Kuwait University** Kuwait City · Kuwait 2018–2023 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/kuwait-university/) · [🏥**Centre Hospitalier Ibn Sina** Rabat · Morocco 2013–2025 · 9 papers](https://ror.org/038zpvz53) · [🏥**Amiri Hospital** Kuwait City · Kuwait 2018–2023 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/04y2hdd14) · [🏛️**Ministry of Health** Kuwait City · Kuwait 2016 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/036njfn21) · [🏥**Minia University Hospital** Minya · Egypt 2014–2015 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/04jqt3k72) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 13 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Semitic languages 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sibaee-2025-advancing-arabic-reverse-dictionary-systems/) · [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samar-ahmed/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ASOS at OSACT6 Shared Task: Investigation of Data Augmentation in Arabic Dialect-MSA Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nacar-2024-asos-osact6-shared-task-investigation/)** *(2024 · 4 citations)* This paper presents the ASOS team's submission to the OSACT 2024 shared task, which involved converting dialectal Arabic (Gulf, Egyptian, Levantine, Iraqi, Maghrebi) into Modern Standard Arabic. The main obstacle is the lack of data: the organizers supplied only about 200 parallel sentences per dialect. 2. **[ASOS at Arabic LLMs Hallucinations 2024: Can LLMs detect their Hallucinations :)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sibaee-2024-asos-arabic-llms-hallucinations-2024/)** *(2024 · 3 citations)* The paper describes the ASOS team's entry to Subtask A of the OSACT 2024 shared task. The task asks systems to label Arabic factual claims produced by ChatGPT and GPT-4 as FC (factually correct), FI (factually incorrect) or NF (non-factual, meaning not a declarative claim). The abstract expands these labels… 3. **[Advancing Arabic Reverse Dictionary Systems: A Transformer-Based Approach with Dataset Construction Guidelines](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sibaee-2025-advancing-arabic-reverse-dictionary-systems/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* A reverse dictionary (RD) takes a description of a meaning and returns the word that fits it. This helps with tip-of-the-tongue moments, with choosing exact terms in academic or legal writing, and with vocabulary learning. Arabic has lagged behind English, French or Chinese here because of its rich morphology… ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Serry Sibaee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/serry-sibaee/) ×3 - [Anis Koubaa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anis-koubaa/) ×2 - [Omer Nacar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omer-nacar/) ×2 - [Abdullah Alharbi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdullah-alharbi/) - [Abdullah I. Alharbi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdullah-i-alharbi/) - [Adel Ammar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adel-ammar/) - [Lahouari Ghouti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lahouari-ghouti/) - [Lahouri Ghouti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lahouri-ghouti/) - [Wadii Boulila](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wadii-boulila/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 4 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samar-ahmed/cited-by/).