--- title: "Horacio Rodríguez — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Horacio Rodríguez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2006–2017), h-index 20 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-rodriguez/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-rodriguez/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Horacio Rodríguez # Horacio Rodríguez Horacio Rodríguez has 4 papers in our library, in 2006–2017, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Musa Alkhalifa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/musa-alkhalifa/), [Adam Pease](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-pease/), [Christiane Fellbaum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christiane-fellbaum/). 4 papers in our library · 2006–2017 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5111477044) · [**h-index 20**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5111477044) · [143 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111477044) · [1,474 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111477044&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-rodriguez/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 57 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-rodriguez/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7057](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/71/#star-7057) 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=Horacio+Rodr%C3%ADguez) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Horacio+Rodr%C3%ADguez) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Horacio+Rodr%C3%ADguez) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Horacio+Rodr%C3%ADguez) ## Affiliations [🎓**Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya** Barcelona · Spain 1992–2022 · 90 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-politecnica-de-catalunya/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-rodriguez/year/2017/) ### 2000s [**2008** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-rodriguez/year/2008/) · [**2006** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-rodriguez/year/2006/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Building a WordNet for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkateb-2006-building-wordnet-arabic/)** *(2006 · 38 citations)* The paper describes the start of the Arabic WordNet (AWN) project, a lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic. 2. **[Arabic WordNet: Semi-automatic Extensions using Bayesian Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rodriguez-2008-arabic-wordnet-semi-automatic-extensions/)** *(2008 · 30 citations)* The paper addresses how to grow Arabic WordNet (AWN) without making lexicographers judge every candidate entry by hand. 3. **[Arabic WordNet and the Challenges of Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkateb-2006-arabic-wordnet-challenges-arabic/)** *(2006 · 11 citations)* The paper describes how Arabic WordNet (AWN), a lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic, is being built and what makes Arabic difficult for this kind of resource. 4. **[UPC-USMBA at SemEval-2017 Task 3: Combining multiple approaches for CQA for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adlouni-2017-upc-usmba-semeval-2017-task/)** *(2017 · 6 citations)* The UPC-USMBA team took part in SemEval-2017 Task 3, subtask D (Arabic community question answering). In this subtask, a system receives a new medical question together with 30 question–answer pairs taken from forum threads, and must reorder those pairs by how relevant they are to the new question. The previous… ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Building a WordNet for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkateb-2006-building-wordnet-arabic/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Sabri Elkateb, William Black, Horacio Rodríguez, et al.*2006 · 38 citations* 2. **[Arabic WordNet: Semi-automatic Extensions using Bayesian Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rodriguez-2008-arabic-wordnet-semi-automatic-extensions/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Horacio Rodríguez, David Farwell, Javi Ferreres, et al.*2008 · 30 citations* 3. **[Arabic WordNet and the Challenges of Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkateb-2006-arabic-wordnet-challenges-arabic/) [International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/)**Sabri Elkateb, William Black, Piek Vossen, et al.*2006 · 11 citations* 4. **[UPC-CORE: What Can Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics and Wikipedia Do for Estimating Semantic Textual Similarity? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S13-1020/) Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 1: Proceedings of the Main Conference and the Shared Task: Semantic Textual Similarity · no summary yet**Alberto Barrón-Cedeño et al.*2013 · 10 citations* 5. **[UPC-USMBA at SemEval-2017 Task 3: Combining multiple approaches for CQA for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adlouni-2017-upc-usmba-semeval-2017-task/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Yassine El Adlouni, Imane Lahbari, Horacio Rodríguez, et al.*2017 · 6 citations* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Musa Alkhalifa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/musa-alkhalifa/) ×3 - [Adam Pease](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-pease/) ×2 - [Christiane Fellbaum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christiane-fellbaum/) ×2 - [David Farwell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-farwell/) ×2 - [Piek Vossen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/piek-vossen/) ×2 - [Sabri Elkateb](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sabri-elkateb/) ×2 - [William Black](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-black/) ×2 - [Maria Antònia Martí](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-antonia-marti/) - [Said Ouatik El Alaoui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/said-ouatik-el-alaoui/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) ×2: [LREC 2008](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2008/), [LREC 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2006/) - [International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/): [International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/2006/) - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2017/) - Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 1: Proceedings of the Main Conference and the Shared Task: Semantic Textual Similarity ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 57 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [25 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-rodriguez/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026