--- title: "Sharon A. Caraballo — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Sharon A. Caraballo, American Society For Engineering Education: 2 papers on Elamur Research (1998–1999), h-index 4 — affiliations…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sharon-a-caraballo/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sharon-a-caraballo/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sharon A. Caraballo # Sharon A. Caraballo Sharon A. Caraballo has 2 papers in our library, in 1998–1999, most of them on [Lexical semantics & word embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/), [Syntax & grammar formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/); often with [Eugene Charniak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eugene-charniak/). 2 papers in our library · 1998–1999 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5053448085) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5053448085) · [10 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5053448085) · [542 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5053448085&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sharon-a-caraballo/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 106 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sharon-a-caraballo/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3914](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/40/#star-3914) 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=Sharon+A.+Caraballo) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sharon+A.+Caraballo) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sharon+A.+Caraballo) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sharon+A.+Caraballo) ## Affiliations [🎓**George Mason University** Fairfax · United States 2010–2024 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/george-mason-university/) · [🤝**American Society For Engineering Education** Washington D.C. · United States 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/03ac64295) · [🎓**Georgetown University** Washington · United States 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgetown-university/) · [🎓**Howard University** Washington · United States 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/howard-university/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) · [🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 1997–1999 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) 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 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.[Lexical semantics & word embeddings · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/lexical-semantics/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Lexical semantics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/lexical-semantics/) ## Works by year ### 1990s [**1999** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sharon-a-caraballo/year/1999/) · [**1998** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sharon-a-caraballo/year/1998/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Automatic construction of a hypernym-labeled noun hierarchy from text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/caraballo-1999-automatic-construction-hypernym-labeled-noun/)** *(1999 · 443 citations)* WordNet is built by hand and covers domain-specific text, such as MUC material, poorly. Caraballo asks whether a WordNet-like noun taxonomy with hypernym labels can be induced from a raw corpus alone, without other lexical resources. The data are parsed Wall Street Journal text: Penn Treebank files 2–21 plus the 1987… 2. **[New Figures of Merit for Best-First Probabilistic Chart Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/caraballo-1998-new-figures-merit-best-first/)** *(1998 · 137 citations)* Best-first chart parsing speeds up parsing by moving the most promising constituents from the agenda to the chart first. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Eugene Charniak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eugene-charniak/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 1999](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/1999/) - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/): [Computational Linguistics 1998](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/1998/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 106 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sharon-a-caraballo/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026