--- title: "Mark Liberman — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania: 3 papers on Elamur Research (1987–2014), h-index 40 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-liberman/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-liberman/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mark Liberman # Mark Liberman Mark Liberman has 3 papers in our library, in 1987–2014, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/), [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Ann Bies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ann-bies/), [Anthony Kroch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anthony-kroch/), [Beatrice Santorini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beatrice-santorini/). 3 papers in our library · 1987–2014 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5055868875) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8605-9024) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9029278) · [**h-index 40**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5055868875) · [326 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5055868875) · [7,414 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5055868875&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-liberman/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 113 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-liberman/cited-by/) · [14 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8993](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/90/#star-8993) 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=Mark+Liberman) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mark+Liberman) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mark+Liberman) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mark+Liberman) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1991–2026 · 175 papersEmployment · Professor, Linguistics*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🏢**AT&T** Bedminster · United States 1985–2003 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/at-t/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 1975Education until 1975](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) 🏛️**Harvard College** Cambridge · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) Education [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States Education](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) 🏛️**University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics**Employment 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Morphology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-liberman/year/2014/) · [**2010** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-liberman/year/2010/) ### 1980s [**1987** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-liberman/year/1987/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A New Approach to Lexical Disambiguation of Arabic Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shah-2010-new-approach-lexical-disambiguation-arabic/)** *(2010 · 10 citations)* Arabic words are hard to analyse because clitics are attached without spaces, short vowels are usually not written, and inflection is rich. 2. **[Toward Treating English Nominals Correctly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sproat-1987-treating-english-nominals-correctly/)** *(1987 · 9 citations)* Sproat and Liberman address how a text-to-speech system should place stress in English complex nominals, meaning a head noun that follows at least one open-class modifier (e.g. 3. **[Parser Evaluation Using Derivation Trees: A Complement to evalb](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kulick-2014-parser-evaluation-derivation-trees-complement/)** *(2014 · 2 citations)* The standard metric for constituency parsers, evalb, scores matching brackets, so it cannot say which construction went wrong. ## All works 17 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. **[Integrated Annotation for Biomedical Information Extraction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W04-3111/) HLT-NAACL 2004 Workshop: Linking Biological Literature, Ontologies and Databases · no summary yet**Seth Kulick et al.*2004 · 232 citations* 2. **[The Second DIHARD Diarization Challenge: Dataset, Task, and Baselines ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2019-1268) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Neville Ryant et al.*2019 · 201 citations* 3. **[The Third DIHARD Diarization Challenge ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2021-1208) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Neville Ryant et al.*2021 · 142 citations* 4. **[Speech activity detection on youtube using deep neural networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2013-203) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Neville Ryant, Mark Liberman, Jiahong Yuan*2013 · 102 citations* 5. **[First Dihard Challenge Evaluation Plan ↗](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1199633) Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · no summary yet**Neville Ryant et al.*2018 · 70 citations* 6. **[Automatic phonetic segmentation using boundary models ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2013-540) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Jiahong Yuan et al.*2013 · 64 citations* 7. **[The Future of Computational Linguistics: On Beyond Alchemy ↗](https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2021.625341) Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Kenneth Church, Mark Liberman*2021 · 42 citations* 8. **[Text Analysis and Word Pronunciation in Text-to-speech Synthesis ↗](https://openalex.org/W1514554603) no summary yet**Mark Liberman, Kenneth Church*2013 · 37 citations* 9. **[Third DIHARD Challenge Evaluation Plan ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05815) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Neville Ryant et al.*2020 · 18 citations* 10. **[Enhancement and Analysis of Conversational Speech: JSALT 2017 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp.2018.8462468) IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing · no summary yet**Neville Ryanta et al.*2018 · 11 citations* 11. **[Benchmarking: Past, Present and Future ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.bppf-1.1/) Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Benchmarking: Past, Present and Future · no summary yet**Kenneth Church, Mark Liberman, Valia Kordoni*2021 · 10 citations* 12. **[A New Approach to Lexical Disambiguation of Arabic Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shah-2010-new-approach-lexical-disambiguation-arabic/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Rushin Shah, Paramveer S. Dhillon, Mark Liberman, et al.*2010 · 10 citations* 13. **[Toward Treating English Nominals Correctly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sproat-1987-treating-english-nominals-correctly/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Richard W. Sproat, Mark Y. Liberman*1987 · 9 citations* 14. **[Automatic recognition of suprasegmentals in speech ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01122) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Jiahong Yuan et al.*2021 · 5 citations* 15. [**Parser Evaluation Using Derivation Trees: A Complement to evalb**Seth Kulick, Ann Bies, Justin Mott, et al.*English · 2 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kulick-2014-parser-evaluation-derivation-trees-complement/) 16. **[Introduction to the special issue on annotated corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2019.tal-2.1/) HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · no summary yet**Marie Candito, Mark Liberman*2019* 17. **[From Human Language Technology to Human Language Science ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2016.jeptalnrecital-invite.2/) Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016. Volume 4 : Conférences invitées · no summary yet**Liberman, Mark*2016* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ann Bies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ann-bies/) - [Anthony Kroch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anthony-kroch/) - [Beatrice Santorini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beatrice-santorini/) - [Justin Mott](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justin-mott/) - [Lyle Ungar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lyle-ungar/) - [Mohamed Maamouri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-maamouri/) - [Richard Sproat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-sproat/) - [Rushin Shah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rushin-shah/) - [Seth Kulick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seth-kulick/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Interspeech (USB) ×4 - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2014/), [ACL 1987](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1987/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2010](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2010/) - Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016. Volume 4 : Conférences invitées - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) - HLT-NAACL 2004 Workshop: Linking Biological Literature, Ontologies and Databases - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Benchmarking: Past, Present and Future - Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 113 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [12 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-liberman/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026