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# Taha Tobaili

Taha Tobaili has 3 papers in our library, in 2016–2020, 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/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/); often with [Goran Glavaš](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/goran-glavas/), [Hazem Hajj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-hajj/).

3 papers in our library · 2016–2020

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5039639635) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5039639635) · [6 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039639635) · [18 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039639635&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taha-tobaili/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 12 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taha-tobaili/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9717](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/98/#star-9717)

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=Taha+Tobaili) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Taha+Tobaili) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Taha+Tobaili) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Taha+Tobaili)

## 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/)

🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Morphology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taha-tobaili/year/2020/)

### 2010s

[**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taha-tobaili/year/2019/) · [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taha-tobaili/year/2016/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Arabizi Identification in Twitter Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tobaili-2016-arabizi-identification-twitter-data/)** *(2016 · 15 citations)* The paper tackles a gap in Arabic social-media processing: telling apart tweets in Arabizi (dialectal Arabic typed in Latin letters, with no fixed spelling) from English and other Latin-script tweets.
2. **[SenZi: A Sentiment Analysis Lexicon for the Latinised Arabic (Arabizi)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tobaili-2019-senzi-sentiment-analysis-lexicon-latinised/)** *(2019 · 14 citations)* Arabizi, dialectal Arabic typed in Latin letters and digits, is common on social media but has almost no NLP resources.
3. **[Lexical Induction of Morphological and Orthographic Forms for Low-Resourced Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tobaili-2020-lexical-induction-morphological-orthographic-forms/)** *(2020)* Lebanese Arabizi is dialectal Arabic typed informally in Latin letters. It has rich morphology and no agreed spelling, so a single word can appear in a very large number of written forms. The available corpus, about 53MB, is too small to train models like BERT or GPT. Tobaili therefore turns the usual approach…

## Co-authors here

2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Goran Glavaš](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/goran-glavas/)
- [Hazem Hajj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-hajj/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- [ACL Student Research Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-student-research-workshop/): [ACL Student Research Workshop 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-student-research-workshop/2016/)
- [Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/msr/): [Workshop on Multilingual Surface Realisation 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/msr/2020/)
- [Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ranlp/): [RANLP 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ranlp/2019/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 12 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taha-tobaili/cited-by/).

Updated 2 November 2026
