--- title: "Abdessamad Echihabi — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Abdessamad Echihabi: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2002–2006), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdessamad-echihabi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdessamad-echihabi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Abdessamad Echihabi # Abdessamad Echihabi Abdessamad Echihabi has 2 papers in our library, in 2002–2006, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Daniel Marcu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-marcu/), [Kevin Knight](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-knight/), [Wei Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-wang/). 2 papers in our library · 2002–2006 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5081109112) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5081109112) · [15 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5081109112) · [1,112 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5081109112&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdessamad-echihabi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 235 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdessamad-echihabi/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3028](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/31/#star-3028) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Abdessamad+Echihabi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Abdessamad+Echihabi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Abdessamad+Echihabi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Abdessamad+Echihabi) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2001–2004 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Discourse analysis · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Discourse analysis · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/discourse-analysis/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2006** 1 paper Abdessamad Echihabi's papers of 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcu-2006-spmt-statistical-machine-translation-syntactified/) · [**2002** 1 paper Abdessamad Echihabi's papers of 2002](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcu-2002-unsupervised-approach-recognizing-discourse-relations/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[An Unsupervised Approach to Recognizing Discourse Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcu-2002-unsupervised-approach-recognizing-discourse-relations/)** *(2002 · 514 citations)* The paper tackles automatic recognition of discourse relations between text spans, including cases where no connective signals the relation. 2. **[SPMT: Statistical Machine Translation with Syntactified Target Language Phrases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcu-2006-spmt-statistical-machine-translation-syntactified/)** *(2006 · 96 citations)* Phrase-based statistical MT handles lexical choice well but often produces ungrammatical word order for syntactically divergent pairs such as Chinese–English. ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[An Unsupervised Approach to Recognizing Discourse Relations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcu-2002-unsupervised-approach-recognizing-discourse-relations/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Daniel Marcu, Abdessamad Echihabi*2002 · 514 citations* 2. **[SPMT: Statistical Machine Translation with Syntactified Target Language Phrases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcu-2006-spmt-statistical-machine-translation-syntactified/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Daniel Marcu, Wei Wang, Abdessamad Echihabi, et al.*2006 · 96 citations* 3. **[An Arabizi-English social media statistical machine translation system ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2014.amta-researchers.25/) Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Researchers Track · no summary yet**Jonathan May, Yassine Benjira, Abdessamad Echihabi*2014 · 20 citations* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Daniel Marcu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-marcu/) ×2 - [Kevin Knight](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-knight/) - [Wei Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2002](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2002/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2006/) - Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Researchers Track ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 235 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [59 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdessamad-echihabi/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026