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2016


Solorio, Thamar, Mona Diab, Fahad Algamdi, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Giovanni Molina, Julia Hirschberg, Victor Sotto. (2016) An overview of the shared task on multilingual linguistic code switching. Proceedings of EMNLP Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching (CALCS 2016), EMNLP, Austin TX, USA, Nov.

AlBadrashiny, Mohamed and Mona Diab. (2016) A Simple Efficient Language Independent Framework for Linguistic Code Switch Point Detection. Proceedings of EMNLP Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching (CALCS 2016), EMNLP, Austin TX, USA, Nov.

AlBadrashiny, Mohamed and Mona Diab. (2016) The George Washington University System for the Code-Switching Workshop Shared Task 2016. Proceedings of EMNLP Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching (CALCS 2016), EMNLP, Austin TX, USA, Nov.

Ossama Obeid, Houda Bouamor, Wajdi Zaghouani, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Abdelati Hawwari, Mona Diab, Kemal Oflazer. (2016) MANDIAC: A Web-based Annotation System For Manual Arabic Diacritization. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Arabic. BEST POSTER AWARD FROM QNRF

Elfardy, Heba and Mona Diab. (2016) CU-GW Perspective at SemEval-2016 Task 6: Ideological Stance Detection in Informal Text. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2016), NAACL 2016. San Diego, CA, USA

Elfardy, Heba and Mona Diab. (2016) Annotation Complexity: The Case of Annotating Ideological Perspective in Egyptian Social Media. In Proceedings of the 10th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW X), ACL 2016. Berlin, Germany.

AlDarmaki, Hanan, and Mona Diab. (2016) GW-NLP at SemEval Task 1: Matrix Factorization for Cross Lingual STS. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2016), NAACL 2016. San Diego, CA, USA. Corpora and Processing Tools, LREC 2016.

Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad, Hassan AlHuzliy, Duaa’ Abu Elhija, Mona Diab. (2016) DINA: A Multi-Dialect Dataset for Arabic Emotion Analysis. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, LREC 2016.

AlDarmaki, Hanan, and Mona Diab. (2016) Learning Cross-Lingual Representations with Matrix Factorization. Proceedings of Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Methods in Computational Linguistics (MLCL), NAACL, San Diego CA, Jun.

Hamidian, Sardar, and Mona Diab. (2016) Rumor Identification and Belief Investigation on Twitter. In Proceedings of Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis (WASSA), NAACL 2016, San Diego CA, Jun.

Agirre, Eneko, Carmen Banea, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Rada Mihalcea, German Rigau, Janyce Wiebe. (2016) SemEval-16 Task 1: Semantic Textual Similarity, Monolingual and Cross Lingual Evaluation. In Proceedings of SEMEVAL, North American Association for Computational Linguistics, NAACL 2016, San Diego CA, Jun.

2015

Agirre, Eneko, Carmen Banea, Claire Cardie, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Weiwei Guo, Inigo Lopez-Gazpio, Montse Maritxalar, Rada Mihalcea, German Rigau, Larraitz Uria, Janyce Wiebe. (2015) SemEval-15 Task 2: Semantic Textual Similarity, English, Spanish and Pilot on Interpretability. In Proceedings of SEMEVAL, North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Denver CO, USA.

Aminian, Maryam, Mahmoud GhoneimMona Diab. (2015) Unsupervised False Friend Disambiguation Using Contextual Word Clusters and Parallel Word Alignments. In Proceedings of Workshop 9th Semantics Syntax Statistical Translation (SSST), North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Denver CO, USA. BEST PAPER AWARD.

Werner, Gregory, and Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Mona Diab and Owen Rambow. (2015) Committed Belief Tagging on the Factbank and LU Corpora: A Comparative Study. In Proceedings of Workshop EXPROM, North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Denver CO, USA.

Zirikly, Ayah, Mona Diab. (2015) Named Entity Recognition for Arabic Social Media. In Proceedings of Workshop on Vector Space Models for NLP, North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Denver CO, USA.

Bouamor, Houda, Wadi Zaghouani, Mona Diab, Ossama Obeid, Kemal Oflazer, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Abdelati Hawwari. (2015) A Pilot Study on Arabic Multi-Genre Corpus Diacritization. In Proceedings of Second Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Beijing, China.

Attia, Mohammed, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny, Mona Diab. (2015) GW-HASP-15$@$QALB-15 Shared Task: Priming Spelling Candidates with Probability. In Proceedings of Second Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Beijing, China.

Aldarmaki, Hanan and Mona Diab. (2015) Robust Part-of-speech Tagging of Arabic Text. In Proceedings of Second Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Beijing, China.


2014

Agirre, Eneko, Carmen Banea, Claire Cardie, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Weiwei Guo, Rada Mihalcea, German Rigau, Janyce Wiebe. (2014) SemEval-14 Task 10: Multilingual Semantic Textual Similarity. In Proceedings of SEMEVAL, Conference of Computational Linguistics (COLING), Dublin, Ireland.

Aminian, Maryam, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Mona Diab. (2014) Handling OOV Words in Dialectal Arabic to English Machine Translation. In Proceedings of Workshop on Language Technology for Closely Related Languages and Language Variants (LT4CloseLang), Empirical Methods For Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Doha, Qatar.

Attia, Mohamed, Mohamed AlBadrashiny, Mona Diab. (2014) GW-HASP: Hybrid Arabic Spelling and Punctuation Correction. In Proceedings of Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP), Empirical Methods For Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Doha, Qatar.

ElFardy, Hebatullahtullah, Mohamed AlBadrashiny, Mona Diab. (2014) AIDA: Identifying Code Switching in Informal Arabic Text. In Proceedings of First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching (CodeSwitch), Empirical Methods For Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Doha, Qatar.

Hawwari, Abdelati, Mohamed Attia, Mona Diab. (2014) A Framework for the Classification and Annotation of Multiword Expressions in Dialectal Arabic. In Proceedings of Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP), Empirical Methods For Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Doha, Qatar.

Solorio, Thamar, E. Blair, S. Maharjan, S. Bethard, M. Diab, M. Ghoneim, A. Hawwari, F. AlGhamdi, J. Hirschberg, A. Chang, P. Fung. (2014) Overview for the First Shared Task on Language Identification in Code Switched Data. In Proceedings of First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching (CodeSwitch), Empirical Methods For Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Doha, Qatar.

Zirikly, Ayah, Mona Diab. (2014) Named Entity Recognition for Dialectal Arabic. In Proceedings of Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing. (ANLP), Empirical Methods For Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Doha, Qatar.

2012

Abdul-Mageed, M., Kuebler, S., Mona Diab. (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 (ACL), Jeju Island, South Korea.

Agirre, Eneko, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre. (2012) SemEval-12 Task 6: A Pilot on Semantic Textual Similarity. In Proceedings of SEMEVAL Workshop, North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Montreal, Canada.

Guo, W. & Diab, Mona. (2012) A simple unsupervised latent semantics based approach for sentence similarity. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. (SEMEVAL), North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Montreal, Canada.

Hawwari, Abdelati; Kfir Bar; Mona Diab. (2012) Building an Arabic Multiword Expressions Repository. In Proceedings of Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature, North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Montreal, Canada.

Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar, Michael Bloodgood, Mona Diab, Bonnie J. Dorr, Lori Levin, Christine Piatko, Owen Rambow, Benjamin Van Durme. (2012) Statistical Modality Tagging from Rule-based Annotations and Crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of Workshop on Extra-propositional aspects of meaning in computational linguistics. (ExProM) Jeju Island, South Korea.

Zaghouani, Wajdi, Abdelati Hawwari, Mona Diab. (2012) A Pilot PropBank Annotation for Quranic Arabic. In Proceedings of the computational linguistics for literature workshop, North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Montreal, Canada.

Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad and Mona Diab. (2011) Subjectivity and Sentiment Annotation of Modern Standard Arabic Newswire. In Proceedings of workshop LAW V, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Portland OR, USA.

2011

Dasigi, Pradeep and Mona Diab. (2011) Noisy Channel Modeling for Named Entity Transliteration. In Proceedings of NEWS 11 Workshop, IJCNLP, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Diab, Mona and Ankit Kamboj. (2011) An Annotation Scheme Leveraging Crowd Sourcing for Linguistic Code Switching in Hinglish. In Proceedings of ALR9 Workshop, IJCNLP, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

2010


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

Benajiba, Yassine and Mona Diab. (2010) A Web Application for Dialectal Arabic Text Annotation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Semitic Language Processing, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Malta.

Diab, Mona
, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Mohamed Al Tantawy, Yassine Benajiba. (2010) COLABA: Arabic Dialect Annotation and Processing. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Semitic Language Processing, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Malta.

Guo, Weiwei and Mona Diab. (2010) COLEPL and COLSLM: An Unsupervised WSD Approach to Multilingual Lexical Substitution, Tasks 2 and 3 SemEval 10. In Proceedings of SEMEVAL, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Uppsala, Sweden.

Zaghouani, Wajdi, Mona Diab, Aous Mansouri, Sameer Pradhan, Martha Palmer. (2010) The Revised Arabic PropBank. In Proceedings of Linguistic Annotation Workshop. (LAW) IV, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Uppsala, Sweden.

2009

Diab, Mona, and Pravin Bhutada. (2009) Verb Noun Construction MWE Supervised Token Classification. In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 09 Workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identification, Interpretation, Disambiguation and Applications, ACL-IJCNLP, Singapore.

Diab, Mona, Lori Levin, Teruko Mitamura, Owen Rambow, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Weiwei Guo. (2009) Committed Belief Annotation and Tagging. In Proceedings of workshop on Third Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW III), ACL-IJCNLP, Singapore.

Diab, Mona and Madhav Krishna. (2009) Handling Sparsity for Unsupervised MWE Classification. GEMS Workshop, European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), Athens, Greece.

Guo, Weiwei, and Mona Diab. (2009) Improvements to Monolingual English Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the NAACL 09 workshop: Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions. (SEW-09), North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Boulder CO, USA.

2008

Habash, Nizar, Owen Rambow, Mona Diab, Reem Farraj. (2008) Guidelines for Annotating Arabic Dialect, Proceedings of Workshop on Arabic and its local languages, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco.

2007

Diab, Mona. (2007) Improved Arabic Base Phrase Chunking with a new enriched POS tag set. In Proceedings of workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages (CASL), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic.

Diab, Mona, Musa Alkhalifa, Sabry ElKateb, Christiane Fellbaum, Aous Mansouri, Martha Palmer. (2007) SemEval-07 Task 18: Arabic Semantic Labeling. In Proceedings of SEMEVAL, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic.

Diab, Mona, Alessandro Moschitti, Daniele Pighin. (2007) CUNIT: A Semantic Role Labeling System for Modern Standard Arabic. In Proceedings of SEMEVAL, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prague, Czech Republic.

2004


Diab, Mona. (2004) An Unsupervised Approach for Bootstrapping Arabic Sense Tagging. In Proceedings of Arabic Workshop, Computational Linguistics (COLING).

2000


Diab, Mona. (2000) An Unsupervised Method for Word Sense Tagging using Parallel Corpora: A Preliminary Investigation. In Proceedings of Special Interest Group in Lexical Semantics (SIGLEX) Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Hong Kong. 






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