--- title: "Martha Evens — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Martha Evens: 4 papers on Elamur Research (1998–2002), h-index 25 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-evens/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-evens/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Martha Evens # Martha Evens Martha Evens has 4 papers in our library, in 1998–2002, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Saleem Abuleil](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saleem-abuleil/), [Bassam Hammo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bassam-hammo/). 4 papers in our library · 1998–2002 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5039008492) · [**h-index 25**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5039008492) · [269 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039008492) · [2,661 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039008492&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-evens/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 21 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-evens/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5218](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/53/#star-5218) 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=Martha+Evens) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Martha+Evens) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Martha+Evens) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Martha+Evens) ## Affiliations [🎓**Illinois Institute of Technology** Chicago · United States 1983–2015 · 135 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/illinois-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Northwestern University** Evanston · United States 1998–1999 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-university/) · [🎓**Chicago Kent College of Law** Chicago · United States 1987 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/chicago-kent-college-of-law/) 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. ## 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 · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Morphology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2002** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-evens/year/2002/) ### 1990s [**1998** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-evens/year/1998/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[QARAB: A: Question Answering System to Support the Arabic Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hammo-2002-qarab-question-answering-system-support/)** *(2002 · 136 citations)* QARAB addresses open-domain question answering for Arabic, where NLP lagged far behind English. The authors name several reasons: rich inflection and derivation, unwritten vowels (diacritics), no capital letters to signal proper names, and few corpora and lexicons. The system answers from a collection of articles… 2. **[A Computational Morphology System for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shalabi-1998-computational-morphology-system-arabic/)** *(1998 · 80 citations)* The paper presents a morphological analyzer for Arabic that recovers the consonantal root and the pattern of verbs and of nouns and adjectives derived from verbs. 3. **[Discovering Lexical Information by Tagging Arabic Newspaper Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abuleil-1998-discovering-lexical-information-tagging-arabic/)** *(1998 · 28 citations)* Abuleil and Evens address the lack of a large Arabic lexicon. Their approach is to grow one automatically while tagging newspaper text. Arabic makes this hard in three ways: there is no capitalization to signal names, short vowels are usually omitted (so one spelling can be a noun or a verb), and prepositions or… 4. **[Acquisition System for Arabic Noun Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abuleil-2002-acquisition-system-arabic-noun-morphology/)** *(2002 · 18 citations)* The paper tackles Arabic noun morphology, which earlier work largely skipped in favour of verbs. Nouns not derived from verbal roots, including many borrowed proper names, lack clean generative rules. Their singular, plural and gender forms instead fall into families that have to be stored lexically, much like… ## 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. **[QARAB: A: Question Answering System to Support the Arabic Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hammo-2002-qarab-question-answering-system-support/) [ACL-02 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-02-workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages/)**Bassam Hammo, Hani Abu-Salem, Steven Lytinen, et al.*2002 · 136 citations* 2. [**A Computational Morphology System for Arabic Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages**Riyad Al-Shalabi, Martha Evens*1998 · 80 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shalabi-1998-computational-morphology-system-arabic/) 3. [**Discovering Lexical Information by Tagging Arabic Newspaper Text Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages**Saleem Abuleil, Martha Evens*1998 · 28 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abuleil-1998-discovering-lexical-information-tagging-arabic/) 4. **[Acquisition System for Arabic Noun Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/abuleil-2002-acquisition-system-arabic-noun-morphology/) [ACL-02 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-02-workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages/)**Saleem Abuleil, Khalid Alsamara, Martha Evens*2002 · 18 citations* 5. **[Book Reviews: An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Legal Reasoning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J89-1004/) Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Evens, Martha*1989* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Saleem Abuleil](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saleem-abuleil/) ×2 - [Bassam Hammo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bassam-hammo/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [ACL-02 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-02-workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages/) ×2: [ACL-02 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages 2002](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-02-workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages/2002/) ×2 - Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages ×2 - Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 21 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-evens/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026