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    2013


  1. Ghoneim, Mahmoud and Mona Diab . (2013) Multiword Expressions in the context of Statistical Machine Translation. In the Proceedings of IJCNLP 2013, October, Nagoya, Japan.[pdf][bibtex]
  2. Muhammad AbdelMageed, Mona Diab , Sandra Kubler. (2013) ASMA: A system for Automatic Segmentation and Morpho-syntactic Disambiguation of Modern Standard Arabic. In the Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2013), September, Bulgaria. [pdf][bibtex]
  3. Weiwei Guo, Hao Li, Heng Ji and Mona Diab . (2013) Linking Tweets to News: A Framework to Enrich Online Short Text Data in Social Media. In Proceedings of ACL, 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria. [pdf][bibtex]
  4. Weiwei Guo and Mona Diab . (2013) Improving Lexical Semantics for Sentential Semantics: Modeling Selectional Preference and Similar Words in a Latent Variable Model. In Proceedings of NAACL, 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. [pdf][bibtex]
  5. Eneko Agirre, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab , Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre and Weiwei Guo. (2013) "*SEM 2013 shared task: Semantic Textual Similarity". InProceedings of *SEM, 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. [pdf][bibtex]
  6. Nadi Tomeh, Nizar Habash, Ryan Roth, Noura Farra, Pradeep Dasigi and Mona Diab . (2013) Ensemble Reranking with Linguistic and Semantic Features for Arabic Character Recognition, In Proceedings of ACL, 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria. [pdf][bibtex]
  7. Heba Elfardy, and Mona Diab . (2013) Sentence-Level Dialect Identification in Arabic, In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria. [pdf][bibtex]
  8. Heba Elfardy, Mohamed ElBadrashiny, Mona Diab . (2013). Code-Switch Point Detection in Arabic, In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2013), MediaCity, UK. [pdf][bibtex]
  9. Ayah Zirikly and Mona Diab . (2013) ANEAR: Automatic Named Entity Aliasing Resolution. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2013), MediaCity, UK. [pdf][bibtex]
  10. Amjad Abu-Jbara, Ben King, Mona Diab and Dragomir Radev. (2013) Identifying Opinion Subgroups in Arabic Online Discussions. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria. [pdf][bibtex]
  11. Hawwari, Abdelati, Wajdi Zaghouani, Tim O'Gorman, Mona Diab , and Ahmed Badran. (2013) Building a Lexical Semantic Resource for Arabic Morphological Patterns. Proceedings of ICCSPA13, Sharjeh, UAE. February 2013. [pdf][bibtex]

    12. 2012


  12. Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad and Mona Diab . (2012) Toward Building a large scale Arabic Sentiment Lexicon. Proceedings of the 6th International Global WordNet Conference, January, Matsue, Japan. [pdf][bibtex]
  13. Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad and Mona Diab . (2012) AWATIF: A multigenre corpus for MSA subjectivity and sentiment Analysis. Proceedings of LREC, May, Istanbul Turkey. [pdf][bibtex]
  14. Abdul-Mageed, M., Kuebler, S. & Diab, M. (2012). SAMAR: A system for subjectivity and sentiment analysis of social media Arabic. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (WASSA), held in conjunction with the 50th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, July 12, ICC Jeju, Republic of Korea. [pdf][bibtex]
  15. Abu Jabara, Amjad, Pradeep Dasigi, Mona Diab , Dragomir Radev. (2012) Subgroup Detection in Ideological Discussions. Proceedings of ACL 2012, July, Jeju Island, Korea. [pdf][bibtex]
  16. Agirre, Eneko; Daniel Cer; Mona Diab ; Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre. (2012) SemEval-2012 Task 6: A Pilot on Semantic Textual Similarity. In Proceedings of SEMEVAL Workshop, held in conjunction with *SEM and NAACL 2012, Montreal, Canada, June 2012. [pdf][bibtex]
  17. Dasigi, P, Guo, W. & Diab, M. (2012). Cross-genre subgroup detection in online discussion threads: A study of the implicit attitude using textual latent semantics. In Proceedings of ACL 2012, July, Jeju Island, Korea. [pdf][bibtex]
  18. Elfardy, Heba and Mona Diab (2012). Token Level Identification of Linguistic Code Switching. Proceedings of COLING, Mumbai, India, December 2012. [pdf][bibtex]
  19. Elfardy, Heba and Mona Diab (2012). Simplified guidelines for the creation of Large Scale Dialectal Arabic Annotations. Proceedings of LREC, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012. [pdf][bibtex]
  20. Elfardy, Heba and Mona Diab (2012). AIDA: Automatic Identification & Glossing of Dialectal Arabic. Poster Session, Proceedings of European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2012), Trento Italy, May 2012. [pdf][bibtex]
  21. Guo, Weiwei and Mona Diab . (2012) Modeling Semantic Textual Similarity in the Latent Space. Proceedings of ACL 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, July 2012. [pdf][bibtex]
  22. Guo, W. & Diab, M. (2012). A simple unsupervised latent semantics based approach for sentence similarity. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SEMEVAL 2012), in conjunction with *SEM and NAACL 2012, Montreal, Canada, June 2012. [pdf][bibtex]
  23. Guo, W. & Diab, M. (2012). Learning the latent semantics of a concept from its definition. In Proceedings of ACL 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, July 2012. [pdf][bibtex]
  24. Habash, Nizar, Mona Diab , Owen Rambow (2012). CODA: A Conventional Orthography for Dialectal Arabic. Proceedings of LREC, Istanbul Turkey, May 2012. [pdf][bibtex]
  25. Hawwari, Abdelati; Kfir Bar; Mona Diab (2012). Building an Arabic Multiword Expressions Repository. Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, Montreal, Canada, June 2012. [pdf][bibtex]
  26. Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar, Owen Rambow, Mona Diab (2012) Who's (Really) the Boss? Perception of Situational Power in Written Interactions. Proceedings of COLING 2012, Mumbai, India, December 2012. [pdf][bibtex]
  27. Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar, Owen Rambow, Mona Diab . (2012) Annotations for Power Relations on Email Threads. Proceedings of LREC, May, Istanbul Turkey. [pdf][bibtex]
  28. Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar, Owen Rambow, Mona Diab . (2012) Predicting Overt Display of Power in Written Dialogs. Proceedings of NAACL 2012, Short Papers, Montreal, Canada, June 2012. [pdf][bibtex]
  29. Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar, Michael Bloodgood, Mona Diab , Bonnie J. Dorr, Lori Levin, Christine Piatko, Owen Rambow and Benjamin Van Durme. (2012) Statistical Modality Tagging from Rule-based Annotations and Crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of ACL Workshop on Extra-propositional aspects of meaning in computational linguistics (ExProM). Jeju, South Korea, July, 2012. [pdf][bibtex]
  30. Zaghouani, Wajdi, Abdelati Hawwari and Mona Diab . (2012) A Pilot PropBank Annotation for Quranic Arabic. In Proceedings of the computational linguistics for literature workshop, NAACL 2012, Montreal, Canada, June 2012. [pdf][bibtex]

    31. 2011


  31. Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad, Mona Diab , Mohammed Korayem. (2011) Subjectivity And Sentiment Analysis Of Modern Standard Arabic. Proceedings of ACL, June, Portland, OR, USA. [pdf][bibtex]
  32. Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad and Mona Diab . (2011) Subjectivity and Sentiment Annotation of Modern Standard Arabic Newswire. Proceedings of ACL Workshop LAW V, June, Portland, OR, USA. [pdf][bibtex]
  33. Dasigi, Pradeep and Mona Diab . (2011) Noisy Channel Modeling for Named Entity Transliteration. Proceedings of NEWS 2011 Workshop, IJCNLP 2011, November, Chiang Mai, Thailand. [pdf][bibtex]
  34. Diab, M. na and Pradeep Dasigi (2011) CODACT: Towards Identifying Orthographic Variants in Dialectal Arabic. Proceedings of IJCNLP 2011, November, Chiang Mai, Thailand. [pdf][bibtex]
  35. Diab, M. na and Ankit Kamboj (2011) An Annotation Scheme Leveraging Crowd Sourcing for Linguistic Code Switching in Hinglish. Proceedings of ALR9 Workshop, IJCNLP 2011, November, Chiang Mai, Thailand. [pdf][bibtex]
  36. Ghoneim, Mahmoud, Marine Carpuat and Mona Diab . (2011) Linguistically motivated reordering constraints for phrase-based SMT: base phrase chunks and predicate argument structures. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Language Engineering ESOLEC11, Cairo, Egypt, 2011. [pdf][bibtex]
  37. Guo, Weiwei and Mona Diab . (2011) Semantic Topic Models: Combining Word Distributional Statistics and Dictionary Definitions. Proceedings of EMNLP 2011, July, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. [pdf][bibtex]

    38. 2010


  38. Carpuat, Marine, and Mona Diab . (2010) Task-based Evaluation of Multiword Expressions: a Pilot Study in Statistical Machine Translation. Proceedings of NAACL, June, Los Angeles, CA, USA. [pdf][bibtex]
  39. Diab, M. na, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Mohamed Al Tantawy, Yassine Benajiba. (2010) COLABA: Arabic Dialect Annotation and Processing. Proceedings of the Workshop on Semitic Language Processing, LREC, May, Malta. [pdf][bibtex]
  40. Benajiba, Yassine and Mona Diab . (2010) A Web Application for Dialectal Arabic Text Annotation. Proceedings of the Workshop on Semitic Language Processing, LREC, May, Malta. [pdf][bibtex]
  41. Benajiba Yassine, Imed Zitouni, Mona Diab , Paolo Rosso. (2010) Arabic Named Entity Recognition: Using Features Extracted from Noisy Data. Proceedings of ACL, July, Uppsala, Sweden. [pdf][bibtex]
  42. Guo, Weiwei and Mona Diab . (2010) Combining Orthogonal Monolingual and Multilingual Sources of Evidence for All Words WSD. Proceedings of ACL, July, Uppsala, Sweden. [pdf][bibtex]
  43. Zaghouani, Wajdi, Mona Diab , Aous Mansouri, Sameer Pradhan, Martha Palmer. (2010) The Revised Arabic PropBank. Proceedings of ACL Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) IV, July, Uppsala, Sweden. [pdf][bibtex]
  44. Guo, Weiwei and Mona Diab . (2010) COLEUR and COLSLM: An Unsupervised WSD Approach to Multilingual Lexical Substitution, Tasks 2 and 3 SemEval 2010. Proceedings of ACL SEMEVAL, July, Uppsala, Sweden. [pdf][bibtex]
  45. Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar, Owen Rambow, Mona Diab . (2010) Automatic Committed Belief Tagging. Proceedings of COLING 2010, August, Beijing, China. Uppsala, Sweden. [pdf][bibtex]

    46. 2009


  46. Kristen Parton, Kathleen R. McKeown, Robert Coyne, Mona T. Diab, Ralph Grishman, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Mary Harper, Heng Ji, Wei Yun Ma, Adam Meyers, Sara Stolbach, Ang Sun, Gokhan Tur, Wei Xu and Sibel Yaman_Who. (2009) What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task. Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP, August, Singapore. [pdf][bibtex]
  47. Diab, M. na, and Pravin Bhutada. (2009) Verb Noun Construction MWE Supervised Token Classification. Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identification, Interpretation, Disambiguation and Applications, ACL-IJCNLP, August, Singapore. [pdf][bibtex]
  48. Diab, M. na, Lori Levin, Teruko Mitamura, Owen Rambow, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Weiwei Guo. (2009) Committed Belief Annotation and Tagging. Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop on The Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW III), ACL-IJCNLP, August, Singapore. [pdf][bibtex]
  49. Guo, Weiwei, and Mona Diab . (2009) Improvements to Monolingual English Word Sense Disambiguation. Proceedings of the NAACL 2009 workshop: Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions (SEW-2009), NAACL, June, Boulder, CO, USA. [pdf][bibtex]
  50. Diab, M. na. (2009) Second Generation Tools (AMIRA 2.0): Fast and Robust Tokenization, POS tagging, and Base Phrase Chunking. MEDAR 2nd International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools, April, Cairo, Egypt. [pdf][bibtex]
  51. Diab, M. na and Madhav Krishna. (2009) Unsupervised classification of Verb Noun Multiword Expression Tokens. CICLING, March, Mexico City, Mexico. [pdf][bibtex]
  52. Diab, M. na and Madhav Krishna. (2009) Handling Sparsity for Unsupervised MWE Classification. GEMS Workshop, EACL, March, Athens, Greece. [pdf][bibtex]

    53. 2008


  53. BenAjiba, Yassine, Mona Diab , Paolo Rosso. (2008) Arabic Named Entity Recognition: An SVM Based Approach. International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT'2008), December, University of Sfax, Tunisia. [pdf][bibtex]
  54. BenAjiba, Yassine, Mona Diab , Paolo Rosso, (2008). Arabic Named Entity Recognition using Optimized Feature Sets. In Proceedings of Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Oct, Hawaii, HI, USA. [pdf][bibtex]
  55. BenAjiba, Yassine, Mona Diab , Paolo Rosso. (2008). Arabic Named Entity Recognition using Conditional Random Fields. Proceedings of Workshop on HLT & NLP within the Arabic world. Arabic Language and local languages processing: Status Updates and Prospects, 6th Int. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC, May, Marrakech, Morocco. [pdf][bibtex]
  56. Diab, M. na, Alessandro Moschitti, Daniele Pighin, (2008) Semantic Role Labeling Systems for Arabic Language using Kernel Methods In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), July, Columbus, OH, USA. [pdf][bibtex]
  57. Habash, Nizar, Owen Rambow, Mona Diab , Reem Farraj. (2008) Guidelines for Annotating Arabic Dialect, Proceedings of Workshop on Arabic and its local languages, LREC, May, Marrakech, Morocco. [pdf][bibtex]
  58. Palmer, Martha, Ann Bies, Olga Babko-Malaya, Mona Diab , Mohamed Maamouri, Aous Mansouri, Wajdi Zaghouni. (2008) A pilot Arabic Propbank In Proceedings of LREC, May, Marrakech, Morocco. [pdf][bibtex]
  59. Roth, Ryan, Owen Rambow, Nizar Habash, Mona Diab , Cynthia Rudin. (2008) Arabic Morphological Tagging, Diacritization, and Lemmatization Using Lexeme Models and Feature Ranking. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), July, Columbus, OH, USA. [pdf][bibtex]

    60. 2007


  60. Diab, M. na. (2007) Towards an optimal POS tag set for Modern Standard Arabic Processing Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), August, Borovets, Bulgaria. [pdf][bibtex]
  61. Diab, M. na. (2007) Improved Arabic Base Phrase Chunking with a new enriched POS tag set. Proceedings of ACL Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (CASL), ACL '07, July, Prague, Czech Republic. [pdf][bibtex]
  62. Diab, M. na, Musa Alkhalifa, Sabry ElKateb, Christiane Fellbaum, Aous Mansouri, Martha Palmer. (2007) SemEval-2007 Task '18: Arabic Semantic Labeling. Proceedings of ACL Semantic Evaluation Workshop (SEMEVAL), ACL '07, July, Prague, Czech Republic. [pdf][bibtex]
  63. Diab, M. na, Alessandro Moschitti, Daniele Pighin. (2007) CUNIT: A Semantic Role Labeling System for Modern Standard Arabic. Proceedings of ACL Semantic Evaluation Workshop (SEMEVAL), ACL '07, July, Prague, Czech Republic. [pdf][bibtex]
  64. Diab, M. na and Alessandro Moschitti. (2007) Semantic Parsing for Modern Standard Arabic. Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), August, Borovets, Bulgaria. [pdf][bibtex]
  65. Diab, M. na, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Nizar Habash. (2007) Arabic Diacritization in the Context of Statistical Machine Translation. Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit (MT-Summit), September, Copenhagen, Denmark. [pdf][bibtex]
  66. Kirchhoff, Katrin, Owen Rambow, Nizar Habash, Mona Diab . (2007) Semi-Automatic Error Analysis for Large-Scale Statistical Machine Translation Systems. Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit (MT-Summit), September, Copenhagen, Denmark. [pdf][bibtex]

    67. 2006


  67. Diab, M. na. (2006) Developing a Mentoring Culture in Egypt. Position paper at the Conference for the Association of Egyptian American Scholars (AEAS), National Research Council of Egypt, December, Cairo, Egypt. [pdf][bibtex]
  68. Diab, M. na, and Neal Snider. (2006) Modern Standard Arabic Verb Alternations. Annual Meeting of the Arabic Linguistics Society (ALS) Conference, March, Kalamazoo, USA. [pdf][bibtex]
  69. Chiang, David, Mona Diab , Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Safi-Allah Sharif. (2006) Parsing Arabic Dialects. In Proceedings of the '11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), April, Trento, Italy. [pdf][bibtex]
  70. Snider, Neal and Mona Diab . (2006) Automatic Discovery of Verb Classes in Modern Standard Arabic. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-COLING'06), July, Sydney, Australia. [pdf][bibtex]
  71. Snider, Neal and, Mona Diab . (2006) Unsupervised Induction of Arabic Verb Classes. In Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference /North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (HLT-NAACL'06). June, New York, NY, USA. [pdf][bibtex]
  72. Maamouri, Mohamed, Ann Bies, Tim Buckwalter, Mona Diab , Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Dalila Tabessi. (2006) Developing and Using a Pilot Dialectal Arabic Treebank. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'06), May, Genoa, Italy. [pdf][bibtex]

    73. 2004


  73. Diab, M. na. (2004) Relieving the Data Acquisition Bottleneck for Word Sense Disambiguation. Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). [pdf][bibtex]
  74. Diab, M. na, Kadri Hacioglu, Daniel Jurafsky. (2004) Automatic Tagging of Arabic Text: From Raw Text to Base Phrase Chunks. Proceedings of Human Language Technology-North American Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL). [pdf][bibtex]
  75. Diab, M. na. (2004) An Unsupervised Approach for Bootstrapping Arabic Sense Tagging. Proceedings of Arabic Workshop, Computational Linguistics (COLING). [pdf][bibtex]
  76. Diab, M. na. (2004) Bootstrapping a WordNet Taxonomy for Arabic, Proceedings of First Arabic Language Technology Conference (NEMLAR), September, Cairo, Egypt. [pdf][bibtex]

    77. 2003


  77. Diab, M. na. (2003) Word Sense Disambiguation within a multilingual framework. PhD Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, August, MD, USA. [pdf][bibtex]

    78. 2002


  78. Diab, M. na and Philip Resnik. (2002) An Unsupervised Method for Word Sense Tagging using Parallel Corpora. Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), July, Philadelphia, PA, USA. [pdf][bibtex]

    79. 2000


  79. Diab, M. na. (2000) An Unsupervised Method for Word Sense Tagging using Parallel Corpora: A Preliminary Investigation, Special Interest Group in Lexical Semantics (SIGLEX) Workshop, Proceedings of ACL, October, Hong Kong. [pdf][bibtex]
  80. Diab, M. na. (2000) Exploiting Translations for Semantic Annotation. Candidacy Exam Thesis, Linguistics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, June, MD, USA. [pdf][bibtex]
  81. Diab, M. na and Steven Finch. (2000) A Statistical Word-Level Translation Model for Comparable Corpora, Proceedings of Conference on Content-based Multimedia Information Access (RIAO'00), May, Paris, France. [pdf][bibtex]
  82. Resnik, Philip and Mona Diab . (2000) Measuring Verb Similarity, Proceedings of the conference of International Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI'00), July, Philadelphia, PA, USA. [pdf][bibtex]
  83. Dorr, Bonnie, Gina Levow, Douglas Oard, Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg, Mona Diab , Maria Katsova. (2000) MADLIBS: An Event Translingual Lexical Conceptual Structure Based Information Retrieval System. Proceedings of North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), June, Seattle, WA, USA. [pdf][bibtex]

    84. 1998


  84. Diab, M. na, John Schuster, Peter Bock. (1998) A Preliminary Statistical Investigation into the impact of an N-Gram Analysis Approach based on Word Syntactic Categories toward Text Author Classification. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Applications, December, Cairo, Egypt. [pdf][bibtex]
  85. Riopka, Terry, Mona Diab , Peter Bock. (1998) Quantifying and Interpreting the Effect of Intelligent Information Exchange. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Applications, December, Cairo, Egypt. [pdf][bibtex]

    86. 1997


  86. Resnik, Philip, Mari Broman Olsen, Mona Diab . (1997) Creating a Parallel Corpus from the Book of 2000 Tongues, Text Encoding Initiative '10th Anniversary User Conference (TEI-10), November, Providence, RI, USA. [pdf][bibtex]

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Mona T. Diab
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