--- title: "Saleem Abuleil — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Saleem Abuleil, Chicago State University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1998–2002), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saleem-abuleil/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saleem-abuleil/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Saleem Abuleil # Saleem Abuleil Saleem Abuleil has 2 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/); often with [Martha Evens](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-evens/). 2 papers in our library · 1998–2002 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5091337743) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5091337743) · [24 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5091337743) · [319 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5091337743&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saleem-abuleil/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 6 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saleem-abuleil/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7936](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/80/#star-7936) 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=Saleem+Abuleil) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Saleem+Abuleil) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Saleem+Abuleil) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Saleem+Abuleil) ## Affiliations [🎓**Chicago State University** Chicago · United States 2002–2018 · 11 papers*current*](https://ror.org/05ekwbr88) · [🎓**Illinois Institute of Technology** Chicago · United States 1998–1999 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/illinois-institute-of-technology/) 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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Morphology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2002** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saleem-abuleil/year/2002/) ### 1990s [**1998** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saleem-abuleil/year/1998/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[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… 2. **[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… ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Martha Evens](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martha-evens/) ×2 ## 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/): [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/) - Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 6 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saleem-abuleil/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026