--- title: "Watheq Mansour — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Watheq Mansour, The University of Queensland: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2025), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/watheq-mansour/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/watheq-mansour/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Watheq Mansour # Watheq Mansour Watheq Mansour has 5 papers in our library, in 2021–2025, 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/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Tamer Elsayed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamer-elsayed/), [Rana Malhas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rana-malhas/), [Abdulaziz Al-Ali](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdulaziz-al-ali/). 5 papers in our library · 2021–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5051977375) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9463-595X) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5051977375) · [22 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051977375) · [182 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051977375&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/watheq-mansour/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 84 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/watheq-mansour/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6653](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/67/#star-6653) 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=Watheq+Mansour) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Watheq+Mansour) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Watheq+Mansour) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Watheq+Mansour) ## Affiliations [🎓**The University of Queensland** Brisbane · Australia 2023–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-queensland/) · [🎓**Qatar University** Doha · Qatar 2021–2023 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/qatar-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 7 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/) · [Information Systems · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Question answering · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Information retrieval & search · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/watheq-mansour/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/watheq-mansour/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/watheq-mansour/year/2022/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/watheq-mansour/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Qur'an QA 2023 Shared Task: Overview of Passage Retrieval and Reading Comprehension Tasks over the Holy Qur'an](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/malhas-2023-qur-qa-2023-shared-task/)** *(2023 · 33 citations)* The paper reports on the second edition of the Qur'an QA shared task, held at ArabicNLP 2023. It targets question answering over the Holy Qur'an, which is written in Classical Arabic while the questions are posed in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The organizers defined two sub-tasks. In passage retrieval (PR), a… 2. **[Qur'an QA 2022: Overview of The First Shared Task on Question Answering over the Holy Qur'an](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/malhas-2022-qur-qa-2022-overview-first/)** *(2022 · 32 citations)* Qur'an QA 2022 was the first shared task on extractive question answering over the Holy Qur'an. It was organized to push Arabic machine reading comprehension (MRC) forward on a hard domain. Systems receive a passage of consecutive verses in Classical Arabic and a question in Modern Standard Arabic. They must return… 3. **[AraFacts: The First Large Arabic Dataset of Naturally Occurring Claims](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ali-2021-arafacts-first-large-arabic-dataset/)** *(2021 · 27 citations)* Automated fact-checking for Arabic has been held back by the lack of suitable data. Several Arabic fact-checking outlets publish verdicts written by journalists, but their results are scattered across sites that each use their own rating scale. The authors built AraFacts by crawling five such sites and collecting… 4. **[IslamicEval 2025: The First Shared Task of Capturing LLMs Hallucination in Islamic Content](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mubarak-2025-islamiceval-2025-first-shared-task/)** *(2025 · 19 citations)* LLMs used for Arabic religious questions often misquote or invent Qur'anic verses and Hadiths. IslamicEval 2025 is the first shared task built around measuring and catching such errors. It has two parts. 5. **[Burhan at IslamicEval: Fact-Augmented and LLM-Driven Retrieval for Islamic QA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/basheer-2025-burhan-islamiceval-fact-augmented-llm/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* This paper describes the Burhan team's system for IslamicEval 2025 Subtask 2. The task is to return a ranked list of up to 20 Qur'anic passages or Sahih Bukhari Hadith that answer a Modern Standard Arabic question. The system should return nothing when no answer exists. A major difficulty is the gap in wording… ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Tamer Elsayed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamer-elsayed/) ×4 - [Rana Malhas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rana-malhas/) ×3 - [Abdulaziz Al-Ali](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdulaziz-al-ali/) - [Abubakr Mohamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abubakr-mohamed/) - [Hamdy Mubarak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamdy-mubarak/) - [Kareem Darwish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kareem-darwish/) - [Mahmoud Fawzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mahmoud-fawzi/) - [Majd Hawasly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/majd-hawasly/) - [Walid Magdy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walid-magdy/) - [Zien Sheikh Ali](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zien-sheikh-ali/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/) ×3: [ArabicNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2025/) ×2, [ArabicNLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2023/) - [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/): [Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/osact/2022/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/): [WANLP 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 84 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [52 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/watheq-mansour/cited-by/). 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