Elamur Research⌕
☰
home / authors / Hiyan Alshawi

Hiyan Alshawi

Hiyan Alshawi has 2 papers in our library, in 1987–1991, most of them on Semantic parsing & meaning representation; often with Bjorn Gamback, David Carter.

2 papers in our library · 1987–1991

OpenAlex · h-index 24 · 77 works · 1,634 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

2 works in our library · 52 citations in our library · 2 more works in our library · ⭐ Paper Star rank #4014

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: Google Scholar · Semantic Scholar · dblp · ACL Anthology

Affiliations

🏢AT&TBedminster · United States1994–2003 · 21 papers🏢GoogleMountain View · United States2005–2013 · 13 papers🔬SRI InternationalMenlo Park · United States1988–1993 · 6 papers🎓University of CambridgeCambridge · United Kingdom1985–1992 · 4 papers

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

Topics

Semantic parsing & meaning representation1

Works by year

1990s

19911 paper

1980s

19871 paper

Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Processing Dictionary Definitions with Phrasal Pattern Hierarchies (1987 · 84 citations)
    Language understanding systems often break down when they meet words missing from their lexicons, or sentences their grammars cannot fully parse.
  2. Translation by Quasi Logical Form Transfer (1991 · 54 citations)
    The paper applies a general natural language system, the Core Language Engine, to interactive translation between English and Swedish in a car hire domain.

Also in our library

2 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them.

Co-authors here

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

Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 52 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); 9 citing papers with a page here →.

This page in Markdown → https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiyan-alshawi/