--- title: "Shatha Altammami — author profile and papers" description: "Shatha Altammami, King Saud University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2025), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shatha-altammami/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shatha-altammami/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shatha Altammami # Shatha Altammami Shatha Altammami has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2025, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Eric Atwell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-atwell/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5057227243) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5057227243) · [13 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5057227243) · [37 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5057227243&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shatha-altammami/#papers) · 🔗 3 citations in our library · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4929](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/50/#star-4929) 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=Shatha+Altammami) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shatha+Altammami) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shatha+Altammami) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shatha+Altammami) ## Affiliations [🎓**King Saud University** Riyadh · Saudi Arabia 2013–2025 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/king-saud-university/) · [🎓**University of Leeds** Leeds · United Kingdom 2019–2022 · 3 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. ## Topics [Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/altammami-2025-leveraging-ai-bridge-classical-arabic/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/altammami-2022-challenging-transformer-based-models-classical/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Challenging the Transformer-based models with a Classical Arabic dataset: Quran and Hadith](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/altammami-2022-challenging-transformer-based-models-classical/)** *(2022 · 6 citations)* Transformer models score near or above human level on popular similarity benchmarks. The authors argue these scores overstate real understanding for two reasons. Random train/test splits leak instances between sets, and benchmark sentences are easy to read. Both problems are worse for Classical Arabic, which has few… 2. **[Leveraging AI to Bridge Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic for Text Simplification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/altammami-2025-leveraging-ai-bridge-classical-arabic/)** *(2025)* Classical Arabic (CA), the language of the Quran and Hadith, uses archaic vocabulary and dense syntax. Many of its words and constructions have no counterpart in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and LLMs trained on modern text handle it poorly. Arabic simplification corpora also exist only for contemporary MSA material.… ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Eric Atwell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-atwell/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read).