🧑‍🔬 Martha Evens

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Illinois Institute of TechnologyChicago · United States1983–2015 · 135 papers🎓Northwestern UniversityEvanston · United States1998–1999 · 4 papers🎓Chicago Kent College of LawChicago · United States1987 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📅 Works by year

2000s

1990s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. QARAB: A: Question Answering System to Support the Arabic Language (2002 · 136 citations)
   QARAB addresses open-domain question answering for Arabic, where NLP lagged far behind English. The authors name several reasons: rich inflection and derivation, unwritten vowels (diacritics), no capital letters to signal proper names, and few corpora and lexicons. The system answers from a collection of articles…
2. A Computational Morphology System for Arabic (1998 · 80 citations)
   The paper presents a morphological analyzer for Arabic that recovers the consonantal root and the pattern of verbs and of nouns and adjectives derived from verbs.
3. Discovering Lexical Information by Tagging Arabic Newspaper Text (1998 · 28 citations)
   Abuleil and Evens address the lack of a large Arabic lexicon. Their approach is to grow one automatically while tagging newspaper text. Arabic makes this hard in three ways: there is no capitalization to signal names, short vowels are usually omitted (so one spelling can be a noun or a verb), and prepositions or…
4. Acquisition System for Arabic Noun Morphology (2002 · 18 citations)
   The paper tackles Arabic noun morphology, which earlier work largely skipped in favour of verbs. Nouns not derived from verbal roots, including many borrowed proper names, lack clean generative rules. Their singular, plural and gender forms instead fall into families that have to be stored lexically, much like…

All works

5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. QARAB: A: Question Answering System to Support the Arabic LanguageACL-02 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic LanguagesBassam Hammo, Hani Abu-Salem, Steven Lytinen, et al.2002 · 136 citations
2. A Computational Morphology System for ArabicComputational Approaches to Semitic LanguagesRiyad Al-Shalabi, Martha Evens1998 · 80 citations
3. Discovering Lexical Information by Tagging Arabic Newspaper TextComputational Approaches to Semitic LanguagesSaleem Abuleil, Martha Evens1998 · 28 citations
4. Acquisition System for Arabic Noun MorphologyACL-02 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic LanguagesSaleem Abuleil, Khalid Alsamara, Martha Evens2002 · 18 citations
5. Book Reviews: An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Legal Reasoning ↗Computational Linguistics · no summary yetEvens, Martha1989

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• Saleem Abuleil ×2
• Bassam Hammo

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• ACL-02 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages ×2: ACL-02 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages 2002 ×2
• Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages ×2
• Computational Linguistics

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 21 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 16 citing papers with a page here →.

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