Omar Elshehy
Omar Elshehy has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on Semitic languages, Language models & pretraining, Evaluation & benchmarks; often with Omer Nacar, Khloud Al Jallad, Abdelbasset Djamai.
OpenAlex · h-index 2 · 10 works · 14 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14
📄 3 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 16 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9338
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📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Computer Science · 3 worksArtificial Intelligence · 3 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksInformation Systems · 1 work
🧭 Topics 4Research subjects and languages the work is about.Semitic languages · 3 worksEvaluation & benchmarks · 1 workLanguage models & pretraining · 1 workInformation retrieval & search · 1 work
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2020s
Papers
- Towards Inclusive Arabic LLMs: A Culturally Aligned Benchmark in Arabic Large Language Model Evaluation (2025 · 14 citations)
Arabic LLMs are often scored on translated Western benchmarks, so their grasp of Arab cultural, religious and social context is never really tested. - AraModernBERT: Transtokenized Initialization and Long-Context Encoder Modeling for Arabic (2026 · 2 citations)
Modern encoder designs such as ModernBERT have mostly been built and tested for English. Classic Arabic BERT models are still limited to 512 tokens and use absolute positions. The authors port ModernBERT to Arabic as AraModernBERT, a ~149M-parameter encoder that reads up to 8,192 tokens natively. It uses a new Arabic… - GATE-Reranker: A Strong Arabic Cross-Encoder for Document Reranking (2026)
Arabic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems often use a second-stage neural reranker. Most strong rerankers are multilingual or English-trained, and their score reliability on Arabic has received little study. The authors present GATE-Reranker, a compact Arabic cross-encoder. It starts from the…
Co-authors here
- Omer Nacar ×3
- Khloud Al Jallad ×2
- Abdelbasset Djamai
- Adel Ammar
- Anis Koubaa
- Mohamed Zaytoon
- Nour Qandos
- Samar Ahmed
- Serry Sibaee
- Yasser Alhabashi
Venues
- Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script: Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script 2026
- Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages: Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages 2025
- Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks: Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools with Shared Tasks 2026
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