--- title: "Majdi Sawalha — author profile and papers" description: "Majdi Sawalha, University of Jordan: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2010–2012), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/majdi-sawalha/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/majdi-sawalha/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Majdi Sawalha # Majdi Sawalha Majdi Sawalha has 2 papers in our library, in 2010–2012, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Part-of-speech tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/), [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/); often with [Eric Atwell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-atwell/), [Claire Brierley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claire-brierley/). 2 papers in our library · 2010–2012 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5051850429) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4975-6709) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5051850429) · [62 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051850429) · [412 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051850429&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/majdi-sawalha/#papers) · [21 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/majdi-sawalha/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4475](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/45/#star-4475) 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=Majdi+Sawalha) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Majdi+Sawalha) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Majdi+Sawalha) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Majdi+Sawalha) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Jordan** Amman · Jordan 2012–2026 · 26 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-jordan/) · [🎓**Al Ain University** Al Ain · United Arab Emirates 2023–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://ror.org/023abrt21) · [🎓**University of Khorfakkan** Sharjah · United Arab Emirates 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/02yvzq394) · [🎓**University of Leeds** Leeds · United Kingdom 2008–2013 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-leeds/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Semitic languages 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Part-of-speech tagging 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Morphology 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2012** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sawalha-2012-predicting-phrase-breaks-classical-modern/) · [**2010** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sawalha-2010-fine-grain-morphological-analyzer-part/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Fine-Grain Morphological Analyzer and Part-of-Speech Tagger for Arabic Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sawalha-2010-fine-grain-morphological-analyzer-part/)** *(2010 · 28 citations)* The authors argue that a tagger for Arabic should use a very fine-grained tag set, since many features (person, number, gender, case, mood, voice, definiteness, and more) help both analysis and later use of the corpus. 2. **[Predicting Phrase Breaks in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sawalha-2012-predicting-phrase-breaks-classical-modern/)** *(2012 · 10 citations)* The paper addresses automatic phrase break prediction for Arabic, a step in text-to-speech that decides where a speaker would pause. ## Also in our library 5 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. - [Eric Atwell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-atwell/) ×2 - [Claire Brierley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claire-brierley/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 21 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/majdi-sawalha/cited-by/).