--- title: "Sanaa Alowaidi · University of Leeds — author profile and papers" description: "Sanaa Alowaidi, University of Leeds: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2025), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanaa-alowaidi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanaa-alowaidi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sanaa Alowaidi # Sanaa Alowaidi Sanaa Alowaidi has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2025, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [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 [Abdullah Alsaleh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdullah-alsaleh/), [Abdulrahman Altahhan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdulrahman-altahhan/), [Eric Atwell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-atwell/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5026956655) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5026956655) · [4 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5026956655) · [50 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5026956655&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanaa-alowaidi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanaa-alowaidi/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10752](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/108/#star-10752) 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=Sanaa+Alowaidi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sanaa+Alowaidi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sanaa+Alowaidi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sanaa+Alowaidi) ## Affiliations [🎓**King Abdulaziz University** Jeddah · Saudi Arabia 2017–2025 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/king-abdulaziz-university/) · [🎓**University of Leeds** Leeds · United Kingdom 2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-leeds/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Question answering · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanaa-alowaidi/year/2025/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanaa-alowaidi/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SEA-Team at QIAS 2025: Enhancing LLMs for Question Answering in Islamic Texts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alowaidi-2025-sea-team-qias-2025-enhancing/)** *(2025 · 2 citations)* This entry to the QIAS 2025 shared task covers two subtasks. Task 1 is Islamic inheritance reasoning: six-option multiple-choice questions on dividing an estate under Islamic jurisprudence. Task 2 tests general Islamic knowledge with four-option questions spanning the Prophet's life story, the principles of… 2. **[LK2022 at Qur'an QA 2022: Simple Transformers Model for Finding Answers to Questions from Qur'an](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alsaleh-2022-lk2022-qur-qa-2022-simple/)** *(2022 · 2 citations)* This paper describes a team entry to the Qur'an QA 2022 shared task. Given a Qur'anic passage and a question in Modern Standard Arabic, the system must extract answer spans from the passage. The authors used the Simple Transformers question-answering library and compared three BERT-style Arabic encoders: AraBERT… ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Abdullah Alsaleh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdullah-alsaleh/) - [Abdulrahman Altahhan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdulrahman-altahhan/) - [Eric Atwell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-atwell/) - [Mohammad Alsalka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-alsalka/) - [Sarah Alnefaie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-alnefaie/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2025/) - [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/): [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanaa-alowaidi/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026