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title: "Hiyan Alshawi — author profile and papers"
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# Hiyan Alshawi

Hiyan Alshawi has 2 papers in our library, in 1987–1991, most of them on [Semantic parsing & meaning representation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/); often with [Bjorn Gamback](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bjorn-gamback/), [David Carter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-carter/).

2 papers in our library · 1987–1991

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5029769372) · [**h-index 24**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5029769372) · [77 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029769372) · [1,634 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029769372&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiyan-alshawi/#papers) · [🔗 52 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiyan-alshawi/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/41/#star-4014)

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=Hiyan+Alshawi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hiyan+Alshawi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hiyan+Alshawi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hiyan+Alshawi)

## Affiliations

[🏢**AT&T** Bedminster · United States 1994–2003 · 21 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/at-t/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2005–2013 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🔬**SRI International** Menlo Park · United States 1988–1993 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/sri-international/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1985–1992 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

## Topics

[Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/)

## Works by year

### 1990s

[**1991** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alshawi-1991-translation-quasi-logical-form-transfer/)

### 1980s

[**1987** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alshawi-1987-processing-dictionary-definitions-phrasal-pattern/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Processing Dictionary Definitions with Phrasal Pattern Hierarchies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alshawi-1987-processing-dictionary-definitions-phrasal-pattern/)** *(1987 · 84 citations)* Language understanding systems often break down when they meet words missing from their lexicons, or sentences their grammars cannot fully parse.
2. **[Translation by Quasi Logical Form Transfer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alshawi-1991-translation-quasi-logical-form-transfer/)** *(1991 · 54 citations)* The paper applies a general natural language system, the Core Language Engine, to interactive translation between English and Swedish in a car hire domain.

## Also in our library

2 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them.

## Co-authors here

2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Bjorn Gamback](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bjorn-gamback/)
- [David Carter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-carter/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 52 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiyan-alshawi/cited-by/).