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Mohamad Ballout

Mohamad Ballout has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on Semitic languages, Language models & pretraining, Question answering; often with Chadi Abou Chakra, Elia Bruni, Fadi Zaraket.

2 papers in our library · 2025–2026

OpenAlex · h-index 4 · 21 works · 33 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 6 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12020

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 Affiliations

🎓Osnabrück UniversityOsnabrück · Germany2023–2026 · 10 paperscurrent🎓American University of BeirutBeirut · Lebanon2020–2026 · 2 paperscurrent

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 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📚 Shelves 5The 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 work

🧭 Topics 5Research subjects and languages the work is about.Semitic languages · 2 worksInformation retrieval & search · 1 workQuestion answering · 1 workLanguage models & pretraining · 1 workTokenization & segmentation · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20261 paper20251 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Transformer Tafsir at QIAS 2025 Shared Task: Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Islamic Knowledge Question Answering (2025 · 3 citations)
    The paper describes a system for the QIAS 2025 shared task, which tests how well LLMs answer multiple-choice questions on Islamic knowledge in Arabic.
  2. NeoAraBERT: A Modern Foundation Model for Arabic Embeddings with Diacritics-Aware Tokenization and POS-Targeted Masking (2026 · 1 citation)
    Arabic text encoders such as AraBERT, ARBERT and MARBERT still use older BERT-era designs. They lack rotary positions, SwiGLU and Pre-RMSNorm, and they largely ignore diacritics. The authors port the NeoBERT architecture to Arabic and pre-train it on a deduplicated corpus that mixes MSA, Classical Arabic and…

 Co-authors here

6 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 6 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 4 citing papers with a page here →.

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