--- title: "Tarek Naous — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Tarek Naous, Georgia Institute of Technology: 6 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2025), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tarek-naous/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tarek-naous/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tarek Naous # Tarek Naous Tarek Naous has 6 papers in our library, in 2020–2025, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Wei Hong Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-hong-xu/), [Alan Ritter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-ritter/), [Hazem Hajj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-hajj/). 6 papers in our library · 2020–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5037533418) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0049-9318) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5037533418) · [41 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5037533418) · [807 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5037533418&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 6 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tarek-naous/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 272 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tarek-naous/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4565](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/46/#star-4565) 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=Tarek+Naous) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tarek+Naous) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tarek+Naous) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tarek+Naous) ## Affiliations [🎓**Georgia Institute of Technology** Atlanta · United States 2022–2026 · 26 papersEducation since 2022 · PhD in Machine Learning, Electrical and Computer Engineering*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgia-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**American University of Beirut** Beirut · Lebanon 2020–2023 · 8 papersEducation 2020–2022 · M.E. in Electrical and Computer EngineeringEmployment since 2022 · Graduate Research Assistant, Electrical and Computer Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/american-university-of-beirut/) · [🎓**Beirut Arab University** Beirut · Lebanon 2015–2020 · 4 papersEducation 2015–2020 · B.E. in Communications and Electronics Engineering](https://ror.org/02jya5567) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) 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 9 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 · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Safety Research · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 6 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Language models & pretraining · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Dialogue systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tarek-naous/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tarek-naous/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tarek-naous/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tarek-naous/year/2022/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tarek-naous/year/2021/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tarek-naous/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Having Beer after Prayer? Measuring Cultural Bias in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naous-2023-having-beer-after-prayer-measuring/)** *(2023 · 272 citations)* Large language models are deployed worldwide, yet even in Arabic they often fall back on Western cultural content. 2. **[Having Beer after Prayer? Measuring Cultural Bias in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naous-2024-having-beer-after-prayer-measuring/)** *(2024 · 96 citations)* Language models now serve users worldwide, but it is seldom checked whether they adapt to the cultural setting a non-English prompt implies. 3. **[Empathy-driven Arabic Conversational Chatbot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naous-2020-empathy-driven-arabic-conversational-chatbot/)** *(2020 · 23 citations)* Arabic had no chatbot that could notice a user's emotional state and reply with empathy, and no conversational data labeled for empathy. 4. **[Empathetic BERT2BERT Conversational Model: Learning Arabic Language Generation with Little Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naous-2021-empathetic-bert2bert-conversational-model-learning/)** *(2021 · 20 citations)* Arabic NLP has strong understanding models such as AraBERT, but generating text, especially open-domain dialogue, is still difficult. 5. **[Stanceosaurus: Classifying Stance Towards Multicultural Misinformation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zheng-2022-stanceosaurus-classifying-stance-multicultural-misinformation/)** *(2022 · 16 citations)* Stanceosaurus is a Twitter corpus for detecting how posts relate to false claims. Earlier misinformation stance datasets mostly covered Western events or a handful of topics. This one contains 28,033 tweets in English, Hindi and Arabic. Each tweet is manually labeled for its stance toward one of 251 claims drawn from… 6. **[On The Origin of Cultural Biases in Language Models: From Pre-training Data to Linguistic Phenomena](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naous-2025-origin-cultural-biases-language-models/)** *(2025 · 15 citations)* Earlier work found that multilingual LMs handle Western entities better than Arab ones when working in Arabic. ## All works 7 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. **[Having Beer after Prayer? Measuring Cultural Bias in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naous-2023-having-beer-after-prayer-measuring/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Tarek Naous, Michael J. Ryan, Alan Ritter, et al.*2023 · 272 citations* 2. **[Having Beer after Prayer? Measuring Cultural Bias in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naous-2024-having-beer-after-prayer-measuring/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Tarek Naous, Michael J Ryan, Alan Ritter, et al.*2024 · 96 citations* 3. **[Revisiting non-English Text Simplification: A Unified Multilingual Benchmark ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.269/) Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Michael J Ryan, Tarek Naous, Wei Xu*2023 · 62 citations* 4. **[Empathy-driven Arabic Conversational Chatbot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naous-2020-empathy-driven-arabic-conversational-chatbot/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Tarek Naous, Christian Hokayem, Hazem Hajj*2020 · 23 citations* 5. **[Empathetic BERT2BERT Conversational Model: Learning Arabic Language Generation with Little Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naous-2021-empathetic-bert2bert-conversational-model-learning/) [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/)**Tarek Naous, Wissam Antoun, Reem Mahmoud, et al.*2021 · 20 citations* 6. **[Stanceosaurus: Classifying Stance Towards Multicultural Misinformation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zheng-2022-stanceosaurus-classifying-stance-multicultural-misinformation/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Jonathan Zheng, Ashutosh Baheti, Tarek Naous, et al.*2022 · 16 citations* 7. **[On The Origin of Cultural Biases in Language Models: From Pre-training Data to Linguistic Phenomena](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naous-2025-origin-cultural-biases-language-models/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Tarek Naous, Wei Xu*2025 · 15 citations* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Wei Hong Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-hong-xu/) ×4 - [Alan Ritter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-ritter/) ×3 - [Hazem Hajj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hazem-hajj/) ×2 - [Michael J. Ryan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-j-ryan/) ×2 - [Reem Mahmoud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/reem-mahmoud/) - [Wissam Antoun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wissam-antoun/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×3: [ACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/), [ACL 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2023/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/) ×2: [WANLP 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2021/), [WANLP 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2020/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2022/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 272 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [92 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tarek-naous/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026