--- title: "David Vadas — papers and cards" description: "David Vadas: 2 paper cards in the Research library (2007–2011), with what each paper is about, the ideas Mova took from it, and the co-authors." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-vadas/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-vadas/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / David Vadas # David Vadas 2 paper cards in the Research library · 2007–2011 David Vadas wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2007–2011, most of them on [Treebanks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/); often with [James Curran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-curran/), [James R. Curran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-r-curran/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5061948215) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5061948215) · [207 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5061948215) · [11 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5061948215) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14 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=David+Vadas) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=David+Vadas) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=David+Vadas) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=David+Vadas) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=David+Vadas) Topics: [Treebanks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) 2 ## Papers 1. **[Parsing Noun Phrases in the Penn Treebank](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bank-2011-vadas-parsing-noun-phrases-penn-treebank/)** *(2011)* The Penn Treebank does not mark the internal structure of noun phrases, so statistical parsers cannot learn it. 2. **[Adding Noun Phrase Structure to the Penn Treebank](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bank-2007-vadas-adding-noun-phrase-structure-penn/)** *(2007)* The Penn Treebank leaves base noun phrases flat, so "Air Force contract" has no internal structure, and any parser trained on it cannot learn that "Air Force" is a unit. ## Co-authors (2) - [James Curran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-curran/) - [James R. Curran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-r-curran/)