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Imad Afyouni

Imad Afyouni has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2024, most of them on Semitic languages, Language models & pretraining, Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP; often with Ashraf Elnagar, Khalid Almubarak, Pierre Nugues.

2 papers in our library · 2022–2024

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 17 · 75 works · 1,028 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 12 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8133

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 Affiliations

🎓University of SharjahSharjah · United Arab Emirates2017–2026 · 50 paperscurrent🎓Umm al-Qura UniversityMakkah al Mukarramah · Saudi Arabia2014–2017 · 12 papers🔬Institut de Recherche de l’École NavaleBrest · France2010–2017 · 8 papers🔬King Abdulaziz City for Science and TechnologyRiyadh · Saudi Arabia2014–2015 · 4 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📚 Shelves 2The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Computer Science · 2 worksComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works

🧭 Topics 5Research subjects and languages the work is about.Semitic languages · 2 worksLanguage models & pretraining · 1 workVision & language · 1 workInformation retrieval & search · 1 workMultilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20241 paper20221 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Arabic Image Captioning using Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers (2022 · 33 citations)
    The paper tackles Arabic image captioning, which lags behind English mainly because there is little public data and because Arabic morphology is complex.
  2. AraCLIP: Cross-Lingual Learning for Effective Arabic Image Retrieval (2024 · 6 citations)
    AraCLIP targets text-to-image retrieval with Arabic queries. Most CLIP-style systems are English-centric, and multilingual alternatives handle Arabic's morphology and cultural vocabulary only loosely. The authors do not retrain CLIP contrastively. Instead they use Knowledge Distillation: the English CLIP text encoder…

 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 12 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 6 citing papers with a page here →.

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