--- title: "Mitch Marcus — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Mitch Marcus: 3 papers on Elamur Research (1991–2007), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitch-marcus/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitch-marcus/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mitch Marcus # Mitch Marcus Mitch Marcus has 3 papers in our library, in 1991–2007, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Lance Ramshaw](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lance-ramshaw/), [Nizar Habash](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/), [Owen Rambow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/owen-rambow/). 3 papers in our library · 1991–2007 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5112418817) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5112418817) · [55 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5112418817) · [663 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5112418817&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitch-marcus/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 558 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitch-marcus/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3849](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/39/#star-3849) 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=Mitch+Marcus) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mitch+Marcus) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mitch+Marcus) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mitch+Marcus) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 1989–2013 · 28 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 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/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2007** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitch-marcus/year/2007/) ### 1990s [**1995** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitch-marcus/year/1995/) · [**1991** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitch-marcus/year/1991/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Text Chunking using Transformation-Based Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramshaw-1995-text-chunking-transformation-based-learning/)** *(1995 · 432 citations)* Ramshaw and Marcus tackle text chunking, which means splitting sentences into flat, non-overlapping segments as a step before full parsing. 2. **[Determining Case in Arabic: Learning Complex Linguistic Behavior Requires Complex Linguistic Features](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/habash-2007-determining-case-arabic-learning-complex/)** *(2007 · 57 citations)* The paper addresses automatic case assignment (nominative, accusative, genitive) for nouns and adjectives in Modern Standard Arabic. 3. **[Very Large Annotated Database of American English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcus-1991-very-large-annotated-database-american/)** *(1991 · 9 citations)* This 1991 workshop report describes early work on the Penn Treebank at the University of Pennsylvania. The project aims to assemble a large body of American English, drawn from both written sources and transcribed speech, marked up with part-of-speech tags and syntactic structure. The resource has three intended… ## 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. **[Text Chunking using Transformation-Based Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramshaw-1995-text-chunking-transformation-based-learning/) [Workshop on Very Large Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/text-speech-and-language-technology/)**Lance Ramshaw, Mitch Marcus*1995 · 432 citations* 2. **[OntoNotes: A Unified Relational Semantic Representation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsc.2007.83) International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007), 517-526 · no summary yet**Sameer S. Pradhan et al.*2007 · 194 citations* 3. **[Generating american sign language classifier predicates for english-to-asl machine translation ↗](https://openalex.org/W202197818) no summary yet**Mitch Marcus A, Martha Stone Palmer, Matt Huenerfauth*2006 · 92 citations* 4. **[Determining Case in Arabic: Learning Complex Linguistic Behavior Requires Complex Linguistic Features](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/habash-2007-determining-case-arabic-learning-complex/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Nizar Habash, Ryan Gabbard, Owen Rambow, et al.*2007 · 57 citations* 5. **[Issues in Synchronizing the English Treebank and PropBank ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-0609/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora 2006 · no summary yet**Olga Babko-Malaya et al.*2006 · 34 citations* 6. **[Very Large Annotated Database of American English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcus-1991-very-large-annotated-database-american/) [DARPA Workshop on Speech and Natural Language (HLT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/darpa-workshop-on-speech-and-natural-language-hlt/)**Mitch Marcus*1991 · 9 citations* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Lance Ramshaw](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lance-ramshaw/) - [Nizar Habash](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/) - [Owen Rambow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/owen-rambow/) - [Ryan Gabbard](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-gabbard/) - [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. - [DARPA Workshop on Speech and Natural Language (HLT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/darpa-workshop-on-speech-and-natural-language-hlt/): [HLT 1991](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/darpa-workshop-on-speech-and-natural-language-hlt/1991/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2007](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2007/) - [Workshop on Very Large Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/text-speech-and-language-technology/): [Workshop on Very Large Corpora 1995](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/text-speech-and-language-technology/1995/) - International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007), 517-526 - Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora 2006 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 558 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [93 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitch-marcus/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026