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2016

AlQahtani, Sawsan, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Mona Diab. (2016) Impact of Explicit encoding of vowelization in Arabic Machine translation. Proceedings of Automatic Machine Translation Association (AMTA) 2016, Texas Austin, USA, Nov.

Hawwari, Abdelati, Mohammed Attia, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Mona Diab. (2016) Explicit Fine grained Syntactic and Semantic Annotation of the Idafa Construction in Arabic. In Proceedings of LREC 2016, Slovenia, May.

Diab, Mona, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Abdelati Hawwari, Fahad AlGhamdi, Nada AlMarwani, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny. (2016) Creating a Large Multi-Layered Representational Repository of Linguistic Code Switched Arabic Data. In Proceedings of LREC 2016, Slovenia, May.

Zaghouani, Wajdi, Houda Bouamor, Abdelati Hawwari, Mona Diab, Ossama Obeid, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Sawsan Alqahtani, Kemal Oflazer. (2016) Large Scale Arabic Diacritized Corpus: Guidelines and Framework. In Proceedings of LREC 2016, Slovenia, May.

Al-Badrashiny, Mohamed, Arfath Pasha, Mona Diab, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Wael Salloum, and Ramy Eskander. (2016) SPLIT: Smart Preprocessing (Quasi) Language Independent Tool, In Proceedings of LREC 2016, Slovenia, May.

2015

Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar, and Tomas By, Julia Hirschberg, Owen Rambow, Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, Jennifer Tracey, Michael Arrigo, Rupayan Basu, Micah Clark, Adam Dalton, Mona Diab, Louise Guthrie, Anna Prokofieva, Stephanie Strassel, Gregory Werner, Yorick Wilks and Janyce Wiebe. (2015) A New Dataset and Evaluation for Belief/Factuality. In Proceedings of 4th *SEM Conference, Denver CO, USA.

Elfardy, Heba, and Mona Diab and Chris Callison-Burch. (2015) Ideological Perspective Detection Using Semantic Features. In Proceedings of 4th *SEM Conference, Denver CO, USA.

Al-Badrashiny, Mohamed, Heba Elfardy, Mona Diab. (2015) AIDA2: A Hybrid Approach for Token and Sentence Level Dialect Identification in Arabic. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Beijing, China.

Hamadian, Sardar, and Mona Diab. (2015) Improved Automatic Rumor Detection. In Proceedings of the 5th international Conference on Social Media Technologies Communication and Informatics (SOTICS). Barcelona, Spain.

Zirikly, Aya, Yassine Benajiba, Mona Diab. (2015) GW-EDL English Diagnostic Short System Description. KPB Task Evaluation, In Proceedings of the TAC Conference, NIST, Maryland MD, USA.

2014

Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad, Mona Diab. (2014) SANA: A Large Scale Multi-Genre, Multi-Dialect Lexicon for Arabic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Reykjavik, Iceland.

Diab, Mona, Mohamed AlBadrashiny, Maryam Aminian, Mohamed Attia, Hebatullah ElFardy, Nizar Habash, Abdelati Hawwari, Wael Salloum, Pradeep Dasigi, Ramy Eskander. (2014) Tharwa: A Large Scale Dialectal Arabic –Standard Arabic – English Lexicon. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Reykjavik, Iceland.

Guo, Weiwei, Wei Liu, Mona Diab. (2014) Fast Tweet Retrieval with Compact Binary Codes. In Proceedings of Conference of Computational Linguistics (COLING), Dublin, Ireland.

Pasha, Arfath, Mohamed AlBadrashiny, Mona Diab, Ahmed ElKholy, Ramy Eskander, Nizar Habash, Manoj Poolery, Owen Rambow, Ryan Roth. (2014) MADAMIRA: A Fast, Comprehensive Tool for Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation of Arabic. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Reykjavik, Iceland.

Salloum, Wael, Hebatullah ElFardy, Linda Alamir-Salloum, Nizar Habash, Mona Diab. (2014) Sentence Level Dialect Identification for Machine Translation System Selection. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Baltimore MD, USA.

2013

Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad, Mona Diab, Sandra Kubler. (2013) ASMA: A system for Automatic Segmentation and Morpho-syntactic Disambiguation of Modern Standard Arabic. In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Sophia, Bulgaria.

Abu-Jbara, Amjad, Ben King, Mona Diab, Dragomir Radev. (2013) Identifying Opinion Subgroups in Arabic Online Discussions. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Sofia, Bulgaria.

Agirre, Eneko, Daniel Cer, Mona Diab, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre and Weiwei Guo. (2013) *SEM 13 shared task: Semantic Textual Similarity. In Proceedings of *SEM, Atlanta GA, USA.

ElFardy, Hebatullah, and Mona Diab. (2013) Sentence-Level Dialect Identification in Arabic, In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Sofia, Bulgaria.

ElFardy, Hebatullah, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny, 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), MediaCity, Manchester, UK.

Ghoneim, Mahmoud and Mona Diab. (2013) Multiword Expressions in the context of Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of IJCNLP, Nagoya, Japan.

Guo, Weiwei, and Mona Diab. (2013) Improving Lexical Semantics for Sentential Semantics: Modeling Selectional Preference and Similar Words in a Latent Variable Model. In Proceedings of North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Atlanta GA, USA.

Guo, Weiwei, 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 Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Sofia, Bulgaria.

Hawwari, Abdelati, Wajdi Zaghouani, Tim O'Gorman, Mona Diab, and Ahmed Badran. (2013) Building a Lexical Semantic Resource for Arabic Morphological Patterns. In Proceedings of ICCSPA13, Sharjeh, UAE.

Tomeh, Nadi, 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 Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Sofia, Bulgaria.

Zirikly, Aya 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), MediaCity, Manchester, UK.

 2012

Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad and Mona Diab. (2012) Toward Building a large scale Arabic Sentiment Lexicon. In Proceedings of the 6th International Global WordNet Conference, Matsue, Japan.

Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad and Mona Diab. (2012) AWATIF: A multigenre corpus for MSA subjectivity and sentiment Analysis. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Istanbul, Turkey.

Abu Jabara, Amjad, Pradeep Dasigi, Mona Diab, Dragomir Radev. (2012) Subgroup Detection in Ideological Discussions. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Jeju Island, South Korea.

Dasigi, Pradeep, Weiwei Guo, and Diab, Mona (2012) Cross-genre subgroup detection in online discussion threads: A study of the implicit attitude using textual latent semantics. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Jeju Island, South Korea.

ElFardy, Hebatullah and Mona Diab. (2012) Simplified guidelines for the creation of Large Scale Dialectal Arabic Annotations. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Istanbul, Turkey.

ElFardy, Hebatullah and Mona Diab. (2012) AIDA: Automatic Identification & Glossing of Dialectal Arabic. Poster Session, In Proceedings of European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), Trento, Italy.

Guo, Weiwei and Mona Diab. (2012) Modeling Semantic Textual Similarity in the Latent Space. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Jeju Island, South Korea.

Guo, W. & Diab, Mona. (2012) Learning the latent semantics of a concept from its definition. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Jeju Island, South Korea.

Habash, Nizar, Mona Diab, Owen Rambow. (2012) CODA: A Conventional Orthography for Dialectal Arabic. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Istanbul, Turkey.

Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar, Owen Rambow, Mona Diab. (2012) Who’s. (Really) the Boss? Perception of Situational Power in Written Interactions. In Proceedings of Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Mumbai, India.

Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar, Owen Rambow, Mona Diab. (2012) Annotations for Power Relations on Email Threads. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Istanbul Turkey.

Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar, Owen Rambow, Mona Diab. (2012) Predicting Overt Display of Power in Written Dialogs. In Proceedings of North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Short Papers, Montreal, Canada.

2011

Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad, Mona Diab, Mohammed Korayem. (2011) Subjectivity And Sentiment Analysis Of Modern Standard Arabic. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Portland OR, USA.

Diab, Mona and Pradeep Dasigi. (2011) CODACT: Towards Identifying Orthographic Variants in Dialectal Arabic. In Proceedings of IJCNLP, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

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 Eleventh Conference on Language Engineering (ESOLEC11), Cairo, Egypt.

Guo, Weiwei and Mona Diab. (2011) Semantic Topic Models: Combining Word Distributional Statistics and Dictionary Definitions. In Proceedings of Empirical Methods For Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

2010

Benajiba Yassine, Imed Zitouni, Mona Diab, Paolo Rosso. (2010) Arabic Named Entity Recognition: Using Features Extracted from Noisy Data. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Uppsala, Sweden.

Carpuat, Marine, and Mona Diab. (2010) Task-based Evaluation of Multiword Expressions: a Pilot Study in Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Los Angeles CA, USA.

Guo, Weiwei and Mona Diab. (2010) Combining Orthogonal Monolingual and Multilingual Sources of Evidence for All Words WSD. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Uppsala, Sweden.

Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar, Owen Rambow, Mona Diab. (2010) Automatic Committed Belief Tagging. In Proceedings of COLING, Beijing, China.


2009

Diab, Mona. (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, Cairo, Egypt.

Diab, Mona and Madhav Krishna. (2009) Unsupervised classification of Verb Noun Multiword Expression Tokens. CICLING, Mexico City, Mexico.

Parton, Kristen, Kathleen R. McKeown, Robert Coyne, Mona T. Diab, Ralph Grishman, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Mary Harper, Heng Ji, Wei Yun Ma, Adam Meyers, Sara Stolbach, Ang Sun, Gokhan Tur, Wei Xu and Sibel YamanWho. (2009) What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task. In Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP, Singapore.

 

2008

BenAjiba, Yassine, Mona Diab, Paolo Rosso. (2008) Arabic Named Entity Recognition: An SVM Based Approach. International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT'08), University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia.

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), Hawaii HI, USA.

Diab, Mona, Alessandro Moschitti, Daniele Pighin. (2008) Semantic Role Labeling Systems for Arabic Language using Kernel Methods In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Columbus OH, USA.

Palmer, Martha, Ann Bies, Olga Babko-Malaya, Mona Diab, Mohamed Maamouri, Aous Mansouri, Wajdi Zaghouni. (2008) A pilot Arabic Propbank. In Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco.

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), Columbus OH, USA.

2007

Diab, Mona. (2007) Towards an optimal POS tag set for Modern Standard Arabic Processing. In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Borovets, Bulgaria.

Diab, Mona and Alessandro Moschitti. (2007) Semantic Parsing for Modern Standard Arabic. In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), Borovets, Bulgaria.

Diab, Mona, Mahmoud Ghoneim, Nizar Habash. (2007) Arabic Diacritization in the Context of Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit (MT-Summit), Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kirchhoff, Katrin, Owen Rambow, Nizar Habash, Mona Diab. (2007) Semi-Automatic Error Analysis for Large-Scale Statistical Machine Translation Systems. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit (MT-Summit), Copenhagen, Denmark.

2006

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), Trento, Italy.

Diab, Mona. (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, Cairo, Egypt.

Diab, Mona, and Neal Snider. (2006) Modern Standard Arabic Verb Alternations. In Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Arabic Linguistics Society (ALS), Kalamazoo MI, USA.

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), Genoa, Italy.

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), Sydney, Australia.

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), New York, NY, USA.

2004

Diab, Mona. (2004) Relieving the Data Acquisition Bottleneck for Word Sense Disambiguation. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Diab, Mona, Kadri Hacioglu, Daniel Jurafsky. (2004) Automatic Tagging of Arabic Text: From Raw Text to Base Phrase Chunks. In Proceedings of Human Language Technology-North American Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL).

Diab, Mona. (2004) Bootstrapping a WordNet Taxonomy for Arabic. Proceedings of First Arabic Language Technology Conference (NEMLAR), Cairo, Egypt.

2002

Diab, Mona and Philip Resnik. (2002) An Unsupervised Method for Word Sense Tagging using Parallel Corpora. In Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Philadelphia PA, USA.

2000

Diab, Mona and Steven Finch. (2000) A Statistical Word-Level Translation Model for Comparable Corpora. In Proceedings of Conference on Content-based Multimedia Information Access (RIAO00), Paris, France.

Resnik, Philip and Mona Diab. (2000) Measuring Verb Similarity. In Proceedings of the conference of International Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI00), Philadelphia PA, USA.

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. In Proceedings of North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Seattle, WA, USA.

1998

Diab, Mona, 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. In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Applications, Cairo, Egypt.

Riopka, Terry, Mona Diab, Peter Bock. (1998) Quantifying and Interpreting the Effect of Intelligent Information Exchange. In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Applications, Cairo, Egypt.

1997

Resnik, Philip, Mari Broman Olsen, Mona Diab. (1997) Creating a Parallel Corpus from the Book of 00 Tongues, Text Encoding Initiative 10th Anniversary User Conference (TEI-10), Providence RI, USA.

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