--- title: "Samar M. Magdy — author profile and papers" description: "Samar M. Magdy, University of British Columbia: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samar-m-magdy/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samar-m-magdy/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Samar M. Magdy # Samar M. Magdy 4 papers on this site · 2023–2026 current affiliation [University of British Columbia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/), Vancouver, Canada Samar M. Magdy has 4 papers on this site, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Hanan Aldarmaki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanan-aldarmaki/), [Hawau Olamide Toyin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hawau-olamide-toyin/), [Muhammad Abdul-Mageed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-abdul-mageed/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5089179548) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5089179548) · [26 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089179548) · [55 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089179548&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [4 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samar-m-magdy/#papers) · [140 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samar-m-magdy/cited-by/) · 9 more works 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=Samar+M.+Magdy) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Samar+M.+Magdy) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Samar+M.+Magdy) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Samar+M.+Magdy) ## Affiliations - [University of British Columbia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) · Vancouver, Canada —current · 2024–2026 on 8 papers - [Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mohamed-bin-zayed-university-of-artificial-intelligence/) · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates —2023–2025 on 7 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Semitic languages 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Machine translation 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Language models & pretraining 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Speech & spoken language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samar-m-magdy/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toyin-2025-arvoice-multi-speaker-dataset-arabic/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kadaoui-2023-tarjamat-evaluation-bard-chatgpt-machine/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[TARJAMAT: Evaluation of Bard and ChatGPT on Machine Translation of Ten Arabic Varieties](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kadaoui-2023-tarjamat-evaluation-bard-chatgpt-machine/)** *(2023 · 60 citations)* The paper asks how well instruction-tuned LLMs translate across the Arabic language family, which includes older, standard, and regional forms. 2. **[ArVoice: A Multi-Speaker Dataset for Arabic Speech Synthesis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toyin-2025-arvoice-multi-speaker-dataset-arabic/)** *(2025 · 6 citations)* Arabic speech synthesis lacks clean, multi-speaker training data with full diacritics. Without diacritics, the vowels are unspecified, so a TTS system has to guess how each word is pronounced. Existing Arabic speech collections were mostly built for ASR from noisy broadcast or web audio. The two open TTS corpora, ASC… 3. **[AlexandriaX 2026: The First Shared Task on Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mekki-2026-alexandriax-2026-first-shared-task/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* AlexandriaX 2026 is a shared task on machine translation for Arabic dialects. Most Arabic tools were built for MSA. Dialect output can keep the meaning and still sound wrong, for example through incorrect gender agreement, the wrong level of formality, or MSA slipping in. Aggregate metrics also say little about why… 4. **[Are LLMs Good Text Diacritizers? An Arabic and Yoruba Case Study](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lingbulk-2026-toyin-are-llms-good-text-diacritizers/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper asks whether general-purpose LLMs can restore diacritics, the Arabic short vowels and the Yoruba tone and vowel marks. ## Also in our library 9 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hanan Aldarmaki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanan-aldarmaki/) ×2 - [Hawau Olamide Toyin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hawau-olamide-toyin/) ×2 - [Muhammad Abdul-Mageed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-abdul-mageed/) ×2 - [Abdellah El Mekki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdellah-el-mekki/) - [AbdelRahim Elmadany](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdelrahim-elmadany/) - [Abdul Waheed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdul-waheed/) - [Bernard Ghanem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bernard-ghanem/) - [El Moatez Billah Nagoudi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/el-moatez-billah-nagoudi/) - [Humaid Ali Alblooshi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/humaid-ali-alblooshi/) - [Mo El-Haj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mo-el-haj/) - [Mustafa Jarrar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mustafa-jarrar/) - [Saad Ezzini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saad-ezzini/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 140 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [34 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samar-m-magdy/cited-by/).