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# Tarek El-Shishtawy

Tarek El-Shishtawy has 2 papers in our library, in 2012–2014, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/), [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/); often with [Fatma El-Ghannam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fatma-el-ghannam/). 2 of them are among the papers [Mova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/projects/mova/) reads.

2 papers in our library · 2012–2014

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[2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tarek-el-shishtawy/#papers) · [7 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tarek-el-shishtawy/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4479](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/45/#star-4479)

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## Topics

[Semitic languages 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Summarization 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Morphology 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Information retrieval & search 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/)

## Works by year

### 2010s

[**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/el-shishtawy-2014-lemma-based-evaluator-semitic-language/) · [**2012** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/el-shishtawy-2012-accurate-arabic-root-based-lemmatizer/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[An Accurate Arabic Root-Based Lemmatizer for Information Retrieval Purposes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/el-shishtawy-2012-accurate-arabic-root-based-lemmatizer/)** *(2012 · 30 citations)* The authors build a rule-based Arabic lemmatizer for information retrieval, without statistics. It starts from the open-source Khoja stemmer, which has a root list of about 3,800 tri-literal and 900 quad-literal roots, and adds a closed-class word list (346 words in 16 groups), a proper-noun list, a list of 61…
2. **[A Lemma Based Evaluator for Semitic Language Text Summarization Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/el-shishtawy-2014-lemma-based-evaluator-semitic-language/)** *(2014 · 7 citations)* The paper asks how to score automatic summaries of Arabic when the same meaning is written in many inflected forms.

## Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Fatma El-Ghannam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fatma-el-ghannam/) ×2

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 7 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tarek-el-shishtawy/cited-by/).