--- title: "Allan Ramsay — author profile and papers" description: "Allan Ramsay, University of Manchester: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2009–2016), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allan-ramsay/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allan-ramsay/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Allan Ramsay # Allan Ramsay Allan Ramsay has 2 papers in our library, in 2009–2016, most of them on [Part-of-speech tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/). 2 papers in our library · 2009–2016 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5035477242) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9903-0722) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4730802) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5035477242) · [149 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5035477242) · [666 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5035477242&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allan-ramsay/#papers) · [🔗 16 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allan-ramsay/cited-by/) · [10 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4805](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/49/#star-4805) 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=Allan+Ramsay) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Allan+Ramsay) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Allan+Ramsay) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Allan+Ramsay) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Manchester** Manchester · United Kingdom 1995–2026 · 71 papersEmployment since 1995*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-manchester/) · [🎓**University College Dublin** Dublin · Ireland 1990–2000 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-college-dublin/) · [🎓**University of Sussex** Brighton · United Kingdom 1983–1989 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sussex/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 1980 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🎓**University of London** London · United Kingdom Education](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-london/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Part-of-speech tagging (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/albogamy-2016-fast-robust-pos-tagger-arabic/) ### 2000s [**2009** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramsay-2009-english-commonsense-knowledge/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Fast and Robust POS tagger for Arabic Tweets Using Agreement-based Bootstrapping](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/albogamy-2016-fast-robust-pos-tagger-arabic/)** *(2016 · 11 citations)* Arabic POS taggers trained on newswire from the PATB perform poorly on Twitter text. Tweets are short and informal, often in dialect, and full of misspellings, joined words, stretched letters, transliterated English and tokens that exist only on Twitter. The authors collected tweets geolocated to the Arabian… 2. **[Using English for commonsense knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramsay-2009-english-commonsense-knowledge/)** *(2009)* The paper argues for writing commonsense rules as English sentences, for example "eating fruit which contains vitamin C is good for X if X has scurvy", and for translating them into logical forms with a compositional grammar. ## Also in our library 10 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 16 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allan-ramsay/cited-by/).