--- title: "Stephen Taylor — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Stephen Taylor, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2026), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-taylor/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-taylor/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Stephen Taylor # Stephen Taylor Stephen Taylor has 5 papers in our library, in 2016–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/); often with [Abualsoud Hanani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abualsoud-hanani/), [Aziz Qaroush](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aziz-qaroush/), [Pavel Přibáň](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pavel-priban/). 5 papers in our library · 2016–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5085638781) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6702-7900) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5085638781) · [54 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5085638781) · [125 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5085638781&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-taylor/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 17 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-taylor/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7761](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/78/#star-7761) 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=Stephen+Taylor) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Stephen+Taylor) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Stephen+Taylor) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Stephen+Taylor) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of West Bohemia in Pilsen** Pilsen · Czechia 2017–2024 · 11 papersEmployment since 2017 · Researcher, Katedra informatiky a výpočetní techniky*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-west-bohemia-in-pilsen/) · [🎓**Fitchburg State University** Fitchburg · United States 2002–2020 · 4 papersEmployment 2002–2017 · Professor, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/fitchburg-state-university/) · [🎓**College of the Holy Cross** Worcester · United States 1999–2003 · 2 papersEmployment 1999–2002 · Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science](https://ror.org/05dwp6855) · [🎓**Worcester Polytechnic Institute** Worcester · United States 1995–1997 · 1 paperEducation until 1995 · PhD, Computer ScienceEducation until 1990 · MS, Computer ScienceEmployment 1995–1997 · Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/worcester-polytechnic-institute/) · [🎓**Birzeit University** Birzeit · Palestine 2014–2015Employment 2014–2015 · Adjunct Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/birzeit-university/) · [🎓**Yarmouk Private University** Damascus · Syria 2010Employment 2010 · Adjunct Faculty, Faculty of Engineering of informatics and communications](https://ror.org/0147hmw17) · [🎓**United Arab Emirates University** Al Ain · United Arab Emirates 1997–1998Employment 1997–1998 · Lecturer, University College](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/united-arab-emirates-university/) 🏛️**Harvard College** Cambridge · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 1964–1968Education 1964–1968 · AB, Mathematics From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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 · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 5 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 · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Speech & spoken language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-taylor/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-taylor/year/2023/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-taylor/year/2019/) · [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-taylor/year/2017/) · [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-taylor/year/2016/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Identifying dialects with textual and acoustic cues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hanani-2017-identifying-dialects-textual-acoustic-cues/)** *(2017 · 24 citations)* This paper describes the Birzeit/Fitchburg team's (ahaqst) entries in two VarDial 2017 DSL shared tasks. The Arabic task (ADI) had five dialect classes. The Swiss-German task (GDI) had four. For Arabic, the organizers supplied ASR transcripts and 400-dimensional I-vectors, and the team also downloaded the raw .wav… 2. **[Classifying ASR Transcriptions According to Arabic Dialect](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hanani-2016-classifying-asr-transcriptions-according-arabic/)** *(2016 · 15 citations)* The paper reports one team's entries in the Arabic dialect track of the 2016 DSL shared task. Systems had to assign short Buckwalter-transcribed ASR segments to one of five classes: EGY, GLF, LAV, MSA or NOR. The training data had 7619 segments derived from the speech corpus of Ali et al. (2016), and the test set had… 3. **[ZCU-NLP at MADAR 2019: Recognizing Arabic Dialects](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/priban-2019-zcu-nlp-madar-2019-recognizing/)** *(2019 · 11 citations)* The paper describes the University of West Bohemia entry to the MADAR shared task on fine-grained Arabic dialect identification. Subtask 1 (S-1) assigns a sentence to one of 25 city dialects or MSA. Subtask 2 (S-2) infers a Twitter user's country, out of 21, from their tweets. 4. **[UWB at Arabic Reverse Dictionary shared task: Computing the meaning of a gloss](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/taylor-2023-uwb-arabic-reverse-dictionary-shared/)** *(2023 · 1 citation)* The paper describes a University of West Bohemia entry to the KSAA-RD reverse dictionary shared task. Given a short Arabic or English definition (gloss), a system must predict the embedding of the defined word sense, either as an SGNS vector or as an Electra vector. The author deliberately avoided neural networks.… 5. **[UWB at SemEval-2026 Task 5: Synsets and their contexts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/taylor-2026-uwb-semeval-2026-task-5/)** *(2026)* This system paper describes a University of West Bohemia entry to SemEval-2026 Task 5. The task asks systems to predict how plausible human annotators find a given WordNet sense of an ambiguous word within short, five-part stories. The stories are from the AmbiStory dataset. Each has three context sentences, a… ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Abualsoud Hanani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abualsoud-hanani/) ×2 - [Aziz Qaroush](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aziz-qaroush/) ×2 - [Pavel Přibáň](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pavel-priban/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/): [ArabicNLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2023/) - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2016](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2016/) - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2026/) - [Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/): [VarDial 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/vardial/2017/) - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/): [WANLP 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wanlp/2019/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 17 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [12 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-taylor/cited-by/). 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