--- title: "Simon Dobnik — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg: 6 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2026), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-dobnik/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-dobnik/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Simon Dobnik # Simon Dobnik Simon Dobnik has 6 papers in our library, in 2017–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Kathrein Abu Kwaik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathrein-abu-kwaik/), [Stergios Chatzikyriakidis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stergios-chatzikyriakidis/), [Motaz Saad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/motaz-saad/). 6 papers in our library · 2017–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5014291440) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4019-7966) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57417942) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5014291440) · [92 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014291440) · [832 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014291440&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 6 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-dobnik/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 71 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-dobnik/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5899](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/59/#star-5899) 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=Simon+Dobnik) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Simon+Dobnik) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Simon+Dobnik) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Simon+Dobnik) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Gothenburg** Gothenburg · Sweden 2012–2026 · 46 papersEmployment since 2020 · Professor of Computational Linguistics, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-gothenburg/) · [🎓**University of Oxford** Oxford · United Kingdom 2002–2010 · 3 papersEducation until 2010](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) · [🔬**Språkbanken Text** Gothenburg 2024 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03xfh2n14) 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. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 6 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 6 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 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.[Semitic languages · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-dobnik/year/2026/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-dobnik/year/2022/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-dobnik/year/2020/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-dobnik/year/2019/) · [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-dobnik/year/2018/) · [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-dobnik/year/2017/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Shami: A Corpus of Levantine Arabic Dialects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwaik-2018-shami-corpus-levantine-arabic-dialects/)** *(2018 · 95 citations)* Arabic NLP tools are built mostly for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), but everyday online writing uses regional dialects that differ from MSA in vocabulary and usage. 2. **[An Arabic Tweets Sentiment Analysis Dataset (ATSAD) using Distant Supervision and Self Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwaik-2020-arabic-tweets-sentiment-analysis-dataset/)** *(2020 · 38 citations)* Arabic sentiment analysis lacks social-media resources that are both large and reliably labelled. Existing corpora are often small, limited to one dialect, unbalanced, or labelled in ways that distort the original text. The authors build ATSAD, a Twitter corpus of 36K Arabic tweets marked as positive or negative.… 3. **[Identification of Languages in Algerian Arabic Multilingual Documents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adouane-2017-identification-languages-algerian-arabic-multilingual/)** *(2017 · 35 citations)* Social media posts by Algerian Arabic speakers often switch between several languages within one text, while most NLP tools assume a document is in a single language. 4. **[Can Modern Standard Arabic Approaches be used for Arabic Dialects? Sentiment Analysis as a Case Study](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwaik-2019-can-modern-standard-arabic-approaches/)** *(2019 · 6 citations)* The paper asks whether sentiment classifiers built for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) still work on dialectal Arabic (DA), or whether each dialect needs its own models. 5. **[Pre-trained Models or Feature Engineering: The Case of Dialectal Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwaik-2022-pre-trained-models-or-feature/)** *(2022 · 2 citations)* Published work on Arabic dialects reports results on corpora that differ in size, dialect coverage and quality, so it is hard to say whether neural models really beat classic classifiers on Dialectal Arabic. 6. **[Birds of a Feather: Do Embedding Representations of Personal Information Flock Together?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/szawerna-2026-birds-feather-do-embedding-representations/)** *(2026)* Automatic de-identification usually relies on embedding representations to find and classify personal information (PI). ## All works 9 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 6 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Shami: A Corpus of Levantine Arabic Dialects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwaik-2018-shami-corpus-levantine-arabic-dialects/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Kathrein Abu Kwaik, Motaz Saad, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, et al.*2018 · 95 citations* 2. **[An Arabic Tweets Sentiment Analysis Dataset (ATSAD) using Distant Supervision and Self Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwaik-2020-arabic-tweets-sentiment-analysis-dataset/) [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/)**Kathrein Abu Kwaik, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Simon Dobnik, et al.*2020 · 38 citations* 3. **[Identification of Languages in Algerian Arabic Multilingual Documents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adouane-2017-identification-languages-algerian-arabic-multilingual/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Wafia Adouane, Simon Dobnik*2017 · 35 citations* 4. **[Can Modern Standard Arabic Approaches be used for Arabic Dialects? Sentiment Analysis as a Case Study](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwaik-2019-can-modern-standard-arabic-approaches/) [Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wacl/)**Kathrein Abu Kwaik, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Simon Dobnik*2019 · 6 citations* 5. **[Did the Names I Used within My Essay Affect My Score? Diagnosing Name Biases in Automated Essay Scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.caldpseudo-1.10/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization (CALD-pseudo 2024) · no summary yet**Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez et al.*2024 · 3 citations* 6. **[Detecting Personal Identifiable Information in Swedish Learner Essays ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.caldpseudo-1.7/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization (CALD-pseudo 2024) · no summary yet**Maria Irena Szawerna et al.*2024 · 3 citations* 7. **[The Devil's in the Details: the Detailedness of Classes Influences Personal Information Detection and Labeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.nodalida-1.70/) Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025) · no summary yet**Maria Irena Szawerna et al.*2025 · 2 citations* 8. **[Pre-trained Models or Feature Engineering: The Case of Dialectal Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwaik-2022-pre-trained-models-or-feature/) [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/)**Kathrein Abu Kwaik, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Simon Dobnik*2022 · 2 citations* 9. **[Birds of a Feather: Do Embedding Representations of Personal Information Flock Together?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/szawerna-2026-birds-feather-do-embedding-representations/) [Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/legal/)**Maria Irena Szawerna, Simon Dobnik*2026* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Kathrein Abu Kwaik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kathrein-abu-kwaik/) ×4 - [Stergios Chatzikyriakidis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stergios-chatzikyriakidis/) ×4 - [Motaz Saad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/motaz-saad/) ×2 - [Maria Irena Szawerna](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-irena-szawerna/) - [Richard Johansson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-johansson/) - [Wafia Adouane](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wafia-adouane/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/) ×2: [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/2022/), [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/2020/) - Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization (CALD-pseudo 2024) ×2 - [Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/legal/): [Joint Workshop on Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies and Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, Anonymization, De-identification, and Data Privacy @ LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/legal/2026/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2018/) - [Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wacl/): [Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wacl/2019/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/): [WANLP 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2017/) - Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 71 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [45 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-dobnik/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026