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# Amal Al-Saif

Amal Al-Saif has 2 papers in our library, in 2010–2011, most of them on [Discourse analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Treebanks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/); often with [Katja Markert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katja-markert/).

2 papers in our library · 2010–2011

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[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amal-al-saif/#papers) · [🔗 39 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amal-al-saif/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4466](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/45/#star-4466)

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## Topics

[Discourse analysis (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/discourse-analysis/) · [Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Treebanks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/)

## Works by year

### 2010s

[**2011** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saif-2011-modelling-discourse-relations-arabic/) · [**2010** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saif-2010-leeds-arabic-discourse-treebank-annotating/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[The Leeds Arabic Discourse Treebank: Annotating Discourse Connectives for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saif-2010-leeds-arabic-discourse-treebank-annotating/)** *(2010 · 32 citations)* Before this work, Arabic corpora had morphological and syntactic annotation but no discourse layer. Earlier Arabic studies of connectives were small, mixed discourse connectives with ordinary prepositions, and measured no agreement. The authors built the Leeds Arabic Discourse Treebank (LADTB) on top of the Penn…
2. **[Modelling Discourse Relations for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saif-2011-modelling-discourse-relations-arabic/)** *(2011 · 7 citations)* This EMNLP 2011 paper presents the first computational models of discourse relations for Arabic. It focuses on explicit discourse connectives. The authors take news texts drawn from Part 1 v2.0 of the Arabic Penn Treebank and annotate them according to Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB) principles, modified to suit…

## Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Katja Markert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/katja-markert/) ×2

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 39 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amal-al-saif/cited-by/).