--- title: "Jana Diesner — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Jana Diesner, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2013–2014), h-index 23 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jana-diesner/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jana-diesner/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jana Diesner # Jana Diesner Jana Diesner has 3 papers in our library, in 2013–2014, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Idioms & multiword expressions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/); often with [Rania Al-Sabbagh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rania-al-sabbagh/), [Roxana Girju](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roxana-girju/). 3 papers in our library · 2013–2014 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5025085845) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8183-7109) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59298244) · [**h-index 23**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5025085845) · [211 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5025085845) · [2,168 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5025085845&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jana-diesner/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 46 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jana-diesner/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8726](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/88/#star-8726) 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=Jana+Diesner) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jana+Diesner) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jana+Diesner) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jana+Diesner) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2005–2026 · 109 papersEmployment since 2012 · Professor (Assistant, Associate, Affiliate)*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Technical University of Munich** Munich · Germany 2024–2026 · 33 papersEmployment since 2024 · Professor*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technical-university-of-munich/) · [🎓**Munich Center for Machine Learning** Munich · Germany 2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/munich-center-for-machine-learning/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2005–2012 · 12 papersEducation · PhD, School of Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois System** Urbana · United States 2019–2025 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-system/) · [🔬**National Center for Supercomputing Applications** Sofia · Bulgaria 2014–2021 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/03g9ch715) · [🔬**National Center for Supercomputing Applications** Urbana · United States 2014–2021 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/03r10zj06) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) 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. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Literature and Literary Theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2014** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jana-diesner/year/2014/) · [**2013** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jana-diesner/year/2013/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Using the Semantic-Syntactic Interface for Reliable Arabic Modality Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sabbagh-2013-semantic-syntactic-interface-reliable-arabic/)** *(2013 · 16 citations)* Arabic had no corpus annotated for modality. Even the Penn Arabic Treebank carries no such labels. The authors build the first one. It uses a random sample of political tweets from the YADAC corpus, posted in Egypt during the first half-year of the 2011 revolution and written in both Egyptian Arabic (EA) and MSA. 2. **[Unsupervised Construction of a Lexicon and a Repository of Variation Patterns for Arabic Modal Multiword Expressions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sabbagh-2014-unsupervised-construction-lexicon-repository-variation/)** *(2014 · 6 citations)* The authors fill a gap in Arabic NLP: no lexicon or pattern resource existed for Arabic Modal Multiword Expressions (AM-MWEs). 3. **[3arif: A Corpus of Modern Standard and Egyptian Arabic Tweets Annotated for Epistemic Modality Using Interactive Crowdsourcing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sabbagh-2014-3arif-corpus-modern-standard-egyptian/)** *(2014 · 3 citations)* Arabic had no large corpus marked for epistemic modality, meaning the linguistic signals of how certain a speaker is about a proposition. ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[TIGEr: Text-to-Image Grounding for Image Caption Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1220/) Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) · no summary yet**Ming Jiang et al.*2019 · 79 citations* 2. **[Enhancing the Measurement of Social Effects by Capturing Morality ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-1305/) Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis · no summary yet**Rezvaneh Rezapour, Saumil H. Shah, Jana Diesner*2019 · 71 citations* 3. **[Using the Semantic-Syntactic Interface for Reliable Arabic Modality Annotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sabbagh-2013-semantic-syntactic-interface-reliable-arabic/) [International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/)**Rania Al-Sabbagh, Jana Diesner, Roxana Girju*2013 · 16 citations* 4. **[Unsupervised Construction of a Lexicon and a Repository of Variation Patterns for Arabic Modal Multiword Expressions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sabbagh-2014-unsupervised-construction-lexicon-repository-variation/) [Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mwe/)**Rania Al-Sabbagh, Roxana Girju, Jana Diesner*2014 · 6 citations* 5. **[3arif: A Corpus of Modern Standard and Egyptian Arabic Tweets Annotated for Epistemic Modality Using Interactive Crowdsourcing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sabbagh-2014-3arif-corpus-modern-standard-egyptian/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Rania Al-Sabbagh, Roxana Girju, Jana Diesner*2014 · 3 citations* 6. **[Interactive Annotation for Event Modality in Modern Standard and Egyptian Arabic Tweets ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W14-4920/) Proceedings of LAW VIII - The 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop · no summary yet**Rania Al-Sabbagh, Roxana Girju, Jana Diesner*2014* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Rania Al-Sabbagh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rania-al-sabbagh/) ×3 - [Roxana Girju](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roxana-girju/) ×3 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2014/) - [International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/): [IJCNLP 2013](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/2013/) - [Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mwe/): [MWE 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/mwe/2014/) - Proceedings of LAW VIII - The 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop - Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) - Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 46 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jana-diesner/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026