--- title: "Lonneke van der Plas — author profile and papers" description: "Lonneke van der Plas, University of Malta: 6 papers on Elamur Research (2009–2023), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lonneke-van-der-plas/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lonneke-van-der-plas/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Lonneke van der Plas # Lonneke van der Plas Lonneke van der Plas has 6 papers in our library, in 2009–2023, most of them on [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Semantic role labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/); often with [Andrea DeMarco](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-demarco/), [Claudia Borg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-borg/), [Ahnaf Mozib Samin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahnaf-mozib-samin/). 2 of them are among the papers [Mova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/projects/mova/) reads. 6 papers in our library · 2009–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5022407073) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2871-2574) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59866881) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5022407073) · [67 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5022407073) · [866 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5022407073&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 6 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lonneke-van-der-plas/#papers) · [🔗 122 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lonneke-van-der-plas/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3316](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/34/#star-3316) 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=Lonneke+van+der+Plas) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Lonneke+van+der+Plas) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Lonneke+van+der+Plas) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Lonneke+van+der+Plas) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Malta** Msida · Malta 2014–2026 · 23 papersEmployment since 2014*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-malta/) · [🔬**Idiap Research Institute** Martigny-Combe · Switzerland 2021–2026 · 14 papersEmployment since 2021*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/idiap-research-institute/) · [🎓**Università della Svizzera italiana** Lugano · Switzerland 2024–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universita-della-svizzera-italiana/) · [🎓**University of Geneva** Geneva · Switzerland 2002–2011 · 10 papersEmployment 2002–2003Employment 2008–2011](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-geneva/) · [🎓**University of Groningen** Groningen · Netherlands 2004–2008 · 5 papersEducation 2004–2008Employment 2004–2008](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-groningen/) · [🎓**University of Stuttgart** Stuttgart · Germany 2012–2016 · 3 papersEmployment 2012–2014Employment 2014–2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-stuttgart/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Speech & spoken language (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Semitic languages (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Semantic role labeling (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Low-resource languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/williams-2023-um-dfki-maltese-speech-translation/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/demarco-2021-analysis-data-augmentation-methods-low/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mena-2020-masri-headset-maltese-corpus-speech/) ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/constant-2017-survey-multiword-expression-processing-survey/) · [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/iordachioaia-2016-grammar-english-deverbal-compounds-their/) ### 2000s [**2009** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/merlo-2009-abstraction-generalisation-semantic-role-labels/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Survey: Multiword Expression Processing: A Survey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/constant-2017-survey-multiword-expression-processing-survey/)** *(2017 · 296 citations)* Multiword expressions (MWEs), such as idioms, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, compounds and multiword named entities, behave partly like single words even though they span several tokens. 2. **[Abstraction and Generalisation in Semantic Role Labels: PropBank, VerbNet or both?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/merlo-2009-abstraction-generalisation-semantic-role-labels/)** *(2009 · 45 citations)* The paper compares two role inventories, PropBank (abstract labels A0 to A5, AA, and adjunct tags) and VerbNet (23 thematic roles, grouped into 7 classes for the comparison). 3. **[MASRI-HEADSET: A Maltese Corpus for Speech Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mena-2020-masri-headset-maltese-corpus-speech/)** *(2020 · 16 citations)* Maltese has about 500,000 speakers and a stable, well-studied orthography, yet it had no speech recognition tools, largely because no transcribed speech data existed for training. 4. **[UM-DFKI Maltese Speech Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/williams-2023-um-dfki-maltese-speech-translation/)** *(2023 · 11 citations)* The paper describes the University of Malta and DFKI submission to the first IWSLT Maltese→English speech translation task, which is a low-resource setting. 5. **[Analysis of Data Augmentation Methods for Low-Resource Maltese ASR](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/demarco-2021-analysis-data-augmentation-methods-low/)** *(2021 · 1 citation)* The paper asks how to build a usable speech recogniser for Maltese when only about 7 hours of transcribed speech exist. Maltese is a good stress test because even filtered web text for it is tiny. The authors start with a small labelled corpus and add several cheap resources: 6. **[The Grammar of English Deverbal Compounds and their Meaning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/iordachioaia-2016-grammar-english-deverbal-compounds-their/)** *(2016)* The question is whether the way a deverbal noun behaves in its own right predicts how its non-head is read in a noun-noun compound such as "task assignment". ## Also in our library 3 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Andrea DeMarco](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-demarco/) ×2 - [Claudia Borg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-borg/) ×2 - [Ahnaf Mozib Samin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahnaf-mozib-samin/) - [Aiden Williams](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aiden-williams/) - [Albert Gatt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/albert-gatt/) - [Carlos Daniel Hernandez Mena](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carlos-daniel-hernandez-mena/) - [Carlos Ramisch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carlos-ramisch/) - [Gülşen Eryiǧit](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gulsen-eryigit/) - [Johanna Monti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/johanna-monti/) - [Kurt Abela](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-abela/) - [Kurt Micallef](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-micallef/) - [Mathieu Constant](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mathieu-constant/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 122 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lonneke-van-der-plas/cited-by/).