🧑‍🔬 Khalid Alnajjar

Affiliations

• Riyadh Elm University · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — current · 2026 on 1 paper
• F-Secure (Finland) · Helsinki, Finland — 2024 on 1 paper · employment (Wikidata)
• University of Helsinki · Helsinki, Finland — 2016–2022 on 71 papers · education (Wikidata)
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Paris, France — 2022 on 2 papers
• Helsinki Institute for Information Technology · Espoo, Finland — 2017–2020 on 6 papers
• University of Wollongong · Wollongong, Australia — education (Wikidata)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

Topics

Semitic languages2Question answering1Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP1

Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Automated Prediction of Medieval Arabic Diacritics (2020 · 3 citations)
   Arabic is normally written without diacritics, the marks that encode short vowels, gemination and similar features.
2. Harnessing Multilingual Resources to Question Answering in Arabic (2022 · 1 citation)
   The paper addresses extractive question answering over the Qur'an for the Qur'an QA 2022 shared task. Given a question and a Qur'anic passage, the system must locate the start and end of the answer span. The public part of the QRCD dataset is small, and the authors work around this in three ways:

Also in our library

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Co-authors here

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

• Mika Hamalainen ×2
• Jack Rueter

Cited by

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