--- title: "Stephen Tratz — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "Stephen Tratz, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2013–2018), h-index 15 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-tratz/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-tratz/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Stephen Tratz # Stephen Tratz Stephen Tratz has 5 papers in our library, in 2013–2018, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Dependency parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/), [Part-of-speech tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/); often with [Clare Voss](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clare-voss/), [Jamal Laoudi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jamal-laoudi/), [Douglas Briesch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/douglas-briesch/). 5 papers in our library · 2013–2018 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5050345737) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5050345737) · [49 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5050345737) · [695 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5050345737&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-tratz/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 114 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-tratz/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6575](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/66/#star-6575) 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+Tratz) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Stephen+Tratz) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Stephen+Tratz) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Stephen+Tratz) ## Affiliations [🔬**DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory** Adelphi · United States 2013–2020 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/devcom-army-research-laboratory/) · [🔬**Pacific Northwest National Laboratory** Richland · United States 2005–2008 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/pacific-northwest-national-laboratory/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2009–2012 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🏛️**United States Army** Arlington · United States 2013–2016 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/united-states-army/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Human-Computer Interaction · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/human-computer-interaction/) 🧭 Topics 7 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Idioms & multiword expressions · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multiword-expressions/) · [Dependency parsing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) · [Part-of-speech tagging · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Tokenization & segmentation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-tratz/year/2018/) · [**2014** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-tratz/year/2014/) · [**2013** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-tratz/year/2013/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Finding Romanized Arabic Dialect in Code-Mixed Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/voss-2014-finding-romanized-arabic-dialect-code/)** *(2014 · 60 citations)* The paper addresses spotting Moroccan Arabic (Darija) when it is typed in Latin letters on Twitter and mixed with French and English. 2. **[Automatic Interpretation of the English Possessive](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tratz-2013-automatic-interpretation-english-possessive/)** *(2013 · 24 citations)* Tratz and Hovy address a gap in computational semantics: the English ’s construction (with possessive pronouns counted as the same phenomenon) is frequent and expresses many relations, such as ownership, kinship, part-whole, time and measure, yet had seen little NLP work and no public data. 3. **[Tweet Conversation Annotation Tool with a Focus on an Arabic Dialect, Moroccan Darija](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tratz-2013-tweet-conversation-annotation-tool-focus/)** *(2013 · 20 citations)* Historically unwritten languages such as Moroccan Darija have very few textual resources, but they increasingly appear on Twitter. 4. **[Towards a Computational Lexicon for Moroccan Darija: Words, Idioms, and Constructions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/laoudi-2018-computational-lexicon-moroccan-darija-words/)** *(2018 · 7 citations)* The paper tackles a practical gap. Moroccan Darija (MD) is an Arabic dialect with tens of millions of speakers, but it has no standard spelling and almost no computational resources. It now appears mostly in informal online writing. The authors ask what a computational lexicon for such a language should contain, and… 5. **[A Cross-Task Flexible Transition Model for Arabic Tokenization, Affix Detection, Affix Labeling, POS Tagging, and Dependency Parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tratz-2013-cross-task-flexible-transition-model/)** *(2013 · 7 citations)* Pipelines for Arabic pass errors from tokenization to tagging to parsing, and a transition parser commits to decisions in a fixed order. ## All works 9 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 5 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Dialogue-AMR: Abstract Meaning Representation for Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.86/) Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Claire Bonial et al.*2020 · 92 citations* 2. **[Finding Romanized Arabic Dialect in Code-Mixed Tweets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/voss-2014-finding-romanized-arabic-dialect-code/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Clare Voss, Stephen Tratz, Jamal Laoudi, et al.*2014 · 60 citations* 3. **[Provenance-Assisted Classification in Social Networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/jstsp.2014.2311586) IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing · no summary yet**Dong Wang et al.*2014 · 40 citations* 4. **[Augmenting Abstract Meaning Representation for Human-Robot Dialogue ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-3322/) Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations · no summary yet**Claire Bonial et al.*2019 · 28 citations* 5. **[Automatic Interpretation of the English Possessive](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tratz-2013-automatic-interpretation-english-possessive/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Stephen Tratz, Eduard Hovy*2013 · 24 citations* 6. **[Tweet Conversation Annotation Tool with a Focus on an Arabic Dialect, Moroccan Darija](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tratz-2013-tweet-conversation-annotation-tool-focus/) [Linguistic Annotation Workshop and Interoperability with Discourse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/linguistic-annotation-workshop-and-interoperability-with-discourse/)**Stephen Tratz, Douglas Briesch, Jamal Laoudi, et al.*2013 · 20 citations* 7. **[Models and Training for Unsupervised Preposition Sense Disambiguation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P11-2056/) Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Dirk Hovy et al.*2011 · 17 citations* 8. **[Towards a Computational Lexicon for Moroccan Darija: Words, Idioms, and Constructions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/laoudi-2018-computational-lexicon-moroccan-darija-words/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Jamal Laoudi, Claire Bonial, Lucia Donatelli, et al.*2018 · 7 citations* 9. [**A Cross-Task Flexible Transition Model for Arabic Tokenization, Affix Detection, Affix Labeling, POS Tagging, and Dependency Parsing**Stephen Tratz*Semitic languages · 7 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tratz-2013-cross-task-flexible-transition-model/) ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Clare Voss](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clare-voss/) ×3 - [Jamal Laoudi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jamal-laoudi/) ×3 - [Douglas Briesch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/douglas-briesch/) ×2 - [Claire Bonial](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claire-bonial/) - [Eduard Hovy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduard-hovy/) - [Lucia Donatelli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucia-donatelli/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) ×2: [LREC 2014](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2014/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2013](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2013/) - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2018/) - [Linguistic Annotation Workshop and Interoperability with Discourse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/linguistic-annotation-workshop-and-interoperability-with-discourse/): [Linguistic Annotation Workshop and Interoperability with Discourse 2013](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/linguistic-annotation-workshop-and-interoperability-with-discourse/2013/) - [Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically-Rich Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-statistical-parsing-of-morphologically-rich-languages/): [Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically-Rich Languages 2013](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-statistical-parsing-of-morphologically-rich-languages/2013/) - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 114 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [25 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-tratz/cited-by/). 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