--- title: "Umm al-Qura University — research, people and papers" description: "Umm al-Qura University (Makkah al Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia): 7 works on the Elamur Research site, 1 people with a page, 87 citations; its topics, units…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/umm-al-qura-university/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/umm-al-qura-university/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [institutions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/orgs/) / [universities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/) / Umm al-Qura University # Umm al-Qura University University · UQU [Makkah al Mukarramah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/mecca/), [Saudi Arabia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/saudi-arabia/)in the agglomeration of [Mecca](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/mecca/) - [Website](https://uqu.edu.sa/english) - [ROR](https://ror.org/01xjqrm90) - [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I199693650) - [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3133606) [**7** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/umm-al-qura-university/#works) · [**4** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/umm-al-qura-university/#authors) · [**87** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/umm-al-qura-university/#works) · [**31** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/umm-al-qura-university/#works) ## People (4) Authors with a page here who worked or studied at Umm al-Qura University: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations. ### Core (1) Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work. - [Ayman Alghamdi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ayman-alghamdi/) — current · 2016–2019 on 4 papers · 2 papers here · 8 citations **Also published with this affiliation (3)** Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work. - [Rayed Ghazawi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rayed-ghazawi/) — current · 2025 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 22 citations - [Hind Alamro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hind-alamro/) — current · 2021–2024 on 4 papers · 2 papers here · 44 citations - [Fatimah Alzamzami](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fatimah-alzamzami/) — 2008–2016 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 5 citations ## Works in our library (7) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). - [Large Arabic Twitter Dataset on COVID-19](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alqurashi-2020-large-arabic-twitter-dataset-covid/) — Sarah Alqurashi, Ahmad Alhindi, Eisa Alanazi · 2020 · 46 citations - [Arabic Tweet-Act: Speech Act Recognition for Arabic Asynchronous Conversations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/algotiml-2019-arabic-tweet-act-speech-act/) — Bushra Algotiml, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Walid Magdy · 2019 · 18 citations - [How well can LLMs Grade Essays in Arabic?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghazawi-2025-well-llms-grade-essays-arabic/) — Rayed Ghazawi, Edwin Simpson · 2025 · 11 citations - [FloDusTA: Saudi Tweets Dataset for Flood, Dust Storm, and Traffic Accident Events](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hamoui-2020-flodusta-saudi-tweets-dataset-flood/) — Btool Hamoui, Mourad Mars, Khaled Almotairi · 2020 · 6 citations - [An Empirical Study of Arabic Formulaic Sequence Extraction Methods](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alghamdi-2016-empirical-study-arabic-formulaic-sequence/) — Ayman Alghamdi, Eric Atwell, Claire Brierley · 2016 · 5 citations - [Investigating Persuasion Techniques in Arabic: An Empirical Study Leveraging Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alzahrani-2024-investigating-persuasion-techniques-arabic-empirical/) — Abdurahmman Alzahrani, Eyad Babkier, Faisal Yanbaawi, et al. · 2024 · 1 citation - [GHAD NLP at AdabEval2026: Transformer-Based Approach for Arabic Politeness and Pragmatic Category Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alfattni-2026-ghad-nlp-adabeval2026-transformer-based/) — Ghada Alfattni, Ghader Kurdi · 2026 ## Topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Semitic languages (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) ## Fields [Linguistics & languages (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) ## Collaborates with Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share. [University of Edinburgh 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) [University of Leeds 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-leeds/) [University of Bristol 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-bristol/) [Jazan University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/jazan-university/) Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at Umm al-Qura University; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.