--- title: "David Zajic — author profile and papers" description: "David Zajic: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2003–2010), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-zajic/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-zajic/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / David Zajic # David Zajic David Zajic has 2 papers in our library, in 2003–2010, most of them on [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Bonnie Dorr](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bonnie-dorr/), [Richard Schwartz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-schwartz/), [Tim Buckwalter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-buckwalter/). 2 papers in our library · 2003–2010 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5059051939) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5059051939) · [46 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5059051939) · [879 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5059051939&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-zajic/#papers) · [🔗 74 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-zajic/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4176](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/42/#star-4176) 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+Zajic) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=David+Zajic) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=David+Zajic) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=David+Zajic) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2003–2014 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Summarization (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2010** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rytting-2010-error-correction-arabic-dictionary-lookup/) ### 2000s [**2003** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dorr-2003-hedge-trimmer-parse-trim-approach/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Hedge Trimmer: A Parse-and-Trim Approach to Headline Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dorr-2003-hedge-trimmer-parse-trim-approach/)** *(2003 · 83 citations)* Hedge Trimmer tackles automatic headline generation for English news. Its goal is informative, compact descriptions of a story's main event, for uses such as document surrogates in cross-language retrieval, rather than attention-grabbing titles. The authors first tested by hand whether good headlines can be built by… 2. **[Error Correction for Arabic Dictionary Lookup](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rytting-2010-error-correction-arabic-dictionary-lookup/)** *(2010 · 7 citations)* Learners of Arabic often struggle to find words in electronic dictionaries. They mix up letters that look alike, miss sound contrasts they cannot hear, and stumble over unfamiliar Romanization. Colloquial dialects make all of this harder. The authors built a spelling corrector for lookup in an Iraqi Arabic–English… ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bonnie Dorr](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bonnie-dorr/) - [Richard Schwartz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-schwartz/) - [Tim Buckwalter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-buckwalter/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 74 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-zajic/cited-by/).