--- title: "Beracah Yankama — author profile and papers · English" description: "Beracah Yankama: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2012–2021), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beracah-yankama/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beracah-yankama/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Beracah Yankama # Beracah Yankama Beracah Yankama has 2 papers in our library, in 2012–2021, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/), [Dependency parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/), [Universal Dependencies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/); often with [Robert Berwick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-berwick/), [Aline Villavicencio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aline-villavicencio/), [Marco Idiart](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-idiart/). 2 papers in our library · 2012–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5070587246) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5070587246) · [15 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5070587246) · [593 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5070587246&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beracah-yankama/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 1 time in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12452](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/125/#star-12452) 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=Beracah+Yankama) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Beracah+Yankama) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Beracah+Yankama) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Beracah+Yankama) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2010–2021 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) 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 6 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/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 6 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Dependency parsing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Semantic role labeling · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Universal Dependencies · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/universal-dependencies/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beracah-yankama/year/2021/) ### 2010s [**2012** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beracah-yankama/year/2012/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Evaluating Universal Dependency Parser Recovery of Predicate Argument Structure via CompChain Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/indurkhya-2021-evaluating-universal-dependency-parser-recovery/)** *(2021 · 2 citations)* The paper defines compchains, a short code for the chain of ccomp and xcomp relations that runs from the root through verb nodes, and uses it as a proxy for whether a parser recovers embedded predicate-argument structure. 2. **[An annotated English child language database](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/villavicencio-2012-annotated-english-child-language-database/)** *(2012)* Child-language studies increasingly rely on large naturalistic corpora such as CHILDES, but its English material mostly carries only POS tags, lemmas and parses. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Robert Berwick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-berwick/) ×2 - [Aline Villavicencio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aline-villavicencio/) - [Marco Idiart](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-idiart/) - [Rodrigo Wilkens](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodrigo-wilkens/) - [Sagar Indurkhya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sagar-indurkhya/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/): [*SEM 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2021/) - [Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-models-of-language-acquisition-and-loss/): [Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss 2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-computational-models-of-language-acquisition-and-loss/2012/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). Updated 2 November 2026