--- title: "Paola Merlo — papers and cards" description: "Paola Merlo: 3 paper cards in the Research library (2006–2026), with what each paper is about, the ideas Mova took from it, and the co-authors." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paola-merlo/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paola-merlo/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Paola Merlo # Paola Merlo 3 paper cards in the Research library · 2006–2026 Paola Merlo wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2006–2026, most of them on [Semantic role labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/), [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/), [Hebrew & Aramaic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/); often with Eva Esteve Ferrer, Giuseppe Samo, [Lonneke van der Plas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lonneke-van-der-plas/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5102715103) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6363-4498) · [**h-index 20**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5102715103) · [1372 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5102715103) · [114 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102715103) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14 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=Paola+Merlo) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Paola+Merlo) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Paola+Merlo) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Paola+Merlo) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=Paola+Merlo) Topics: [Semantic role labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) 1 · [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) 1 · [Hebrew & Aramaic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/hebrew-aramaic/) 1 · [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) 1 · [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) 1 ## Papers 1. **[The Notion of Argument in Prepositional Phrase Attachment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cl-2006-merlo-notion-argument-prepositional-phrase-attachment/)** *(2006)* The paper treats PP attachment as a four-way problem: verb or noun site, crossed with argument or adjunct. 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)* 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. **[Modelling the Morphology of Verbal Paradigms: A Case Study in the Tokenization of Turkish and Hebrew](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aclbulk-2026-samo-modelling-morphology-verbal-paradigms-case/)** *(2026)* The paper asks whether sentence embeddings encode verb paradigms (active, passive, causative, causative-passive) and how tokenisation changes that. ## Co-authors (3) - Eva Esteve Ferrer - Giuseppe Samo - [Lonneke van der Plas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lonneke-van-der-plas/) ## More papers in the library (1) Pages of the Research library: our summary, the ideas, references and who cites each. - [Datasets for Verb Alternations across Languages: BLM Templates and Data Augmentation Strategies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samo-2026-datasets-verb-alternations-across-languages/) — Giuseppe Samo, Paola Merlo · 2026 · 1 citation