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Hazem Raafat

Hazem Raafat has 2 papers in our library, in 2014, most of them on Semitic languages, Morphology, Information retrieval & search; often with Mohsen Rashwan, Ahmad Al Sallab, Ahmed Rafea.

2 papers in our library · 2014

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 16 · 61 works · 794 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 4 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7565

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 Affiliations

🎓Kuwait UniversityKuwait City · Kuwait1995–2025 · 27 paperscurrent🎓University of ReginaRegina · Canada1988–2005 · 23 papers🎓University of WaterlooWaterloo · Canada1988–1995 · 2 papers

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 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksInformation Systems · 1 workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Semitic languages · 2 worksInformation retrieval & search · 1 workMorphology · 1 work

 Works by year

2010s

20142 papers

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Semantic Query Expansion for Arabic Information Retrieval (2014 · 36 citations)
    The paper addresses a weakness of plain keyword search for Arabic. It misses documents that express the query's meaning with different words, inflected forms, or more specific concepts, and ambiguous words make this worse. The authors build a query expansion layer on top of LUCENE (.Net). It draws on three resources:
  2. Automatic Arabic diacritics restoration based on deep nets (2014 · 23 citations)
    Modern Standard Arabic is usually written without diacritics, yet speech synthesis, translation and similar applications need them restored.

 Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 4 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 4 citing papers with a page here →.

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