--- title: "William Black — author profile and papers · Semitic languages" description: "William Black: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2006), h-index 30 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-black/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-black/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / William Black # William Black William Black has 2 papers in our library, in 2006, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Adam Pease](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-pease/), [Christiane Fellbaum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christiane-fellbaum/), [Horacio Rodríguez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-rodriguez/). 2 papers in our library · 2006 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5032645970) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2264-0506) · [**h-index 30**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5032645970) · [109 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5032645970) · [3,286 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5032645970&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-black/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 44 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-black/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7840](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/79/#star-7840) 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=William+Black) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=William+Black) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=William+Black) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=William+Black) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Manchester** Manchester · United Kingdom 1987–2016 · 29 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-manchester/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2000s [**2006** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-black/year/2006/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Building a WordNet for Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkateb-2006-building-wordnet-arabic/)** *(2006 · 38 citations)* The paper describes the start of the Arabic WordNet (AWN) project, a lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic. 2. **[Arabic WordNet and the Challenges of Arabic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/elkateb-2006-arabic-wordnet-challenges-arabic/)** *(2006 · 11 citations)* The paper describes how Arabic WordNet (AWN), a lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic, is being built and what makes Arabic difficult for this kind of resource. ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Adam Pease](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-pease/) ×2 - [Christiane Fellbaum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christiane-fellbaum/) ×2 - [Horacio Rodríguez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/horacio-rodriguez/) ×2 - [Musa Alkhalifa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/musa-alkhalifa/) ×2 - [Piek Vossen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/piek-vossen/) ×2 - [Sabri Elkateb](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sabri-elkateb/) ×2 - [David Farwell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-farwell/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/): [International Conference on the Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bcs/2006/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2006](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2006/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 44 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [23 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-black/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026