--- title: "Sarah Alnefaie — author profile and papers · Question answering" description: "Sarah Alnefaie, King Abdulaziz University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-alnefaie/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-alnefaie/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sarah Alnefaie # Sarah Alnefaie Sarah Alnefaie has 3 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Eric Atwell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-atwell/), [Mohammad Alsalka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-alsalka/), [Abdullah Alsaleh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdullah-alsaleh/). 3 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5004518730) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1688-2979) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5004518730) · [10 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004518730) · [14 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004518730&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-alnefaie/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 8 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-alnefaie/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9339](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/94/#star-9339) 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=Sarah+Alnefaie) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sarah+Alnefaie) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sarah+Alnefaie) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sarah+Alnefaie) ## Affiliations [🎓**King Abdulaziz University** Jeddah · Saudi Arabia 2023–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/king-abdulaziz-university/) · [🎓**University of Leeds** Leeds · United Kingdom 2023–2025 · 5 papers](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 · 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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Semitic languages · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-alnefaie/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-alnefaie/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[HAQA and QUQA: Constructing Two Arabic Question-Answering Corpora for the Quran and Hadith](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alnefaie-2023-haqa-quqa-constructing-two-arabic/)** *(2023 · 11 citations)* Arabic question answering over Islamic texts has lacked shared, demanding benchmarks. The only public Quran QA sets are small, cover about a fifth of the Quran, and mostly contain questions that reuse the answer's wording. No public Hadith QA set exists, so prior Hadith systems were each tested on private data and… 2. **[LKAU23 at Qur'an QA 2023: Using Transformer Models for Retrieving Passages and Finding Answers to Questions from the Qur'an](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alnefaie-2023-lkau23-qur-qa-2023-transformer/)** *(2023 · 3 citations)* The paper describes the LKAU23 team's systems for the two subtasks of the Qur'an QA 2023 shared task: passage retrieval (PR) over the Qur'an and extractive machine reading comprehension (MRC) in Classical Arabic. 3. **[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. - [Eric Atwell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-atwell/) ×3 - [Mohammad Alsalka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-alsalka/) ×3 - [Abdullah Alsaleh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdullah-alsaleh/) ×2 - [Abdulrahman Altahhan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdulrahman-altahhan/) ×2 - [Sanaa Alowaidi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanaa-alowaidi/) ## 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 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2023/) - [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/) - [Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ranlp/): [RANLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ranlp/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 8 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sarah-alnefaie/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026