Motasem Alrahabi

Welcome to my homepage.

I am the Director of the ObTIC Service Unit, and the Deputy Director of the Digital Humanities Initiative at Sorbonne University

My interdisciplinary background stands at the crossroads of linguistics, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). I have a PhD in Linguistic Engineering and a University Degree in Machine Learning and AI.
I have taught Digital Humanities, as well as NLP and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for language teaching, at Sorbonne University, the Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP), Sorbonne University in Abu Dhabi (SUAD), and Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ).
My research interests focus on the application of AI and NLP approaches to data analysis in the humanities disciplines.

Qualified by the French National Committee (CNU – Conseil National des Universités), Section 27 (Computer Science).

Contact: motasem.alrahabi@sorbonne-universite.fr

Main Responsibilities

• Deputy Director of the Digital Humanities Initiative at Sorbonne University (Sept. 2025 - to date).
• Director of the ObTIC Service Unit, Sorbonne University (Sept. 2025 - to date).
• Scientific Coordinator of the Team-Project ObTIC, Sorbonne University (Jan. 2021 - Aug. 2025).
• Research Engineer at the laboratory of excellence Labex OBVIL, Sorbonne University, France (Sept. 2018 - Dec. 2020).
• Lecturer in ICT for Education, SUAD (Sept. 2010 - June 2018).
• Associate lecturer in Computer Science and NLP, Paris-Sorbonne University and ICP (Sept. 2007- June 2010).
• Teaching and Research Assistant (ATER) in Computer Science, Paris-Sorbonne University (Sept. 2005 - Aug. 2007).

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Research Activities

Current Research Projects

• Digital mapping of places in literary texts (named entities, visualization...).
• Semantic and Subjectivity Analysis of texts (opinions, sentiments, perceptions, emotions...).
• The role of emotions in the early detection of psychotic disorders (medical humanities).
• Polemical style analysis in correspondence (Voltaire, Rousseau...).
• Automatic text simplification and adaptation (language learning, accessibility, readability...).
• Using new technologies and e-learning for teaching and learning.
• More projects here.

 

Organization and Co-organization of Conferences, Workshops, and Seminars

• Summer School on Digital Humanities and AI, Sorbonne University, Paris, France, June 2026, link.
• Research Seminar Series of the SU Digital Humanities Initiative link.
• Winter School on Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence, January 2026, link.
• Workshop "Mental Health and Innovation: New Technologies, New Horizons," June 2025, link.
• Winter School on Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence, January 2025, link.
• Workshop "Generative AI and Archival Data: From Research to Education" (as part of the conference AERI 2024), Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 9, 2024, link.
• Summer school "Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on NLP, AI, and Digital Humanities: Data, Applications, and Ethical Challenges," International University of Rabat, Morocco, September 4–6, 2024, link.
• Digital Humanities and NLP Summer School, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico, September 11–14, 2023, link.
• Conference "La littérature au prisme des humanités numériques," Institut d’études avancées de Paris, March 16, 2023 (brochure).
• Conference "Controversy in Literary Criticism: Between Theory and Automatic Processing," Sorbonne University, Paris, June 10–11, 2020 (website; canceled due to COVID-19).
• Digital Workshops for ObTIC (2021–present) and for OBVIL (2018–2020).
• ANHIMO Summer School, SCAI, Sorbonne University, June 26–30, 2023, link.
• Conference "Colloque international sur l’enseignement du Français Langue Étrangère: approche actionnelle et pratiques numériques," SUAD, May 1, 2018 (brochure and website).
• Workshop "The Heritage of Popular Expressions: From One Language to Another," SUAD, December 15, 2015 (brochure).

 

Research Supervision

• Co-Supervisor of PhD students, Sorbonne University :
  • Rufaida Kashif: "Improving Emotion Detection in Mental Health Patients' Medical Records Using Deep Learning" (funded by SOUND.AI, 2024-2027).
  • Louis-Fiacre Franchet d’Espèrey: "Trajectoires professionnelles décryptées : une analyse sémantique des récits de carrière à travers les archives orales" (CIFRE contract funded by Perles d'Histoire, 2024-2027).
  • Aya Mourad: "Alambic: an AI-based Environment for Exploring Literary Texts in Modern Arabic" (funded by SOUND.AI, 2024-2027).
  • Perrine Maurel: "Le pastiche, de Proust à l’IA : la caractérisation du style et la pertinence de la stylométrie" (funded by 4EU+, 2024-2027).
  • Ljudmila Petković: "Influence of Charcot on other disciplines: automatic analysis and valuation of heritage archives" (funded by OPUS, 2021-2024).
  • Caroline Parfait: "Spatial analysis for French novels using machine learning" (funded by SCAI, 2020-2023).
• Supervisor and Co-Supervisor of Master students (research and digital publishing), Sorbonne University (2018-today).

 

Digital Publishing Project Management

Defining specifications, managing archive digitization, designing databases, monitoring trainees:

• The Valentin Haüy Heritage Library (in collaboration with Valentin Haüy association, link).
• The Comédie-Française Registers Project (in collaboration with University of Victoria, Canada, link).
• The Opéra-comique database (in collaboration with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, link).
• Heritage of poetry sound archives (Sorbonne University, link).

Talks and Seminars

• Participant at the seminar Modelling, Interpreting and Circulating Early Modern Texts: Digital Humanities Approaches to Scholarly Corpora, Perspectives from ERC NOTCOM, ERC ModERN, and ObTIC, Maison Française d’Oxford, Oxford, 26 May 2026.
  • Title: Identification des anecdotes dans la presse du xviiie siècle : une approche par modèles de langage pour l’étude de la réception de Voltaire (slides)
• Invited speaker at the international CRIHN Conference, Montréal, Canada, October 2023.
  • Title: The role of emotions in the automatic analysis of psychotic speech.
• Participant at the workshop L’édition numérique de la correspondance de Mme Du Deffand, MSHB-Rennes, October 2023, France.
  • Title: Analyse automatique des sentiments et des émotions dans l’édition Collin
• Participant at the summer school ANHIMO (link), Sorbonne University, June 2023.
  • Title: Analyse et cartographie de textes littéraires liés à l'histoire de la mer: le cas du récit "Magellan" de Stefan Zweig (slides)
• Invited talk at the seminar of School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University, April 2023.
  • Title: Création de capsules numériques pour le FOS.
• Participant at the workshop Spatial Analysis of Literary Texts (link), Sorbonne University, June 2022.
  • Title: Tanagra Mapping Tool: repérage automatique, analyse sémantique et cartographie des lieux mis en récits (slides)
• Invited talk: the seminar of Lucien Tesnière Center, Franche-Comté University, April 2022.
  • Title: Fouille sémantique de textes: quelques réalisations dans le domaine des humanités numériques.
• Participant at the Voltaire Hackaton, organized by Voltaire Foundation, Oxford (link), Jan. 2020.
• Participant at the workshop “Écrivains en réseaux. Les correspondances sous l’œil numérique”, IMEC, Caen, 22/11/19.
  • Title: De la polémique dans les correspondances: repérage automatique, analyse et interprétation.
• Participant at the International conference on Digital Archiving in the Arab World, DAAW, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2019.
  • Title: "Identifying and Analyzing Places in Arabic Travelogue Literature" (abstract)
• Participant at the "Colloque international sur l’enseignement du Français Langue Étrangère : approche actionnelle et pratiques numériques", Paris-Sorbonne University, Abu Dhabi, 01/05/2018 (brochure & website).
• Participant at the World Arabic Language Day Conference, Université Al Qasimia à Sharjah, EAU, 18 december 2017.
  • Title: Media treatment of autism in the United Arab Emirates (slides).
• Invited talk: the Arabic Studies Program, NYUAD, 15 october 2017, Abu Dhabi, UAE (flyer)
• Participant at the workshop of the Labex OBVIL, Paris-Sorbonne University, June 2016, Paris, France.
  • Title: "Corpus de l’OBVIL: Lecture guidée par les annotations sémantiques", (slides)
• Participant at the workshop: "The Heritage of popular expressions: from one language to another", Paris-Sorbonne University, Abu Dhabi, 15/12/2015 (brochure & details)
  • Title: Translation of Emirati proverbs from Arabic to French.
• Participant at the workshop of the Labex OBVIL, Paris-Sorbonne University, April 2015, Paris, France.
  • Title: "Premiers résultats d’analyse des modalités rapportées dans le corpus “Critique” de l’équipe OBVIL", (slides)
• Invited speaker at the International FLAIRS conference, Semantic, Logics, and Information Extraction in AI (Special track), Pensacola, Florida, 2014.
  • Title: A subjectivity analysis tool for the reported speech (slides).
• Visiting researcher at Cognition and Text Laboratory, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea (Dec. 2008 and Dec. 2010).
• Visiting researcher at LANCI laboratory – University of Québec, Montréal, Canada (May 2009).
• Panel member and invited talk at the international Conference "2ème Colloque International en Traductologie et TAL", Oran, Algeria (June 2008).
• Internships at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Sciences Information (ENSSIB), Lyon, France (May and June 2005).
• Participant at the workshops of the University of Lyon II and ENSSIB on Arabic NLP (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010).

Reviewing and Research Committees

• Reviewer for the Humanités numériques journal, 2025, 2026.
• Reviewer for the Cognitive Computation Journal, Springer (May 2024).
• Reviewer for the workshop DH & NLP, as part of TALN conference (TALN 2022).
• Sub-reviewer for TALN conference (TALN 2022).
• Reviewer for Ain Shams Engineering Journal (ASEJ), Elsevier. ISSN: 2090-4479, 2017-2019.
• Reviewer for TAL Journal, special issue on NLP for Arabic and related languages (58-3), directed by Mona Diab, Nizar Habash and Imed Zitouni, 2017.
• Reviewer for MEDES'16, the International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (Special Track on Computational Intelligence), France, 2016.
• Reviewer for the International FLAIRS conference, Semantic, Logics, and Information Extraction in AI (Special track), Key Largo, Florida, 2016.
• Reviewer for MEDES'14, the International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (Special Track on Computational Intelligence), Saudi Arabia, 2014.
• Reviewer for ICITeS'2011- International Conference on Information Technology and e-Services, Tunisia, 2011.
• Reviewer for the International LREC conference, Language Resources and Human Language Technologies for Semitic Languages (Workshop), Malta 2010.

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Teaching and Training

Designed and Delivered Teachings

Teaching domains since 2005: DH, NLP and ICTE.

• 2020-2026: Digital Humanities, Methodology and Practice - Literature Master's program, Sorbonne Univ., Paris.
• 2021-2026: Introduction to Digital Humanities for Archival Studies - Bachelors, SUAD.
• 2023-2024: NLP tools and techniques - Master's NLP program, Franche-Comté University.
• 2021-2023: Computer-assisted translation techniques - Master's program, Sorbonne Nouvelle Univ., Paris.
• 2020-2024: NLP for the textual corpora analysis - LFA Master's program, Sorbonne Univ., Paris.
• 2022-2025: Design and marketing tools for French teaching (FOS) - LFA Master's program, Sorbonne Univ., Paris.
• 2010-2018:
  • NLP Methods and Tools (International Business Master's program; French as a Foreign Language Master's program, SUAD)
  • C2i, Computer and Intranet Certificate (All Bachelors programs, SUAD)
  • ICTE for French teachers (Teaching French as a Foreign Language Master's program, SUAD)
  • ICTE for French learners (undergraduate, SUAD)
  • IT (Banking and Finance Master's program; Applied Foreign Languages, Law and Economy Bachelors program, SUAD)
• 2007-2010: NLP (Masters LFA & ILGII, Paris-Sorbonne University - France)
• 2005-2010: IT (C2i program, Bachelors, Paris-Sorbonne University - France & Institut Catholique de Paris)
• 2003-2005: IT Mentoring (Bachelors, Paris-Sorbonne University - France)

Provided Training for Language teachers and Researchers in HSS

• 2024, June: Innovations in AI for teaching Digital Humanities, organized by 4EU+ (Charles University, Prague).
• 2024, January: NLP for Digital Humanities, organized by SOUND.AI.
• 2023, November : Introduction to automatic text analysis in HSS (link), organized by Ariane Consortium (ENS - Lyon).
• 2021, October : Introduction to Machine Learning Tools for documents Digitization (link), organized by ObTIC, Sorbonne University.
• 2021, December : Introduction to Algorithmics & Regular Expressions (link), organized by ObTIC, Sorbonne University.
• 2020, March, May and June: NLP tools (link), organized by EHESS, Paris.
• 2018, January: Webradio workshop, organized by Institut Français Abu Dhabi.
• 2017, July: Online presentation tools and skills, organized by SUAD.
• 2016, February, April and September: E-Learning (Blackboard), Interactive Whiteboards, Digital teaching resources, organized by SUAD.
• 2015, October: "L'art dans tous ses états avec les TICE" (brochure, link). Identify, edit and republish media resources (image, audio & video) for language teaching, organized by Institut Français Abu Dhabi.
• 2013, June: Designing pedagogical activities using Interactive Whiteboards (brochure), organized by Institut Français Abu Dhabi.
• 2011, May and June: Creating Arabic language curriculum for beginners, organized by the French Alliance in Abu Dhabi.

 

Designed Pedagogical Workshops

• French Language and Digital Museums (2016- 2018):
  • This workshop offers to FLE students the opportunity to develop the practice of French language while discovering the basics of artistic analysis: Painting, sculpture, mosaic, drawing and photography. Inspired by task based learning, students are asked to create detailed description sheets (Cartels) for the selected pieces. At the end of their work, the students participate in the creation of a collective online exhibition as a virtual digital museum.
• SUAD Webradio (2013- 2018):
  • This web based radio offers pedagogical and cultural podcasts (reports, interviews and chronicles) created by French language learners. I created this annual workshop to allow our students to improve, beside everything else, their speaking skills in attractive ways.
• VocaTion (Vocabulaire en action, 2014):
  • This workshop aims to enhance the acquisition, understanding and re-use of vocabulary among learners. Designed on an Actional model, this workshop covers different skills related to linguistics, ICTE and methodology. The objective of this activity is to create, for an acquired word, mindmaps and crossword puzzles related to morphological information (derivation) and semantic relations (synonymy, antonymy, hyperonymy, etc.).

 

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Education and Diploma

PhD Thesis (Paris-Sorbonne University - France, 2003-2010)

• Discipline: Mathematics, Informatics and their Applications in Human Sciences.
• Grade: First class honours with highest praise (Très honorable avec félicitations du jury).
• Title: EXCOM-2: plateforme d'annotation automatique de catégories sémantiques. Applications à la catégorisation des citations en français et en arabe. Thèse de doctorat, sous la direction du Prof. Jean-Pierre Desclés, Université Paris-Sorbonne.

University Diploma Degree (Paris-Sorbonne University - France, 2022-2023)

• Discipline: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
• Institution: Paris-Sorbonne University - France (Professionnelle Continuous Training, DU-MLIA)

Master's Degree 2 (Paris-Sorbonne University - France, 2001-2003)

• Discipline: Mathematics, Informatics and their Applications in the Human Sciences - Option: Natural Language Processing.
• Institution: Paris-Sorbonne University - France - Title: Résumé automatique de textes en arabe à l'aide de la méthode de l'Exploration Contextuelle. Mémoire de DEA, sous la direction du Prof. Jean-Pierre Desclés, Université Paris-Sorbonne.

Master's Degree 1 (Cergy-Pontoise University - France, 2000-2001)

• Discipline: Modern Literature - Option: Translation.
• Title: Bilinguisme et Traduction: under the direction of Prof. Chritstiane Chaulet-Achour, Cergy-Pontoise University, and Prof. Gilbert Grandguillaume, EHESS.

Continuing Training Certificate (Le Havre University - France, 1990-1993)

• Discipline: Information Technologies systems and Management.

Bachelor's Degree (Damascus University - Syria, 1997-2000)

• Discipline: French Literature and Linguistics.

High School Diploma

• Literary Baccalaureate, Damascus, Syria - 1996.
• Scientific Baccalaureate, Damascus, Syria - 1990.

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Publications and Communications

See my citations on Google Scholar.

• Claire Lawand, Haeeul Hwang, Jalal Al-Tamimi, Valeria Lucarini, Mahshid Hozhabr, Deok-Hee Kim-Dufor, Christophe Lemey, Julien Desclés, Motasem Alrahabi (2026). The Prosody of Clinical Speech: Annotation and Computational Analysis of Psychiatric Interviews. NL4AI 2026 Workshop, Rome, Italy. ⟨hal-05801991⟩ (link)
• Haeeul Hwang, Deok-Hee Kim-Dufor, Jalal Al-Tamimi, Motasem Alrahabi, Julien Desclés, Valeria Lucarini, Louis Pichereau, Christophe Lemey (2026). Towards a Clinical Adaptation of the Whisper Model for French. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2026), pp. 350–358. Association for Computational Linguistics. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi. (2026). Détection automatique des anecdotes dans la presse du XVIIIe siècle : modèles de langage et réception de Voltaire. In Myrtille Méricam-Bourdet (Ed.), Revue Voltaire, 26: Voltaire et la presse. Paris: Sorbonne Université Presses.
• Louis-Fiacre Franchet d'Espèrey, Radouan Andrea Mounecif, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Andrea Del Lungo, Glenn Roe, Motasem Alrahabi (May 2026). Exploitation numérique des récits de carrière à travers les archives orales. HUMANISTICA 2026 - 7e colloque de l’Association francophone des humanités numériques, Paris, France. ⟨hal-05626078⟩ (link)
• Floriane Chiffoleau, Céline Roussel, Marion Chottin, Glenn Roe, Motasem Alrahabi (Jul 2026). "You Get the Best of Both Worlds" - Making the Association for the Blinds' Cultural Heritage Available for Researchers and Blind People. DH2026 - ADHO, Daejeon, South Korea. ⟨hal-05564504⟩ (link)
• Wenjun Li, Clément Castellon, Motasem Alrahabi (Jul 2026). From Ship Logs to Searchable Knowledge: A Multi-Model OCR and RAG Pipeline for Historical Oceanographic Records (1883–1912). DH2026 - ADHO, Daejeon, South Korea. ⟨hal-05638501⟩ (link)


• Tom Wainstain, Motasem Alrahabi (Sep 2025). Versus: an automatic text comparison tool for the digital humanities. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital Humanities, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria. ⟨2025.lm4dh-1.3⟩ (link)
• Aysha Aldarmaki, Mariam Albloushi, Alaa Ahmed Elsetohy, Faten Roshdy, Mohamed Zaggar, Sabrina Moura de Araujo, Motasem Alrahabi, Xavier Fresquet (2025). Multilingual AI pipeline for museum knowledge and translation: Terminology curation, semantic structuring, and LLM-enhanced analysis. ⟨hal-05474922⟩ (link)
• Mikhail Biriuchinskii, Floriane Chiffoleau, Glenn Roe, Motasem Alrahabi, Clément Castellon, et al. (Dec 2025). Leveraging artificial intelligence to promote scientific heritage. CHR 2025 – Sixth Conference on Computational Humanities Research, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. ⟨hal-05360482⟩ (link)
• Haeeul Hwang, Eric Jordan, Deok-hee Kim-dufor, Christophe Lemey, Motasem Alrahabi. (August 2025). Evaluating ASR in a Clinical Context: What Whisper Misses. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2025), Odense, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics. ⟨aclanthology-icnlsp-2025⟩ (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Arthur Amalvy, Vincent Labatut, Perrine Maurel. (2025). De l'annotation intégrale à l'analyse des réseaux de personnages : un modèle pour la REN dans les textes littéraires en français. TAL : Traitement automatique des langues, 66(1), forthcoming. ⟨hal-05128385⟩ (link)
• Eric Jordan, Raphaël Terrisse, Valeria Lucarini, Motasem Alrahabi, Marie-Odile Krebs, Julien Desclés, Christophe Lemey. (2025). Speech Emotion Recognition in Mental Health: A Systematic Review of Voice Based Applications. PROSPERO, CRD420251006669. (link)
• Nacef Ben Mansour, Hamed Rahimi, Motasem Alrahabi. (May 2025). How Well Do Large Language Models Extract Keywords? A Systematic Evaluation on Scientific Corpora. 1st Workshop on AI and Scientific Discovery: Directions and Opportunities, ACL, Albuquerque, USA. ⟨aclanthology-2025.aisd-main.2⟩ (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Nacef Ben Mansour, Hamed Rahimi. (May 2025). Extraction de mots-clés à partir d’articles scientifiques : comparaison entre modèles traditionnels et modèles de langue. 32e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2025), Marseille, France. ⟨taln-2025-73⟩ (link)
• Floriane Chiffoleau, Mikhail Biriuchinskii, Motasem Alrahabi, Glenn Roe. (July 2025). Pandore: automating text-processing workflows for humanities researchers. DH2025 - Accessibility & Citizenship, Lisbon, Portugal. ⟨hal-04986730⟩ (link)
• Mikhail Biriuchinskii, Motasem Alrahabi, Glenn Roe. (July 2025). Using LLMs for post-OCR correction on historical French texts: A case study using synthetic data. DH2025 - Digital Humanities Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. ⟨hal-04987584⟩ (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Glenn Roe. (April 2025). Gallica-Obvie : un outil pour la valorisation et l'exploration du patrimoine textuel. Humanistica 2025, Dakar, Sénégal. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi. (April 2025). Adaptation automatique des textes pour l’enseignement des langues. Humanistica 2025, Dakar, Sénégal. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi. (June 2025). Les LLMs sur les traces de Voltaire : débusquer les anecdotes dans la presse du XVIIIᵉ siècle. Journée « Voltaire et la Presse », Paris, France. (link)


• Wooseok Seo, Úna Faller, Glenn Roe, Motasem Alrahabi. (May 2024). Réception du Salon de 1874 et de la première exposition des impressionnistes à Paris en 1874. Humanistica 2024, Association francophone des humanités numériques, Meknès, Morocco. ⟨hal-04557503v1⟩ (link)


• Caroline Parfait, Motasem Alrahabi, Yoann Dupont, Gaël Lejeune, Glenn Roe. (July 2023). Mapping spatial named entities from noisy OCR output: Epimethee from OCR to map. Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, Austria. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Valentina Fedchenko, Ljudmila Petkovic, Glenn Roe, Johanna Cordova. (July 2023). Pandore: a toolbox for digital humanities text-based workflows. Poster. Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, Austria. (link)
• Ludovica Mastrobattista, Motasem Alrahabi, Valentina Fedchenko, Oussama Joumaa, James Gawley, Johanna Cordova, Glenn Roe. (July 2023). Using text summarization models to improve digital reading of scientific papers. Poster. Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, Austria. (link)
• Ljudmila Petkovic, Motasem Alrahabi, Glenn Roe. (June 2023). Circulation du discours médical de Jean-Martin Charcot : Premières observations. Humanistica 2023, Association francophone des humanités numériques, Geneva, Switzerland. ⟨hal-04107099⟩ (link)


• Ljudmila Petkovic, Motasem Alrahabi, Glenn Roe. (2022). Impact de la correction automatique de l'OCR/HTR sur la reconnaissance d'entités nommées dans un corpus bruité. Journal of Information Sciences (JIS), 21(2), 42-57. ⟨10.34874/IMIST.PRSM/jis-v21i2.36599⟩ ⟨hal-04063970⟩ (link)
• Didier Alexandre, Motasem Alrahabi, Marine Riguet. (2022). La valeur littéraire au fil d’Ariane : Barbey d’Aurevilly et les écrivaines. In Didier Alexandre, Glenn Roe (eds.), Observer la vie littéraire. Études littéraires et numériques, Classiques Garnier, 345-396. (link)
• Didier Alexandre, Motasem Alrahabi, Frédérick Gay, Marine Riguet, Alexandre Duguet, et al. (2022). Le médical et le social : Analyse sémantique des rapports de l’immersion d’étudiants en médecine dans le Samu social. In Didier Alexandre, Glenn Roe (eds.), Observer la vie littéraire. Études littéraires et numériques, Classiques Garnier, 817-848. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Glenn Roe, Camille Koskas, Marguerite Bordry, James Gawley. (2022). Des étudiants en lettres face aux humanités numériques : une expérience pédagogique. Humanités numériques, 5. (link)
• Axel Le Roy, Motasem Alrahabi, Glenn Roe. (2022). Les animaux chinois de Buffon : identification automatique des jugements critiques dans l’Histoire naturelle (1749-1789). In TALN 2022, Workshop TAL et Humanités Numériques. (link)
• Johanna Cordova, Yoann Dupont, Ljudmila Petkovic, James Gawley, Motasem Alrahabi, Glenn Roe. (2022). Toolbox : une chaîne de traitement de corpus pour les humanités numériques. In TALN 2022, Demo, Paris, France. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi. (January 2022). Obvie: interface web pour la fouille et la comparaison de textes. In Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage: data and knowledge management and analysis (Atelier Dahlia), Blois, France. (link)


• Motasem Alrahabi, Carmen Brando, Alkhalil Muhamed, Joseph Dichy. (2021). Paris dans les récits de voyage d’écrivains arabes : repérage, analyse sémantique et cartographie de toponymes. Humanités numériques, 3. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Marguerite Bordry, Johanna Cordova, Yoann Dupont. (2021). L’ironie dans la critique littéraire : quelques pistes pour l’annotation automatique. Études digitales, Classiques Garnier, 11, Ordre numérique et désordre digital. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Carmen Brando, Francesca Frontini, Arthur Provenier, Romain Jalabert, Marguerite Bordry, Camille Koskas, James Gawley. (2021). Guide d'annotation manuelle d'entités nommées dans des corpus littéraires. Annotation guide for NER. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Camille Koskas, Glenn Roe. (2021). Le style polémique dans les correspondances de Voltaire. In Humanistica 2021, Rennes, France. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi. (January 2021). Ariane: dispositif de fouille et de lecture synthétique de textes. In Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage: data and knowledge management and analysis (Atelier Dahlia), Montpellier, France. (link)
• Caroline Parfait, Gaël Lejeune, Motasem Alrahabi, Glenn Roe. (March 2021). Discovering Spatial Relations in Literature: what is the influence of OCR noise? In News Eye International Conference. (link)


• Marine Riguet, Motasem Alrahabi. (July 2020). Analyse automatique pour une étude du genre : quels jugements des écrivaines au XIXe siècle ? In Digital Humanities Conference 2020, Ottawa, Canada. (link)
• Ioana Galleron, Francesca Frontini, Carmen Brando, Motasem Alrahabi. (May 2020). Les Guides d'annotation des entités nommées : similitudes, différences, difficultés. In Humanistica 2020, Bordeaux, France. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Marine Riguet. (May 2020). Cartographier le discours sur la littérature : l'ontologie sémantique comme méthode exploratoire. In Humanistica 2020, Bordeaux, France. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Pauline Flepp, Camille Koskas. (2020). Polémiques dans le rituel épistolaire : les cas de la correspondance Ponge et Paulhan. Revue Epistolaire. (link)


• Motasem Alrahabi, Chiara Mainardi. (2018). Identification automatique de l'ironie et des formes apparentées dans un corpus de controverses théâtrales. In JADT 2018, Rome, Italy. (link)
• Marine Riguet, Motasem Alrahabi. (2018). Pour une analyse automatique du Jugement Critique: les citations modalisées dans le discours littéraire du XIXe siècle. Digital Humanities Quarterly. (link)


• Motasem Alrahabi. (2017). Fouille sémantique et navigation textuelle dans le corpus de l'OBVIL : 2 cas d'étude. In Des humanités numériques littéraires ?, Cerisy, France. (program)
• Motasem Alrahabi. (2017). Mining Arabic Texts. In 3rd Annual Roundtable Conference on Arabic Language and Computing, Georgetown University, Doha, Qatar. (program)
• Elodie Benard, Motasem Alrahabi. (2017). Du petit fait à la doxa : annotation automatique des anecdotes dans le discours critique sur Molière. In Journées de Linguistique de Corpus, Grenoble, France. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Marine Riguet. (2017). Voguer au fil de la transtextualité. In Digital Humanities 2017, Montreal, Canada. (link)


• Motasem Alrahabi. (2016). E-Quotes : un outil de navigation textuelle guidée par les annotations sémantiques. In TALN 2016, Paris, France. (link)


• Motasem Alrahabi. (2015). E-Quotes: Enunciative Modalities Analysis Tool for Direct Reported Speech in Arabic. In CICLing 2015, Cairo, Egypt. (link)


• Motasem Alrahabi. (2014). Opinion Mining from Arabic Quotations. In MEDES 2014, Buraidah Al Qassim, Saudi Arabia. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi. (2014). Dictionnaire multilingue de proverbes: Premier retour d'expérience. In Colloque international sur les TIC en éducation, Montréal, Canada. (link)


• Motasem Alrahabi. (2013). Les difficultés de l'utilisation du discours rapporté en français chez des apprenants arabophones. In Colloque international Le FLE au crible de la Grammaire, Paris-Sorbonne Abu Dhabi Univ., UAE. (link)


• Brahim Djioua, Jean-Pierre Desclés, Motasem Alrahabi. (2012). Searching and Mining with Semantic Categories. In Next Generation Search Engines: Advanced Models for Information Retrieval, IGI Publishing, USA, 115-137. (link)


• Julien Desclés, Motasem Alrahabi, Jean-Pierre Desclés. (2011). BioExcom: Detection and Categorization of Speculative Sentences in Biomedical Literature. In Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6562, 478-489. (link)


• Jean-Pierre Desclés, Florence Le Priol, Motasem Alrahabi, Iana Atanassova, Marc Bertin. (2010). Fouille sémantique des thèses en ligne. In Ismaïl Biskri, Adel Jebali (eds.), Traitement automatique des langues naturelles : de l'analyse à l'application, Hermes, Lavoisier. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Jean-Pierre Desclés, J.-Y. Suh. (2010). Direct Reported Speech in multilingual texts: Automatic annotation and semantic categorization. In FLAIRS 2010, Florida, USA. (link)
• Jean Danis, Jean-Guy Meunier, Jean-François Chartier, Motasem Alrahabi, Jean-Pierre Desclés. (2010). Classification automatique et stratégie d'annotation appliquées à un concept philosophique. In JADT 2010, Rome, Italy. (link)


• Motasem Alrahabi, Jean-Pierre Desclés. (2009). EXCOM : Plate-forme d'annotation sémantique de textes multilingues. In TALN 2009, Demo, Senlis, France. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Jean-Pierre Desclés. (2009). Opérations de prise en charge énonciative : assertion, médiatif et modalités dans le discours rapporté direct, en arabe et en français. In K. Bogacki, J. Cholewa, A. Rozumko (eds.), Methods of lexical analysis, theoretical assumptions and practical applications, Bialystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Bialymstoku. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Joseph Dichy. (2009). Levée d'ambiguïté par la méthode d'exploration contextuelle : la séquence 'alif-nûn (ان) en arabe. In Malek Ghenima, Aris Ouksel, Sahbi Sidhom (eds.), Systèmes d'Information et Intelligence Economique, 2ème Conférence Internationale (SIIE 2009), Hammamet, Tunisia, IHE éditions, 573-585. (link)


• Motasem Alrahabi, Jean-Pierre Desclés. (2008). Automatic annotation of direct reported speech in Arabic and French, according to semantic map of enunciative modalities. In 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, GoTAL 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 25-27. (link)


• Motasem Alrahabi, Jean-Pierre Desclés. (2007). Vers une carte sémantique du discours rapporté. In Analyse de texte par ordinateur, multilinguisme et applications, 75e congrès de l'ACFAS, Trois-Rivières, Canada, May 10-11.


• Motasem Alrahabi, Amr Helmy Ibrahim, Jean-Pierre Desclés. (2006). Semantic Annotation of Reported Information in Arabic. In FLAIRS 2006, Melbourne, Florida, May 11-13. (link)
• Motasem Alrahabi, Brahim Djioua, Jean-Pierre Desclés. (2006). Annotation Sémantique des Énonciations en Arabe. In INFORSID 2006, Hammamet, Tunisia, May 31.


• Motasem Alrahabi, Ghassan Mourad, Brahim Djioua. (2004). Filtrage sémantique de textes en arabe en vue d'un prototype de résumé automatique. In JEP-TALN 2004, Fès, Morocco, April 19-22. (link)

 

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Misc

Software and Database Designing

• Ariane: Ariane is an online semantic text-mining search engine. This application helps researchers and students to search for terms within automatically annotated sentences according to a linguistic ontology (opinions, sentiments, emotions...). The application also allows users to filter the search results with metadata: author, date, work, etc.
• OBVIE: a search engine that offers advanced features for information retrieval (with lemmatization) and document comparison.
• Elicom: Web interface for querying electronic correspondence.
• Tanagra: Web interface for geolocation and mapping of place names in texts.
• OCD: An online database for performances of the opéra-comique in Paris from the second half of the 18th century (available soon).
• AVH: The Valentin Haüy heritage library was created in the 1880s by Maurice de la Sizeranne. Its holdings of around 7,000 books focus on the blind and blindness, and contain many unique texts in the world.
• RCF: The 19th century Comédie Française registers project crosses the HNs and the history of theatre, and is part of an international program devoted to all the performances that have been given at the Comédie-Française since its creation in 1680 (website, team).
• ASP: The “Poetry Sound Archives” project aims to inventory, archive, disseminate and analyze sound archives of poetry in French, mainly readings by poets. It implements the technological and methodological resources of the digital humanities.
• More projects here.

Tool Development

• Versus: Automatic text comparison tool for the digital humanities, enabling alignment, comparison, and exploration of textual variants across multiple documents.
• Apaise UI: Interface for manual emotion annotation and textual exploration of psychiatric interviews.
• Cartographie: Academic portal for the mapping of Digital Humanities projects at Sorbonne University.
• Textolab: Java rule-based tool for text annotation (new version of Excom-2), with more features and improvements.
• E-Quotes (deprecated): This search engine allows first locating keywords in semantically categorized quotations in Arabic and French. The latest are automatically identified and categorized by EXCOM-2. Definitions, reported opinions, and rumors are few examples of this semantic categorization.
• EXCOM-2 (deprecated): A rule-based tool for text annotation. The project was funded between 2007 and 2009 by France Telecom and the Association for the Development of Information Technology in the Humanities.

Technical Skills

• Data modeling, analysis and evaluation.
• Programming languages: Java, Python.
• ML and DL libraries & algorithms for text analysis in HSS.
• Rule based tools for text annotation.
• XML, TEI, CSS, XSLT, XPATH, Regular Expressions.
• ICT & tools for Education (E-Learning).

Resource Creator :

• Corpus of French novels annotated with person named entities link.
• Corpus of Arabic novels annotated with location named entities link.
• Linguistic Ontology for Discursive and Semantic Annotation link.
• Multilingual IT Glossary: Arabic, French, English (link).
• Thematic glossaries for French learners, classified by CECRL level.
• Collaborative Digital Museums, for French learners.
• Collaborative Webradio for French learners.

Certifications:

• Qualified by the French National Committee (CNU – Conseil National des Universités), Section 27 (Computer Science).
• Certified Examiner-Scorer for the DELF accreditation programs (A1 to C2) -CIEP, 2017.
• Certified Trainer for Webradio and WebTv (CLEMI: Abu Dhabi, 2013 and Paris, 2014).
• Certified Trainer for Interactive whiteboards use in language teaching (2013).
• Certified Trainer Professional for ICDL training (2012).
• Certified Trainer Professional for Blackboard (2012).
• Coordinator of the Computer Science and Internet Certificate (C2I) at SUAD (2010 - 2018).

Languages:

• Arabic: Native language.
• French: Near-native fluency.
• English: Very good level.

 

Professional memberships:

• Member of PhD supervisory committees at the Faculty of Humanities of Sorbonne University.
• Member of the scientific committee of Ariane Consortium, 2023-2025 (Link).
• Member of the scientific committee of the Domain of Major Interest, Science of Text and New Knowledge (DIM, STNC).
• Member of the “Spatial Digital Humanities” group within the GdR CNRS MAGIS (link).
• Member of the Association francophone des humanités numériques (Humanistica).
• Member of the Association pour le traitement automatique des langues (ATALA).
• Member of the Société Linguistique de Paris (SLP).
• Member of the Arabic Linguistics Society.
• Member of Special Interest Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing (SIGARAB).

 

Professional awards:

• June 2017: First Pearl Award for extraordinary performance of SUAD (link)

 

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Last update: September, 2026.