--- title: "Yassine Toughrai — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Yassine Toughrai, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yassine-toughrai/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yassine-toughrai/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yassine Toughrai # Yassine Toughrai Yassine Toughrai has 2 papers in our library, in 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/); often with [David Langlois](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-langlois/), [Kamel Smaïli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kamel-smaili/). 2 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5124012633) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6188-9100) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5124012633) · [10 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5124012633) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5124012633&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yassine-toughrai/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 4 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yassine-toughrai/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13201](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/133/#star-13201) 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=Yassine+Toughrai) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yassine+Toughrai) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yassine+Toughrai) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yassine+Toughrai) ## Affiliations [🔬**Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications** Nancy · France 2023–2026 · 5 papersEmployment since 2023 · PhD Student*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-lorrain-de-recherche-en-informatique-et-ses-applications/) · [🎓**Université de Lorraine** Nancy · France 2022–2026 · 4 papersEmployment since 2022*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-lorraine/) · [🎓**Monash University** Melbourne · Australia 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/monash-university/) · [🎓**Monash University, Indonesia** Tangerang · Indonesia 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/monash-university-indonesia/) · [🔬**Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique** Paris · France 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 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/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yassine-toughrai/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ABDUL: A New Approach to Build Language Models for Dialects Using Formal Language Corpora Only](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toughrai-2025-abdul-new-approach-build-language/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* North African Arabic dialects (Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian) have little training data, no standard orthography, and many loanwords. 2. **[Modeling North African Dialects from Standard Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/toughrai-2025-modeling-north-african-dialects-standard/)** *(2025)* North African Arabic dialects such as Algerian and Moroccan have very little text, mix freely with French, and appear in both Arabic and Latin script. The authors ask whether useful encoders for these dialects can be built without any dialect data. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [David Langlois](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-langlois/) ×2 - [Kamel Smaïli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kamel-smaili/) ×2 ## 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/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/): [ArabicNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2025/) - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Language Models for Underserved Communities (LM4UC 2025) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 4 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yassine-toughrai/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026