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Tarek Naous

Tarek Naous has 6 papers in our library, in 2020–2025, most of them on Semitic languages, Language models & pretraining, Bias, fairness & safety; often with Wei Hong Xu, Alan Ritter, Hazem Hajj.

6 papers in our library · 2020–2025

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 13 · 41 works · 807 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 6 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 272 times in our library · 1 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4109

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 Affiliations

🎓Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta · United States2022–2026 · 26 papersEducation since 2022 · PhD in Machine Learning, Electrical and Computer Engineeringcurrent🎓American University of BeirutBeirut · Lebanon2020–2023 · 8 papersEducation 2020–2022 · M.E. in Electrical and Computer EngineeringEmployment since 2022 · Graduate Research Assistant, Electrical and Computer Engineering🎓Beirut Arab UniversityBeirut · Lebanon2015–2020 · 4 papersEducation 2015–2020 · B.E. in Communications and Electronics Engineering🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States2023–2024 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📚 Shelves 9The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 6 worksComputer Science · 6 worksArts and Humanities · 5 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 5 worksSocial Sciences · 3 worksSafety Research · 2 worksSociology and Political Science · 1 workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 workPsychology · 1 work

🧭 Topics 5Research subjects and languages the work is about.Semitic languages · 6 worksBias, fairness & safety · 3 worksLanguage models & pretraining · 3 worksDialogue systems · 2 worksText generation · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20251 paper20241 paper20231 paper20221 paper20211 paper20201 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Having Beer after Prayer? Measuring Cultural Bias in Large Language Models (2023 · 273 citations)
    Large language models are deployed worldwide, yet even in Arabic they often fall back on Western cultural content.
  2. Having Beer after Prayer? Measuring Cultural Bias in Large Language Models (2024 · 95 citations)
    Language models now serve users worldwide, but it is seldom checked whether they adapt to the cultural setting a non-English prompt implies.
  3. Empathy-driven Arabic Conversational Chatbot (2020 · 23 citations)
    Arabic had no chatbot that could notice a user's emotional state and reply with empathy, and no conversational data labeled for empathy.
  4. Empathetic BERT2BERT Conversational Model: Learning Arabic Language Generation with Little Data (2021 · 20 citations)
    Arabic NLP has strong understanding models such as AraBERT, but generating text, especially open-domain dialogue, is still difficult.
  5. Stanceosaurus: Classifying Stance Towards Multicultural Misinformation (2022 · 16 citations)
    Stanceosaurus is a Twitter corpus for detecting how posts relate to false claims. Earlier misinformation stance datasets mostly covered Western events or a handful of topics. This one contains 28,033 tweets in English, Hindi and Arabic. Each tweet is manually labeled for its stance toward one of 251 claims drawn from…
  6. On The Origin of Cultural Biases in Language Models: From Pre-training Data to Linguistic Phenomena (2025 · 15 citations)
    Earlier work found that multilingual LMs handle Western entities better than Arab ones when working in Arabic.

All works

7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 6 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Having Beer after Prayer? Measuring Cultural Bias in Large Language ModelsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Tarek Naous, Michael J. Ryan, Alan Ritter, et al.2023 · 273 citations
  2. Having Beer after Prayer? Measuring Cultural Bias in Large Language ModelsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Tarek Naous, Michael J Ryan, Alan Ritter, et al.2024 · 95 citations
  3. Revisiting non-English Text Simplification: A Unified Multilingual Benchmark ↗Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yetMichael J Ryan, Tarek Naous, Wei Xu2023 · 62 citations
  4. Empathy-driven Arabic Conversational ChatbotArabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)Tarek Naous, Christian Hokayem, Hazem Hajj2020 · 23 citations
  5. Empathetic BERT2BERT Conversational Model: Learning Arabic Language Generation with Little DataArabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)Tarek Naous, Wissam Antoun, Reem Mahmoud, et al.2021 · 20 citations
  6. Stanceosaurus: Classifying Stance Towards Multicultural MisinformationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Jonathan Zheng, Ashutosh Baheti, Tarek Naous, et al.2022 · 16 citations
  7. On The Origin of Cultural Biases in Language Models: From Pre-training Data to Linguistic PhenomenaConference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)Tarek Naous, Wei Xu2025 · 15 citations

 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 272 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 86 citing papers with a page here →.

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