Owen Rambow · page 2
Papers
- Morphological Analysis and Generation of Arabic Nouns: A Morphemic Functional Approach (2010 · 49 citations)
MAGEAD is a morphological analyser and generator for Arabic built as finite-state transducers. It maps a lexeme and feature-value pairs to a surface form and back. This paper ports it from verbs to Modern Standard Arabic nominals, which are harder because of broken plurals and irregular feminines. A lexeme is a root… - A Dependency Treebank for English (2002 · 45 citations)
The paper describes the syntactic layer of the ISLE project, a small corpus of about 13,000 words of transcribed travel-agent speech with multiple annotation levels. - Morphologically Annotated Corpora and Morphological Analyzers for Moroccan and Sanaani Yemeni Arabic (2016 · 44 citations)
Arabic dialects are now widely written online, but NLP tools mostly target Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Classical Arabic. - Frame Semantic Tree Kernels for Social Network Extraction from Text (2014 · 40 citations)
The paper addresses automatic extraction of social networks from text. Nodes are person entities, and links are social events of two kinds: mutual interactions (INR) and one-sided observations (OBS), where one person thinks or talks about another. Building on their earlier ACE2005 social-event annotation and the… - Morphologically Annotated Corpora for Seven Arabic Dialects: Taizi, Sanaani, Najdi, Jordanian, Syrian, Iraqi and Moroccan (2019 · 34 citations)
The paper releases seven small manually annotated corpora of Arabic dialects (Taizi and Sanaani Yemeni, Najdi, Jordanian, Syrian Damascene, Iraqi Baghdadi, Moroccan Rabati), together over 200,000 words, each about 20,000 to 35,000 words. - Creating Resources for Dialectal Arabic from a Single Annotation: A Case Study on Egyptian and Levantine (2016 · 28 citations)
Arabic dialects lack standard spelling, linguistic documentation and annotated data, yet they are increasingly written on social media. - Committed Belief Tagging on the Factbank and LU Corpora: A Comparative Study (2015 · 24 citations)
Committed belief (CB) is how strongly a writer commits to a proposition. Two corpora label it: the LU corpus (16 documents, four genres, 3-way labels) and FactBank (newswire, about four times larger, factuality labels). The authors map both to a common 4-way scheme: committed belief, non-committed belief… - Improving the Quality of Minority Class Identification in Dialog Act Tagging (2013 · 21 citations)
The paper addresses a common weakness of dialog act (DA) taggers: they score well on overall accuracy but miss rare classes. - Improving Arabic Dependency Parsing with Form-based and Functional Morphological Features (2011 · 21 citations)
The authors ask which morphological features help a transition-based parser (MaltParser, eager algorithm, SVM classifiers) on Modern Standard Arabic. - Semi-automatic error analysis for large-scale statistical machine translation (2007 · 19 citations)
The paper relates properties of the input documents to the translation quality of a large SMT system, scored per document by HTER. - The Dependency-Parsed FrameNet Corpus (2012 · 18 citations)
FrameNet 1.5 provides manual frame-semantic annotation for more than 170,000 English sentences, mostly drawn from the British National Corpus. - Generation of VP Ellipsis: A Corpus-Based Approach (2001 · 13 citations)
The paper asks when a generator should elide a verb phrase and leave an auxiliary in its place, as in "in 1987, only 9% did". - Enriching lexical transfer with cross-linguistic semantic features or how to do interlingua without interlingua (1997 · 12 citations)
The paper proposes lexico-structural transfer as an alternative to an interlingua. The source and target are dependency trees in Meaning-Text Theory's deep syntactic level, and transfer rules relate lexemes together with their syntax. The test case is motion verbs: English "swim across the lake" becomes French… - Finding Common Ground: Annotating and Predicting Common Ground in Spoken Conversations (2023 · 11 citations)
Successful conversation depends on common ground (CG): the beliefs that each participant assumes are mutually shared. - Towards Generative Event Factuality Prediction (2023 · 11 citations)
Most work on event factuality asks only how the author presents an event: as certain, possible, unknown, or not happened. - DIRA: Dialectal Arabic Information Retrieval Assistant (2013 · 8 citations)
Searching Arabic text is difficult for two reasons. The language has rich morphology, and dialects such as Egyptian Arabic (EGY) differ from Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) in vocabulary, inflection and spelling. These differences matter more now that social media carries a lot of informal, unedited dialectal writing.… - Re-Examining FactBank: Predicting the Author's Presentation of Factuality (2022 · 7 citations)
The paper studies factuality prediction: deciding whether an author presents an event as certain, probable, possible or unspecified, and with which polarity. - Towards Learning Arabic Morphophonology (2022 · 7 citations)
Inflection systems often fail on the sound changes that happen when morphemes combine. Arabic is a hard case: its morphology mixes templates with affixation, and most of its dialects have few resources. The authors induce explicit, human-readable morphophonological rules for Cairene Egyptian Arabic (EGY), with the… - LLMs can Perform Multi-Dimensional Analytic Writing Assessments: A Case Study of L2 Graduate-Level Academic English Writing (2025 · 5 citations)
The paper asks whether LLMs can perform multi-dimensional analytic writing assessment: giving a score and a comment for each of several criteria, rather than one holistic grade. - Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Dialogues about Roadrunner Cartoons (2024 · 4 citations)
The authors annotate hedge tokens in 63 spoken retellings of a Roadrunner cartoon (5,508 lines, about a quarter with a hedge; inter-coder kappa 0.985). - Deep Active Learning for Morphophonological Processing (2023 · 3 citations)
The paper tackles the cost of annotating data for morphophonological processing in low-resource settings, using Egyptian Arabic as a test case. - SPMRL‘13 Shared Task System: The CADIM Arabic Dependency Parser (2013 · 3 citations)
This paper describes the Columbia Arabic & Dialect Modeling group (CADIM) entry to the SPMRL 2013 Shared Task. - Picking Up Where the Linguist Left Off: Mapping Morphology to Phonology through Learning the Residuals (2024 · 2 citations)
The task is to produce the spoken form of Cairene Egyptian Arabic words from their underlying morphological representation, using the Egyptian Colloquial Arabic Lexicon as gold. - LVLMs and Humans Ground Differently in Referential Communication (2026 · 1 citation)
The paper asks whether large vision-language models (LVLMs) can build common ground with a partner the way people do when they repeatedly refer to hard-to-name objects. - Syllable Structures Across Arabic Varieties (2026 · 1 citation)
Arabic varieties differ considerably in which syllable shapes they permit. Moroccan allows triple-consonant onsets, Maltese has vowel-only syllables, and Juba Arabic lacks long vowels. Yet automatic syllabification research has mostly focused on English. The authors take IPA transcriptions from Wiktionary for nine…
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