--- title: "Sultan Alrowili — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Sultan Alrowili, IBM: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2026), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sultan-alrowili/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sultan-alrowili/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sultan Alrowili # Sultan Alrowili Sultan Alrowili has 5 papers in our library, in 2021–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [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/); often with [K. Vijay-Shanker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/k-vijay-shanker/), [Abdelrahim Qaddoumi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdelrahim-qaddoumi/), [Abderrahmane Issam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abderrahmane-issam/). 5 papers in our library · 2021–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5023462766) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5023462766) · [17 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023462766) · [83 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023462766&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sultan-alrowili/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 9 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sultan-alrowili/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10185](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/102/#star-10185) 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=Sultan+Alrowili) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sultan+Alrowili) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sultan+Alrowili) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sultan+Alrowili) ## Affiliations [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**University of Delaware** Newark · United States 2021–2023 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-delaware/) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Question answering · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sultan-alrowili/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sultan-alrowili/year/2023/) · [**2022** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sultan-alrowili/year/2022/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sultan-alrowili/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ArabicTransformer: Efficient Large Arabic Language Model with Funnel Transformer and ELECTRA Objective](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alrowili-2021-arabictransformer-efficient-large-arabic-language/)** *(2021 · 8 citations)* Pre-training large Transformer encoders for Arabic, as done for AraBERT and AraELECTRA, is expensive. That cost puts large models out of reach for many research groups. The authors look for an architecture that grows capacity without raising pre-training cost. They combine Funnel Transformer with the ELECTRA… 2. **[Generative Approach for Gender-Rewriting Task with ArabicT5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alrowili-2022-generative-approach-gender-rewriting-task/)** *(2022 · 7 citations)* The paper addresses Arabic gender rewriting. The task is to change a sentence so that first- and second-person references (I/you) match a requested gender combination, using the APGC corpus. The prior state of the art, the multi-step model of Alhafni et al., chains four components: gender identification, a… 3. **[The Shared Task on Gender Rewriting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alhafni-2022-shared-task-gender-rewriting/)** *(2022 · 3 citations)* This paper reports on a shared task, held at WANLP 2022, on gender rewriting for Modern Standard Arabic. The task takes a sentence and produces versions that fit each combination of speaker gender and listener gender. In Arabic, words that refer to the first or second person carry grammatical gender, so a system that… 4. **[ArTrivia: Harvesting Arabic Wikipedia to Build A New Arabic Question Answering Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alrowili-2023-artrivia-harvesting-arabic-wikipedia-build/)** *(2023 · 2 citations)* Arabic extractive QA datasets suffer from three problems: narrow topical coverage (few source articles), skewed question patterns from crowd workers (about a third of Arabic TyDi questions simply ask what or who an entity is), and small size due to crowd-sourcing costs. 5. **[AraVQA: Building a New Arabic Factoid Visual Question Answering Dataset from Wikipedia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alrowili-2026-aravqa-building-new-arabic-factoid/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Arabic vision–language models have few resources for testing encyclopedic, fact-based knowledge. Existing Arabic VQA sets mostly cover culture or dialects, are small and hand-curated, or are not public. The authors built an automatic pipeline over the Arabic Wikipedia dump. It uses MediaWiki template tags to split… ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [K. Vijay-Shanker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/k-vijay-shanker/) ×3 - [Abdelrahim Qaddoumi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdelrahim-qaddoumi/) - [Abderrahmane Issam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abderrahmane-issam/) - [Abed Alhakim Freihat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abed-alhakim-freihat/) - [Ahmed ElBakry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-elbakry/) - [Bashar Alhafni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bashar-alhafni/) - [Daliyah Alzeer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daliyah-alzeer/) - [Houda Bouamor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houda-bouamor/) - [Mohamed Gabr](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-gabr/) - [Muhammad ElNokrashy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-elnokrashy/) - [Nizar Habash](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/) - [Ossama Obeid](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ossama-obeid/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/) ×2: [WANLP 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2022/) ×2 - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [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/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 9 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sultan-alrowili/cited-by/). 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