--- title: "Youssef Mellah — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Youssef Mellah, Mohamed I University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/youssef-mellah/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/youssef-mellah/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Youssef Mellah # Youssef Mellah Youssef Mellah has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, 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/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5066467361) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9837-5702) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5066467361) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066467361) · [84 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066467361&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/youssef-mellah/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/youssef-mellah/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11573](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/116/#star-11573) 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=Youssef+Mellah) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Youssef+Mellah) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Youssef+Mellah) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Youssef+Mellah) ## Affiliations [🎓**Mohamed I University** Oujda · Morocco 2020–2026 · 14 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mohamed-i-university/) · [🏢**John Snow** Boston · United States 2023 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/05pgv5n44) 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 3 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/youssef-mellah/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/youssef-mellah/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Automated De-Identification of Arabic Medical Records](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kocaman-2023-automated-de-identification-arabic-medical/)** *(2023 · 6 citations)* The paper builds what it presents as the first automated pipeline for removing personal health information from Arabic clinical text. 2. **[LARSA22 at Qur'an QA 2022: Text-to-Text Transformer for Finding Answers to Questions from Qur'an](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mellah-2022-larsa22-qur-qa-2022-text/)** *(2022 · 1 citation)* The paper describes the LARSA22 team's entry to the Qur'an QA 2022 shared task. Given a question in Modern Standard Arabic and a passage of Qur'anic verses in Classical Arabic, a system must return up to five ranked answer spans taken from the passage. The authors argue that Arabic QA lags behind English because… ## 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/): [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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2 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/youssef-mellah/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026